Back in the X-Men's main title, the X-Men are doing X-Men stuff! For example, fixing the Danger Room, visiting an old petrified friend/friend who may or may not be a Sun God, switching bodies, and telling bedtime stories! Also, we finally learn the origin of Magneto!? Topics discussed: Studying Kermit. Kitty's new costume sucks! Being "precise" about "broads." Curling with Colossus. Magneto the Designer. "Hey, Cyclops!" RONALD REAGAN IS HERE! The Bermuda Triangle. Magneto's philosophy. BONK! Why is Carol Danvers here? X-Men goofin' on the beach… Deus ex Claremont. A missed eye opportunity. A FREAKY FRIDAY. Cyclops Snipin'! THE ARMORY RETURNS. Distracting lettering. The worst "No time for that now!" yet. Kitty Pryde's arch-nemesis. Persona Exchange Gun! Stevie Hunter's life has gotten pretty fucked up. Sebastian Shaw hitting himself. "THIS IS FOR WOLVERINE, SWINE!"  Pirate Kitty! Wolverine is comic relief. Un-mutinying. Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/]

Issues: Uncanny X-Men #147, Rom #17-18, Spider-Woman #37-38, Marvel Treasury #26 The X-Men take some time off of their regular title to hang out with some pals in ROM, Spider-Woman, and Marvel Treasury! The boys say goodbye to an old frenemy, hello to some new characters, and get a cool new poster. Topics Discussed: ROM. A murderous, yet agreeable, Wolverine. Bill Mantlo hates people with disabilities. Ham-fisting. "So there's two Steves?" A 15-year-old playing with trucks. Breaking your vow to murder a child. How to communicate a complex situation without talking. THE SECRET, THIRD SETTING. Wolverine can smell evil. Nightcrawler and Colossus makin' out. "Who Am I?" Spider-Woman's unfathomable backstory! La Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. Sleeping with your landlord. Mint is not candy shop it's where they make money. SIRYN! My buddy, Benny D'Israeli. AN UPDRAFT! Figuring out Cerebro ONCE AND FOR ALL!!! Black Tom's Bio-Beam. PLOP, PLOP Bub. Wolverine loves a bar fight. Matt is a better writer than Lee Forrester. Caliban's Natalie Portman-eque crush. 5 identical cliffhangers. Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/] Show less

Goodbye, John Byrne; we hardly knew ye! It's time to move on to bigger, fresher things like... Dave Cockrum?  The infamous Claremont/Byrne run ends with a Kitty Pryde solo story that whips ass, followed by a Cyclops soio story that's... you know... it's fine. Then the X-Men get wrapped up in a big ol' Arcade/Dr. Doom catastrophe and we get... Dark Storm!? Topics discussed:  Stealing a Christmas Tree. Home Alone/Alien. Brent Anderson! A demon era. MAN THING!? Paolo for Loser League. Reverse pool-hustling. Do you smell bad? Dave Cockrum returns! Iceman's dorm room. Wolverine's bare butt. Storm and Doom's love story. Al or Lee? Reusing Arcade's rooms. "EAT HOT LEAD SUCKER!" Doom's sex robot. Havok pulls a Bugs Bunny. Claremont embellishing. Rogue & Storm! Oh, wait… Why not catch an updraft? "I don't engage in fisticuffs" Covering a planet in Skin. Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/]

Plus X-Men Annual #4! Hot off the heels of one of the most famous X-Men stories of all time, we take a short respite with… ONE OF THE GREATEST X-MEN STORIES OF ALL TIME. A story made even more salient, unfortunately, by current events. Plus, we get a recap issue, we get to know Kitty a bit more, and we take a brief pit stop in HELL (?) First, though, we spend some time imagining an X-Men Stardew Valley. Topics Include: A funeral, but other than that it's pretty funny. Cyclops' Brain damage. Holoempathic Matrix Crystal. Goodbye, Cyclops! A shirt that says "BITCH". Warren's back and worse than ever. "I'm sorry, Mr. Robot, but I'm much stronger than you." A Wolverine and Nightcrawler road trip! STEVIE HUNTER!! The Night Creeper. Alpha Flight! Oh, the Wendigo. John Byrne is a baby. Snowbird is rude. Justin Trudeau. The Blob?? The NEW Brotherhood??? Days of Future Past!! It's shorter than you think. Big Alex, Robbo, and George. Logan looks fucking cool, twice. Franklin Richards! A LOT of first-time appearances. The fulcrum. Everyone dies. Dr. Strange! The X-Men are going to Hell! Dante's Inferno, but it's a little messy. This run was good. Saturday Morning Cartoons. VISIT OUR NEW FRIENDS at Big Bang Comics in Bayamon, PR, Blackbird Comics in North Las Vegas, NV, and Nerds 4 Ever in Newcastle, WY! Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/rEwuSmfU Instagram: @mutantmenacepod Show less

