This girl is on fire! That's right, folks, tune in to hear two sweet goofballs work their way through the 616 introduction of FIRESTAR, years after being created by a licensing issue! It's deeper and more complex than you'd expect for a comic origin of a Saturday morning cartoon character. Tune in, it's a good one!

TOPICS DISCUSSED:

Recording under a desk. Firestar! How many grapes are in a bunch? Hotel wifi. Ma and Son Jones. “Not now!” An M on your palm. Emma Frost, genius-level inventor. The school dance. Fast track to gettin’ kissed. You have to help each other! Diplomatic Xavier/dick Xavier. All of their villains, I guess, by nature, are child murderers. Jaime Rodriguez is back!! Fake punk guy. Tom DeFalco’s really not good at naming comic books. Alright, Austin Powers. Breakdancing certificate.

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Intro and Firestar history

13:33 - Pat’s Email Corner

19:33 - Firestar #1 : "Mark of the Mutant"

43:29 - Firestar #2: "The Players and the Pawn!"

1:05:37 - Uncanny X-Men #193 : "Warhunt 2"

1:42:11 - Firestar #3 :"This Lady Kills!"

1:53:40 - Firestar #4 : "Now Strikes the Assassin!"

2:14:13 - Pat’s Steals ‘n’ Deals

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61- Firestar #1-4 & Uncanny X-Men #193

This one is WILD! Special guest Matt's Son Toby joins us to follow the X-Men through a couple of their most bizarre side quests to date; one wholesome, one not so much! I promise, you aren't really prepared for either. You gotta listen to understand! Tune in!

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TOPICS DISCUSSED:

Toby Aukamp! Attacky Titans. Scooby-Doo booby trap. Eye-Scream is here! Unstable Molecule Chest Refrigeration Unit. HE’S MY SON. Little dutch brat. Keystone Cops. Loser League. Spider-Man vs. the Dallas Cowboys. “Oh…wars.” The Cotton Bowl. “If her name is Ariel, this ain’t in your carry-all…of X-Men canon.” Nobody likes horses. A winged boy. Throwing motorcycles in a horse barn. Word search. Eques is here! Morgan Boots.

TIME STAMPS:

7:55 - History of Obnoxio the Clown

13:53 - Recap of Obnoxio the Clown VS the X-Men: “Somethin’ Slimy This Way Comes!”

44:17 - History of The Uncanny X-Men at the State Fair of Texas: “Battle at the State Fair of Texas”

53:51 - Recap of The Uncanny X-Men at the State Fair of Texas: “Battle at the State Fair of Texas”

1:17:45 - Pat's Steals n Deals

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BONUS - State Fair of Texas & Obnoxio the Clown

Tune in this week, folks; the New Mutants are fun again! Join us as the gang tackles a severe psychic threat, Xavier reckons just a little with his past, and Bill Sienkiewicz cements his legendary status. Plus, a couple of goofy adventures with Spider-Man!

Issues: New Mutants #26-28; Marvel Team-Up #149 & #150

TOPICS DISCUSSED:

Matt won’t be home. Random number generator. Ti West’s X-Men trilogy. Wawa pizza. A reckoning for Xavier…sort of. We’re getting farther from Johnny Carson. ALARM! Jack Wayne is here!! If you die in here, you die in real life. Memory crystals. Gormless. Children are so dumb. Sales tax. Incandescent Man, Fluorescent Man, and LED Man. She doesn’t even get a name. Mrs. Muggins is here!! The Shakespearean tragedy of Juggernaut and Black Tom. Why not just wear the smaller helmet? A little goblin alien man. He is unsettling.

TIMESTAMPS:

05:54 - Pat’s Email Corner

16:00 - X-Men-related things

23:17 - New Mutants #26: Legion

49:00 - New Mutants #27: Into the Abyss

1:12:05 - New Mutants #28: Soulwar

1:34:32 - BONUS Pat’s Steals n Deals

1:37:26 - Marvel Team-Up #149: The Incandescent Man

1:53:07 - Marvel Team-Up #150: ‘Tis Better to Give!

2:12:16 - Regular Pat’s Deals n Steals

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60 - New Mutants #26-28 - LEGION

Buckle up, listeners, because these issues get weird! Join us as we join the X-Men in medieval Manhattan, campfires, adjacent properties, and even fairytale outer space! We've got bizarre villains, dragons, aliens, and hacky-sacks! Tune in!

Topics Discussed:

Rogue is Green. Wilfred Brimley argues for mutant rights. Xavier/Caliban. Warlock looks like Peter Parker. "Ensorcelment". We wouldn't know if we were medieval times'd.  "I'll Slurp Ya!" Understanding Medieval English. Boob cones. WHERE THE FUCK IS CYPHER!? Why is there a plug here? Kurt's tickle party-forward leadership. Bringing a dragon to an airport. Worthy Foes. "Your planet beat Galactus?" Psi-lock. Claremont wishes he wrote Star Wars. "And I'm the ultra powerful spaceship!" The origin of Diamond White Queen. Lockheed's fuck planet. Pokemon the Movie ass ending.

