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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.
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75 - New Mutants #41-45 & Power Pack #20 (opens the original)
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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 se
75 - X-Factor #5-8, Annual #1 - APOCALYPSE! (opens the original)
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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 Pho
74 - Alpha Flight #30-34 (and beyond) (opens the original)
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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. Th
73 - Uncanny X-Men #201-205 (opens the original)
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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 fig
72 - New Mutants #35-40 - Professor Magneto (opens the original)
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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 Claremo
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