July 17, 2024 • 46 mins
In this action-packed episode, we're slicing through the iconic issue Wolverine #88, where legends collide for the first time! Witness the epic clash between the feral Wolverine and the merc with a mouth, Deadpool, in a battle that leaves no page unturned. Will Wolverine's weakened healing factor spell his doom? Can Kane save Vanessa from Deadpool's deadly blades? We've got the answers, the drama, and the explosive details!
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Hi, everybody, This is Chandlerand this is Chris and you're listening to
X Read the podcast. Welcome everyoneto episode one. Hooray. Today we
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are celebrating the Deadpool and Wolverine movierelease, and we're diving into our long
boxes to retell the tale when Wolverineand Deadpool first met in the comic book
world. We'll be doing Wolverine eightyeight. Stay tuned for after the show
for Uncanny News segment, where wegive you all the deats on our panel
with the cast of X Men ninetyseven, the parties and all the mutant
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happenings at this year's Sandyo Comic Con, as well as the latest updates on
the Uncanny experience our immersive X Menfan convention. Oh yes, it's gonna
be an extra large news section today. We got a lot to cover.
But before we do that, Iwant to talk all about Woovery and Deadpool
and how excited I am to seethis movie. I am thrilled. They're
on a world tour right now.Yes, and we've been seeing Hugh Jackman
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and Ryan Reynolds appear in Korea,Germany, London. They're going to be
in New York pretty soon. Todaythey were in Rio de jan Narrow.
I love that they're doing this worldtour. I think this film people are
so excited about ever since the superBowl teaser that came out, And when's
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the last time you've had this likebig, massive world too. I think
like Mission Impossible, did it alittle bit ago or whatever? But it's
like it's so rare that this happens. I think Marvel knows that they have
a huge cash cow with this movie. They put everything, all the bells
and whistles in it to sell ticketsworldwide. So this is probably going to
be the biggest hit. And youknow what, dare I say it?
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I don't think it's going to bebecause of Ryan reynolds'sol. He's a big
draw, he's a wonderful actor,and he's great with the character. But
anytime you put Wolverine into a project, Marvel knows very well, yes,
that's what's going to make it sell. Yes, that's why he has an
action figure in every wave with Hasbro. That's why he's on a thousand different
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covers of comics. Wolverine sells.I agree. I think the reason why
huge Hugh Jackman coming back as Wolverineis what makes this movie special, so
we'll get to see it very veryvery soon. I've already heard some leaked
cameos. I'm not going to saywhat those are yet because I don't know
if you've heard that. I've heardnothing. I've heard you heard nothing,
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Well except for the saber tooth thingthat they revealed. Yeah, and that's
cool. Mm hmmm. Tyler Mayne. Tyler Mayne returning as Sabertooth and then
Aaron Stanford returning as Pyro. Soyes, I mean we know these,
but I've not heard any spoil content. Oh my gosh, since we're talking
about this, Normally I would saythis at the Uncanny News segment, but
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since we're talking about wolver in aDeadpool, I will mention this right here,
right now. On Wednesday at theScum and Villainy Cantina, we are
continuing our X Men watch parties,but we are switching over. We are
not doing X Men ninety seven thisweek. We are all focused on Deadpool
and Wollver Rea in the movie,and our special guest coming in is gonna
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be Lewis Tan who plays Shatterstar.He was also in Mortal Kombat. This
is so exciting and amazing. Soour friend Michelle Waffle, who has been
a guest on this show on episodenumber I'm gonna test channel right now.
Do you remember this, I don'tknow. I don't don't I remember we
did an episode where it was theNew Mutnons versus the Hellians. Yes,
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so go back at our archive andlisten for Michelle Waffle. But she's gonna
be I'm having her step in andcommoderate with Kevin Winston from Digital on my
behalf to represent the Uncanny Experience becauseshe is such a huge Lewis Tan fan,
like level ten, and I waslike, you know what, anytime
that I can give somebody that specialfan moment where that they are going to
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cherish for the rest of their life, I'm going to plug that. I'm
gonna hook it up. I'm gonnaplug that in. But we're so looking
forward to everybody coming out to theScummvility Cantina in Hollywood on Wednesday. Starts
at six thirty and after the Qand A with Lewis Tan, we will
watch scenes from Deadpool two and thenthere's gonna be a really awesome trivia contest
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right afterwards. So come on downto scum and villainy. Awesome. Yeah,
that's gonna be cool. That's reallyawesome that Lewis Tan's coming in.
Without further ado, let's get intothis issue. Yeah, so this issue
actually takes place right after the FatalAttraction issue. That's the one where Magnito
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ripped out. We'reing skeleton and wesaw so that seen in X Men ninety
seven, which is really cool.This is a really pivotal moment in Wolverine's
storyline because he has to, youknow, come back from that. He
has to recover from the anti Mantiambeing ripped from his skeleton, and he's
still trying to get his healing factorback from all of that. M he's
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not one hundred percent right now.Well, and as you said at the
top of the show, this isthe historic first meeting of Deadpool and Wolverine,
so we're going to be getting intothat as well in the pages.
But first let's set the era.Oh, this one's fun. So Wolverine
eighty eight was published on December tenthof nineteen ninety four, and the top
song was on Bended Knee by Boystwo Men. Oh gosh, it's been
(05:42):
so long and I feel like alot of the Boys to Men's song sounds
the same. It's like down onbended Me. Yeah, something like that,
but very R and B. Yes, of course when I when I
try to sing it, I soundlike love boat for some reason. Oyster
Man are so cool back then,like they were the it. Yes,
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everybody had that CD? Did youhave that CD? I had that CD?
Yes? And I loved when theyteamed up with Mariah Carey for One
Sweet Day, which I recently resang for all of us when Chad Anderson
was on the podcast a couple episodesago. So if you want to listen
to that, just go back afew episodes. So the top movie was
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called Disclosure, which was written byMichael Crichton, who you may know being
famous for writing Jurassic Park. Itwas starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore and
Rest in Peace. He just passedDonald Sutherland. What's this movie about?
It is about a computer specialist whois sued for sexual harassment by a former
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lover turned boss who initiated the actforcefully, which threatens both his career and
his personal life. Sounds like alot of drama. Sounds like a lot
of drama. Indeed, all right, let's get into this issue. Let's
do it, all right. Theissue was written by the one, the
only, the legendary Larry Hama.Larry, of course, famously appeared on
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x Reads, the podcast where werecapped Wolverine Wolverine issue seventy five where it's
right after the Adaman team is pulledout of his body. Go back and
listen to that in our archives atepisode eighty nine. Yeah. So,
the art for this was by AdamKuber and Fabio Laguna or Fobia Favio.
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And on the cover, which wasby Adam Kuper, we have what Chandler.
Well, it's one of the mosticonic Wolverine covers because it shows a
deadpool holding up Wolverine skewered by twoswords, and it is all done in
shadow play with red and black.It's really one of the most famous Wolverine
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covers. So I don't own it. I would like to own it,
So Amazon wishless people out there thatbuy me things don't exist. But if
you want to get me this coveror this issue of Wolverine eighty eight,
I will accept it. Oh mygod, I am just realizing. So
yesterday I was on the social mediaas I do, perusing around, yes,
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and I came across one of thoseviral videos that Marvel hires influencers to
do the thing that they do inorder to advertise the movie. And there
was this amazing cake maker. Ohand you know how much we love cakes,
especially the ones that look like otherthings and you don't think they're cake
and then you'd like slice into itand you're like, oh my god,
it's a cake. Yes, well, this one was of this cover life
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size, a life size version ofthis cover in a cake form. It
exists. Wow. She said itwas her most challenging cake she's ever made.
That sounds like a lot. Ohmy gosh, you know what I
feel like. I have seen thisvideo, but I didn't want if you
watched if you watched My Stories,you would have seen the video. But
apparently you know watch My Stories best. Let's look right, that was a
(09:01):
while ago. All right, Well, we are jumping into this issue and
we have Wolverine giving us a stripshow because he is standing at the door
of this battered apartment and I guesshe needs to take off his clothes.
This just totally reminds me of XMen. Ninety seven. The entirety of
Wolverine on that series is Wolverine withtattered, tattered clothing. So perhaps some
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inspiration was taken from this moment.Yeah, perhaps, well, I feel
like all moments Wolverine is always halfnaked in every battle. It's like I
remember, way back in Claremont era, we get tons of half naked Wolverine.
