Issues: New Mutants Annual #2 & X-Men Annual #10

There's a scary new villain on the scene, folks! Mojo, the Lifebringer! Tune in as we cover his first couple appearances post-Longshot and scare ourselves silly! Plus, New Mutants and X-Men working together...and even fighting!?! Plus lots of nudity! Join us!

TOPICS DISCUSSED:

A pink man. Bad time Benjamin. Heavy edits. Supergirl. Psylocke! Captain Britain! The Brat Pack! “It has nothing to do with the scorch marks on the phone.” Longshot! “In an Art Adams book, anything could be goop at any time.” Going too amnesiac. Doug’s addiction. New Mutants New Costumes. Thor frog friends. Lazer tag.

TIMESTAMPS

1:12 - Kilowog Hours - A Lanterns Podcast

9:49 - Pat’s Email Corner

33:27 - New Mutants Annual #2: “Why Do We Do The Things We Do?”

1:10:40 - X-Men Annual #10 : “Performance”

1:59:40 - Pat’s Deals ‘n’ Steals



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Episode 79 - Mojo!

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[PATREON UNLOCK] Puffyfaffin' with Matt and Pat

Join us this week on a little detour from our usual titles, as we meet a few major future X-characters in Ann Nocenti and Art Adams' Longshot miniseries! It's weird! It's funny! It's dark and sometimes terrifying! And seriously, it's very very funny, we get a little giggly. Tune in!

TOPICS DISCUSSED

Ann Nocenti’s cat. A little guy. Limahl. Con-Ed. Longshot! Spiral! Eliot! Ricochet Rita! A stuntman that keeps passing out. Jinx! She-Hulk! Spider-Man! MOJO! The Little Rascals with a gun. Ronald Reagan. Gog N’Magog! Quark! Gumby. Dr. Strange! Arize! Vincent D’Onofrio. Bent Neck Lady.

TIMESTAMPS

11:11 - Pat’s Email Corner

38:54 - Longshot #1: A Man Without A Past

1:00:27 - Longshot #2: “...I’ll Wave To You From The Top!”

1:17:23 - Longshot #3: Just Let Me Die

1:34:47 - Longshot #4: Can’t Give It All Away!

1:42:55 - Longshot #5: Deadly Lies

2:00:35 - Longshot #6: A Snake Coils…

2:22:25 - Pat’s Steals ‘n’ Deals

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78 - Longshot Miniseries #1-6

Holy cow. These are some wild issues folks. Claremont is back to form, firing on all cylinders and peppering us full of GOOD STORY. If only we weren't a LANTERNS podcast now, we could cover the end of Rachel Summers, Phoenix, as well as the prelude to the Mutant Massacre...

Oh well, guess you'll just have to get really into LANTERNS now.

Topics Mentioned:

Hive Mind Gang. A fucked-up, twisted Warriors. Everyone has a perm. Jessica Drew's Full House House. Brawn over Brains. Who is this redheaded woman? Abandoning a Nightcrawler sub-plot. Ow! First Step: Break a Mirror. Rosencrantz the Magnonamous. A scary Wolverine. Rachel's Shirley Jackson Villain Arc. Pants... Off. Godzilla Rules. FRIEDRICH VON ROEHM IS BACK. Can't a man just give a woman orange juice anymore? SNIKT. "Wolverine is a PRICK!" Selene is EVIL. The Lords Cardinal. A scarier (but less consequential) Dark Phoenix. Caliban wear shirt! Harry Leland's super-hero costume. Describing Nimrod for a VERY long time. Shifting from LOVE MODE to COMBAT MODE. A juicy robot butt (again). FRIEDRICH VON ROEHM IS GONE. Nightcrawler is vaporized. Are the Hellfire Club SUPPOSED to be incompetent? Put the Tommy Gun in my hand! What's the deal with rush hour? Kitty restrains herself for once. Wolverine's moral code. "THE Bulk."

TIMESTAMPS

1:10 - Kilowog Hours: A Lanterns Podcst

6:55 - The Actual Start of the Podcast

18:15 - Pat's Email Corner

29:10 - Have You Done Anything X-Men Related This Week?

35:11 - Uncanny X-Men #206

59:23 - Uncanny X-Men #207

1:21:25 - Uncanny X-Men #208

1:48:48 - Uncanny X-Men #209

2:10:50 - Uncanny X-Men #210

2:32:55 - Final Thoughts

2:36:20 - Pat's Deals n' Steals

2:41:00 - Goodbye!

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Episode 77 - Uncanny X-Men #206-210

Hope you're ready for friendship, folks! Because the New Mutants are back after taking a little break from Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters in the Back to School Special! Come hear how Sam and Dani spent their summer vacations, take a field trip with the gang to a rival school, attend a school dance, and even give a school assembly! Oh, and some really fucked up stuff, mostly in Power Pack. Tune in!



