House of X Book Club

House of X Book Club

Back in the day, we got together and read and talked about comic books, mainly the X-Men. Decades later, and not a lot has changed. We started at the very beginning, and are working our way through the X-Men from number one!

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November 30, 2024 78 mins

Welcome in, once again, how have you been? Did you sin? Did it make you grin? We love our sinnin' book clubbers, that's for sure! You guys always have smokes.

We have a pair of books for you today. First up we dig into X-Men 106. we have a guest artist and writing team, and they bring us quite the interesting tale. Professor X turns evil! Wait, I mean Professor X is even more evil than normal!

Next up is Captain America Annual 4, w...

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Here it comes, here comes the podcast, it's a demon on your ears! Wait demons? That's right we are going full satanic rituals from here on out! Drastic format change coming your way!

Just kidding, we only have the energy to read funny books, and then just barely. But we have a couple of good ones for you today!

First up we are reading X-Men 105, and the circus is in town! Come watch as Firelord amazes and amuses with his might bato...

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November 16, 2024 73 mins

We are back in Mendocino once again, and there is candy! Not in a creepy white van way though...

This wee we are reading the origin of Wolverine titled... Origin! They dug deep for that one! BUT, we press on like dollar store nails. Wolverine is a very sick boy, and boy does he have funny ways of showing it. Roll call for trauma. We must go north (said no one ever). More trauma. Canadian bare knuckle fighting, coming this summer to...

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Come on in X-Fans! We love that you are here with us once again to talk about all things X! Only the single X though please, no Vin Diesel nonsense around here!

We have a couple of bangers for you today! First up, X-Men 103! Whose House? Say What? Banshee's House! Well at least it was. Black Tom and our old pal Juggernaut have holed up in the basement and are tusslin' with those cookie making elves! Nightcrawler finds out he disapp...

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Don't worry book clubbers, this is not really the last X-Pod! We will however be interspersing our regular episodes with more bons episodes. First up is out 14 part episode on Drew's favorite color of string! Welllll, maybe we will skip that for now.

BUT! Today we have a great couple of classic books to talk about! More specifically Classic X-Men number 2 and number 3! They're X-Men! And they are Classic! 

First we have Storm and J...

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Howdy Ho, Club-a-rinos! We have a dilly of a pickle of a cucumber of a... some other vegetable for you today!

First up, we dive in to Classic X-Men number one! It is a dramatic re-telling of Giant Sized X-Men number one, complete with interpretive dance and subtitles! Will Krakoa win the day this time, or will the evil of Charles Xavier foil his plan for a vegetative utopia? 

Part Deux of our reading comes from all the way in merry...

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Welcome home X-Clubbers! How was school? Did you make any new friends? 

We have a dilly of a pickle for you today! Drew pitches a great idea to the crew, and we have a special in person round table discussion about the topic. What might that be you ask? Well today we trek back to when Professor X faked his death the first(?) time, and Changeling took his place. With all the mutants gathered, someone takes the opportunity to step up...

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Readers of the Atom, welcome to another X filled episode! We have a pair of books the feature your favorite mutants, and on wall crawling New Yorker. That's right, Spider-Man is here! Can you just even?!?

Let's dive right in to Marvel Team up Annual 1. Spider-Man meets the X-Men, and they battle a group from a whole new pantheon of gods! Welcome to The Pile mutoids!

Next up is X-Men 102. This one has everything. Disappearing mutant...

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Once again fearless listeners, we journey into the great and vast sea that is the world of everyone's favorite mutants and their evil leader! We have a great duo of pulp magazines to throw into your ears today!

First up is X-Men 100, a milestone in any other book in the modern day, and here as well. But not intentionally. This continues the story of the X-Men in space fighting the X-Men! In space! You just have to love those PvP mo...

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Welcome back fans of the Atom, I hope you are ready for another doozy of a banger of an episode!