GIANT-SIZED SPECTACULAR This is a big one folks. An epic episode for an epic story. The Dark Phoenix Saga is one of the most transformative and dramatic chapters in all of X-Men history and listen, it's every bit as good as (or better than) you'd imagine. These 9 issues bring in the Hellfire Club, Sebastian Shaw and Emma Frost, Dazzler, KITTY F'IN PRYDE, Senator Robert Kelly, and a bunch of unforgettable random henchmen like "Murray" and "Jacko." Plus, the return of Angel, a creepy old villain, and –for a second– Peter Corbeau (with his clothes on). This story was so big that Matt and Pat couldn't handle it alone, so they brought in the very funny actor and fight choreographer QUINTON J. ALEXANDER to help! The drama is high. The action is intense. The characterizations are note-perfect. The consequences are far-reaching. And Matt, Pat, and Quinton are stoked about it. Topics Include: Scott wasn't thinking about it! Professor X can't stop getting cucked. Giving a 47-year-old man 10 demerits. Why didn't they buy Blob ice cream? A blowing-guys-up epidemic. DISCO DAZZLER. Emma Frost is not hot, she's just rich! An awkward Blackbird flight. "It's okay to be scared, as long as I don't let my fear foul me up." Goons are people, too. A teapot bun. We always comment when someone is shirtless. John Byrne Techno-Tunnels. Harry Leland sucks. Emma Frost is a super inventor? Why people like Wolverine. "If woman become powerful… She start kiss everybody?" #TheyBonedontheButte The X-Men Plummeting To The Ground Rule. The Book of Hells. "A galaxy far, far away." Just a basic pnemonic scrambler. Angel is also here. Professor X fucks up everything. No one got to pack jammies. The Blue Area of the Moon. A robot that's two robots, my one weakness! The Watcher sucks. "Impies." We all get choked up. Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Join our new Discord: https://discord.gg/rEwuSmfU Instagram: @mutantmenacepod

Issues Covered: The Champions #11-17, Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #17-18, Incredible Hulk Annual #7 We're losing our goddamn minds. In the second installment of our marathon record of the entire 1975 run of the Champions, we start falling apart! Were humans even meant to podcast this long?  Topics Discussed: John Byrne is here! The Two-Gun Kid makes an appearance. Bill Mantlo still the worst. Stilt Man?!? The Stranger?!? Kamo Tharn?!? Hive?!? This is all so stupid (Pat, you can't do this in the description!!) The Champscraft. Former Nazi and avid Beekeeper. Bees everywhere. A bunch of other issues we forgot about. Beast?!? Magneto?!? Dr. Doom?!?Jimmy Carter?!? Vanisher?!? Boy this stays stupid. Spidey?!? The Hulk?!? Terri Sue Bottoms!?!?!? Matt and Pat deliriously sound tf off. Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Join our new Discord: https://discord.gg/rEwuSmfU Instagram: @mutantmenacepod