But yes, he is stripping downhis pants and his guy's belt buckle,
undone, ripping off his shirt becausehe is visiting the apartment of Hain
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on behest of James Hudson of AlphaFlight. So he said, please go
check on this guy, I believein San Francisco in California somewhere. And
he gets there. Oh, andthe apartment is busted open. It is
looking nasty and he opens the doorand what should he find it Jempool,
folks. And Deadpool is shooting hisguns. They're huge, and oh gosh,
(10:13):
he is very flexible, you guys. Is he's giving us a flying
V with his legs. I mean, wow, that is some next level
Olympic gymnast stuff right there. Yes, I appreciate it, and I love
how the it's Deadpool, folks.We also get a very cartoony like Looney
Tunes, Deadpool popping out of adrum that's full of bulletshells now, I
(10:37):
get it, you guys, audience, I'm going to take that back and
read this headline one more time becauseit's dead Pool, folks. Yeah,
oh my gosh, like this wholethis whole issue is looney Tunes. Let's
look at this apartment. Okay,so which apartment are we in? Again?
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We are in Kane's apartment. Doeshave you know what? He's not
a messy guy. No. Ilike the fact that he has cool things.
He definitely has like the bachelor vibe, because you know who has the
pinball machine, a dartboard, lavalamp box, lava lamp. You know
this is a bachelor's paradise. Ohbut I also to lava lamps in fact,
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and they also have the happy sadtheater masks because of course later on
we will go to the THEATA.Yeah, a little easter egg, little
Easter egg, happy sad masks.I think that's mainly the biggest aspects.
You can't quite see what the framesare, the papers on the wall or
anything quite yet, but we willget more details as we go into this
battle. You know what I noticedin this issue as well as on this
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page and many others, is thefact that it covers the entire both pages
and there's that split in the middle. Yes, this very frequent. Yeah,
this is frequent in this issue.They love They love to do double
page or just like left to rightall the way across story telling. It's
really fascinating. But I do lovethis splash face. This double page splash
page by Adam Cooper is so coolbecause not only is Dadpole doing this crazy
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maneuver with his legs in the airlike that I don't understand, but Wolverine
is getting a really awesome crouch move. He's got all of his clothes off,
so he's in full Wolverine mode.He's got his claws out. What
is up with that claw though?It's huge? Yeah, those are super
long now, it's like half ofhis body right there. Well, should
we read what they're saying to eachother? Yeah, let's do it.
(12:28):
Do you want to be Because I'ma wild, crazy, kooky guy.
You love Woverine, so it kindof just makes sense, all right.
Well, Deadpool is shooting is gonea Wolverine? He says, nobody home
but us cold blooded mercenary assassins.Ho ha, you would have happened to
know where old shiny Arms went offto with my ex Squeeze Vanessa. Would
you hah hah huh idea big solidand put you out of your intermittable suffering.
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I don't accept no favors from bigmouth upstarts bub, and I wouldn't
stomp on your face if it wason fire. Let alone out the cane
kid and his lady. I don'tknow, dude, I'm sensing a little
gambit up in your flare. Ohwow Yeah. And then Wolverine just with
a scrip just slices right into Deadpool'sarm and causing him to drop his weapon.
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No, you got that bub?You feel it in your guts?
Oooh, that's smarts, Deadpool,Ain't it? Sort does rhymes with dead
fool? Yeah, like Wolverine rhymeswith uber screen Hoover sleen. Hey,
what the heck does it rhyme with? You got some lip bub? You
had better stop flapping it before somebodyslices it off. Ooh, cutting bat
on me? Huh. They aregoing at it and the fisticuffs continue,
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and Deadpool says did you know thatI have a mutant healing factor works just
fine too, un Like some othersI hear about Yu kiok the automouni pa
of him kicking Wolverine in the face, the crack it this looks I could
feel that automn a PM, Iknow. Look at Wolverine's lip. Yes,
the exaggeration on certain things, justto emphasize the power of that blow.
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Well, talk about healing factors.Wolverine jumps and he says, you're
gonna need it, Bub, becauseyou just maxed out my tolerance level.
Oh, beet, old Deadpool mateit little beauty wolver wigg hums all upset,
Wait till I slice and dice yourface. And he's like, you
know, throwing his katanas in theair rapidly. That otta take that sunshine
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out of a day and twist yourmad dial up to ten. What's your
beef with Caine? Anyway? Nobodywants that kid dead bad enough to pay
you to dice him. Speak up, Bub can't talk with a boot in
your mug? Oh, because heleaps forward and gets a kick in a
Deadpool space right with the stump,and Deadpool is falling backwards and says,
I'm just rendered speechless by the sheerease with which I suckered you into getting
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yourself up for this. Fuck.Now you can see I left my heart
at Lungs in San Francisco. Andlike he is slicing and dicing up on
Wolverine with the sword. I'm sucha card. Now, why didn't I
notice that poster before? And helooks at the poster and it looks like
theater and actors, you know,they're posing. It's a it's a group
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photo maybe after a show. Andhe says, Tata will rene My public
awaits exit stage left, and we'reon the ground. Blood is coming out
all of all orifices of his body. Yes, this is a troubling time
for his healing factor. It wasvery unreliable. So you know, as
a reader, you're kind of like, oh my god, is he going
to recover from this? But thisis obviously the moment that they draw on
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the cover, because he's got histwo swords into Wolverine as the body is
above him. But meanwhile, meanwhilewe are now at a theataes. Yeah.
Now, the thing about this isI used to be a lesbian.
I have done theata as I Iall right, okay, so we're gonna
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we're gonna compare it. Name uhtop three favorite shows that you've been in
go uh Greece? Oh good?How to succeed in business without really trying?
You're a good man. Charlie Brown? Oh who did you play?
Charlie Brown? Who pig Pen?I would never ever expect you to get
that role Schroeder with the piano.Yes, pig pen, no big pen.
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Yes, that was my role.I was a pig pen. Well,
I since you didn't ask, wasin Anything Goes? And I love
that. Oh Brighton Beach Memoirs.That was a lot of fun. And
Neil Simon playing mmm. And Ialso did you know the sound of music?
Why not throwing a classic in there? Yes? So I will say
one of my favorites was Mikado becauseI got to be in this awesome samurai
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get up. I was in thechorus and it was a blast. I
love the Mikado. Meanwhile, backat this theater here in the comic who
do we have? We have Cainewho is holding the head of Vanessa and
he's saying it's you in the headof saying, isn't this what you wanted
my love and he says, no, not like this, not oh he
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wants to take it again from thetop, because you know, he's acting,
and we're like, oh, thisis just a play. This isn't
a headless Vanessa that he's holding.So I guess there's a prop head and
he is wearing a cowboys jersey andhe's on stage. I want to know
about this other character that has allthe knives in them. I feel like
there has no explanation of why thisperson has an axe in their head and
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all these knives. But there's awhole cast of characters in this scene.
Oh yeah, it's it's very justRando. But let's talk about mister Directal
okay, I kind of feel likemister director here is kind of the stereotype
of the time. Yes, likeif I thought of the stereotype of a
beta director, this is it.I saw him on The Simpsons. I'm
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sure he's wearing a beret. Yes, he's wearing a fuzzy pink What is
that scarf or something? He's gotan opera scarf thing? Yes, what's
an opera scarf? It's like ashort scarf. It's you know, it's
something you would wear it to theopera. Oh well, he's got a
clipboard in hand, he's looking allofficial with also an ask guy. He's
got this caravat or ascot neck aswell. So yes, this is very
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funny this outfit. There are somany layers to this character outfit. Anyway,
let's continue on. Well, Yolandawants to know if it's time for
her scene because all these knives andacts in her and the ketchup used to
make it look like blood is startingto draw flies ew yo. But Caine,
you know, he's still trying tofind his motivation. He wants to
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take it from the top. He'sjust everything is not making sense to him.
So Vanessa decides to run on stageeven though he's holding the head of
Vanessa and say, you know,help him with his motivation by making out
with them, and that makes thedirector and everybody in the theater decide to
leave. Yeah like the word Yeah, okay, you guys are gonna make
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out in front of us. Well, I'm gonna go get a coffee while
you guys work out your motivations.And they get out it out, big
it out. So they decided totake it from the top, and it
says, like, you know,just put your all into it, and
she goes back to the side ofthe stage. He holds up the fake
severed head and he says, it'syou. She says, that's brilliant.
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That was so real it sent chillsup my back. And he's like,
I wasn't acting Vanessa, because whoshould be in the audience, Chris,
it's Deadpool. Yeah, guys,he's been watching this whole time. Of
course Deadpool would be watching them makeout. Yes, I love that. Anyways,
they go back to the apartment.Wolverine is recovering slowly. He's still
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very woozy, and he goes tolook at the same photo that dead Pool
looked at. He sees that it'sthe theater, but he's so woozy that
he had chunks and falls face firstinto the picture frame, cracking it.
But he's like, I gotta getout of here. I've got to put
on some clothes. He fancy lookingrobe, yes, because he cannot look
like the way he does out inpublic. So his disguise a super exotic
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looking foncy robe exactly. Yes,I mean I feel like it's probably silky,
you know, yes, probably that. Yeah, Well, he steps
out into the road. A taxicabdriver stops, oh, this is San
Francisco, because he says, I'vebeen driving in San Francisco for twenty years.
