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It’s This Week in X for 2 June, 2021 – and time for The Hellfire Gala!

Join Peter, Fariha, & Tyler as we discuss Marauders (2019) #21, X-Force (2020) #20, and Hellions (2020 #12.

In Marauders #21, we discuss every morsel of this opening platter of Hellfire Gala hors d’oeuvres, including welcome committees, psychic consent, Banshee’s multiple invites, potential bonus Cuckoos, and fireworks that are only implied.

For X-Force #20, we discuss the team’s role in keeping undesirables OUT of Krakoa, inserting themselves in places THEY aren’t desired, and encountering internal resistance to Beast’s interventionist ambitions.

Finally, in Hellions #12, it turns out the Hellfire Gala is NOT for all mutants. We discuss Sinister’s oblivious mingling, Nanny’s unlimited imbibing, Havok’s ineffective inquiries, Empath’s kindest moment, and that shocking final panel.

Spoiler warning – we discuss everything about X-Men up to and including comics from this week, as well as other current events in the Marvel Universe.

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Welcome to a new season of our Crushing Comics Book Club, where we discuss a classic run of comics together as both fans and critical readers. For the next few months we’ll be reading Grant Morrison’s Batman, but before we get started we’ll be doing a few weeks of pre-reading to catch up on some of the themes and influences of the run.

Harry is our expert – he loves Batman and Morrison, and he has read this run multiple times. Fariha is our intermediate – she has read plenty of Morrison and DC. And, Peter is now the novice – he’s read some of this run before, but otherwise this is his FIRST TIME reading pre-New-52 Batman!

Today, we start with a discussion of how we first found Batman (and Morrison), plus a read of Batman’s debut in Detective Comics (1937) #27 as well as Batman (1940) #1 – the first appearances of Joker and Catwoman.

Then, we all read The Black Casebook for the first time! It’s an unusual book – 12 of the most-outlandish Golden and Silver Age stories as selected by Morrison to hint at, explain, or reflect the themes of their Batman run. We’ll talk about our FAVORITE Casebook story, the WEIRDEST story, plus give a rundown of EVERY tale in this tome – with a few hints from Harry at how they might be relevant later.

The stories are:

Tune in next week as we read the Tales of the Demon TPB.

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It’s This Week in X for 26 May, 2021!

Join Peter, Fariha, & Tyler as we discuss X-Men (2019) #20 and New Mutants (2019) #18. We took a deep, DEEP dive into both of this week’s issues!

First, on X-Men #20, we discussed the prevailing theme of lost love, Mystique’s motivations, creating terrorists (and your own worst enemies), worst weapons, interventionism, impotent bigots, inadvertently causing your destruction, and burning it all down.

Then, for New Mutants #18, we discussed the themes of self-image, bodily autonomy, and the haves-and-have-nots of Krakoa and how each of those three themes weave through the various “debates” in the issue.

Spoiler warning – we discuss everything about X-Men up to and including comics from this week, as well as other current events in the Marvel Universe.

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We’re back for our SEASON FINALE of reading classic X-Men!

Listen in as Tyler and Peter re-explore the classic Claremont material, with Fariha reading it FOR THE FIRST TIME!

This episode is an incredibly deep dive into Uncanny X-Men #137 and Jean Grey, as well as into the version that ALMOST made it to print from Phoenix: The Untold Story, as well as Claremont’s 1990 epilogue to the story in Classic X-Men #43.

Plus: Have we convinced Fariha to love Jean Grey?!

This episode contains full spoilers for House of X and Powers of X and a few comments about the Dawn of X status quo that follows it.

And, get ready, y’all – we’ll be back next week with BATMAN BY GRANT MORRISON!

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It’s This Week in X for 19 May, 2021! Join Peter, Fariha, & Tyler as we discuss Way of X (2021) #2 and Wolverine #12.

For Way of X #2, we discuss the sad state of several mutant brains, anomie, evolving societies, the middle path, psychic fingerprints, kinks in the resurrection process, and impending storm clouds for Krakoa.