Matt and Pat are depriving themselves of sleep so that they can bring you a marathon episode of TEN ISSUES of THE CHAMPIONS in a row! It's gonna be a wild ride, as we catch up with former and future X-Men Angel and Iceman in Los Angeles.  New Russian teacher Black Widow, guest lecturer Hercules, delivery boy Ghost Rider, and students Angel and Iceman all meet up on the campus of UCLA and the absurdity just continues from there. Strap in and get yourself a pizza because this is gonna get weird. Topics discussed: JENNY ISABELLA! Dadfriend. Questionable mythology (in the book, and from the podcast). WHY ARE THEY ALL THERE? A trustworthy cadre of devils. Huntsman is maybe the worst character we've ever met. The Warren Commission. Making a deal with the Devil sucks. Diva Ghost Rider. An Instrument of Peace. There's gonna be a murder in Malibu! "Friend...?" Whoops, Warren's parents are dead. Everybody is Charles Bronson. Iceman's big pouty lips. You can't push lawyers. An AI summary of Spider-Man's core value. ICEMAN COMETH COUNT: 4. Vince Colletta inking over backgrounds. Bullying someone into hiring a lawyer. DARKSTAR! Angel gets his gas bombs back! Three people spying on the Champions all at once. "The Heroes for the Common Man." Ripping out a wall to chase a child. The TITANIUM man? BOB HALL. He survives but he explodes to death. Ghost Rider would make a terrible EMT. A device that tracks pearls that look like each other. "Lenin's Comrade, comrade!" Dick Fenster: Boy Public Relations Man. Black Widow pulls a Ferris Beuller. THE SPOILERS! How is Johnny Blaze's identity secret!?? Darkstar has every power. The Champions abandon a plane in midair.  Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Instagram: @mutantmenacepod

Not much of an intro this week. We've really gotta start doing more X-Men related stuff, I guess. But then we get into a rip-roaring, intense few issues where we finally meet the elusive MUTANT X (remember? from the door?)! Also, just fair warning, there's some pretty rough stuff in this one (CW: descriptions and discussion of sexual assault and rape) Topics Include: Angus MacWhirter?? Jean and Moira are serving looks on Muir Island. Just who the hell is this Jason Wynnegarde guy?? We don't trust him. Subtly cucked in space. What a beautiful Scott and Hank reunion. A less-than-beautiful Scott and Jean reunion. Claremont HATES Jamie Madrox. The Trenchcoat. Oh no, Ferdie Duncan! Jean hunts a human. Wolverine's skeleton is metal?? We don't have to call him Mutant X anymore. Scott never forgets a slight. "That's not what you said when the Leprechauns were here." Has Moira MacTaggert lost her damn mind?! Sparring in the hot cocoa grove. A sharp sweater on a horrible man. Dai Thomas! This stuff is pretty fucking dark. Does Proteus make sense? Do these bees have souls? The horror of being enclosed in the earth. "OWW!" Now let's do a silly one. Danger Room antics. Arkon the half-nude cave viking. The Imperion! Colossus on a dragon!! Storm's great sacrifice – or Scott's? The difference between Claremont and Thomas. Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/]

PLUS: Power Man & Iron Fist #56-57  After an unbelievably long journey, the X-Men FINALLY MAKE it home! But first, they have to stop in Calgary, Alberta and fight a brand new super-team named ALPHA FLIGHT. And THEN they make it home... BUT FIRST AGAIN they have to visit Iron Fist, obviously, and meet up with the worst cameo villain ever. And THEN they make it home. And INSTANTLY have to deal with a new dork who puts them in a big pinball machine. Topics Include: Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Jeryn Hogarth, Lawyerboss. "I LIKE the X-Men." Cyclops is gonna kill ALPHA FLIGHT. Burt. Major Mapleleaf. Darice Duck. Is Mutant Menace going to read Alpha Flight? "That stinks, mister!"  Cyclops hates Canada. The Living Monolith crouching in an empty apartment. The traditional X-Men visit to Iron Fist. Why do Misty Knight and Scott Summers not talk!? Misty scolds Scott... Twice! Iron Fist and Havok really get into it. A big bag of Cheops. Three Archaeologists = One Mutant. Who is Jason Wyngarde? Nightcrawlers greatest fear: Bumper cars with buzzsaws! Proletarian? Arcade's permits. Cracklin' Rosa. What's the point of a Robot Magneto? Betsy is DONE. Cyclaugh! Pat admits to a Federal Crime! Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/]