I picked up a lot weirder thanyou. Because Wolverine is obviously has
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quite a look. The taxi islike, should we go to the hospital
or the theater? And Wolverine's likethe theater and step on it. But
I love how the taxi cab driver'slike, well, clearly these are the
two options for somebody who's bleeding outwith a fancy silk robe. He knows
it. He knows it. Heknows what's up oo. And then we're
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back in the theater and we haveDeadpool by Chris Riley. Who ha,
who did you think it was?Kane ciscal at Ebert? Okay, pause,
So kids, we ones that arelistening to us that are not of
age, let me and Chandler explainwho ciscal and Ebert are. Once upon
a time, back in the day, there were two movie reviewers that were
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at the top of their game.Yes, their names, Roger Ebert and
Gene Ciscol. Yes, correct,that's correct, okay, God and Cisco.
And what did they do? Theyhad a show, and they had
articles and newspapers, and their wholestick was they watched the movie and they
even give they either give it athumbs up or thumbs down. And I
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kind of miss it because it wasvery definitive. I don't like these rotten
tomato meters because it just seems sorandom with all these scores that they're trying
to compile. Yeah, and alsois like eighty percent good or does it
have to be ninety percent? Andis seventy five okay? Because if I
scored seventy five on a test,I kind of was like, that's okay.
Yeah. But Cinscle and Ebert,they were the men that came in
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and solved all of our problems withthese stars and whatever ratings he said yes
or no, thumbs up or thumbsdown, and I listened, did you
I believed them? Indeed? Anyway, that was ciscol and he were back
to Deadpool. Your history lesson wasover little Kids. Uh so Deadpool is
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rushing it and he says, Ihope you're fighting skills have to read it
to the level of your acting.I hope, I hope, I hope,
because I don't want too much ofa hassle making sliced ham out of
you. Ooh, but you knowCain, he actually is one of the
products of the Weapon X program fromDepartment H in Canada, and he's like,
yo, I can do this.So he has these cyberkinetic arms,
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these metal arms that he reveals he'sgot a glowing eye and he is ready
to fight Wade Wilson. Excuse me, I don't understand why everybody has this
glowing eye. Now, yeah,it was of the era, for sure.
It's an era thing. It's aneras thing, yes, aeros thing.
But he cabled and long shine table. Yeah, I know, and
this guy and I'm sure others andI don't know. I was definitely a
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thing. And one of the thingsDeadpool wants is he wants his girlfriend back.
But the girlfriend she's like, no, we're done, and so she
comes in. This is Vanessa,by the way, aka Copycat, the
girl that has been in the sceneswith Keane is apparently an ex of Deadpool,
and she comes in punching him.She goes, you've got a lot
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of goll calling me your girl,and she is kicking his butt. Well,
speaking of copycats in the art,just so you know, the pages
in this issue, like the onesthat were drawn by Fabio. M hmm.
They're kind of like the notorious examplesof what they used to call swiping.
It's when you copy figures, youknow, from different comics or different
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artists into you know, your stylein this comic. And he did that
with this one and drew a lotfrom Jim Lee's Will Make a Red Story,
which was X Men four through seven. Yeah. Yeah, So you
know, if you want to seelike example of what swiping is, just
go to compare this issue's are tothe Omega Red Story. Yeah. I
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was gonna say, this copycat bodyis silocked, And it wasn't until you
mentioned this that I was like,I've seen this pose before, like literally
line for line, and I'm like, oh, that is silocked. One
of her poses when she jumps andwhen she's holding her swords, only it's
just copycat using her fist. Wow, that's so fascinating and Jim Lee boobs
and Jim Lee boobs, well,that's fascinating to see this copycatting happening.
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But we go to the taxi caband we have Wolverine on his way.
His healing factor has healed up hisface. He is ready to roll.
The taxicab is just like, ohwow, that's an interesting costume you've got
on. He's like this robe,Oh, this ain't my costume. And
he rips off the robe and he'slike, this is my costume is yellow
with stripes. And I love thetaxicab conversation. It's so good. Oh
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yeah, let's do it. Let'sdo this taxi cab combo. I'll be
taxi cab driver. Yes, youknow, I'm a theesby myself. Hey,
you got your proclivities, I gotmine. Bub uh A thesbian is
an actor hackings the day job.Huh ah, Yes, to trod the
boards, the roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd.
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Is that your costume? This herekimono? Nah? I got a real
costume on underneath this here. Ohyeah. And he's ripping off that robe.
Why does he tear it to shredsthough he could literally just kind of
like take it off like a normalperson. Yes, no, he has
to like rip through it. Well, I think this taxi cab is kind
of into it too. Yeah,he says, very kinky outfit, mister,
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Those blue stripes are tres bizarro.Let me see that mirror, and
he grabs a mirror with a crunkand literally rips that rearview mirror off.
What do you know, my rippedup mug is getting back together. The
old Human Factor is kicking back in. Back to the battle we have Kane
versus Deadpool. King gets a kickto the face with a whack and a
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punch to his back with a crack, and he's really getting his hits in
on Deadpool. You know, whatI have to say is that I took
taekwondo, okay, and they taughtme to not kick like that. You
kick like that, you're gonna breakyour foot, you your heel. Yes,
you know. So if you're learninghow to fight from comic books,
y'all, don't do it. Don'tit's a how to guide for don't do
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this. Well, Deadpool gets wiseand he decides to jump into the light,
so to speak, the theater lightsthat are shining down on the stage,
and it causes Cane to go blind, so Deadpool can get a flying
kick in with a whack, andthe taxicab is still flying down the streets.
Now this is the streets of SanFrancisco, by the way, are
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very steep. I don't know ifyou've been there, Chris, but it's
I've been very street. Of course, we've been there together many times.
Yeah, it's a wonder con Hello. And so the taxicab is going down
these very steep hills and the brakesare out. I tell you this,
but I think we just breaks ooh, and they're just flying down the street.
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We've got ladies jumping out of theway, and Wolverine decides that he's
not even a way to find outhow this ends. He literally rips the
roof off of the taxi to jumpout and then skateboard with a piece of
metal down the street. Oh mygod, he's so rude. He tells
the cab driver, if you wantyour fare, you got to come by
the theater. I know. Hejust skips out on paying the poor guy,
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who literally is like almost gonna plumbinto his death because the breaks are
out. Wolverine's like, not myproblem, I'm out of here. I'm
not even paying you. Well.Back at the battle, we got Deadpool,
Copycat and Cane aka Weapon X,which is a horrible name for a
character because that's a program. Butthey are going at a Deadpool as getting
all of its hits in. He'sable to do this back somersault kick move
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to kick Copycat in the face andthen also double kick her into the gut
while he sticks his not his katanasinto the floor to kind of springboard him
up. It is quite a moveindeed. Ms soh Now we get back
into some more Wooverine and Deadpool actionbecause Wolverine comes crashing in. Well,
Deadpool is looking at Kane and hesays, you really love her, Caine,
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Huh you do anything for her?Huh? Make up your mind,
Sport. Are you gonna stop thesword that's coming towards your head or are
you gonna stop the one that's aimedat Vanessa's heart? And woo dilemma.
Yes, he's throwing one of hisswords at Vanessa's heart and she's down for
the count. She cannot stop it. And Kine is right there and he
could either stop the sword from comingdown on his head that Deadpool's about to
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stab him with, or he cansave Vanessa. And while he's trying to
make this decision, Wolverine comes crashingin riding his piece of taxi and he
sees what's going on. He makesa split second decision to save the girl
because he protects women, and hegets the sword out of the way and
saves her, and he is ableto use his cyberkinetic arm to block the
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one that's gonna hit him in theface, Caine, that is, and
therefore both swords are deterred. Wedo get a really awesome line from Caine,
who shouts on us and I couldjust imagine how dramatic it is,
especially since he's a thesbian. Yes, well, Deadpool's not happy to see
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Wolverine, and now that there's threeagainst one, he decides that that's not
worth the odds, so he decidesto just depart with one word, grenade.
You stole my life. I hadone word, just one word.
Let me say it, just oneword, grenade, and he throws a
grenade. Boom hea boom. Knowshow to go out with a bang.
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Yes, says Wolfy. Well,now he is just saying that, you
know, the two of them aregood together. He's glad that there everyone's
okay and that they're building a placethat they can call home. And he
just thinks that's all special and lovely. Yeah, and also like Copycat,
she's just like, oh my god, waiting not that any think about it.
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Hayin did not save me? Helike, did not save me?
Yes, but well he turns around. He says, look, look,
look, look it's fine. Youknow why, because he had to save
himself. If he didn't save himself, how is he gonna save you?
