X-Men Horoscopes

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.

Comics legend Marjorie Liu joins our host Lodro Rinzler to discuss an incredibly fun and disturbing issue of X-Men!

Before we sell you on all the hilarity, let's get real for a moment: Marjorie Liu is not just an extraordinary comic writer, she's also just a lovely, grounded, kind human being. It was an honor to have her on the show. Okay, now on to the silliness.

In this episode we discuss how Marjorie writes from the gut and, in her words, her gut is really weird. Also, how she went through a cathartic experience writing X-23 (now Wolverine).

Topics include:

teenage Marjorie wrote X-Men fanfic

in the Marvel Universe, a hat and trenchcoat is more than sufficient to disguise a six foot, blue, furry man

Charles Xavier sends postcards from space

Mesmero is a bag of dicks

Also Mesmero read a Playboy once and thinks that's how people should always pose

the Phoenix force has limits on how badly you can mess up Jean Grey

At the end we answer questions from YOU! Yes, you! Then Marjorie Liu spits wisdom on how to be yourself even and especially when others are trying to tell you who you should become and how to transmute hatred and negativity into gold. This episode is not to be missed!

Marjorie Liu is an attorney and New York Times bestselling novelist and comic book writer. Her work at Marvel includes X-23, Black Widow, Han Solo, Dark Wolverine and Astonishing X-Men. She is also the co-creator of Monstress from Image Comics, which has won multiple Hugo Awards, British Fantasy Awards, the Harvey Award, and five Eisner Awards, making Liu the first-ever woman (and woman of color) to win an Eisner in the Best Writer category. She teaches comic book writing at MIT.

Marjorie’s extensive work with Marvel includes the Dark Wolverine series, NYX:  No Way Home, X-23, and Black Widow: The Name of the Rose. She received national media attention for Astonishing X-Men, which featured the gay wedding of X-Man Northstar and was subsequently nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for outstanding media images of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. You can find more of Marjorie over at her website.

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.

The world is on fire and there is political unrest so let's talk about Nightcrawler's daddy being Satan and how he's not really Satan he's just a mutant from Biblical times and oh yeah Angel is a literal angel and Mystique is there but she's not telling anyone she's actually Nightcrawler's dad and YEAH. It's a LOT OF FUN.

Also in this episode:

Iceman likes getting kissed by girls, he swears

poor Nils has a portal stomach and everyone makes fun of him for it

Havok has a creative idea about how to reform Bobby's ice body...and a thousand fan fics are launched

What does any of this mean for the future of Brandon from Woodbridge, Virginia? Tune in to find out! It's THE DRACO y'all!

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.

Novelist and comic book writer Alex Segura joins our host for a romp where the original five X-Men from the past time travel to the present from the past and the future X-Men from the future are also in the present and they want the past X-Men to go back to the past. Confused yet? Well strap in friend do we take you for a ride this week as we study X-Men 12 (from September, 2013).

Also in this episode:

what if it's a fireman calendar but it's just Magneto for each month

Cyclops always puts Magik on his teams because he HATES getting his jets shot out of the sky and it happens ALL THE TIME

Eva Bell is NOT an X-Man from the future

the Zen koan of Xorn is Magneto is Xorn

one of the best twists in comic history

Angel exists in this comic but literally everyone forgot he was there

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

Alex Segura is the bestselling and award-winning author of Secret Identity, which The New York Times called “wittily original” and named an Editor’s Choice. NPR described the novel as “masterful,” and it received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist. Secret Identity was also listed as one of the Best Mysteries of the Year by NPR, Kirkus, Booklist, the South Florida Sun Sentinel and more, and was nominated for the Anthony Award for Best Hardcover, the Lefty and Barry Awards for Best Novel, the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel, and won the LA Times Book Prize in the Mystery/Thriller category. His next novel, the YA Spider-Verse adventure Araña/Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow is out now from Disney Books/Marvel Press. Marvel fans will know his voluminous work on Star Wars comics and the wildly acclaimed by me Spider Society series.

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.

Right in time for Halloween Homo Superior co-host Adam Kousarri-Amin joins our host for The Most Depressing After School Special EVER! The Power Pack kids get abducted by the Morlocks and the X-Men have to remember the Morlocks exist and save them.

