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 is the episode for anyone who has ever longed to be tapped on the shoulder by an X-Man and invited onto the team. We unpack Chris' superhero origin story (including some Emma Frost gender-bend cosplay) and unpack the power of found family as we tackle Uncanny X-Men 8 (July, 2013) where Magneto punches Cyclops in the face, Magik is the Magik School Bus, and one young teen learns he can control cars and promptly gets shot for it.

What does Uncanny X-Men 8 say about Chris' future? Tune in to find out!

Chris Riley co-founded and produces The Uncanny Experience, an immersive convention for X-Men fans. He also co-hosts X-Reads: An X-Men Experience, a podcast that connects fans with the creators behind beloved X-Men stories, revisiting classic issues. In addition, Chris is involved with Q Con, an LGBTQIA+ pop culture convention in West Hollywood, where he serves as both a producer and the Executive Producer of its podcast counterpart. His work extends across various roles at pop culture conventions, including community management, social media coordination, cosplay competition organization, diversity initiatives, and panel programming. Beyond his professional endeavors, Chris has been active in supporting non-profit organizations through organizing diversity panels, after-parties, and stage shows.

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:

What does Uncanny X-Men 65 say about Douglas' future / what role does compassion have when our backs are against the wall? Tune in to find out!

Douglas Wolk is a pop culture critic, teacher and writer, and the author of All of the Marvels, Reading Comics and 33 1/3: Live at the Apollo. He’s written about comics and music for magazines, newspapers and web sites including Time, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, The Believer, Entertainment Weekly, The Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, Slate and Pitchfork. He’s appeared in the documentaries Marvel’s Behind the Mask, Cartoon College, and Ink: Alter Egos Exposed. He’s received the Will Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book, and currently teaches at Portland State University while hosting the podcast Voice of Latveria.

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.

What does Uncanny X-Men 279 say about Cassie's future/how we listeners can overcome that voice in our heads? Tune in to find out!

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.

We discuss the founding of Cerebro, Chris Claremont's newscaster girlfriend, how everyone has been mayor of NYC (at least with Wilson Fisk the subways run on time) as well as more moving themes of Madelyne Pryor as human ally and damned mutant, Claremont’s thesis on how to be a good person and the Jewish practice of atonement. What does any of that have to do with Connor's fate? Tune in to find out!

Connor Goldsmith is a literary agent, podcaster, and writer. As a Senior Agent at Fuse Literary, he specializes in Nonfiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. He represents influential celebrities, award-winning journalists and cultural critics, and acclaimed fiction writers.

In 2020, Connor launched the independent podcast CEREBRO, a character-by-character exploration of Marvel’s X-Men comic book franchise. CEREBRO was named one of Entertainment Weekly’s 10 best podcasts of 2021, and hailed that year by Ezra Klein as one of his favorite podcasts. In 2022, Connor and his work on CEREBRO were profiled in The New York Times. You can follow more of Cerebro on Instagram and 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.

Also in this episode:

(Also: the fashion in this issue is amazing.) It is not just a horoscope; it is your mutant destiny decoded!

Neil D’Astolfo is a New York-based actor, comedian, writer and Scorpio. Neil recently wrapped up three seasons as a series regular on Comedy Central’s Emmy-nominated Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out the News and recurred as Anthony Fauci on Showtime’s Our Cartoon President (also executive produced by Stephen Colbert). You may also know him from Hulu’s High Fidelity and The Path. Neil’s critically-acclaimed solo show, Mister Miss America, had its world premiere off-Broadway at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in Summer 2022. The New Yorker called his performance “dazzling,” and The New York Times said, “He can land a punchline with his eyes alone.”

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 this case YOUR future!

Also in this episode: Lodro takes his top off for Ann! We talk about X-Men Legends 3, a fascinating story Ann wrote that takes place immediately after her 1980s Longshot mini-series featuring Wolverine and Kitty Pryde...at war. What does that issue say about all of US as a society? Tune in to find out! It is not just a horoscope; it is your mutant destiny decoded.

Ann Nocenti is a renowned writer, editor, director and journalist. She teaches bootcamp filmmaking, most recently to at-risk teenagers in Kingston, NY, to Cherokee Native Americans at the Tulsa International Film Festival, and in Norway for the Indigenous Film Circle. Her journalism has appeared in Details, Utne, HEEB, Stop Smiling, PRINT, Filmmaker, Scenario, and more. She made a documentary about the resistance fighters in Baluchistan (with Wendy Johnson) called The Baluch and of course Ann is also known for her work in comics, writing Daredevil, editing the X-Men, and creating such iconic characters as Longshot, Typhoid, Spiral, Mojo, Blackheart and many more.

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:

Global defense companies are run by tiny dragons

It is not just a horoscope; it is your mutant destiny decoded!

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.

Ruby Rinzler is a 9 month old baby who sat down with our host/her dad to learn the full history of the X-Men and have her X-Men horoscope explained; we cover X-Men 23 (June, 2023).

It is not just a horoscope; it is your mutant destiny decoded!

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.

It is not just a horoscope; it is your mutant destiny decoded!

PAUL FLOREZ is a writer and Head Auctioneer at HUNT Auctioneers. Paul has held positions at Marvel Comics, Alyson Books, Hachette Book Group and HarperCollins. His work has appeared in the Huffington Post, The Advocate, Slice Magazine, HelloGiggles, Queerty, Gay.com, Marvel Pulse Newsletter, Burrow Press, The Liar’s League, Dead Rabbits, and Wizard Magazine.

He is the founder of Power of X-Men, a community and podcast dedicated to Marvel with 30,000 community members discussing why X-Men resonate with them.