The last we saw the X-Men, they were in dire straits! Most of the team was about to be buried under a flood of lava in an underground laboratory in the middle of the Antarctic, while Beast and Phoenix had collapsed in the frozen wastes, after barely escaping with their lives. Is this just 5 issues of everyone being dead? Let's dig in and find out! Topics Discussed: Vacation Scott. The X-Men have sex. Wolverine's torn picture. A menacing nude man. The crew from the Thing fails to learn a lesson. Pat Reber: Hero to Bisexuals. Ka-Zar is glad to see the X-Men go. A love affair with Nereel. The Wolverine Sweet Spot. Garokk the Petrified Man aka Garokk the Sun-God. Ka-Zar is cancelled. A whiney Charles Xavier. AMAHL FAROUK and his little sunglasses. Xavier's arch-nemesis collection. In this bad a blow? YOU DON'T KNOW HIS FIRST NAME! Sunfire's back! Moses Magnum, Master of the Magnum Force. MARIKO YASHIDA! Plan Gemini for "Syncopation". Angus McWhorter is back! Remember, Banshee is always screaming. Misty Knight is the world's worst friend. Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/]

Issues: Marvel Team-Up #69-70, Defenders #62-65 Last we saw Alex Summers, Havok, and Lorna Dane, Polaris, they were being blasted point-blank by the god-tier-power-level Firelord. So what happened to them next? Matt and Pat, brave podcast adventurers that they are, venture to find out! Detour with us as we scour the Marvel Universe for HAVOK and POLARIS. Topics Include: We'll FINALLY get an origin for the Living Pharaoh... right? Nooo not Professor Craig's office! White men dressed as pharaohs. With Great Boredom Comes Whatever. A web disaster. Bunkies. Spider-Man twerking. A strong face, a weak ass. Gods vs Cosmic. Spider-Man foraging. The limits of Diplomatic Immunity. Membership Madness! DAVID KRAFT!! Drawing bad cinematography. "Do I have to be BLACK Goliath?" A game of frisbee. "I just remembered that I'm an Avenger." Stealing your Dad's car as a joke. Riding in a car with a Goliath. Plantman is here too. Toad has regressed. Flipping off the fun switch. "The Porcupine is here!"  Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/]

Issues:  X-Men #109-113 Pat won't stop getting horned-up for the X-Men, but it's hard to blame him when we're reading comics as hot as these ones! With John Byrne fully on board the book, this chunk of issues sees the return of some major villains, and a robot spoon-feeding Wolverine. Topics Include: Pat's fuzzy. John Byrne is HERE! NUDITY. Lilandra's struggle with government bureaucracy. Kurt and Scott have a tough conversation. Piotr, the oblivious unicorn. Captain Alpha! "By Lenin's Beard!" The X-Men are playing baseball! WARHAWK and his mysterious superior. Cyclops owes Wolverine one. Captain Delaney and his friends are sick of the X-Men. The circus comes to town. The "Hey Rube" debate continues. Mind control? Bruno and Jukie: Our Favorite Ones! We don't talk about Jim Shooter. Cockrum still on covers. "The gentleman's name is Magneto." The circus leaves town – flying! Antarctic volcanoes. Too many bases for one man. Babying the X-Men. Matt explains how magnets work. The book's monthly now! Storm is a dangerous baby. New psychic comms! What will the X-Men do?? Jean's Different. Magneto looks great. Free & Weird. Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/]

Issues:  X-Men #106-108, Marvel Team-Up Annual #1, Marvel Team-Up #53, Iron Fist #15 It's a stunning conclusion to the X-Men's first galactic adventure AND Dave Cockrum's first X-Men run. Matt and Pat also fill you in on some of the other stuff that's been going on with the X-Men in other Marvel books... unfortunately. Topics Include: Bill Mantlo. The Letterin' Rosen Boys! "Nobody cramps my style!" Duplicates again... Where have the X-Men never gone? A Barrach'an Shovel Beast. Nude Fang. A call-back to the Z'Nox. THE STARJAMMERS! Peter Corbeau learns his lesson. Everyone evolves into primates. THE KURT REPURT. Why is Shakari Eric the Red!? Starting an intergalactic war on a whim. Spread-eagle, taint-first. R.I.P. Dave Cockrum. JOHN FUCKIN' BYRNE! Jahf Supreme. I AM 1000X STRONGER THAN THE LAST GUY. Kabballah. "Until they fill out the paperwork, they have to kill me." A colorist named 'Hugh.' "My student, Errol Flynn!" Peter Parker disappears on a plane... and where did Spider-Man come from?? Anti-radiation spray. Something that's supposed to be normal is now outer space. Yama Dharma and his 6 friends. "Are you Peter Parker?" A bad issue. "Let him go, Wolver." WOODGOD. If you're in Nevada, you're gonna have to deal with the Hulk. The town's nerve gas tank. Chekhov's Anti-Radiation Spray. NOT-Chekhov's Sonic Scream. A bad case of heartburn. An Iron Fist Slapstick Comedy. A mention of some villain named "Sabretooth"??? NO MORE IMAGE INDUCER! "God of Us All!" Fantastic art in every Iron Fist book. Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/]

