The Young Ones

[Content warnings for vore, a pregnancy scare, and related topics in these issues.]

On Today's Episode: Charlie continues to be cursed at restaurants, we do a short recap, and talk about new mutants? AKA Jason Aaron, Chris Bachalo, and Nick Bradshaw's Wolverine and the X-men issues #5-8.

Topics Discussed: This is a weird-ass book to be reading in the year 2019. That's all I got.

Join Charlie (@geneticghost) and Reed (@armustdie) as they discuss HoX, PoX, DoX, and more!

Topics Discussed: Malevolent Geese as 2019 Icons, Comics Charcuterie, Emotions Make You Go Oof, Apocalypse: Not a Barometer for Success

Cover image courtesy @maliciousglee, drawn by @karen_xmenfan!

The Young Ones celebrate the end of Pride Month as Charlie, Mikey, and Reed talk about characters who help us relate to our identities or give us gay feelings (geelings).

Topics Discussed: "Can you live with a curse?"; Reed's Chain of New Memories; Mikey's Extremely Bad Segue; Ryan Gosling, But He's Just a Baby Goose; Canon Playdough; When Ur Kingdom Hearts 3 is the Fanfic U Read Along the Way; The Nightmare Avengers; Teddy Altman: A Quick Primer; Why the MCU Films Mean Something, Dammit; Presumptions of Wall-E; Ruminations on Comics Press; Batman Doin the Stuff and Being Rich

On Today's Episode: We try to explain Deathlok, discuss X-Men Scout Cookies, and more as we cover issues #1-4 of Jason Aaron, Chris Bachalo, and Nick Bradshaw's Wolverine & the X-Men.

Topics Discussed: A Bit of Amusement; The Twilight Zone AKA the Bus Dimension; Please Donate to Our Offshore Mutant Nation; Quentin Quire Is Straight? And Other Mysteries; "When You're X-men, You're Family"; "Can I Talk to You About How Much I Hate the Kiddy Hellfire Club"; Throwing a Bad Alien Trope in the Garbage; Ranking Quentin Quire's Fashion; How to Befriend a Living Island; Doop Is a Mood; All's Fair in Love and Comics; Evan Has So Many Uncles; Raising Puppies From the Dead; How to Go From 0 to Pregnant in 30 Seconds

On today's episode, we're gearing up to talk Jason Aaron's Wolverine & the X-Men, but in order to do that, we have to give you some context. So join us as Reed gives a potent summary of Scott & Logan's motivations for the Schism event, Charlie explains why a Death Seed is a watermelon seed but for Death, Mikey takes us into Uncle Fantomex's World, and we're all haunted by the ghost of Grant Morrison as we untangle the Xavier School's cast of characters.

Topics Discussed: Sometimes the Solution Is Just Fanfic; “The Fuck Is Spider-Island?”; Hope’s Power Doesn’t Make Any Damn Sense; A Brief History of Quentin Quire and Also Punk; Why Kids Shouldn't Fight; Does Schism Even Make Sense?; Evan is Baby, Call 911; The Five Labors of Deadpool; Zen and the Art of Selective Comics Reading

Content Warning: Our discussion of Uncanny X-Men #11 includes content warnings for suicide, character death, and self harm. If you're sensitive to that, please take care!

Reed (@armustdie) joins us again to talk Age of X-Man, Uncanny X-Men #11, the Shatterstar mini, Mikey makes a case for The Wild Storm, and we discuss the mysteries of glitter, online harassment, depression & suicide in media, and the cat antics that started it all.

Topics discussed: Please Release the Glitter Data; Nate Grey Can't Read; The Sound of Silence, by Scott Summers; Don't Do a Tweet; It's a Boy Party!

A new year, and a new episode of The Young Ones! We're back to comics and talking Mark Waid & Humberto Ramos' Champions with Reed (@armustdie). Join us as we talk that, queer representation in media, Scott Summers, LGBT Robots, Arctic Coke, and more!

It's a very special episode of The Young Ones for our Acts of Friendship crossover today! Join us as we talk with our guests Christina Eddleman from @ChrisesPod and Luke Herr from @MultiversalQ as we talk about teen stories, comics, and why we love them.

Topics Discussed: What makes a good teen story?; Good or bad teen slang; The cycle of adults with teen problems and vice versa; Has there ever been a teen story you liked when you were younger that didn't stand up to your older self's tastes?