TIMESTAMPS

1:40 - Pat's Email Corner

13:25 - What Scared You Most As A Child? (Accidental Segment)

15:30 - Where Did We Leave The X-Men?

18:30 - Uncanny X-Men #190 “An Age Undreamed Of”

40:50 - Uncanny X-Men #191 "Raiders of the Lost Temple!"

1:02:00 - Uncanny X-Men #192 "Fun ‘n’ Games!"

1:22:04 - Uncanny X-Men Annual #8 "The Adventures of Lockheed the Space Dragon and His Pet Girl Kitty"

1:41:35 - Final Thoughts

1:46:20 - Pat's Deals n' Steals



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59 - Uncanny X-Men #190-192, Annual #8 - Kulan Gath?

Alpha Flight continues its hot streak on this episode, covering everything from time travel to haunted houses to old Fantastic Four villains. It's funny, it's dark, and it's an open book on the weird thoughts of John Byrne! Join us as we tour Canada in this 4th installment of our Alpha Flight series!

TOPICS DISCUSSED:

Marvel 616 museums. “I was a little bit of a rapscallion.” Grapes vs eggs. “You have a power that may yet save us…Gun!” Boning down to save the world. WHOOPS! Gilded Lily! Steven Devil. Diablo! Pink Pearl! A very cool skeleton man. The Bearded Lady with a tommy gun. Snowbird’s powers. Sasquatch’s powers. A very dark conclusion. A deeeeep dive into John Byrne’s psyche.

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - great theme song/hellos

1:30 - history recap

9:16 - Pat’s Email Corner/X-Men-related things

28:40 - Alpha Flight 19 “Turn Again, Turn Again, Time in Thy Flight…”

47:13 - Alpha Flight 20 “Gold and Love Affairs!”

1:00:30 - Alpha Flight 21 “‘Love Wrought New Alchemy…’”

1:11:33 - Alpha Flight #22 “Rub-Out”

1:28:12 - Alpha Flight #23 “Night of the Beast”/Final Thoughts

1:51:17 - Pats Steals ‘n’ Deals

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58 - Alpha Flight #19-23

The Bunkies are BACK, buddies!! Along with our favorite least favorite super-villain THE LIVING PHARAOH/MONOLITH! Matt and Pat read this graphic novel that has very little to do with the X-Men and we have a ton of fun absolutely savaging it.

Enjoy!

Topics Discussed:

Crazy Abdol. Getting suspended for being dumb. All humans are evil. Rutting males. All humans are good. "Let the nice men kill the woman, son." It's easy to infiltrate the Baxter Building. KBONK! The Juggernaut?? Oh, no. The spine of a pig. The Avengers are on vacation. Living Monolith crouching in wait. A tasteful upskirt. The big wire that supplies all of Manhattan with electricity. THOR, IRON MAN, WONDER MAN, STARFOX, HAWKEYE: The Five Mightiest Men on Earth! A mile of Adamantium rope. Another The Living Planet.

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro and Breakfast

5:25 - Living Pharoah/Monolith Background

25:00 - Revenge of the Living Monolith

1:25:35 - Pat's Steals and Deals

1:28:45 - Goodbye!

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BONUS - Revenge of the Living Monolith

Hey, have you noticed anything strange about Bobby and Rahne lately? Like how they keep staring off at the Holy Ghost Church with a haunted look in their eyes? Or how they keep writing fairy tales and attacking Colossus? Well, it's time for Matt and Pat to dive into this mystery and figure out what the heck is goin' on! And we think it might involve a racially insensitive superhero duo created by Bill Mantlo who hate drugs and pimps SO MUCH. Plus, Magneto falls from space, gets ate by a shark, and hits a woman.

All that, plus the most unhinged Pat's Steals and Deals of all time (or at least since Matt bought the Winged Warrior Hat immediately upon learning of it.)

Topics Discussed:

Don't make me beat up drug dealers! A room of dead children. CATS horns up the New Mutants. Gangs of roving criminals. 2-FOR-ONE Glancing Blow/Rahne Head Injury. Is Spider-Man real? Classic mad scientist! "Yeah." A deceptive clown dance. Rahne Sinclair is a rescue dog. FRIEDRICH VON ROEHM! Rahne's Buddy The Elf moment. Not a good fairy tale. "Invulnerable while blastin'" #11. Emmanuel Da Costa doesn't wanna wear the Hellfire outfit. MIRAGE. HARRY MORRELL: NEW FAVORITE CHARACTER. "There's Bobby." Ultimate Fear, Desire, and Customer. Father Michael Bowen is back! Fear.com. Prayer works!

TIMESTAMPS

00:59 - Cloak and Dagger background

13:12 - New Mutants background

14:10 - Pat's Email Corner

26:57 - Did you do anything X-Men related?

34:02 - Marvel Team-Up Annual #6

49:55 - New Mutants #22

1:04:20 - Mew Newtons #23

1:24:36 - New Mutants #24

1:36:02 - New Mutants #25

1:59:46 - Pat's Steals and Deals

2:07:10 - Goodbye!