WELCOME NEW LISTENERS! You're just in time for the return (?) of a beloved character who we were POSITIVE died last issue! Matt watched New Mutants (2020), Pat visited a bunch of comic book stores, and we take a trip through to the end of Chris Claremont's second year on The X-Men, as a bunch of weird stuff happens and it might be connected? Topics Include: Furry Nightcrawler. The Month of 100 Editors. Jean Grey, who did NOT die… Everyone wants to kill Nightcrawler. The X-Men are going to Ireland! Wolverine hates vacation. Cassidy Senechal Eamon O'Donnell. A real Canadian Tuxedo. Black Tom and Juggernaut; true friends. The ol' "bad Irish road maintenance" trope. An X-Polycule. Nightcrawler is so damn cool. Storm's (maybe too many) origins! "You ungrateful, unspeakable cur!" MISTY KNIGHT! Stop answering our rhetorical questions, Chris Claremont! Literal Leprechauns. The Suez War (bad). The Arm That Looks Like Spider-Woman? LOGAN!!! Neuronic Tangler Glove. Sword/axe/castle/thunder! "YOU KILLED MY FRIEND NOOOO!" Dungeons & Dragons. Apologies to Andy Yanchus. ANGUS MACWHIRTER! Eric the damn Red again. Banshee has the most metal power. A "form-fitting coffin." Alien bug... lady? The Furies. THE STARJAMMERS!! Why is Firelord here? Ohhh The Arm That Looks Like Spider-Woman! The X-Men sitting around drinking coffee. Phoenix is uhhhh pretty powerful. How many Dave Cockrums are there? Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/]

Matt and Pat cover the entire first year of the legendary CHRIS CLAREMONT run on the X-Men. From Moira MacTaggert to the fate of Thunderbird to Steven Lang to Polaris's new name to the return of the Sentinels to the fate of Jean Grey. It's a wild ride as the comic book gets truly, utterly good. Topics include: The issue number is a LIE. NAAD. Joe Harris' button thing. "I love a man named Gort." Thunderbird punches a jet. A very respectful death. The narrator taunts Cyclops. Why is there a cairn there? Getting to KNOW Moira MacTaggert. "Hey man, this is crazy." They blew up Keirrok's cookie jar. Why is Eric the Red back? Is Wolverine's hair shaped for his hat or his hat shaped for his hair? Peter Corbeau's harrowing, pointless, off-panel journey. "Oh my god." Nightcrawler can't stop making friends. Matt's Grand Theory of Mutancy. The Q*Bert Kids. Jean Grey becomes a character, finally. 100 IS A FRAUD. The First Fastball Special. Skin-Beast. "You little—!" FREE BOOK! Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/]

Before Matt and Pat took on one of the most important X-Men issues of ALL TIME, we needed to bring in a heavy hitter. Alex Goldman, from the podcast Hyperfixed, joins us to tackle the introduction of some of the most beloved characters in comic book history and a big island that's also a mutant. Topics include: Sleeping in the Superman movie. Flying around in a cloud. Cat eyes. The X-Men arcade game. A bunch of Aztec gods stomping around. "Lorna Dale?" Recruiting X-Men by race-baiting. Another torch-wielding mob. Wolverine the business-man. Cut your boss's tie. Storm can only grant one wish. Sephiroth Posting. Cyclops is NOT a baby. Bobby Drake experimenting with Groucho eyebrows.  A Force that Assaults. "Please don't call me 'Thunderbird'." The Ringo of the group. The murder of Captain Planet. Listen to Hyperfixed: https://www.hyperfixedpod.com/ Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/]

