Oh boy, folks - good episode, bad subject matter! The X-Men visit the Microverse, the Micronauts visit the Macroverse, and Kitty gets punched square in the face! Join us as we tackle what might be the worst run of X-comics so far, and as we spit on the graves of the Micronauts!

***CONTENT WARNING*** for discussion of sexual abuse, manipulation, and grooming from 1:25:00-1:30:00

Topics Discussed:

These are not good comics. Soft canon. Bill Mantlo’s Christmas miracle! Pilk, blood, and lava. Strange Maine. What the hell is happening in the Microverse, and do we care? The Micronauts are here! We’ve got Starjammers at home. Spellbinder. They’re actually toys. Smoking Wolverine. Have you ever been stabbed by a thumbtack? Rocket-powered centaur. Kitty commands a war. Some really gross stuff. We’re pretty upset by the whole thing. Get girlfriends.

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50 - X-Men and the Micronauts

ALPHA FLIGHT IS BACK! And we get a bunch of solo adventures until the team comes together and IMMEDIATELY comes apart. This is a wild ride, folks. Join Matt and Pat on a trip to Canada with our favorite incredibly bad super-hero team.

Topics Discussed:

DEADLY EARNEST. Homosexual implications. "Why are you mushing my face?" The smartest man in the mall. Bashing through a window... sneakily. NEMESIS has a cool costume. Cutting between molecules. Blowing our minds back and forth. We keep forgetting about some Yanchus. Mike T.V. Detective Walter Langkowski. A physics-defying mustache. Blood Battle! Captain America's super super-hero sense. Super Skrull's Super Cancer. The Canadian Dance. OMEGA FLIGHT!! The rudest way to pick someone up from the airport. A long tangent on TV shows from 1966-67. Flashback sucks. ...And One Shall Surely Die. A taxonomy of super-hero teams.

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49 - Alpha Flight #7-12

What if there was another school for mutants? Well, there is! You'd know if you've been paying attention. But we're not holding that against you - instead, we're diving deep into what's going on at the Massachusetts Academy, and the weird team of fighting mutants that they've put together. Plus, more Doug Ramsey! Tune in!

Topics Discussed:

30 minutes of emails. More about Pilk. Jeremy Bear and Jeremy Succession. Brute forcing a brain. Trying to draw a dog. Fuck on the switch. Stevie Hunter is a hero! Doug is a creep. Xavier shooting hoops. Kitty is being a real ding. Doug is NOT a creep we love him! Rusher Street Rebels. The X-Men disappear (ugh). I don't think that's how Jesus works. Compu-scan. The Hellions are here! This kid can't get enough Magnum P.I. Everyone forgot about Doug.

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48 - New Mutants #14-17, Uncanny X-Men #180 - Hellions

This week, we're not hanging out with the X-Men, we're hanging out in Hell with a little girl! Colossus's little sister, to be clear. Illyana Nikolievna Rasputin, who spent an entire 7 years of her life in Limbo, consort to a Demon-Lord, surrounded by dead or corrupted versions of the X-Men we know. The time has come to learn what happened between those 2 panels in X-Men #160 in the MAGIK: STORM AND ILLYANA mini-series!

Topics Discussed:

The Bloodstone Amulet. BELASCO ONLY HAS ONE ARM!? Cat's wild costume. "This was stressful, I must get nude now." Black... crystals? If you're good enough at meditating, you don't have to go to the bathroom. S'ym sucks! A Savage Land Diorama. The blood argument again. The "GET UP!" trope. A Brief Discussion of Time. Pat's least favorite X-Men villain. The Mystery of Wolverine's Nipples. SQUIDGE! Illyana's mutant power?? The Darkchild. So many funny little demon guys! Pat made Matt say "titillates." How do bloodstones work again? Lil' face scratches. A dead tree. S'    ym.


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47 - Magik - Storm and Illyana #1-4

Issues: Uncanny X-Men #177-179,  Moon Knight #35, & Marvel Fanfare #24

Happy February, folks! Bundle up with us as we dive back into the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants...gets away with it? We worry as every X-Man seems to die more than once, and Kitty marries a Morlock?! Oh yeah, and we swing by Moon Knight, the ballet, and the Avengers Mansion, too. 

Topics discussed:

A lot of emails. More milk discussion. Wonder Man. A dog named Psylocke. Ken Griffey Jr. and Sr. All of the X-Men are dead. Carnival vs. Circus. Kitty's problems. Fire can't DO that! White hot to absolute zero. Seems pretty hopeless, honestly! Who took this picture?? The Baxter Building. Probable fatality. Morlock wedding. Leech is here! Fully metal man. The Fly. Dancing for your life. Moon Knight at the ballet. The floating Marvel Universe poker game! Carol tells an inappropriate joke.

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46 - Uncanny X-Men #177-179 - Brotherhood Triumphant!

For an issue this big, and a crossover this wild, our ONLY option was to bring in a guest who is nerdier (and cooler) than us: Ernie, the BLERD WITHOUT FEAR. We have a goddamn blast discussing the weirdness that is The Uncanny X-Men and the New Teen Titans!

Darkseid and Dark Phoenix? What's next, Dark Seidnix?