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57 - New Mutants #22-25 & MTU Annual #6 - Cloak and Dagger

If you like Storm, folks, then tune the heck in to this one! We delve deep into the identity of Ororo Munroe through an incredible, character-driven run, including Chris Claremont & Barry Windsor-Smith's iconic LIFEDEATH! Plus Selene, the Hellfire Club, Rachel Summers, and even some ROM Spaceknight-adjacent stuff! 

Topics Discussed:

ROM Spaceknight. Drowning survey. Egg. We’re two guys with alive dads, and we won’t apologize for it. Does Rogue know how her powers work? LIFEDEATH! WRAITHKILL! Analog phones. Storm vs Forge. Superheroes with guns. Counting Storm’s suitors. Alien soul. Jaime Rodriguez is here! “That’s meant to be sipped.” Sexual colonial-era fashion. DelCo Amanda Sefton. Child militia.

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 - The best theme song in the biz

7:16 - Pat’s Email Corner

20:28 - X-Men Related Things

22:21 - Uncanny X-Men #185: Public Enemy

38:16 - Uncanny X-Men #186: LIFEDEATH

1:08:50 - Uncanny X-Men #187: Wraithkill!

1:19:41 - Uncanny X-Men #188: Legacy of the Lost

1:35:09 - Uncanny X-Men #189: Two Girls Out to Have Fun!

1:54:00 - Final Thoughts

1:57:51 - Pat’s Steals n Deals



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56 - Powerless - Uncanny X-Men #185-189

There comes a time in every little girl's life where she must shed the follies of youth and grow into a super-cool secret ninja assassin mutant with her big hairy friend Wolverine. And this, for Kitty Pryde, is that time. 

Matt and Pat dig into the 6-issue miniseries KITTY PRYDE AND WOLVERINE from 1984 and are pretty damn stoked about it.

Topics Discussed:

Family-owned banks. A sumo wrestler in a fine Italian suit. The dumbest we've ever seen Kitty Pryde. Two bank break-ins. SHE REEKS. Wolverine's sweater crop-top. "Yes. We shall do crimes together." Ninja baby. Best Kitty costume yet! ITBTIAWIDBWIDBIVN. Boning on the rooftops. STINK BOMB! Logan covers himself in trash. Does Yukio care about dying? "STOP HANGING OUT WITH YUKIO!" How do you stab Wolverine in the heart? Whiny Carmen Pryde. THE RETURN OF THE UPDRAFT. Logun. Share the bridges! Rocky IV. Thor Winter! "Agghhh! Ghost!" Wild genes. SHADOWCAT!!! Mariko's Mariko wig. "SURPRISE SUCKER!" "screwed her on the roof." 

TIMESTAMPS:

0:00  - Intro

6:35  - Pat's Email Corner

24:45 - X-Men Related Things

28:55 - Background

31:50  - Issue #1  "Lies"

45:45  - Issue #2  "Terror"

53:48  - Issue #3 "Death"

1:03:30  - Issue #4  "Rebirth"

1:19:20  - Issue #5  "Courage"

1:31:22  - Issue #6 "Honor

1:49:38 - [REDACTED]'s Steals and Deals

 1:54:05 - Goodbyes!



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55 - Kitty Pryde & Wolverine #1-6

We're flying back up north this week, and visiting our favorite Canadian Super Team, Alpha Flight! But it's not all fun and games, as we work through pain, loss, and a pile of scrambled eggs. This is where Alpha Flight realllly gets good, so tune in!

TOPICS DISCUSSED:

Pee-wee Herman. John Byrne, fashionista. Bing-bonging Namor. Ursula K Leguin. Solemn, respectful silence, except for the screeching owl. Smart Alec’s disturbing fate. Pierre Trudeau’s resignation. Snowbird is 6 years old. Not a good-time scream. Saving the stroller. All vampires are dead. Draw us a toilet. Elizabeth Twoyoungmen is here! Douglas Thompson returns. Like a moth between the stubby fingers of a small boy. FISH SHIP. Madison Jeffries is here! We’re not canceling Puck. Jeff VanderMeer. “Dialogue.” Wolverine! What the FUCK Walter. Big year. Chekhov’s scrambled eggs. Good issue. You’re in a team book dude.

TIMESTAMPS:

0:45 - Hello and Pee-wee Herman impressions

2:29 - Alpha Flight recap and initial thoughts

11:53 - Pat’s Email Corner

22:08 - X-Men-related things we’ve done this week

25:33 - Alpha Flight 13 - “Nightmare”

38:58 - Alpha Flight 14 - “Biology Class”

57:19 - Alpha Flight 15 - “Blind Date”

1:12:22 - Alpha Flight 16 - “…and Forsaking All Others…”

1:26:24 - Alpha Flight 17 - “Dreams Die Hard…”

1:39:35 - Alpha Flight 18 - “How Long Will A Man Lie In The Earth ‘Ere He Rot?”

2:00:00 - Final Thoughts

2:05:10 - Pat’s Steals ‘n’ Deals

2:09:55 - Signoffs



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54 - Alpha Flight #13-18

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.

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