Huh? If he's dead, thenI'm just gonna walk over to you and
kill you. Two. That's agood. Yeah, continue having a good
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relationship. Don't even think about that, right? But what if I hadn't
shown up when I did? Thisis what he says. Is he's leaving
and she's like mmmm, well,she says, but you were there,
and he said, yeah, butwhat if I had caught a cab with
good breaks? Yeah? Because thatwas the thing. And you know what,
it's kind of like one of thosesplit second moments of luck, like
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I would see something so minute likethis of a detail being something that Domino
or long Shot would be dealing with, Like, you know, I need
to get there on time. Howare you gonna do that? Let's cut
the brakes on this car, andyou think like everything is gonna be going
not your direction, but it actuallyworks out in your favorite in the end.
Indeed, so Pool and Wolverine thatwas the first time they ever met
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in the comic books. Yeah,I thought that there was probably gonna be
a little bit more exposition to asto why they were fighting, Yeah,
or hired Deadpool. That's not explainedas far as why he's trying to kill
Kane because he's a mercenary for hire. He doesn't do kill. That's for
fun. Yeah, But you know, I think it really sets the stage
and the tone for the type ofrelationship that Over and Deadpool have. The
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banter, the buddy buddy cop bro, you know, superhero mutant thing.
Yes, absolutely, and I can'twait to see it in the movies.
Oh, it's gonna be so good. It's gonna be good. Well,
and this is his next issue,Ogon, which is the crazy ninja guy
that turned Kitty Pride into Shadow Cap. Yes we remember that well. Yes,
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indeed, that is episode one hundredwhere we did a full recap of
the Kitty Pride and Wolverine mini serieswith Chris Claremont. Well, you know
what, thank you everybody for listeningto that issue. It was a lot
of fun to dive into the firstappearance. You need to call that back.
Well, everybody, thank you somuch for listening to our recap of
the very first interaction of what we'rein a deadpool in the comic book world.
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That was a lot of fun.And now it's time for uncanny news.
Oh there's so much to go over, everybody. I'm going to try
to speed read feed talk speed getthrough this because it's just NonStop and it's
all amazing. Yes, all right, Yes, let's start with the biggest,
the most monumental, the most coolestthing in the planet for us,
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me and Chandler bestie's since forever inthe year. It's our fifth annual X
Men fandom panel at San Diego ComicCon. Yes, yes, I remember
way back when when we were littlebaby geeks at San Diego, before San
Diego Comic com was even key andsaid one day, Chandler, We're gonna
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be on panel that's we know.We eat it with like the big stars
in our eyes. Yes. Well, fast forward to twenty twenty four.
We've been on many panels, butmany panels, but this one is probably
for me at least. I don'tknow about for you, but for me,
it's the biggest panel that I've everdone. Oh yeah, this is
gonna be huge, especially this oneand room six PCF, which is gonna
(33:20):
seat two thousand, one hundred sixpeople. Yeah. Yes, over two
thousand people will be in this room. And I'm assuming like if it's two
thousand and then we're gonna be onthe jumbo screens and stuff. Yeah.
Oh my gosh, I need toget like a facial like that to be
small exactly. Look at these noclose ups. Yes, so we are
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doing our fifth annual X Men fandompanel with the cast of X Men ninety
seven. It's gonna be amazing.We did a version of this at wonder
Con with the cast, and itwas so huge and so popular that the
same people that do wonder Con alsodo Comic Con. They put us in
this giant room because they're like,wow, we underestimated the fan turnout,
and so they're like, we gotto give them the big ass room.
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So now we're in a big assrope and this is There are more panelists
on this particular panel than I've evermoderated before. I think we're at nine
or at nine. Yes, yes, and you know that this isn't even
all the X Men that are atthe con. This week, but it's
a good chunk of them. Likeas an example, we have Leonora Zan
the voice of Rogue, Alison SeelySmith who voices Storm, Pal Dodd who
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voices Wolverine. We also have CatherineDisher, the voice of Well Cooper and
the original Gene Gray in the nineteenninety two series, Yes, our famous
favorite new couple in the Mutant World, Gia Augustini who plays Sunspot, as
well as Holly Chow who is avoice of Jubilee. Yes. And then
we have Alison Court, the originalJubilee, but she is Absessa in X
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Men ninety seven. We have IsaacRobinson Smith who voices Bishop, and last
but not least, Jp Carliac whovoices More So excited for it, and
there's so much more. We aredoing our annual coin op Arcade meet up
as well on Friday night. It'sactually super exciting this year because we got
an Airbnb for the first time.Normally we're in a hotel. But Chandler,
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you found the most perfect airbnb.Why because it's literally upstairs from coin
op Arcade. It's yes, soit's gonna be awesome. We're so excited
to have everybody get together if youguys want to join us on Friday night
at Comic Con, that would bethe twenty six around. APM will be
at coin Up in Gas Lamp startingeight o'clock and video games are on us,
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so come see us and we willcover your games and super cool news
for all U X Men fans.If you want to get an autographed print
or a signed comic book or evena signed funkal Pop, or maybe you
have a cool toy like an XMen legend or an action figure from ninety
seven, come on down to theUnknown Comics boot to get it signed.
At San Diego Comic Con, allthe X Men are going to be there.
I'm gonna be assisting Lenora's on whois the voice of Rogue. Some
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famili faces will be there to sayhello to two like Dylan Carter from House
of X podcasts, our co founderat The Uncanny Experience, who will be
assisting Alison Seely Smith, the voiceof Storm. And it's just a wonderful,
amazing opportunity to get your autographs andyour photos with the cast, because
this is one of those conventions whereyou're going to see more cast than any
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other place. Yes, well,with the exception, if you come to
one of our parties in Hollywood,because we tend to do those oh oh
those Yeah. So that Unknown Comicsbooth number is twenty eight thirty four,
and you can find them because theyare right next to Lego. So if
you see the Lego booth, rightacross from the Lego booth, you'll find
Unknown Comics and all these amazing actorsand Chris and Dylan. Yes, and
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there are so many amazing parties thisyear. Like, I'm so excited to
be going for the first time.You've been to it many times, I
think the Entertainment Weekly party. Yes, I'm very excited. Actually, no,
it will be my first time.It's the hardest party to get into.
And god, we got We're in. We got into the hardest party
to get into. Yes, Hamler, what is life? I know it's
(37:07):
amazing. Well, and there's manyother parties too, of course we've got
you know. Bernie's XLLY Productions hasa number of parties going on, including
the Anti Hero Party. Yes,Bernie Bregman is the geek Gatsby online and
he is the party king of thecosplay and conventional world. And I have
such a blast at his parties.He really brings out a lot of the
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community to come and it's so coolbecause when he has celebrity guests, a
lot of time they come in andperform. So Bernie's been a bro of
mine since the dawn of time,and I said, let's collaborate, let's
hook things up. So we're bringingin the cast of X Men ninety seven
for the Anti Hero after party andyou can party it up with us.
And there's gonna be a very specialperformance, an acoustic set by Gill Augustini.
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So cool. Yeah, yes,he's going to take to the stage
and perform with his guitar. Canbring that flair right, Oh yes,
nice? Awesome. Well, Ialso am moderating another panel on music.
Well, first of all, Iguess I'll back up. I'm going to
be on a cosplay panel for Cosplayover thirty because I'm over thirty and over
forty. But I will be doingthat on Friday at ten am and the
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Grand Ballrooms of twelve and thirteen andthe Marriotte Marquis. But I will also
be moderating a music and animation panelright after X Men fandomil and we will
be covering projects with composers likely fromx Men ninety seven. We've got the
Newton Brothers coming, We've got theKiner family who do all the animated Star
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Wars projects, and many more soincluding the songwriter of Arcane Maco, who
is so cool anyways, that willbe in the room right after. And
also if you're at the x Menfandom panel and you're an x Men cosplay,
don't forget to go to the cosplaymeetup out on the stairs. Chief
Geek Photography will be your guide andyou guys can get your photo taken in
the big costplay group. Yes,and Julian Judson will be helping lead that
(39:00):
group photo ops, so check inwith him because Chandler and I will immediately
after the panel have to run indifferent directions exactly, but I guarantee that
it's a good time. The photosare great. It's a lot of fun
to get together with the other xMen cosplayers, and it's fun to shoot
content like it's a great chance toget some TikTok and reels together for Instagram.
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It's being a cosplay. I'm notgoing to cosplay this year because I'm
working the whole time. But areyou I am, Yes, Well,
As I mentioned, I'm on acosplay panel, so I better show up
in a look. So I'm justbringing my classic Doctor Strange look because I
polled my Instagram followers and he becameout as number one, so I was
like, okay, well we'll doWe'll do Doctor Strange. People love him.
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And I also am building a brandnew look of Cable, so Cable
specifically from the Marvel versus Capcom lookor the blue suit with the yellow suspender
look that he has in X Menninety seven. I'll be doing that on
Saturday. Is your cosplay going tohave the special light up ey It's not,
I mean as far as I don'thave a glowing eyeball, but that's
(40:06):
gonna be installed into my head.But I do have a flare effect I'm
putting onto my eye so to simulatethe spark. Yes, yes, and
you'll turn around and you can cosplayas Kane because he's got that too,
indeed. And then long Shot,Uh huh, you've done launch Out before.
