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

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