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.

With us this week is Jim Zub, comic writer extraordinaire whose new series Omen-Bound was just announced. 

We talk about his early years writing comics, what he's learned as the number of comics he has written moves past 300 and what it means to be a ten-year overnight success. He has worked for just about every major comic book publisher and also has a lot to share for anyone aspiring to get into the industry.

We discuss his birth month and year issue - Uncanny X-Men 99 - where Jean Grey, Wolverine, Banshee and Professor X are being held in space and the rest of the team attempt a daring rescue mission and yes - this is right before Jean becomes the Phoenix.

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

Jim Zub is a Canadian writer and artist. Over the past twenty five years he’s worked for publishing, movie and video game clients including Marvel, DC Comics, Disney, Capcom, Hasbro, Cartoon Network, Bandai-Namco, and UDON Entertainment.

Before returning to full-time freelance writing, Jim was a professor teaching drawing and storytelling courses in Seneca Polytechnic’s award-winning Animation program. His current projects include acting as the flagship writer for Conan the Barbarian, the monthly comic book adventures of Robert E. Howard’s legendary sword & sorcery hero. He lives in downtown Toronto with his wife, writer Stacy King. You can find him on Substack and Instagram.

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. His BRAND NEW BOOK is now out: You Are Good, You are Enough. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

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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 have the True Friends Joshua Catone and Kyle Gibson on the show to talk about their X-Men podcast which coincidentally is named True Friends Podcast! 

We talk about their early months leading the show, how Kyle does accounting for turtles and why Joshua lives with a human skull. To celebrate their true friendship, we cover the X-Men issue that came out when they first became true friends - Uncanny X-Men 407 - where Nightcrawler and Chamber hang out on a mountain being moody.

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Joshua Catone and Kyle Gibson are the hosts of the brand new X-Men podcast True Friends. They have been friends for over 20 years and X-Men fans for even longer. They met in college and quickly bonded over their love of Marvel’s merry mutants, and when they aren’t giggling over their favorite things from the X-universe, you might find them in mildly convincing cosplay at various cons across the country like the Uncanny Experience or FlameCon.

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. His BRAND NEW BOOK is now out: You Are Good, You are Enough. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

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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.

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With us this week is screenwriter, television producer, comic book writer, and novelist Marc Guggenheim!

We get into his storied career beginning with an internship at Marvel that went awry back in 1990, take an in-depth look at his X-Men Gold and Days of Future Past and then get into his birth month and year issue for the horoscope: Uncanny X-Men 12 a.k.a. the origin of the Juggernaut!

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Marc Guggenheim is a screenwriter, television producer, comic book writer, and novelist. He is known as the creator of the television series Eli Stone, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow, as well as the executive producer of the animated series Tales of Arcadia for which he won an Emmy in the category of "Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program.” He is also the writer of the feature films Green Lantern and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.  He is the author of several books including the novel Overwatch and In Any Lifetime. A life-long comic book fan, Marc has been writing comics professionally for over twenty years, working on titles for both Marvel (such as Blade, X-Men and Spider-Man), DC Comics (The Flash, Superman, Batman), and original creator-owned works (Resurrection, Halcyon, Nowhere Man, Jonas Quantum and Stringers). If you have trouble keeping track of Marc’s incredible work tune in regularly to his substack, Legal Dispatch.

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. His BRAND NEW BOOK is now out: You Are Good, You are Enough. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

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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.

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With us this week is everyone's favorite Hudson-based drag queen who is also a city councilperson and cookie salesman: Rich Volo aka Trixie Starr!

We dive into his birth month and year issue - Uncanny X-Men 60 - where we are introduced to everyone's favorite were-pterodactyl Sauron!

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Rich Volo aka Trixie Starr is Hudson NY’s most popular in this house drag queen, city council member, proprietor of the incredible Trixie’s List newsletter and cookie salesman. You can read his Substack here and you absolutely ought to check out his brand-new book, THE GAY BOAT: ITALY.

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. His BRAND NEW BOOK is now out: You Are Good, You are Enough. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Want to listen to these episodes early/ad-free and get your own X-Men Horoscope read/an awesome t-shirt? Check out our patreon!