You were a great launch Shot.Thank you. I appreciate that.
Yeah, that was really fun.I would love to do that again.
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So Ryan Cosplay, if you're listening, please lend me that outfit because I
loved it. Yes, So thereare just so many things that are coming
up at San Diego Comic Con.I'm not going to go into too much
detail. I will just mention thingsand you're gonna have to go and look
it up because it's too much tosay in this episode and we're running out
of time. So there's a Dazzlermeetup, a Dazzler group photo shoot.
The Dazzler like meetup party is ata bar on Sunday. There's there is
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a psychology the X Men panel thatLenora's a Rogue and Alison Ce Alison Seely
Smith who plays Storm, are gonnabe on and they're going to talk about
the psychology of their characters. Yes, and right before X Men fandom,
Larry Houston will be giving a panelon the making of X Men ninety seven
and x Men the animid series withsome of the creative talent that had put
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the shows together. There's a lotof going on. Oh and Bubba Buba
breaking news. If you didn't breakit, Deadpool and Wolverine are going to
be at Comic Con this year.Yeah, literally dropped right before we recorded
this podcast. I know you haveto go into a lottery though I put
my name in and stuff, andI don't know who is going to win.
It's everybody's on pins and needles.Who gets to know this panel?
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No, I know. I putmy my email, my name in as
well, and yeah, I justgot to get everybody I know to enter
for me, because you can bringa friend, so ps, bring me,
yes me, tell me, bringme, now me. But that's
not all. I am the realto share that upper deck because I'm a
trading card fan, is bringing outX MEN ninety seven trading cards exclusively for
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San Diego Comic Con this year.It's the only place you're going to be
able to get these x N ninetyseven cards. The co creator a Bishop.
He is going to be there andhe's going to be signing the Bishop
trading cards. So cool. Yougo and get that signed, and then
you walk over the Unknown booth andmeet Isaac Robinson Smith, the voice of
Bishop, and then you got twosignatures on that card. And that card
is all of a sudden worth alot of money. Yes indeed? Okay,
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Well, speaking of X men ninetyseven exclusives at San Diego Comic Con,
let's not forget one hundred percent soft. They have gorgeous collectible enamel pins.
We have the Mondo booth which hasMondo collectible figures. They are debuting
Cyclops, but the like the XMen Arcade version of Cyclops with the bald
cap look whatever. And they alsohave the Colossus Juggernaut figure that they're releasing
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at San Diego Comic Con. Socrazy X Men exclusives going on. Yeah,
And you know, for anybody thattheir ears perked up when I said
trading cards, because you're a bignerd like me, We had the Matt
Dumfert, the talent coordinator for UpperDeck Trading Card, come on episode number
yeah, So tune into that oneto hear all about the behind the scenes
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making of Upper Diect Trading Card.So much stuff Sandio Comic Con. This
is going to be legendary this year. Mm hmm. But that's not all.
We've got the Uncan experience in September. Yes, that's right. It
is fast approaching. We are ingo time. We're in the moment where
it's just like all right, weare hunkered down and we are getting through
everything, and we are making allthe announcements that we can left and right,
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and we have a bunch of announcementshere for you right now. As
a matter of fact, I havea very u a very hot solar flare
coming at you. Why because Sunspotis going to be in the mansion.
Amazing, he is coming. Heis the voice of Roberto DaCosta Sunspot from
X Men ninety seven, and he'sgoing to be coming to the Uncanny Experience
for photo ops and autographs and he'sgonna be on the panels. So come
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to the Uncanny Experience to meet Gee. Yes, and you can also meet
the incredible artist Tyler Kirkcam who isnow a guest at the Unking Experience.
We are very excited that he isjoining us thanks to Unknown Comics, and
he is also going to do theart of our con exclusive comic book that
we'll be releasing and revealing very soon. So Tyler Kirkham, he is known
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for his incredible variant covers. Youdefinitely would recognize how he puts characters in
beds looking at picture frames with sadforlong faces. But he's just amazing.
So you get to meet him atthe uncan Experience as well. Yeah,
I got to put his X MenPhoenix War Song on my reading list or
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well, we are also super excitedand happy because why this announcement involves booz
This is Earl Giles's Distillery is goingto be one of our liquor sponsors for
the after party in the mansion.They're kind of known for their rich history
and exceptional craft. They're going tobe providing complimentary gin cocktails to the after
party attendees. So get ready toenjoy a taste of Pearl edition era ingenuity
(44:59):
with a modern toy lovely. Itcan't wait. And if you guys go
to our shop on the Uncanny Experiencedot com, you can currently purchase a
pre sale opportunity to have a gambitor a Jubilee comic book signed by the
actors. So if you guys areinterested in these amazing autograph opportunities on these
beautiful variant covers by Luciano Vecchio ofGail Simone's new on Canny X, men,
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run and go check out our shop. Yes, and that wraps it
up, folks. That's all posvery appropriate. YEA, Well, that
was fun. That was a greatissue. I'm so glad we ex reddit
and you guys stay tuned for moreexciting episodes with more guests. And if
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Hi, everybody, This is Chandlerand this is Chris and you're listening to
X Read the podcast. Welcome everyoneto episode one. Hooray. Today we
(00:24):
are celebrating the Deadpool and Wolverine movierelease, and we're diving into our long
boxes to retell the tale when Wolverineand Deadpool first met in the comic book
world. We'll be doing Wolverine eightyeight. Stay tuned for after the show
for Uncanny News segment, where wegive you all the deats on our panel
with the cast of X Men ninetyseven, the parties and all the mutant
(00:48):
happenings at this year's Sandyo Comic Con, as well as the latest updates on
the Uncanny experience our immersive X Menfan convention. Oh yes, it's gonna
be an extra large news section today. We got a lot to cover.
But before we do that, Iwant to talk all about Woovery and Deadpool
and how excited I am to seethis movie. I am thrilled. They're
on a world tour right now.Yes, and we've been seeing Hugh Jackman
(01:14):
and Ryan Reynolds appear in Korea,Germany, London. They're going to be
in New York pretty soon. Todaythey were in Rio de jan Narrow.
I love that they're doing this worldtour. I think this film people are
so excited about ever since the superBowl teaser that came out, And when's
(01:34):
the last time you've had this likebig, massive world too. I think
like Mission Impossible, did it alittle bit ago or whatever? But it's
like it's so rare that this happens. I think Marvel knows that they have
a huge cash cow with this movie. They put everything, all the bells
and whistles in it to sell ticketsworldwide. So this is probably going to
be the biggest hit. And youknow what, dare I say it?
(01:57):
I don't think it's going to bebecause of Ryan reynolds'sol. He's a big
draw, he's a wonderful actor,and he's great with the character. But
anytime you put Wolverine into a project, Marvel knows very well, yes,
that's what's going to make it sell. Yes, that's why he has an
action figure in every wave with Hasbro. That's why he's on a thousand different
(02:21):
covers of comics. Wolverine sells.I agree. I think the reason why
huge Hugh Jackman coming back as Wolverineis what makes this movie special, so
we'll get to see it very veryvery soon. I've already heard some leaked
cameos. I'm not going to saywhat those are yet because I don't know
if you've heard that. I've heardnothing. I've heard you heard nothing,
(02:43):
Well except for the saber tooth thingthat they revealed. Yeah, and that's
cool. Mm hmmm. Tyler Mayne. Tyler Mayne returning as Sabertooth and then
Aaron Stanford returning as Pyro. Soyes, I mean we know these,
but I've not heard any spoil content. Oh my gosh, since we're talking
about this, Normally I would saythis at the Uncanny News segment, but
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since we're talking about wolver in aDeadpool, I will mention this right here,
right now. On Wednesday at theScum and Villainy Cantina, we are
continuing our X Men watch parties,but we are switching over. We are
not doing X Men ninety seven thisweek. We are all focused on Deadpool
and Wollver Rea in the movie,and our special guest coming in is gonna
(03:29):
be Lewis Tan who plays Shatterstar.He was also in Mortal Kombat. This
is so exciting and amazing. Soour friend Michelle Waffle, who has been
a guest on this show on episodenumber I'm gonna test channel right now.