For Wolverine #12, we have a brief, chaotic BUY or SKIP debate over this issue’s quality, X-Force’s B-sides, Wolverine’s hospitality, Omega Red’s triple agency, and Beast’s unbridled glee for war crimes.

Spoiler warning – we discuss everything about X-Men up to and including comics from this week, as well as other current events in the Marvel Universe.

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We’re back for more classic X-Men! Listen in as Tyler and I re-explore the classic Claremont material, with Fariha reading it FOR THE FIRST TIME!

In this episode, we discuss Uncanny X-Men #135-136. The Dark Phoenix has taken over Jean Grey’s body and mind, and she’s HUNGRY – but, can the X-Men stop her when she makes a brief return to Earth to say goodbye to her final human connections? We cover Cyclops’ first psychic dance battle, Phoenix’s approximate sense of morality, how classic Sagas and modern Events are different, and more.

Plus, we dig into a pair of Dazzler stories in Classic X-Men issues – #37-38.

This episode contains full spoilers for House of X and Powers of X and a few comments about the Dawn of X status quo that follows it.

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It’s This Week in X for 12 May, 2021!

Join Peter, Fariha, Tyler, & Harry as we discuss Children of the Atom (2021) #3 and X-Factor (2020) #9 – for X-Corp #1, check out our previous episode.

Children of the Atom #3 continues to split our panel in new and different ways. We discussed sudden space ships, self-imposed responsibilities, sour dinner parties, and taking off our X-glasses when deciding the value of this story.

For X-Factor #9, we dig into psychic inception and Morrigan’s goals. Then we spiral into a lengthy argument over a single data page and yell at Marvel for cancelling our favorite comic.

Spoiler warning – we discuss everything about X-Men up to and including comics from this week, as well as other current events in the Marvel Universe.

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It’s a special single-issue episode of This Week in X, the first of two episodes for the week of 12 May 2021.

Join Peter, Fariha, Tyler, & Harry as we dig into X-Corp (2021) #1. We had a mega-sized discussion for this giant-size debut, tackling each of the board members of this uncanny new corporation: Monet, Madrox, Trinary, & Angel.

Plus, we get a little bit heated about horses, UN sanctions, and the big HQ “launch.”

Spoiler warning – we discuss everything about X-Men up to and including comics from this week, as well as other current events in the Marvel Universe.

We’ll be back with another episode for Children of the Atom #3 and X-Factor #9.

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We’re back for more classic X-Men! Listen in as Tyler and I re-explore the classic Claremont material, with Fariha reading it FOR THE FIRST TIME!

In this episode, we discuss Uncanny X-Men #132-134. The X-Men bring conflict to the door of The Hellfire Club and learn they are outmatched by their inner circle – and it has dire consequences for Jean Grey.

Plus, we cover Classic X-Men issues – #40, 41-42, & 44 – including a touching tale of Rogue’s two moms and Cyclops’s orphanage origin story.

This episode contains full spoilers for House of X and Powers of X and a few comments about the Dawn of X status quo that follows it.

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It’s This Week in X for 5 May, 2021!

Join Peter, Fariha, & Tyler as we discuss Marauders (2019) #20, Hellions (2020 #11, and X-Men – Curse of the Man-Thing (2021).

Marauders #20 was Storm’s issue, but we were fascinated by Emma’s parts of it. We tackle our favorite Storm memories, but also dive deeply into what makes Emma tick and her (at first begrudging, but now enduring) respect for Ororo & Kitty.

In Hellions #11, we discuss Kwannon’s self-sufficiency, Arcade’s lack of loyalty, the Mastermind family, Sinister’s duplicitous plot (and why it matters A LOT), and more.

For X-Men – Curse of the Man-Thing we hold a “BUY OR SKIP” lightning round and discuss the finer points of Magik’s status as a lord of a little slice of hell.

Spoiler warning – we discuss everything about X-Men up to and including comics from this week, as well as other current events in the Marvel Universe.

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