Mutant Studies 101

Better late than never, students! We are finally getting our X-Men 97 coverage up on our feed for ya! Justin Jordan returns to discuss everything episodes 3 and 4!

Alright, time to lock in and get organized students! For this special BONUS Episode, your hosts are joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning National Security reporter and comics writer Spencer Ackerman (Reign of Terror, Iron Man, Waller v. Wildstorm, Forever Wars) to talk about his new book from Boom! Studios NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC.

Topics include: How the book functions as a tool guide for fighting fascism, comics as copaganda, the difficulty of writing a book like this, how it uses the form in interesting ways, basketball, and Dean being stuck in a package room in Toronto, Ontario.

You can find Spencer @attackerman on Bluesky and at forever-wars.com. You can find Morgan @beakerbarnes and Dean @deancoburnld. You can find the show on Instagram @mutantstudies101. Links to our show notes, transcripts, and citations can be found at mutantstudies101.tumblr.com.

As always, we'd like to thank Ollie Pritchard and Hayden Kierkeide for our music and graphic design, respectively.

Welcome into the terrifying world of adulthood, students! For this week's BONUS episode, your professors are joined by returning guests Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, better known as the Hivemind, to talk about their upcoming creator-owned book YOU'LL NEVER LEAVE THIS PLACE ALIVE. Final order cutoff is TODAY, so get the order in and then give the ep a listen!

You can follow the Hivemind @hivemindactual on TikTok, Instagram, and Bluesky. You can follow the show @mutantstudies101 on Instagram and Bluesky and @mutant101pod on Twitter and TikTok. Links to our show notes, transcripts, and citations can all be found at mutantstudies101.tumblr.com.

As always, we'd like to thank Ollie Pritchard for our theme music, Hayden Kierkeide for our graphic design, and Anneliese Gelberg for their research assistance.

It's time to RIOT, Students! For this lecture, your professors are joined by the absolutely LOVELY hosts of the X-Men True Friends podcast Kyle Gibson and Joshua Catone to dive DEEP into Quentin Quire-related shenanigans

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of school shootings, teenage drug use, and the alt-right

You can follow the show @mutantstudies101 on Instagram. You can follow the True Friends @xmentruefriendspodcast. You can find links to our show notes, transcripts, and citations at mutantstudies101.tumblr.com.

As always we'd like to thank Ollie Pritchard for our theme music, Hayden Kierkeide for our art, and Annelids Gilbert for our research assistance

Be prepared to start our psychic affairs and absorb the sins of the father, students! For this week's lecture, your professors are diving REALLY deep into New X-Men 127-133, titled New Worlds. Joining us is comics scholar and host of the SubteXt-Men podcast Chapman Blake!

Topics for this lecture include: Diving further into what Xorn means and represents in this run, unpacking what exactly is the deal with Fantomex, a psychoanalysis of the O5 (but who's shocked), the beginnings of the psychic affair, our VERY complicated feelings on Sooraya Qadir, and more!

Content Warning: This lecture contains discussions of genocide, the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and sexual manipulation.

You can follow SubteXt-Men on Instagram and Bluesky @subtextmenpod and Chapman @chapmancblake.

As always, we'd like to thank OlliePhresh for our theme music, Hayden Kierkeide for our art, and Anneliese Gelberg for their research assistance

Be prepared to fight some kaiju, students! For this BONUS interview, your professors are joined by Julio Anta and Jacoby Salcedo, the creative team behind NO GODS NO MASTERS for an interview all about the book. They dig deep into the new book, their previous collaborations, talk all about big monsters and teenage angst, and more!

You can preorder NO GODS NO MASTERS #1 at your local comic shop until Monday July 27. Julio can be found @julioanta and Jacoby can be found @jacobysalcedo.

You can follow the show on Instagram and Bluesky @mutantstudies101 and on Twitter and TikTok @mutant101pod. You can find our show notes, citations, and transcripts at mutantstudies101.tumblr.com.

As always, we'd like to thank OlliiePhresh for our theme music, Hayden Kierkeide for our artwork, and Anneliese Gelberg for their research assistance.

It's time, to go back... to the 90s, students! For the week's lecture your hosts are joined by the incomparable Justin Jordan (Freddiesroommate) to chat ALL about the first two episodes of X-Men '97 Season 2!

Topics for this recap include: What is this show doing right vs wrong, how it functions as IP management, controlling the narratives, Rachel Summers stocks down vs. Lorna Dane stocks up, and so much more!

You can follow the show on Instagram, TikTok, and Bluesky @mutantstudies101 and on Twitter @mutant101pod. You can find links to our show notes, transcripts, and citations at mutantstudies101.tumblr.com.

As always, we'd like to thank OlliePhresh for our theme music, Hayden Kierkeide for our graphic design, and Anneliese Gelberg for their research assistance.

We are finally talking about the BEST characters in X-Men, the Shi'Ar Imperial Guard!!! For this week's summer session lecture, your hosts are joined by newly appointed best friends of the show Matt and Allison Parent of Escape the Mojoverse to talk about a pair of shorter arcs in the front half of Morrison's run, Germ-Free Generation!

Disclaimer: Some of the comics discussed in this episode are drawn by Ethan Van Sciver. Both Mutant Studies 101 and Escape the Mojoverse would like to issue a very hearty "fuck that guy!" about Ethan Van Sciver. Comicsgate is a blight and also he has never done anything better than being a mediocre Frank Quitely fill-in.

Topics for this lecture include: Loving just how romantic this book is, John Sublime as an atomic evil, Twin Peaks The Return part 8, Emma and Jean contrasting as love interests for Scott, a lot of good Hank talk, and... horse girl.

You can follow Escape the Mojoverse @escapethemojoverse on all socials. You can follow Mutant Studies 101 on Instagram and Bluesky @mutantstudies101 and on Twitter and TikTok @mutant101pod. You can send us an email to [email protected]. You can find links to our show notes, transcripts, and citations at mutantstudies101.tumblr.com.

As always, we'd like to thank OlliePhresh for our theme music, Hayden Kierkeide for our graphic design, and Anneliese Gelberg for their research assistance.

Well... Supergirl is a movie. It is out. It... doesn't work. Your professors want to know why it doesn't work.

Topics for this lecture include: Why doesn't this movie work? How is it that every time it fixes a problem with the comic it creates 3 new ones? At least Milly Alcock is good but oh goodness this movie is rough.

You can follow the show @mutantstudies101 on Instagram, TikTok, and Bluesky and @mutant101pod on Twitter. You can find links to our show notes, transcripts, and citations at mutantstudies101.tumblr.com.

As always we'd like to thank OlliePhresh for our theme music, Hayden Kierkeide for our art, and Anneliese Gelberg for their research assistance.

Time to go on a new adventure, students! For this week's lecture, your professors are doing some field trip prep for next week as they head into the stars with Tom King and Bisques Evelyn's Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow

Topics for this lecture include: Blackout DC Comics, how this book really doesn't work for us, what Tom King should be doing instead of this, and a lot more ranting than normal!

You can follow the show on Instagram and Bluesky @mutantstudies101 and on Twitter and TikTok @mutant101pod. Links to our transcripts, show notes, and citations can be found on mutantstudies101.tumblr.com.

As always, we'd like to thank OlliePhresh for our theme music, Hayden Kierkeide for our art, and Anneliese Gelberg for their research assistance.