Do you remember this, I don'tknow. I don't don't I remember we
did an episode where it was theNew Mutnons versus the Hellians. Yes,
(03:53):
so go back at our archive andlisten for Michelle Waffle. But she's gonna
be I'm having her step in andcommoderate with Kevin Winston from Digital on my
behalf to represent the Uncanny Experience becauseshe is such a huge Lewis Tan fan,
like level ten, and I waslike, you know what, anytime
that I can give somebody that specialfan moment where that they are going to
(04:14):
cherish for the rest of their life, I'm going to plug that. I'm
gonna hook it up. I'm gonnaplug that in. But we're so looking
forward to everybody coming out to theScummvility Cantina in Hollywood on Wednesday. Starts
at six thirty and after the Qand A with Lewis Tan, we will
watch scenes from Deadpool two and thenthere's gonna be a really awesome trivia contest
(04:35):
right afterwards. So come on downto scum and villainy. Awesome. Yeah,
that's gonna be cool. That's reallyawesome that Lewis Tan's coming in.
Without further ado, let's get intothis issue. Yeah, so this issue
actually takes place right after the FatalAttraction issue. That's the one where Magnito
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ripped out. We'reing skeleton and wesaw so that seen in X Men ninety
seven, which is really cool.This is a really pivotal moment in Wolverine's
storyline because he has to, youknow, come back from that. He
has to recover from the anti Mantiambeing ripped from his skeleton, and he's
still trying to get his healing factorback from all of that. M he's
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not one hundred percent right now.Well, and as you said at the
top of the show, this isthe historic first meeting of Deadpool and Wolverine,
so we're going to be getting intothat as well in the pages.
But first let's set the era.Oh, this one's fun. So Wolverine
eighty eight was published on December tenthof nineteen ninety four, and the top
song was on Bended Knee by Boystwo Men. Oh gosh, it's been
(05:42):
so long and I feel like alot of the Boys to Men's song sounds
the same. It's like down onbended Me. Yeah, something like that,
but very R and B. Yes, of course when I when I
try to sing it, I soundlike love boat for some reason. Oyster
Man are so cool back then,like they were the it. Yes,
(06:02):
everybody had that CD? Did youhave that CD? I had that CD?
Yes? And I loved when theyteamed up with Mariah Carey for One
Sweet Day, which I recently resang for all of us when Chad Anderson
was on the podcast a couple episodesago. So if you want to listen
to that, just go back afew episodes. So the top movie was
(06:23):
called Disclosure, which was written byMichael Crichton, who you may know being
famous for writing Jurassic Park. Itwas starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore and
Rest in Peace. He just passedDonald Sutherland. What's this movie about?
It is about a computer specialist whois sued for sexual harassment by a former
(06:44):
lover turned boss who initiated the actforcefully, which threatens both his career and
his personal life. Sounds like alot of drama. Sounds like a lot
of drama. Indeed, all right, let's get into this issue. Let's
do it, all right. Theissue was written by the one, the
only, the legendary Larry Hama.Larry, of course, famously appeared on
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x Reads, the podcast where werecapped Wolverine Wolverine issue seventy five where it's
right after the Adaman team is pulledout of his body. Go back and
listen to that in our archives atepisode eighty nine. Yeah. So,
the art for this was by AdamKuber and Fabio Laguna or Fobia Favio.
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And on the cover, which wasby Adam Kuper, we have what Chandler.
Well, it's one of the mosticonic Wolverine covers because it shows a
deadpool holding up Wolverine skewered by twoswords, and it is all done in
shadow play with red and black.It's really one of the most famous Wolverine
(07:54):
covers. So I don't own it. I would like to own it,
So Amazon wishless people out there thatbuy me things don't exist. But if
you want to get me this coveror this issue of Wolverine eighty eight,
I will accept it. Oh mygod, I am just realizing. So
yesterday I was on the social mediaas I do, perusing around, yes,
(08:15):
and I came across one of thoseviral videos that Marvel hires influencers to
do the thing that they do inorder to advertise the movie. And there
was this amazing cake maker. Ohand you know how much we love cakes,
especially the ones that look like otherthings and you don't think they're cake
and then you'd like slice into itand you're like, oh my god,
it's a cake. Yes, well, this one was of this cover life
(08:37):
size, a life size version ofthis cover in a cake form. It
exists. Wow. She said itwas her most challenging cake she's ever made.
That sounds like a lot. Ohmy gosh, you know what I
feel like. I have seen thisvideo, but I didn't want if you
watched if you watched My Stories,you would have seen the video. But
apparently you know watch My Stories best. Let's look right, that was a
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while ago. All right, Well, we are jumping into this issue and
we have Wolverine giving us a stripshow because he is standing at the door
of this battered apartment and I guesshe needs to take off his clothes.
This just totally reminds me of XMen. Ninety seven. The entirety of
Wolverine on that series is Wolverine withtattered, tattered clothing. So perhaps some
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inspiration was taken from this moment.Yeah, perhaps, well, I feel
like all moments Wolverine is always halfnaked in every battle. It's like I
remember, way back in Claremont era, we get tons of half naked Wolverine.
But yes, he is stripping downhis pants and his guy's belt buckle,
undone, ripping off his shirt becausehe is visiting the apartment of Hain
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on behest of James Hudson of AlphaFlight. So he said, please go
check on this guy, I believein San Francisco in California somewhere. And
he gets there. Oh, andthe apartment is busted open. It is
looking nasty and he opens the doorand what should he find it Jempool,
folks. And Deadpool is shooting hisguns. They're huge, and oh gosh,
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he is very flexible, you guys. Is he's giving us a flying
V with his legs. I mean, wow, that is some next level
Olympic gymnast stuff right there. Yes, I appreciate it, and I love
how the it's Deadpool, folks.We also get a very cartoony like Looney
Tunes, Deadpool popping out of adrum that's full of bulletshells now, I
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get it, you guys, audience, I'm going to take that back and
read this headline one more time becauseit's dead Pool, folks. Yeah,
oh my gosh, like this wholethis whole issue is looney Tunes. Let's
look at this apartment. Okay,so which apartment are we in? Again?
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We are in Kane's apartment. Doeshave you know what? He's not
a messy guy. No. Ilike the fact that he has cool things.
He definitely has like the bachelor vibe, because you know who has the
pinball machine, a dartboard, lavalamp box, lava lamp. You know
this is a bachelor's paradise. Ohbut I also to lava lamps in fact,
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and they also have the happy sadtheater masks because of course later on
we will go to the THEATA.Yeah, a little easter egg, little
Easter egg, happy sad masks.I think that's mainly the biggest aspects.
You can't quite see what the framesare, the papers on the wall or
anything quite yet, but we willget more details as we go into this
battle. You know what I noticedin this issue as well as on this
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page and many others, is thefact that it covers the entire both pages
and there's that split in the middle. Yes, this very frequent. Yeah,
this is frequent in this issue.They love They love to do double
page or just like left to rightall the way across story telling. It's
really fascinating. But I do lovethis splash face. This double page splash
page by Adam Cooper is so coolbecause not only is Dadpole doing this crazy
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maneuver with his legs in the airlike that I don't understand, but Wolverine
is getting a really awesome crouch move. He's got all of his clothes off,
so he's in full Wolverine mode.He's got his claws out. What
is up with that claw though?It's huge? Yeah, those are super
long now, it's like half ofhis body right there. Well, should
we read what they're saying to eachother? Yeah, let's do it.
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Do you want to be Because I'ma wild, crazy, kooky guy.
You love Woverine, so it kindof just makes sense, all right.
Well, Deadpool is shooting is gonea Wolverine? He says, nobody home
but us cold blooded mercenary assassins.Ho ha, you would have happened to
know where old shiny Arms went offto with my ex Squeeze Vanessa. Would
you hah hah huh idea big solidand put you out of your intermittable suffering.
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I don't accept no favors from bigmouth upstarts bub, and I wouldn't
stomp on your face if it wason fire. Let alone out the cane
kid and his lady. I don'tknow, dude, I'm sensing a little
gambit up in your flare. Ohwow Yeah. And then Wolverine just with
a scrip just slices right into Deadpool'sarm and causing him to drop his weapon.
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No, you got that bub?You feel it in your guts?
Oooh, that's smarts, Deadpool,Ain't it? Sort does rhymes with dead
fool? Yeah, like Wolverine rhymeswith uber screen Hoover sleen. Hey,
what the heck does it rhyme with? You got some lip bub? You
had better stop flapping it before somebodyslices it off. Ooh, cutting bat
on me? Huh. They aregoing at it and the fisticuffs continue,
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and Deadpool says did you know thatI have a mutant healing factor works just
fine too, un Like some othersI hear about Yu kiok the automouni pa
of him kicking Wolverine in the face, the crack it this looks I could
feel that automn a PM, Iknow. Look at Wolverine's lip. Yes,
the exaggeration on certain things, justto emphasize the power of that blow.
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Well, talk about healing factors.Wolverine jumps and he says, you're
gonna need it, Bub, becauseyou just maxed out my tolerance level.