First up today we dive into X-Men 98, featuring the return of one of the X-Men's deadliest villains, TUBES! will the new X-Team fare any better against these vile creations than Beast and company did back in the day? Oh! And also, a new brand of Sentinel rears their ugly heads, but they are easily dispatched. Right?

Next up is X-Men 99,...

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Welcome home young mutants! Come in by the fire and let the old Professor mind wipe, eerrr, I mean tell you a tale. A tale of Kitty Pryde and Australian Wolverine. 

That's right! Today we dive into a special episode of the House of X Book Club! We are jumping in the Delorian and traveling back to the 80's! So grab your leg warmers and Flashdance your way into the passengers seat!

For this episode, we have a favor to ask. Before you...

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   Just when you thought it was safe to return to the pod, There's a rumble from the darkest corners of space and the world will never be the same! Or, you know, someone had too much Taco Bell.

   But what an episode! We have Eric the Red, Nightcrawler the Blue, and a Widow the Black! 

   First up, we dive into X-Men 97. Eric the Red returns, and fight Cyclops, which is a little awkward. One, because that outfit leaves NOTHING to t...

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Cone on in Book Clubbers, we have some great stuff for you today! And Champions number 2 as well!

 

First up we dive into X-Men 96. It's the first appearance of one of the most important people from the Krakoan Era, besides Krakoa itself. Also, the X-Men fight a moose with a woman's face! Not really, but I would totally read that one.

 

Next up we have Champions 2, where Ghost Rider goes to Malibu for an enema, Angel and Black Wido...

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Come on in Blue Retrievers, and have a sit by the fire! We are gonna be spinnin' some yarns for ya, and have we got a couple of doozies for ya today!

 

First off, we dive on in to X-Men 95, Featuring the antics of Count Nefaria and his Ani-Men! They all get to a'hootin and a'hollerin, and the X-Men come to save the day! No way this one turns out poorly for anyone on the team!

 

Next up we have Champions number one, because everyone...

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August 24, 2024 55 mins

Welcome in to another exciting episode of the House of X Book Club What If series! Today we dive in and examine Rowan's postulation, What If The X-Men were the FBI's Most Wanted! Do they get a poster at the Post Office? We won't give anything away, but things are bound to get nefarious! Dive in and enjoy the latest iteration of our query into the unknown!

 

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Welcome back book club clubbers, we have a humming dinger for you today! Are you ready? Do you have your water wings on? Then let's dive in!

First up we jump in to X-Men 94. We are still basking in the afterglow of our wonderful Giant Sized last issue, but we are getting into the thick of it with the return of Count Nefaira! He and his new Pound Puppy crew are causing a ruckus, and only the X-Men can stop him!

 

Next is a trip forw...

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All right book Clubbers! Are you ready for this one? It's so big, they had to call it GIANT SIZED! For those unfamiliar there are a couple of new characters joining the team, and a giant killer vampire island who is lonely and looking for love! Will his pitching of the woo win the heart of the fjords of Vestfjordan? Or will everyone realize this is all a bad joke and jump in and listen! Hopefully the second!

 

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Welcome back Book Clubbers! Did you miss us? We missed you! How about we read some funny books that are not books, and in this case, not intentionally funny? Let's go!

 

First up we dive into Hulk #181. There is a first full appearance in here, but what we really focus on is the love story! Will they? Won't They? Listen along and see!

 

Next up we get Giant Sized! That's right, it's finally time to read Giant Sized Fantastic Four #...

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July 27, 2024 1 min

We had some mysterious hard drive crashes that we can only assume lay at the feet of the Master of Magnetism. No episode this week, but we will be back to continue our journey through the X-Men next week! 

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Good Morning seekers of mystery! We have a special trat for y'all today. We are going to look into our crystal ball and talk about a world where cheese is actually good for you! Wait! It's actually something else. Cheese will always be our friend. 

 

Bolivar Trask will forever live in infamy as the man who created the Sentinels. At the end of the day he was hoisted on his own petard, and killed by the very mutant hunting robots he ...

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