Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Amazing comic artist Phillip Sevy joins us this week for a beautiful X-Men Go To Japan issue! That's right, Phillip's birth month and year issue coincides with Uncanny X-Men 173, where, right before he gets married, Wolverine and his sidekick Rogue take on the majority of Japan's underworld to save the X-Men and his bride.

Also in this episode:

we delve into Philips artistic influences

Wolverine is a badass

Phillip’s Claremontian words vs art theory

Lodro thought ninja sais would be more of a thing as an adult

we review the range of comic book injuries from "looking tired" to "blast energy on your chest"

Cyclops is bad at introducing his girlfriends

Lilandra always carries a lightsaber

Storm goes punk

Lockheed isn’t a cat

Wolverine is ready for love

Mastermind is the worst

...and more! What does any of this mean for Phillip's future? Tune in to find out!

Phillip Sevy is an artist who has spent the last few years drawing for Marvel on titles like X-Men (Astonishing, Unlimited, and From the Ashes), Avengers, Venom, Deadpool, and others. They broke into the comics industry through the Top Cow Talent Hunt, where they drew The Tithe and The Freeze, before moving over to Dark Horse for a lengthy run on Tomb Raider. They wrote The House (with artist Drew Zucker), and wrote and drew Triage, Paradox, and Kepler (with David Duchovny). When they’re not feverishly working on comics, you can find them (literally) running around their neighborhood, hiking in the hills, or DMing endless sessions of DnD. You can find more of Phillip on Instagram and Bluesky.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

This week we go deep with Ariana Maher, letterer extraordinaire! Ariana offers beautiful advice on how to break into lettering and we cover her birth month and year issue - Uncanny X-Men 165 - where the X-Men all got those Brood eggs growing inside of them...and are gonna die!

Also fun and of note this episode:

- Arianna will never forget her first BAMF

Colossus is the perfect plug for your spaceship

Professor Xavier never learned about reverse psychology

Nightcrawler loves God

Colossus says the most profound thing he has ever said on panel

things gets awkward between Kitty and Colossus

Storm becomes a space whale

All this and Ariana's fanfic revealed. What does any of this mean for her future? Tune in to find out!

Ariana Maher is a Brazilian American currently residing in southern Brazil. A former translator in Japan, she shifted careers and has been a self-taught professional letterer since 2010 and then a member of Virtual Calligraphy since 2020. Notable titles she's worked on in the past include Detective Comics, Demon Days, X-Men Red, and Venom War. She's currently the letterer for Justice League Unlimited, Critical Role, Forged, Superman, One For Sorrow, and Scarlet Witch, among several others. You can connect with her on Bluesky here.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Long-time friend of our host Rodney Solomon is here to talk about everything BROOD. Yes, the weird Aliens rip-off that dominate the Marvel Universe has an origin and it happens to be right when Rodney was born!

Also in this episode:

all the X-Men are baking Brood eggs

Carol Danvers has the power of a white hole

Professor X is over it

What does any of this mean for Rodney's future? Tune in to find out!

Rodney Solomon is the project director for the MassHire Greater New Bedford Career Center. After graduating Wesleyan University, he moved to New York City where he spent five years in management roles at prominent hospitality and restaurant groups. Pursuing his entrepreneurial spirit, Rodney spent the next eight years, leading operations at an innovative food service startup called Savory that developed and operated tailored programming for large companies and landlords. After moving to New Bedford in 2019, he took on the role as Director of Workforce Initiatives for the Rhode Island Food Policy Council, providing leadership for an emergent workforce program developed in partnership with the state’s Department of Labor and Training.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Also in this episode:

Mr. Sinister's first appearance (I'm beginning to fear I'm not right)

Mr. Sinister needs to see a dentist

one of the Marauders is not like the other ones (it's Polaris)

Dazzler spreads bad vibes

the Adversary really shouldn't be hitting on Storm

Harpoon's power is harpoons

the redemption of Greycrow / Lodro's X-Men pitch

Madelyne Pryor is a badass

...what does any of this mean for Clayton's future? Tune in to find out!

All this plus Clayton's advice to people looking to break into lettering! Why are you still reading this? Listen to the episode!