Oh, beet, old Deadpool mateit little beauty wolver wigg hums all upset,
Wait till I slice and dice yourface. And he's like, you
know, throwing his katanas in theair rapidly. That otta take that sunshine
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out of a day and twist yourmad dial up to ten. What's your
beef with Caine? Anyway? Nobodywants that kid dead bad enough to pay
you to dice him. Speak up, Bub can't talk with a boot in
your mug? Oh, because heleaps forward and gets a kick in a
Deadpool space right with the stump,and Deadpool is falling backwards and says,
I'm just rendered speechless by the sheerease with which I suckered you into getting
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yourself up for this. Fuck.Now you can see I left my heart
at Lungs in San Francisco. Andlike he is slicing and dicing up on
Wolverine with the sword. I'm sucha card. Now, why didn't I
notice that poster before? And helooks at the poster and it looks like
theater and actors, you know,they're posing. It's a it's a group
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photo maybe after a show. Andhe says, Tata will rene My public
awaits exit stage left, and we'reon the ground. Blood is coming out
all of all orifices of his body. Yes, this is a troubling time
for his healing factor. It wasvery unreliable. So you know, as
a reader, you're kind of like, oh my god, is he going
to recover from this? But thisis obviously the moment that they draw on
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the cover, because he's got histwo swords into Wolverine as the body is
above him. But meanwhile, meanwhilewe are now at a theataes. Yeah.
Now, the thing about this isI used to be a lesbian.
I have done theata as I Iall right, okay, so we're gonna
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we're gonna compare it. Name uhtop three favorite shows that you've been in
go uh Greece? Oh good?How to succeed in business without really trying?
You're a good man. Charlie Brown? Oh who did you play?
Charlie Brown? Who pig Pen?I would never ever expect you to get
that role Schroeder with the piano.Yes, pig pen, no big pen.
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Yes, that was my role.I was a pig pen. Well,
I since you didn't ask, wasin Anything Goes? And I love
that. Oh Brighton Beach Memoirs.That was a lot of fun. And
Neil Simon playing mmm. And Ialso did you know the sound of music?
Why not throwing a classic in there? Yes? So I will say
one of my favorites was Mikado becauseI got to be in this awesome samurai
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get up. I was in thechorus and it was a blast. I
love the Mikado. Meanwhile, backat this theater here in the comic who
do we have? We have Cainewho is holding the head of Vanessa and
he's saying it's you in the headof saying, isn't this what you wanted
my love and he says, no, not like this, not oh he
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wants to take it again from thetop, because you know, he's acting,
and we're like, oh, thisis just a play. This isn't
a headless Vanessa that he's holding.So I guess there's a prop head and
he is wearing a cowboys jersey andhe's on stage. I want to know
about this other character that has allthe knives in them. I feel like
there has no explanation of why thisperson has an axe in their head and
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all these knives. But there's awhole cast of characters in this scene.
Oh yeah, it's it's very justRando. But let's talk about mister Directal
okay, I kind of feel likemister director here is kind of the stereotype
of the time. Yes, likeif I thought of the stereotype of a
beta director, this is it.I saw him on The Simpsons. I'm
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sure he's wearing a beret. Yes, he's wearing a fuzzy pink What is
that scarf or something? He's gotan opera scarf thing? Yes, what's
an opera scarf? It's like ashort scarf. It's you know, it's
something you would wear it to theopera. Oh well, he's got a
clipboard in hand, he's looking allofficial with also an ask guy. He's
got this caravat or ascot neck aswell. So yes, this is very
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funny this outfit. There are somany layers to this character outfit. Anyway,
let's continue on. Well, Yolandawants to know if it's time for
her scene because all these knives andacts in her and the ketchup used to
make it look like blood is startingto draw flies ew yo. But Caine,
you know, he's still trying tofind his motivation. He wants to
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take it from the top. He'sjust everything is not making sense to him.
So Vanessa decides to run on stageeven though he's holding the head of
Vanessa and say, you know,help him with his motivation by making out
with them, and that makes thedirector and everybody in the theater decide to
leave. Yeah like the word Yeah, okay, you guys are gonna make
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out in front of us. Well, I'm gonna go get a coffee while
you guys work out your motivations.And they get out it out, big
it out. So they decided totake it from the top, and it
says, like, you know,just put your all into it, and
she goes back to the side ofthe stage. He holds up the fake
severed head and he says, it'syou. She says, that's brilliant.
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That was so real it sent chillsup my back. And he's like,
I wasn't acting Vanessa, because whoshould be in the audience, Chris,
it's Deadpool. Yeah, guys,he's been watching this whole time. Of
course Deadpool would be watching them makeout. Yes, I love that. Anyways,
they go back to the apartment.Wolverine is recovering slowly. He's still
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very woozy, and he goes tolook at the same photo that dead Pool
looked at. He sees that it'sthe theater, but he's so woozy that
he had chunks and falls face firstinto the picture frame, cracking it.
But he's like, I gotta getout of here. I've got to put
on some clothes. He fancy lookingrobe, yes, because he cannot look
like the way he does out inpublic. So his disguise a super exotic
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looking foncy robe exactly. Yes,I mean I feel like it's probably silky,
you know, yes, probably that. Yeah, Well, he steps
out into the road. A taxicabdriver stops, oh, this is San
Francisco, because he says, I'vebeen driving in San Francisco for twenty years.
I picked up a lot weirder thanyou. Because Wolverine is obviously has
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quite a look. The taxi islike, should we go to the hospital
or the theater? And Wolverine's likethe theater and step on it. But
I love how the taxi cab driver'slike, well, clearly these are the
two options for somebody who's bleeding outwith a fancy silk robe. He knows
it. He knows it. Heknows what's up oo. And then we're
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back in the theater and we haveDeadpool by Chris Riley. Who ha,
who did you think it was?Kane ciscal at Ebert? Okay, pause,
So kids, we ones that arelistening to us that are not of
age, let me and Chandler explainwho ciscal and Ebert are. Once upon
a time, back in the day, there were two movie reviewers that were
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at the top of their game.Yes, their names, Roger Ebert and
Gene Ciscol. Yes, correct,that's correct, okay, God and Cisco.
And what did they do? Theyhad a show, and they had
articles and newspapers, and their wholestick was they watched the movie and they
even give they either give it athumbs up or thumbs down. And I
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kind of miss it because it wasvery definitive. I don't like these rotten
tomato meters because it just seems sorandom with all these scores that they're trying
to compile. Yeah, and alsois like eighty percent good or does it
have to be ninety percent? Andis seventy five okay? Because if I
scored seventy five on a test,I kind of was like, that's okay.
Yeah. But Cinscle and Ebert,they were the men that came in
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and solved all of our problems withthese stars and whatever ratings he said yes
or no, thumbs up or thumbsdown, and I listened, did you
I believed them? Indeed? Anyway, that was ciscol and he were back
to Deadpool. Your history lesson wasover little Kids. Uh so Deadpool is
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rushing it and he says, Ihope you're fighting skills have to read it
to the level of your acting.I hope, I hope, I hope,
because I don't want too much ofa hassle making sliced ham out of
you. Ooh, but you knowCain, he actually is one of the
products of the Weapon X program fromDepartment H in Canada, and he's like,
yo, I can do this.So he has these cyberkinetic arms,
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these metal arms that he reveals he'sgot a glowing eye and he is ready
to fight Wade Wilson. Excuse me, I don't understand why everybody has this
glowing eye. Now, yeah,it was of the era, for sure.
It's an era thing. It's aneras thing, yes, aeros thing.
But he cabled and long shine table. Yeah, I know, and
this guy and I'm sure others andI don't know. I was definitely a
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thing. And one of the thingsDeadpool wants is he wants his girlfriend back.
But the girlfriend she's like, no, we're done, and so she
comes in. This is Vanessa,by the way, aka Copycat, the
girl that has been in the sceneswith Keane is apparently an ex of Deadpool,
and she comes in punching him.She goes, you've got a lot
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of goll calling me your girl,and she is kicking his butt. Well,
speaking of copycats in the art,just so you know, the pages
in this issue, like the onesthat were drawn by Fabio. M hmm.
They're kind of like the notorious examplesof what they used to call swiping.
It's when you copy figures, youknow, from different comics or different
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artists into you know, your stylein this comic. And he did that
with this one and drew a lotfrom Jim Lee's Will Make a Red Story,
which was X Men four through seven. Yeah. Yeah, So you
know, if you want to seelike example of what swiping is, just
go to compare this issue's are tothe Omega Red Story. Yeah. I
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was gonna say, this copycat bodyis silocked, And it wasn't until you
mentioned this that I was like,I've seen this pose before, like literally
line for line, and I'm like, oh, that is silocked. One
of her poses when she jumps andwhen she's holding her swords, only it's
just copycat using her fist. Wow, that's so fascinating and Jim Lee boobs
and Jim Lee boobs, well,that's fascinating to see this copycatting happening.
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But we go to the taxi caband we have Wolverine on his way.
His healing factor has healed up hisface. He is ready to roll.