Topics Discussed:

"You only love me for my psi-con wave." Spatial Geometry Brain. Kitty makes dinner... or does she? WWWWWWWWWWW! Darkseid does cat-burglar shit. A weird one for Starfire. GARF. Kid Flash disassembles an engine. "Hey do you have any disbelief?" VA-VA-VOOM. Inhuman faces in Gotham. Bunkie. The Phoenix. The Teen Wonder? RAVARK THE RAVAGER! Murder-hungry Starfire vs Sleepy Xavier. Teen Titans Leeroy Jenkins'ing the X-Mansion. A familiar, remote Butte. A bright green parademon. Darkseid is Santa Claus. The X-Titans. Just blast 'im in the eyes.

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BONUS - X-Men & Teen Titans w/ the Blerd Without Fear 

It's a New Mutants episode! We start with a pretty wild email segment and an even more wild Pat's Steals and Deals, but in the middle we meet Magma, Selene, and Doug Ramsey when the New Mutants visit an ancient Roman city in the middle of the Amazon, and then head back home to spill soda on each other.

Topics Discussed:

White People Wakanda. Amara Juliana Olivia Aquila. The New Mutants unconscious... again... Meanwhile, a bunch of nude men! SELENE! "'tis nah proper!" Kids rely on experience, not conviction. Bobby's growin' up! Incredible pervert faces. "Am I dreaming?" RIP Amara. Selene has too many powers. Sal Buscema missed the memo on Columns. MAGMA. Selene has every power. RIP Amara again. Gallio has goo-blood. Stop changing Dani's outfit. A hollow, underground mountain!?? "She's probably unkillable." A cool chair turnaround. "Wee Slip of a Girl". A wolf sneezing. Destroying a poor family's home. Daysze. Does Professor X respect the privacy of peoples' thoughts? DOUG RAMSEY! An interlude? GROAT CHIPS. REAL CHEAP! REAL BAD! Amara's cryin' rock.

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45 - New Mutants #9-13 - Nova Roma

Bundle up, folks! We're headed up north of Westchester, NY to Canada, where the nation's former official superhero team is back in action! That's right; we're reading Alpha Flight, written AND penciled by X-Men legend John Byrne! They'll fight three god-level threats.  It's important!

Topics Discussed:

Chocolate milk. Beggle. Kicking a rock. The best man I’ve seen. Swarm of mosquitoes. Canadian Captain America. 1,000 miles per hour. “She who is a child of the gods”. Smallwood. A big, big hallway. John Byrne invents pipes screensaver.  Mechanical junk PLANETS. Namor and the Invisible Woman! We try to figure out what’s going on. Another swarm of mosquitoes. A hospital mystery with Puck! Yeesh. Kolomaq is here! Justice for Kolomaq! Five blank pages.

Issues: Alpha Flight #1-6

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44- Alpha Flight #1-6 - Alpha Flight!

One of the funny things about reading all the X-Books at once is that sometimes they align very well, and sometimes they are so deeply incongruous that it’s head-spinning. This has never been so true as in this episode. In the X-Men, we have an epic conclusion to a thrilling super-villain tale about grief, loss, insanity, and how amazing Cyclops is. In New Mutants, we have a man named Axe who is holding an Axe and his mutant powers are he found an Axe.

BUT at least we start the show with some EXCITING NEWS!!

Topics Discussed:

Cyclops whipped his thing off. Earthrise. The Lahzbees. A surprise kiss… I hate plants now. A familiar priest! “Hey fiancé, are you my dead girlfriend?” Goodbye, Paul Smith. Hello John Romita, Jr! Allegedly electricity. Jazzercise Kitty. GHOST CYCLOPS. A remote control on his hip! Kissing an ugly guy. Disguised as a cave. PHILLIP AND DEBORAH SUMMERS! The Wedding of Scott Summers and Madelyne Pryor. Claremont the lil’ pervo. “Judge” Petrie. VAL COOPER! Getting revenge on a shark! Nightcrawler’s cocoa. Professor X returns to his old ways. Carnival! A man named Axe holding and Axe and his powers are Axe. My fear is pink goo. A Magnum P.I. Plan: “Do A Plan.” Sunspot beats Axe’s Ass. WHY IS HE TRAINING THE MOTORCYCLE GUYS STILL!? Lots of fish fightin’. Kidnapping a random girl. Is this The Living Pharaoh again? Or Maga Yogi?

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43 - Uncanny X-Men #174-176 & New Mutants #7-8 – Madelyne Pryor

Welcome back to the grind, folks! The holidays are over and we are right back into the action! Join us as we join the X-Men deep under Manhattan, high up in Alaska, and back over to Japan for a crazy destination wedding! Plus, we've been a little sick! Tune in!!

Topics include:

It’s 2026! We’re bad at compliments. Encyclopedias. Contest of Champions. The Drew Carey Show. We’re sick and rusty. Skin care with feathers. Candy Southern! Amanda Sefton! Nudecrawler. The Morlocks are here! Cassette tapes. Weak restraints. A duel to the death. Brilliant Paul Smith art. Carol Danvers visits her parents. Rogue’s back! The X-Men have gone to Japan! Rooftop city over here. Yukio and Ororo team-up. Rogue zipping around. Lilandra almost ruins the wedding. Punk Storm!

Issues: Uncanny X-Men #169-173

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42 - Uncanny X-Men #169-173 - Culture Shock

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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