Clayton Cowles is an Eisner and Ringo-nominated comic book letterer. He currently letters X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, Astonishing X-Men, and much more. In the past, he has worked on House of X, Powers of X, Dark X-Men, Immortal X-Men, Weapon X-Men, two other runs of X-Men, and a host of other X-Men spinoffs. He lives in upstate New York in a house with two cats. You can find him on Instagram here.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

HEY it's our Season 4 premiere, a two hour ROMP with THE D'Manda Martini

Also in this episode:

D'Manda does NOT drink brown liquor

Lodro's only con experience

Betsy Braddock is confusing

D'Manda is on a lot of podcasts

Cats hate birds...in space

Calico is the worst

why the X-Men don't ride buses anymore

let Anole live

Charles Xavier is fine with X-Men dying so long as he gets to have space sex

Cyclops is surprisingly nice to the Shiar

...and Lodro has a full on breakdown when D'Manda reveals her new weekly show title.

D’Manda Martini is the Chanteuse of Southern Maryland as well as a Washington DC area based drag artist, cosplayer, theater actor & costume designer. She has been the winner of drag and cosplay competitions, acting awards, and costume design nominations. You can follow her journey on social media across all platforms at @dmandamartini where you can find her linktree to her merch site, and several articles she’s been mentioned in, including two for the Washington Post.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

For the final episode of 2024 we have a very special guest...THE Steve Orlando! Writer of over 350 of your favorite comics, Steve comes on the show to talk about Uncanny X-Men 196 which features all the greats: crazy intolerance, Nimrod, the Beyonder ordering a sandwich, Professor X's students trying to kill him and Kitty smoking her first cigar! What more could you ever want in one episode?

How about...

Steve Orlando has written for every major American comic book publisher. He’s received Eisner Award Nominations for OUTLAW TERRITORY (Image Comics) and RAINBOW BRIDGE (AfterShock Comics), as well as participating in the Eisner-Winning LOVE IS LOVE (IDW Publishing). He’s received a Ringo Award Nomination for RAINBOW BRIDGE (AfterShock Comics), and wrote for the Ringo-Winning DC PRIDE (DC Comics). As well, his MIDNIGHTER and MIDNIGHTER AND APOLLO were both nominated for GLAAD Media Awards. As a localizer, Orlando contributed to SWEET PAPRIKA, winner of a 2022 Harvey Award.

At DC Comics, he’s written for titles including BATMAN, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, DOOM PATROL: MILK WARS, SUPERGIRL, MARVIN THE MARTIAN/MARTIAN MANHUNTER, WONDER WOMAN, DETECTIVE COMICS, NIGHTWING, BATMAN/THE SHADOW, and MARTIAN MANHUNTER, its first issue named one of Tor’s Best Single Issues of 2018.

At Marvel Comics, he’s written for STAR WARS: LIFE DAY, X-MEN GREEN, MARVEL VOICES: PRIDE, MAGNETO AND THE MUTANT FORCE, MARAUDERS, EXTREME CARNAGE, CURSE OF THE MAN-THING, and SCARLET WITCH. You can follow more of Steve's work here.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Long time friend of our host Matthew Bonaccorso joins us to talk DRACULA!

The X-Men have fought aliens, had friends turn into giant space birds and live in a world where telepaths are on every block but balk at the possibility that Storm could possibly be hanging out with a vampire. But guess what? She got turnt!

Yes, Matt's birthday corresponds to Storm falling under the sway of Dracula himself.

Also in this issue:

most of our listeners have probably imagined Wolverine in their bedroom

if you were going to send one trade paperback to convince someone to like the X-Men, what it would it be?

Kitty has to go run some errands

Kitty buys a hat to kill Dracula

Dracula is wearing the puffy shirt from Seinfeld

Matt doesn’t know how to pronounce jaunt

Nightcrawler almost beats Dracula by holding up two sticks

Dracula has a party bus coffin

At the end of the day, the best way to defeat Dracula is, apparently, to gain his respect. What does any of this mean for Matt's future? Tune in to find out!