TOPICS DISCUSSED:

“You don’t have to write a whole comic about it, we picked it up in one sentence!” A lot of people with thoughts about Bill Mantlo. Hoagiemouth. Cereal reviews. Issue 73. Cowboy religion. Sam Guthrie’s many siblings. Remember Josh Guthrie for 5 years. Sam’s letters home. Stevie Hunter rules. Hellions! “He doesn’t mean any of this, he’s just excitable.” A school dance. A list of slurs. Franklin Richards saves Santa. Bonkers!

TIMESTAMPS:

9:19 - Pat’s Email Corner

45:24 - New Mutants #41: “Way of the Warrior”

59:19 - New Mutants #42: “New Song For Old”

1:20:05 - New Mutants #43: “Getting Even”

1:43:50 - New Mutants #44: “Runaway!”

1:59:30 - New Mutants #45: “We Were Only Foolin’”

2:25:54 - Power Pack #20: “Turning Point”

2:45:06 - Pat’s Steals ‘n’ Deals

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76 - New Mutants #41-45 & Power Pack #20

You can't call these guys the X-Men anymore! They're X-Factor. And they've got a brand new foe who wears a gimp mask! Or, wait, no, he doesn't. It's Apocalypse! 

We start the Louise Simonson era of X-Factor and it absolutely rules!

Topics Discussed:

Saying your own name. A Beef Thief. Va-Va-Va-VOOM! A darker side of Bob Layton. The Alliance of Evil. The worst kept secret. Harmless Heroin. S&M Apocalypse. LOUISE SIMONSON IS HERE! Matt is right. X-Factor is good now. They should kill Angel. The Phoenix is back?? Maddy the Hatch-Opener. TRISH TILBY IS HERE! Jerry and Squiggy. Scott calls one person to look for his missing wife and son and then gives up. Skids! Jean's beeper. X-TERMINATORS. Complex mutant politics. The DOWNDRAFT returns! Bobby ices up in a suit. Jean looking at a picture of Maddy. Why is Spider-Woman part of Freedom Force? An ALMOST X-Men crossover. Spiral disappears. Holy Mike! The STRONG return of Holy Hannah! :

TIMESTAMPS:

0:07:28 Pat's Email Corner

0:18:00 Did We Do Anything X-Men Related This Week?

0:26:05 X-Factor #5

0:54:15 X-Factor #6

1:25:10 X-Factor #7

1:47:24 X-Factor Annual #1

2:13:45 X-Factor #8

2:31:40 Final Thoughts

2:34:15 Pats Steals and Deals

 2:41:45 Goodbye!

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75 - X-Factor #5-8, Annual #1 - APOCALYPSE!

This is definitely our angriest episode. We finish off Alpha Flight and Bill Mantlo makes many decisions that make us absolutely furious. But also plenty of absurd ones that make us laugh, so there's still plenty of joy in this episode! I promise!

We find out who Puck REALLY is (ugh) and the (semi-)ultimate fates of Heather Hudson, Shaman, Snowbird, Sasquatch, Northstar, Aurora, Talisman, Madison Jeffries, Doug Thompson, Marrina, a Baby, and Puck!

Topics Discussed:

SCRAMBLE, THE MIXED-UP MAN. The '56 Buick line returns. Half a maple leaf is the most sturdy shape. Bill Mantlo hates women. Your brother's brain. Brobdingnagian. "The ain't your grandma's How to Pronounce Brobdingnagian video". Nemesis returns. Her sword "hungers." Bill Mantlo doesn't understand metaphors. "Short Story" A full nude butt. Heather Hudson character assassination. Razer Pronunciation (CORRECTLY!). Tall Puck. A sword that shrinks you 6 inches. I AM THE SHORT KING. Bill Mantlo unwrites characters written goodly. No ride to the Opera. Chris Claremont: Secret Editor. LADY DEATHSTRIKE! Wolverine origins. Bill Mantlo hates people with disabilities. Heather reads a folder in her memory. "Vindicator" is back. Talisman is NOT a mutant. The fate of Alpha Flight.

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 - Background

11:40 - Pat's Email Corner

29:15 - Did We Do Anything X-Men Related?

36:40 - Alpha Flight #30

1:04:04 - Alpha Flight #31

1:17:05 - Alpha Flight #32

1:38:15 - Alpha Flight #33

1:54:55 - Alpha Flight #34

2:12:35 - Alpha Flight #35-50

2:28:09 - Final Thoughts

2:31:45 - Pat's Deals and Steals

2:37:12 - Goodbye!

