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June 4, 2018 155 mins

Great X-Pectations Episode 24 - Enter the Starjammers!

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What we did for summer vacation! Sean's evil thorn in his side Gerry's run of conventions: Wizard World Chicago, Toronto Fan Expo, Cincy ComiCon A Fraction of an opinion of Fraction's work: Casanova, Defenders, Iron Man, Hawkeye, and (of course) X-Men Sean's problem with Utopia RIP Bendis Board Bendis's X-Men -What's Maria Hill doing in all these X-stories??? -The Ultimate Universe crossing over -What we dug/ didn't dig about the Ultimate U Bucking the completist attitude Taking a hard look at our comic collections What are those old books worth to us, anyway? What are we willing to let them go for? Trying to understand the back issue market digital vs paper U2 and how "stuff" doesn't mean as much anymore Gravity Falls and Girl Meets World Sean is hurting because of all the Cyclops hatred and Wolverine love. Sean's origin story and his relationship with the Church. Cyclop's change in attitude. Writers using fan complaints to screw with fans in the stories. Peter David as an example for building characters instead of tearing them down, and his new X-Factor book (Volume 4). Hey comics, Gerry is Audi 5000.

Uncanny X-Men #156-161! Claremont / Cockrum / Sienkiewicz / Anderson / Wiacek More shitty Kitty costumes Christopher Summer's death and Corsair's origin! Brubaker's rewrite of Corsair's origin Professor X gives up on life Bill Sienkiewicz's first X-Men work Dracula visits the X-Men The return of #Ballsacko! We recap The X-Men's adventure through Limbo. Baron Strucker returns as a guest of the show and tries to explain his actions in Uncanny X-Men #161 Strucker's twitter jampiece challenge!!! Vote @baronvstrucker to determine whether Gerry will add a Strucker sketch to his jampiece!

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