Matt Bonaccorso is a seasoned product innovator. He’s spent nearly two decades blending creativity and technology. He’s worked on everything from smart toys to digital products for the world's largest entertainment companies like Nickelodeon and Discovery Channel, and he’s the mind behind Corbit the Robot—a smart, AI-powered companion that entertained kids and parents alike. These days, he’s the co-founder and CEO of Wowables Inc., an up-and-coming startup focused on the future of AI and robotics. Basically, if it’s cutting-edge tech that sparks the imagination, Matt’s got his fingerprints all over it.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Returning guest Cassie Lilly comes home to X-Men Horoscopes for an episode where we map X-Men 57 onto its historical counterpart in 1969...we're covering the Stonewall Riots!

Yes - this is another "What does X-Men say about US?" episode, or at least the queer and queer-adjacent us. With that in mind, we also cover:

why Iceman is Cleopatra

the Sentinels...LIVE (for Polaris' outfit)

Havok is a walking talking disaster and Lorna Dane, half a world away, falls in love

Havok has to come out as a mutant and wonders if anyone has ever felt so alone

Lodro manages the X-Men's finances

"Men believe what they want to believe Bobby"

Tune in because this episode...is going to be a riot!

Jokes aside, this is when mutants in the Marvel Universe are starting to be persecuted and hunted simply for being mutants. We're witnessing the birth of mutant as metaphor in today's issue and it's message is a powerful one about how, when we stand together, we prevail. When we isolate, well, that's when the Sentinels will get ya.

Bonus: we have a back up story called "The Female of the Species" which...is not great for feminism. "Cleaning the house is a breeze when you have telekinesis!" - Jean Grey ten years before becoming a cosmic entity

Cassie Lilly is a truly creative person, having trained as an actress, most notably at the celebrated National Youth Theatre of London, who has also successfully dabbled in modeling and voiceover work before settling into her skills as a writer, with her first article published in 2021 detailing her perspective as a transgender girl in the modern world.

She is an activist at heart, a champion for LGBTQ rights and the fight against racism, lending her voice as an educational public speaker, shedding light on the history and facts surrounding the culture war on trans people. As an avid comic book reader from an early age, Cassie is considered a “go-to” girl when it comes to comics. This lends perfectly to her super fun content coverage as a bubbly Tiktoker and across social media, diving into nerd culture, comic book characters, history and lore! You can join the discussion with @who.cassie across all social media!

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Chad offers up his encyclopedic knowledge as we dive into the 1960s, looking at when the mutant metaphor began and when Beast started really hating humans. We dive into Chad's birth month and year issue - Uncanny X-Men 115 - where we get his full breakdown of Sauron (and a great voice for him too).

Also in this issue:

Banshee has never looked hotter

Also, no one knows who you are Banshee stop asking

Lodro is going to hatch a rom com situation to make Ann Nocenti his cool aunt

Wolverines can run really fast

There sure is a lot of Cyclops blasting all over Wolverine's face in this issue

Also, Cyclops and Banshee tag team Sauron

Colossus has a son we will never speak of

- Sauron is bad at break ups

Zaladane dresses like a chicken drag queen

Ka Zar keeps butting in to tell people he also has adventures

All this plus why Boom Boom would be a great president! Boom Boom 2028! She has my vote. What does any of this mean for Chad's future (and - BONUS - our society's)? Tune in to find out!

Chad Anderson is the host of the wonderful x-podcast Graymalkin Lane where he and his queer friends review the X-Men comics of the 1960s.

Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, Chad is a father of two, works as a trauma therapist and a writer. He's written the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, the Mushroom Murders graphic novel, the documentary Dog Valley, and his memoir Gay Mormon Dad is currently being adapted into a graphic novel!

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Magician and long-time friend of our host Jeff Grow joins us for a very special episode where we discuss YOUR horoscope. Yes, you!

We look at the X-Men issue for March, 2020 which, in case you didn't know, was when COVID hit our planet...hard.

In it, Professor X, Magneto and Apocalypse go to Davos, Switzerland to meet with foreign leaders about how to build a better planet and wow this could not have synched up better. What does Magneto have to say about the COVID pandemic?

Also in this episode:

Apocalypse will not let you call him by his first name

Magneto will not let you go to war

Xavier will not let nuclear threats exist

...and a controversial take...Xavier is right? Hey, right now anything is possible.

What does this incredible issue mean for YOU and the rest of us post-pandemic? Tune in to find out!

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com