That's right! How to top last week's episode where the Morlocks kidnap an adult? With another episode where they kidnap children! Everyone needs a hobby and this is the Morlocks' so please stop judging them.

We review Uncanny X-Men 195 and other important topics covered include:

How watching X-Men 97 was like watching Drag Race...but for X-Men

Why mourning X-Men 97 is like losing a foreign lover

Lodro has a Star Wars name

Wolverine loves to smoke cigars and stab little girls...and he’s all out of cigars

Power Pack loves to hang out in sewers

We all know why Manson removed one of his own ribs right?

Kitty can be in charge and if Wolverine has to kill a couple Morlocks as a result of her bad leadership it's not the end of the world

The many teams of baby soldiers Xavier made us forget

If you live in a sewer why are you going to dress your kid in a tube top?

Cro Magnons are going to HATE this episode but everyone should give it a listen anyway.

Adam Koussari-Amin is co-host of the weekly podcast, Homo Superior, which provides smart analysis and dumb jokes about the latest and greatest of X-Men and MCU content. When he’s not running his mouth, you can catch him DJing around Washington, DC, or cuddling on the couch with his partner and his dog watching horror movies and playing video games. The excellent meme-game discussed in this episode can be found here.

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.

Joining us this week is long-time friend of our host/medical professional/voodoo practitioner and guide Marina Acosta to discuss a very BDSM Morlock wedding.

Angel has been kidnapped and is destined to marry Callisto, leader of the Morlocks...unless the X-Men can come in at that point where an officiant goes "Does anyone object?" and save the day that way.

Also in this issue:

- Marina is kinda on the Morlocks' side and also sort of confused by how comics work

Cyclops is upset about Madelyne Pryor looking exactly like his dead ex girlfriend...but gets over it in one minute flat

the X-Men consistently forget that the Morlocks exist the moment they are out of sight

Nightcrawler has a beautifully symmetrical face

What do Cyclops and Caliban have in common (they both have been worn as sweaters except for Cyclops - bad joke sorry)?

a truly beautiful knife fight

Cyclops loves wearing sunglasses at night

And we answer the question our guest asks: "Are the X-Men good guys?"

Marina Acosta is a full scope primary care nurse practitioner, specializing in polycystic ovarian syndrome and ADHD.  Separately, she is a New Orleans Voodoo practitioner, focused on honoring traditional rituals, ingredients, and recipes.  She is a mom, a wife and a collector of stationary. Here's her Instagram!

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.

In the Season 3 premiere, Dazzler writer and renaissance comic star Jason Loo joins our host Lodro Rinzler to talk about the corruption of Magik! 6 year-old Illyana is hanging out watching her totally safe X-Men friends play-fight each other and gets abducted into Limbo by a demon with candy in his van! She'll surely be rescued unscathed right? Right?! I mean, she's six. It will all be fine...right?!?

Also in this episode:

Kitty Pryde's sexual awakening

an inside peek at the new Dazzler series:  which villains can we expect? Will Longshot be in it? How is this the most high-stakes version of Dazzler we've ever seen?

the fork in the road between Gambit and Multiple Man fandom

Nightcrawler as a pervy son of a gun

the demon Sym's first move in a fight is to take off his opponent's shirt

- Jason welcomes Swifties into Marvel

...all this and the best X-Man to go out drinking with. What does any of this have to do with Jason's future? Tune in to find out!

Jason Loo is an Eisner Award-winning cartoonist from Toronto, Canada. He's currently the writer on Dazzler and Werewolf By Night: Red Band Edition for Marvel. Jason is also the book illustrator for Hulk Not Smash: Practicing Mindfulness the Mighty Marvel Way. His other Marvel works include The Sentry, Spider-Boy, Iron Fist 50th Anniversary, Howard the Duck 50th Anniversary, Extreme Venomverse, and Infinity Paws. He is also the co-creator with Chip Zdarsky behind The All-Nighter for Dark Horse Comics.

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.

Erica Schultz, comic writer extraordinaire, joins our host Lodro Rinzler for the Season 2 finale of X-Men Horoscopes!

We dive into the classic X-Men issue 105 where Jean finally figures out she's a giant cosmic bird. Eric the Red (FML that I have to explain Eric the Red) has manipulated the former herald of Galactus Firelord - basically if a matchstick took the form of a person - into taking out the X-Men and only Jean can sort of stop them!