In this SPECIAL BONUS RECAP EPISODE, lucky listener Sine Wave Seán joins Matt and Pat (who are actually the lucky ones!) to bring listeners up to speed on all we've been through so far in the first 66 issues of the X-Men and the first 16 episodes of Mutant Menace! We tell you all about the X-men so far, including: * The Beast aka Hank McCoy, cool hippy stoner * Iceman aka Bobby Drake, performative about everything except friendship and ice cream * Angel aka Warren Worthington III, the happy-go-lucky rich kid who loses fights * Cyclops aka Scott "Slim" Summers, an anxious romantic leader-type who gets hit in the head a lot * Marvel Girl aka Jean Grey, a woman who has done almost nothing yet * Professor X aka Professor Charles Xavier, the weird creep who used to be cool but got full of his own ego and started a paramilitary cult * Lorna Dane aka Lorna Dane, green-haired woman who does the X-Men's laundry * Havok aka Alex Summers, the sweetheart younger brother of Cyclops who has reluctantly joined the team * Also the Mimic We also go over all of the X-Men's villains, big and small and the definitive Loser League! Check out the Sine Wave podcast: https://shows.acast.com/sine-waves Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/]

Issues: Defenders #15-16, Hulk #180-182, Giant-Size Fantastic Four #4 What's that we see? Some light shining in the distance of this dark, dark void? Well first, we have to wade through baby villains, a scrappy new Canadian anti-hero, an obscure Fantastic Four antagonist, and so so much Hulk stuff. But two new writers enter our world, a guy named Len Wein and a kid named Chris Claremont. Wonder if they can save us? Topics Include: Our Steve Englehart mea culpa. Pat was right about Frank Miller. LEN WEIN! Flying from New York to New Mexico with a jetpack. Toad or Lorelei. "How to Grow the Ultimate Mutant in a Tube." Kyle Richmond, Boy Tycoon! Jetpack physics. Doctor Strange has an exclamation quota. A bunch of babies. Hulk stuff. The Wendigo. Introducing… The Wolverine! Multiple Georges. Hammer and Anvil and their powerful chain. The Fantastic Four are assholes. Madrox the Multiple Man. "Someone knock the original baby unconscious." Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/]

Issues: Marvel Team-Up #4, Avengers #103-104 & #110-111, Captain America #172-175 The X-Men are STILL CANCELLED so Matt and Pat continue to scrape the bottom of that barrel, looking for X-Men appearances in other Marvel comics. We manage to find some, but with far less X-Men and far more… other guys. Topics Include: Matching X-Men and Pokemon. Gerry Conway! Dr. Hans Jrgromsahn. Morbius is NOT A VAMPIRE. What do Spider-Man's webs smell like? Spider-Man assaults Jean Grey. Angel is feelin' himself. Hawkeye's worst costume. Blob erasure. Why is there no MCU Rick Jones? More dinosaur abuse. Big sexy T-Rex legs. Magneto doesn't wanna carry the X-Men. "Dance sexy, daughter!" Moonstone is a person. "Cheez! Double Cheez!" Captain America's very good plan. Captain America's very bad plan. Did Richard Nixon kill himself? Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/]

Issues: Hulk #150, Amazing Adventures #11-17, Hulk #161, Hulk #172 The X-Men are cancelled and we're swimming in a dark, tideless sea of 1970's Marvel comics, grasping around for any mutant life-rafts we can find. This one has a weird energy, folks. With no main series to guide them, Matt and Pat have to generate their own momentum and they certainly try their best. Topics: Will we ever get the intro right? The X-Men do their jobs. Are my pants ruined? Is everything ruined?? Is the Hulk ever good? Dr. Alan Grant. Concentric circles. Metabolic time sense? Surely that's all we'll ever hear from the Maddickses. Mike Plug. Harvey Fierstein as Bernard the Poet. Iron Man DEAD! Buzz Baxter & Patsy Walker! Mastermind's bad plan. The diamond underworld is a small world. "Like soap through a fist!" Blob and Unus got a good thing goin' on. Fine, no more curses! Sherlock Holmes' stupid apartment. Linda Donaldson's a bad wingman. Quasimodo again?? Hank can't kiss his girlfriend. SECRET EMPIRE! An old flame returns. Halloween in Rutland, VT! Juggernaut and his pink hole in the sky. Tom Fagan's Halloween Party. Full suit, furry face. JIM STARLIN! He is BLUE. No respect for Mounties. Ugh, the Mimic. CANADA! No, the Hulk is never good. Batman. Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/]