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74 - Alpha Flight #30-34 (and beyond)

ICONIC is a word that gets thrown around a lot, and today is no exception! Join us as we gleefully tear into this iconic run of issues, featuring the iconic Scott/Ororo fight, art by the iconic Barry Windsor-Smith, and Wolverine being his general iconic self! And of course we, your iconic hosts, are just being iconic as hell. Tune in!

TOPICS DISCUSSED:

Snorting crushed up Baby Tylenol. Bryan Lee O’Malley. We’re healing. A baby that knows what an email is. Little Rascals. An absolutely iconic fight. Whilce Portacio is here! That’s her Grampapa! Edward Albee’s Zoo Story. SFLANNG! Every Arcade story is the same. Barry Windsor-Smith returns! Lady Deathstrike is here! “Transformers would write some damn ad copy.”

TIMESTAMPS:

7:03 - Pat’s Email Corner

24:34 - Uncanny X-Men #201: “Duel”

52:05 - Uncanny X-Men #202: “X-Men I’ve Gone To Kill the Beyonder!”

1:10:05 - Uncanny X-Men #203: “Crossroads”

1:39:55 - Uncanny X-Men #204: ”What Happened to Nightcrawler?”

2:03:29 - Uncanny X-Men #205: “Wounded Wolf”

2:31:38 - Pat’s Steals ‘n’ Deals

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73 - Uncanny X-Men #201-205

MAGNETO tries to settle into his new role as the headmaster of the New Mutants this week, and boy do things go wrong. Everyone dies! Just kidding. Or are we? Tune in to find out, folks, in what turns out to be a realllly good run of issues, even amidst the turdstorm of Secret Wars II!

TOPICS DISCUSSED:

The Odyssey rejects. The new Spider-Man movie. Mary Wilshire and Bill Sienkiewicz! He’s still doing supervillain stuff. The original X-Men would never have sex. “Also, I’m very sad.” Chris Claremont’s The Beyonder. John Wayne. Believing in the Grim Reaper. Counting coup. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Everyone’s dead. More Secret Wars II stuff. “You made her go to hell.” Charles Xavier’s mysterious older cousin, Michael Xavier is here! Avengers sleepwear. Steve Garvey’s Space Jam.

TIMESTAMPS:

4:52 - Pat’s Email Corner

24:32 - New Mutants #35 : “The Times, They Are A’changin’!”

55:21 -  New Mutants #36 : Subway to Salvation

1:04:06 - New Mutants #37: “If I Should Die”

1:31:14 - New Mutants #38: “Aftermath”

1:47:59 - New Mutants #39: “Pawns of the White Queen”

1:59:48 - New Mutants #40: “Avengers Assemble!”

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72 - New Mutants #35-40 - Professor Magneto

ISSUES: Avengers #263, Fantastic Four #286, X-Factor #1-4

Don't tell Chris Claremont, but we're starting a brand new title: X-FACTOR! Plus, one of the most classic deaths in all of comics is undone. 

Matt and Pat enjoy some controversial comics and walk away with very different opinions on the direction of the characters! We meet some cool new characters and revisit some surprising old ones...

Topics Mentioned:

"Huh. This is weird." Namor and Hercules nude party. The Black Knight's Atomic Steed. Talking stupid looking. An egg that looks like a coffin. We miss Peter Corbeau. John Byrne doesn't know what a clitoris is. Third Genesis. Reed Richards' one mutant friend. RUSTY! "Gotta get these clothes off. No time to lose!" Scott Summers as husband and father. "Why are you telling me this?" Cameron Hodge! A secret police for mutants. An asbestos bag. Bernard's dead! Showing up to a business meeting in your underwear. Vera's hot now. Dr. Carl Maddicks is back! ARTIE! Be nice to Artie. Bobby's ice detritus. FRENZY! The Jean/Scott/Warren Love Triangle AGAIN!? Headmaster Woodley is here! Artie is the best character in the Marvel Universe. "Say Jim, why don't you show ol' chili dog some presidents?" Ruining Scott Summers' hair.

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Background

12:04 - Pat's Email Corner

30:30 - Did We Do Anything X-Men Related This Week?

37:30 - Avengers #263

42:55 - Fantastic Four #286

57:35 - X-Factor #1

1:30:35 - X-Factor #2

1:46:10 - X-Factor #3

2:00:05 - X-Factor #4

2:18:15 - Final Thoughts

2:24:50 - Pat's Deals n' Steals

3:41:10 - Goodbye!

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71 - X-Factor #1-4

Comedians Matt Aukamp (Save Your Game, The Very Worst) and Pat Reber (The Very Worst) read the X-Men in chronological order and talk about all the weird, funny, ridiculous, insightful, and interesting

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Comedians Matt Aukamp (Save Your Game, The Very Worst) and Pat Reber (The Very Worst) read the X-Men in chronological order and talk about all the weird, funny, ridiculous, insightful, and interesting things within.