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!

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

Mikey G of the x-cellent Instagram account XTropes joins our host Lodro Rinzler for an episode devoted inadvertently to how great the character Lifeguard is.

Still interested? Well we do cover an amazing crossover: X-Men and Alpha Flight 1, where Madelyne Pryor gets super powers!

Also in this episode:

Rachel is a future daughter from a future timeline who is from the future...and only wears a black leotard and bright red leg warmers into battle

Justice for Slipstream, the White Surfer

Is Alpha Flight good?

When you get attacked the best way to practice self-defense is to kiss them

Northstar is gay and Rogue speaks French

Sasquatch is having trouble being a Sasquatch and gets cured of Sasquatch stuff

Plus Mikey has a bird phobia. What does any of this mean for his future? Tune in to find out!

Mikey hails from Sydney, Australia. Although he did not grow up there. He grew up on the west coast of Australia in Perth which is the most isolated city in the world hence the harsh accent. Besides his one true love, the X-Men, he enjoys shaking his fist at clouds, horror movies and all things housewives. He is the number one fan of the greatest Claremont creation of all time: Lifeguard. Which makes him crazy.

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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 legendary X-Writer Kieron Gillen joins our host Lodro Rinzler for a very special episode entitled "The X-Office is an Anarchist Commune." We discuss, not surprisingly, what it was like behind the scenes during the recent Krakoa era, the Fall of X, and how Xavier was right (?). Kieron was born right as Thunderbird died so we dive into the epic story told in X-Men 94 + 95.

Also in this episode:

- Kieron has emotional contraceptives for that

the overlap between Hickman and Gillen writing styles

the X-Men are forged into...the Breakfast Club

the death and rebirth of Thunderbird

how Count Nefaria is somehow the primary x-villain this season on the show

In the Q&A section we cover who the DJ was on Krakoa, how Selene loves to eat people and what the X-Men would be like as a sitcom.

Also: Power Fantasy, Kieron's BRAND NEW comic, is out...TODAY! Go get it! Like, today today!

Kieron Gillen first came to attention as a comic creator with his 2006’s Phonogram, with Jamie McKelvie. Jamie and he formed into a gestalt monster that rampaged against the next fifteen years of comics, culminating with critical and smash hit the Wicked + the Divine. When not with Jamie, he has co-created books such as DIE, The Ludocrats, Once & Future, Three, Uber and more. When not making his own worlds, he has worked on Marvel Comics biggest books, such as Uncanny X-Men, Young Avengers, Thor, Iron Man, Star Wars, Eternals and Darth Vader, (where he co-created Doctor Aphra). You can follow along with Kieron's work by buying Power Fantasy TODAY(!) and signing up for his newsletter 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

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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 are joined by Mark Bassett, critically acclaimed cellist and long-time friend of the host (who also arranged our theme music)!

Professor X is dying (again) so what does he dream about? Meeting the big love of his life: Magneto.

Join us in Israel after the Holocaust where things are just awful for regular human Gabrielle Haller. Nazis want to use her as a map for getting Hitler's gold because...sure. It's Gold Rush! A Nazi buddy comedy for Professor X and Magneto with lots of wacky hijinx and the origination of their ideological differences.

What does this issue mean for Mark's future? Tune in to find out!

Mark Bassett earned his cello performance degree at the New England Conservatory of Music. He also has a degree in music education from the College of St. Rose. As a musician, Mark has played with many orchestras and chamber groups including the Philadelphia String Quartet, Calder Quartet, South Florida Symphony and Fresno Philharmonic. He has toured with artists such as Josh Groban, Lindsay Sterling, and bands Evanescence, Celtic Thunder, and Hanson. Mark's passion for video game music has led him to be principle cellist for Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddess tour, and with the Final Fantasy: Distant Worlds tour. As a studio musician, He has recorded for recent films such as Frozen 2, Charlie’s Angels, and Bad Boys 3. Mark has also recorded for many video game scores including Final Fantasy 12 remake and Final Fantasy 15. You can follow Mark on Instagram here.

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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.

Right in time for the movies, Deadpool co-creator + writing legend Fabian Nicieza joins our host Lodro Rinzler for Count Nefaria stealing Washington D.C. He would have gotten away with it too if not for those pesky telepaths. Born in Argentina, Fabian grew up on (and learned English from) X-Men comics so we dive into issue 23, syncing with his arrival in the good old U.S. of A.

Count Nefaria has kidnapped the X-Men and is holding Washington D.C. hostage for seventy trazilliom dollars. Also in this episode:

what it's like to sell literal millions of comics each month (it was the 90s)

Professor X forgets that the telephone exists

Alfred Hitchcock has nothing on The Scarecrow

in the 60s framing the X-Men was just a thing everyone did

the first person to call Professor X a dick on panel

- Fabian will kill off Colossus (if he has to)

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

Fabian Nicieza has worked for Marvel since 1985 when he started out in the department for Fisher-Price licensed activity books. He moved on to become Marvel’s Advertising Manager and then during that time, Fabian also began writing for Marvel on a freelance basis. His first published book was PSI-FORCE #9 in 1987. He then went on to write THE NEW WARRIORS which was simply wonderful.

Clearly a glutton for punishment, Fabian also began writing several of Marvel’s top-selling X-titles, including X-FORCE, CABLE, DEADPOOL and the company’s #1 selling book, X-MEN. These books not only sold millions of copies to gazillions of readers, Fabian also got to star in a series of X-Men Pizza Hut videos.

And outside of comics, Fabian has worked with STARLIGHT RUNNER ENTERTAINMENT for 20 years on story world development and franchise management consultation for some of the biggest entertainment companies on some of the biggest properties.

He has written two novels including SUBURBAN DICKS which was nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for an Edgar Award.

His NEW comic Free Agents is out NOW! You should go pick it up it's a lot of fun.

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

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