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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.

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With us this week is Gui Agustini, the voice of Sunspot in X-Men '97! 

He joins us to discuss the mysterious process of getting cast as a superhero, what it means for him to play this role, memorable moments when recording and what we can look forward to next.

We cover his birth month and year issue - Uncanny X-Men 234 where we get some Outback X-Men fighting the Brood y'all!

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Gui Agustini is Brazilian born of Argentinian mother and Peruvian father. He is trilingual, a former tennis pro and Latin fusion personified. 

He is the voice of Brazilian mutant Sunspot in X-Men ’97 and also appears as the professional tennis player Yoyo on CBS’ Elsbeth’ as well as Theo James “acting' double” in HBO’s The Time Traveler’s Wife. He has also voiced the Surfer Dude in Disney’s Spidey and His Amazing Friends and has done motion capture for Red Dead Redemption 2 and GTA5.

Gui is also a filmmaker with more than 10 short films created, including Roses are Blind and his latest West Texas Home. Finally, he’s a proud co-founder of the online apparel store impAKTo which donates 10% to The Midnight Mission, an incredible organization that cares for the homeless in Los Angeles. Follow him on Instagram or Facebook.

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. His BRAND NEW BOOK is now out: You Are Good, You are Enough. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Want to listen to these episodes early/ad-free and get your own X-Men Horoscope read/an awesome t-shirt? Check out our brand-new patreon!

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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.

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With us this week is Adrian Hough, the voice of Nightcrawler on X-Men '92 and now X-Men '97! We dive into his long career of acting before exploring the X-Men issue that came out the very first time he voiced Nightcrawler...we're going to the Age of Apocalypse y'all!

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Adrian Hough is a Canadian actor, voice actor, writer, and acting coach whose career spans film, television, animation, and video games. A familiar presence in animation, he is especially known to X-Men fans as the voice of Nightcrawler in X-Men '97, bringing warmth, humor, and emotional depth to the beloved mutant. With decades of experience across virtually every corner of the entertainment industry, Hough has built a reputation as a versatile performer capable of moving seamlessly between heroic leads, nuanced dramatic roles, and memorable animated characters.

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. His BRAND NEW BOOK is now out: You Are Good, You are Enough. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Want to listen to these episodes early/ad-free and get your own X-Men Horoscope read/an awesome t-shirt? Check out our brand-new patreon!

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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.

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With us this week is the voice of Bishop on X-Men '97, Isaac Robinson Smith! We follow him from an early love of sound to an amazing trajectory as a voice actor, including a lot of wonderful and memorable stories of his time as Bishop.

We cover his birth month and year issue which...is actually that one where blonde British Betsy Braddock is remade into an Asian assassin, so trigger warning there.

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

Isaac Robinson-Smith is a voice actor who is able to voice everything from zany characters to earnest announcers. His vocal versatility has turned him into one of LA’s rising voiceover stars. Whether he’s recording in a vocal booth, singing at Disneyland, or just practicing his much-requested Morgan Freeman impression, Isaac Robinson-Smith’s voice is always entertaining someone. He has been Adam in Voltron, Mushu in Dreamlight Valley, Dark Choco Cookie in CRK and Black Panther for Disney Parks. Fans of this show might know him from Eyes of Wakanda but also very likely as Bishop in X-Men ’97.

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. His BRAND NEW BOOK is now out: You Are Good, You are Enough. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Want to listen to these episodes early/ad-free and get your own X-Men Horoscope read/an awesome t-shirt? Check out our brand-new patreon!

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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.

Want to listen to this episode ad-free? Visit our Patreon!

With us this week is Miles and Anna Stokes! Full disclosure: this lil podcast would not exist if Jay and Miles Xplain the X-Men didn’t pave the way for it. We are interrupting X-Men ‘97 Month for a week because Jay and Miles Xplain the X-Men JUST ENDED and this is a good communal way to process that news.

What does this mean for Anna and Miles' future together as a couple? Tune in to find out!