We also get a sneak peek at Erica's new series: Laura Kinney the Wolverine, hitting stands this December.

Also in this episode:

Who is the alien Captain America?

What cause will Erica flip her own desk over to defend?

Why the new Wolverine series has an all-female creative team

Firelord is just a giant matchstick who won't stop talking about the last job he was fired from

Eric the Red is the reason Lodro drinks

Erica yells at Lodro about his categorization of New York City neighborhoods

Jean has the most expensive apartment in NYC and now her security deposit is gone

Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum fight on panel

Cyclops sees Jean's new power and is torn between "this is sexy" and "I'm terrified" and has lived there ever since

Misty Knight gets a bad break in the roommate department

This and much more in the finale of Season 2 for X-Men Horoscopes! We will be back in a few weeks with a power-packed Season 3 and, as always, thanks for listening!

Erica Schultz is a Ringo Award nominated comic book writer (and editor and instructor and letterer). She is the creator of Forgotten Home (nominated for five Ringo Awards in 2020, published by comiXology Originals and Dark Horse Comics), the co-creator of Bylines in Blood, the co-creator of Strange Tails with Claire Connelly (nominated for a Ringo Award in 2020), co-creator of M3, and creator of Twelve Devils Dancing from Action Lab Danger Zone.

Erica has written everything. For Marvel she’s written Moon Knight, Black Widow, Daredevil, Hallows' Eve, Beta Ray Bill, Wolverine, Spider-Man, X-23, and Misty Knight. For Image: Spawn: Rat City and The Deadliest Bouquet. You can follow her on Instagram and Twitter (she calls it Twitter still, you might call it X) and check out her very cool stuff 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.

Everyone's favorite award-winning cosplayer Michelle Waffle-Otero joins our host Lodro Rinzler for a very special look at Dazzler! Can't a girl just be an aerobics instructor without Inhumans teleporting into class and demanding she be a human flashlight for them on the moon? Apparently not!

In addition to covering a very fun issue from the 80s Dazzler solo series, we dive into the world of cosplay, how Synch in his Generation X era would be a great boyfriend, and how Moonstone needs to go to the moon for stones for her moon stone powers.

Michelle is an award winning cosplayer in the Southern CA area. She’s done looks which include Jean Grey,  Spider Gwen, Black Cat, and Dazzler, among others. She has been featured on Marvel’s Becoming Series for her X-Men cosplay work, has moderated segments for Cosplay Alliance's YouTube channel, and has been a panelist at several conventions including SDCC. You can frequently catch her on a red carpet, guesting on various Marvel related podcasts such as Power Of X-Men or hunting for comic books and toys on a con floor.

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.

Ryan Krull of the fantastically funny X-podcast Homo Superior joins our host Lodro Rinzler for a one-shot where Psylocke fights Sabretooth!

We cover Uncanny X-Men 213 where Sabretooth is fresh off the Mutant Massacre and loose in the mansion just being scary y'all. Also in this episode:

we cover the 25 classes of new mutants

the weird almost relationship of Psylocke and Douglas Ramsey

Psylocke has gotten with everyone on earth who bears the last name Summers

Lodro has a voice (and a face) made for podcasts

Sabretooth is invisible when wet

we've all dated a psycho blast back in the day

Psylocke ends up joining the X-Men this issue while wearing her pajamas, which she then wears them as a superhero uniform from then on so as not to make it weird.

What does any of this have to do with Ryan's future? Tune in to find out!

You can find more of Ryan over at the Homo Superior podcast. 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.

Amber and Chris VanMoesnerr join our host Lodro Rinzler for a "plot-driven" X-Men issue from the Disassembled era five years ago, which syncs with the birth of their son. We talk parenting + X-Men. We talk about how sometimes the X-Men is written like the show 24. We talk about whether Professor X would make for a good babysitter.

Also in this episode:

Amber and Chris VanMoesnerr live in upstate New York with their two lovely children. According to the bios they offered for each other, Amber is a lovely person who is training to be a mental health counselor as well as a professional podcaster and Chris is a journalist in the energy commodity space, a failed political candidate and an excellent dad. You can check out Amber's fascinating podcast about learning she was donor-conceived, Biohacked, right 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