For the last 12 years, Miles Stokes has been enthusiastically attempting to make sense of comics' most complicated superhero soap opera as half of the podcast Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men. By day, he fixes computers for a non-mutant-related comic book publisher, and by night, he tries and fails to catch up on his gigantic media backlog.

Anna Stokes is an enigma wrapped in shadows, or possibly just an endearing dork with an excellent fashion sense. She loves horror, British comedy, the visual arts, and spends most of each week listening to people's life stories while she expertly rips hair out of their bodies in her role as an esthetician.

Anna and Miles live in Portland, Oregon in a spooky house full of nerdy things, or possibly a nerdy house full of spooky things, in the middle of a pretty great community of creators and weirdos.

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. His BRAND NEW BOOK is now out: You Are Good, You are Enough. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Want to listen to these episodes early/ad-free and get your own X-Men Horoscope read/an awesome t-shirt? Check out our brand-new patreon!

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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.

With us this week is the voice of Rogue in the X-Men animated series, Lenore Zann! You are in for a treat as we look at the trajectory of her career starting as a teenage actor, moving into voice acting and her iconic run as Rogue in the '90s and moving into an incredible career in politics.

We briefly touch on the X-Men issue that came out right when she broke into voice acting (Uncanny X-Men 122) and of course spend a lot of time answering questions from listeners like you.

Also in this episode:

the Zannslide

the time Disney had to track her down for a mysterious project that they wouldn’t tell her anything about

the intersectionality of the character of Rogue and politics

Lenore’s two pieces of advice for anyone who wants to make a positive difference in today’s world

Cyclops is stuffier than King Tut’s tomb

Storm does NOT have a good time in Harlem

Cyclops gets a key from his gf and assumes she wants him to water her plants

a shout out to all the men getting calf implants

Lenore's villain turn (to watch the Stormhawks video click here!)

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

To listen to the episode with Kelly Thompson - one of my favorite comic writers who also has written Rogue extensively - click here. We unpack Uncanny X-Men 122 in depth.

Lenore Zann is an Australian-born Canadian actress and politician who began her acting career at age 19 in the rock opera Hey Marilyn!, going on to build hundreds of credits across stage, screen, and voice acting. She is universally recognized as the iconic voice of Rogue in X-Men: The Animated Series and the Disney+ revival X-Men '97. Additionally, Lenore has had a distinguished career in Canadian politics, serving in the Nova Scotia legislature and the Canadian House of Commons.

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. His BRAND NEW BOOK is now out: You Are Good, You are Enough. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Want to listen to these episodes early/ad-free and get your own X-Men Horoscope read/an awesome t-shirt? Check out our brand-new patreon!

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Want to listen to this episode ad-free? Visit our Patreon!

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.

With us this week is the voice of Morph on X-Men '97, JP Karliak! We get into the importance of nerds voting, his work creating opportunities for queer voices and, of course, the inner life of Morph.

Also in this episode:

Who should Morph date?

Jean is a crystal ball and is unhappy

Havok and Polaris get horny when given X-Men missions

College Iceman is NOT doing well

Of course Cyclops’ walk about leads to him f-ing a sea captain on a deserted island

Dr. Doom is camp af and pines for Storm

Hot Bird’s contribution is dat ass

All this plus is Morph naked all the time? What does any of this mean for JP's future? Tune in to find out!

JP Karliak is a voiceover actor, activist, and snappy dresser. JP is the founder and president of Queer Vox, a non-profit training academy and community for LGBTQIA+ voice talent that advocates for authentic and equitable casting opportunities. Also a political junkie, JP and voiceover pal Courtenay Taylor are co-founders of the nonpartisan organization NerdsVote, linking gamers, cos-players, con-goers, and pop culture fans of all kinds to voter registration opportunities. Fans of this show may immediately recognize his voice because he is Morph, from X-Men ’97.

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. His BRAND NEW BOOK is now out: You Are Good, You are Enough. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Want to listen to these episodes early/ad-free and get your own X-Men Horoscope read/an awesome t-shirt? Check out our brand-new patreon!

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