The taxicab is just like, ohwow, that's an interesting costume you've got
on. He's like this robe,Oh, this ain't my costume. And
he rips off the robe and he'slike, this is my costume is yellow
with stripes. And I love thetaxicab conversation. It's so good. Oh
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yeah, let's do it. Let'sdo this taxi cab combo. I'll be
taxi cab driver. Yes, youknow, I'm a theesby myself. Hey,
you got your proclivities, I gotmine. Bub uh A thesbian is
an actor hackings the day job.Huh ah, Yes, to trod the
boards, the roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd.
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Is that your costume? This herekimono? Nah? I got a real
costume on underneath this here. Ohyeah. And he's ripping off that robe.
Why does he tear it to shredsthough he could literally just kind of
like take it off like a normalperson. Yes, no, he has
to like rip through it. Well, I think this taxi cab is kind
of into it too. Yeah,he says, very kinky outfit, mister,
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Those blue stripes are tres bizarro.Let me see that mirror, and
he grabs a mirror with a crunkand literally rips that rearview mirror off.
What do you know, my rippedup mug is getting back together. The
old Human Factor is kicking back in. Back to the battle we have Kane
versus Deadpool. King gets a kickto the face with a whack and a
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punch to his back with a crack, and he's really getting his hits in
on Deadpool. You know, whatI have to say is that I took
taekwondo, okay, and they taughtme to not kick like that. You
kick like that, you're gonna breakyour foot, you your heel. Yes,
you know. So if you're learninghow to fight from comic books,
y'all, don't do it. Don'tit's a how to guide for don't do
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this. Well, Deadpool gets wiseand he decides to jump into the light,
so to speak, the theater lightsthat are shining down on the stage,
and it causes Cane to go blind, so Deadpool can get a flying
kick in with a whack, andthe taxicab is still flying down the streets.
Now this is the streets of SanFrancisco, by the way, are
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very steep. I don't know ifyou've been there, Chris, but it's
I've been very street. Of course, we've been there together many times.
Yeah, it's a wonder con Hello. And so the taxicab is going down
these very steep hills and the brakesare out. I tell you this,
but I think we just breaks ooh, and they're just flying down the street.
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We've got ladies jumping out of theway, and Wolverine decides that he's
not even a way to find outhow this ends. He literally rips the
roof off of the taxi to jumpout and then skateboard with a piece of
metal down the street. Oh mygod, he's so rude. He tells
the cab driver, if you wantyour fare, you got to come by
the theater. I know. Hejust skips out on paying the poor guy,
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who literally is like almost gonna plumbinto his death because the breaks are
out. Wolverine's like, not myproblem, I'm out of here. I'm
not even paying you. Well.Back at the battle, we got Deadpool,
Copycat and Cane aka Weapon X,which is a horrible name for a
character because that's a program. Butthey are going at a Deadpool as getting
all of its hits in. He'sable to do this back somersault kick move
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to kick Copycat in the face andthen also double kick her into the gut
while he sticks his not his katanasinto the floor to kind of springboard him
up. It is quite a moveindeed. Ms soh Now we get back
into some more Wooverine and Deadpool actionbecause Wolverine comes crashing in. Well,
Deadpool is looking at Kane and hesays, you really love her, Caine,
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Huh you do anything for her?Huh? Make up your mind,
Sport. Are you gonna stop thesword that's coming towards your head or are
you gonna stop the one that's aimedat Vanessa's heart? And woo dilemma.
Yes, he's throwing one of hisswords at Vanessa's heart and she's down for
the count. She cannot stop it. And Kine is right there and he
could either stop the sword from comingdown on his head that Deadpool's about to
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stab him with, or he cansave Vanessa. And while he's trying to
make this decision, Wolverine comes crashingin riding his piece of taxi and he
sees what's going on. He makesa split second decision to save the girl
because he protects women, and hegets the sword out of the way and
saves her, and he is ableto use his cyberkinetic arm to block the
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one that's gonna hit him in theface, Caine, that is, and
therefore both swords are deterred. Wedo get a really awesome line from Caine,
who shouts on us and I couldjust imagine how dramatic it is,
especially since he's a thesbian. Yes, well, Deadpool's not happy to see
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Wolverine, and now that there's threeagainst one, he decides that that's not
worth the odds, so he decidesto just depart with one word, grenade.
You stole my life. I hadone word, just one word.
Let me say it, just oneword, grenade, and he throws a
grenade. Boom hea boom. Knowshow to go out with a bang.
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Yes, says Wolfy. Well,now he is just saying that, you
know, the two of them aregood together. He's glad that there everyone's
okay and that they're building a placethat they can call home. And he
just thinks that's all special and lovely. Yeah, and also like Copycat,
she's just like, oh my god, waiting not that any think about it.
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Hayin did not save me? Helike, did not save me?
Yes, but well he turns around. He says, look, look,
look, look it's fine. Youknow why, because he had to save
himself. If he didn't save himself, how is he gonna save you?
Huh? If he's dead, thenI'm just gonna walk over to you and
kill you. Two. That's agood. Yeah, continue having a good
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relationship. Don't even think about that, right? But what if I hadn't
shown up when I did? Thisis what he says. Is he's leaving
and she's like mmmm, well,she says, but you were there,
and he said, yeah, butwhat if I had caught a cab with
good breaks? Yeah? Because thatwas the thing. And you know what,
it's kind of like one of thosesplit second moments of luck, like
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I would see something so minute likethis of a detail being something that Domino
or long Shot would be dealing with, Like, you know, I need
to get there on time. Howare you gonna do that? Let's cut
the brakes on this car, andyou think like everything is gonna be going
not your direction, but it actuallyworks out in your favorite in the end.
Indeed, so Pool and Wolverine thatwas the first time they ever met
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in the comic books. Yeah,I thought that there was probably gonna be
a little bit more exposition to asto why they were fighting, Yeah,
or hired Deadpool. That's not explainedas far as why he's trying to kill
Kane because he's a mercenary for hire. He doesn't do kill. That's for
fun. Yeah, But you know, I think it really sets the stage
and the tone for the type ofrelationship that Over and Deadpool have. The
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banter, the buddy buddy cop bro, you know, superhero mutant thing.
Yes, absolutely, and I can'twait to see it in the movies.
Oh, it's gonna be so good. It's gonna be good. Well,
and this is his next issue,Ogon, which is the crazy ninja guy
that turned Kitty Pride into Shadow Cap. Yes we remember that well. Yes,
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indeed, that is episode one hundredwhere we did a full recap of
the Kitty Pride and Wolverine mini serieswith Chris Claremont. Well, you know
what, thank you everybody for listeningto that issue. It was a lot
of fun to dive into the firstappearance. You need to call that back.
Well, everybody, thank you somuch for listening to our recap of
the very first interaction of what we'rein a deadpool in the comic book world.
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That was a lot of fun.And now it's time for uncanny news.
Oh there's so much to go over, everybody. I'm going to try
to speed read feed talk speed getthrough this because it's just NonStop and it's
all amazing. Yes, all right, Yes, let's start with the biggest,
the most monumental, the most coolestthing in the planet for us,
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me and Chandler bestie's since forever inthe year. It's our fifth annual X
Men fandom panel at San Diego ComicCon. Yes, yes, I remember
way back when when we were littlebaby geeks at San Diego, before San
Diego Comic com was even key andsaid one day, Chandler, We're gonna
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be on panel that's we know.We eat it with like the big stars
in our eyes. Yes. Well, fast forward to twenty twenty four.
We've been on many panels, butmany panels, but this one is probably
for me at least. I don'tknow about for you, but for me,
it's the biggest panel that I've everdone. Oh yeah, this is
gonna be huge, especially this oneand room six PCF, which is gonna
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seat two thousand, one hundred sixpeople. Yeah. Yes, over two
thousand people will be in this room. And I'm assuming like if it's two
thousand and then we're gonna be onthe jumbo screens and stuff. Yeah.
Oh my gosh, I need toget like a facial like that to be
small exactly. Look at these noclose ups. Yes, so we are
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doing our fifth annual X Men fandompanel with the cast of X Men ninety
seven. It's gonna be amazing.We did a version of this at wonder
Con with the cast, and itwas so huge and so popular that the
same people that do wonder Con alsodo Comic Con. They put us in
this giant room because they're like,wow, we underestimated the fan turnout,
and so they're like, we gotto give them the big ass room.
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So now we're in a big assrope and this is There are more panelists
on this particular panel than I've evermoderated before. I think we're at nine
or at nine. Yes, yes, and you know that this isn't even
all the X Men that are atthe con. This week, but it's
a good chunk of them. Likeas an example, we have Leonora Zan
the voice of Rogue, Alison SeelySmith who voices Storm, Pal Dodd who
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voices Wolverine. We also have CatherineDisher, the voice of Well Cooper and
the original Gene Gray in the nineteenninety two series, Yes, our famous
favorite new couple in the Mutant World, Gia Augustini who plays Sunspot, as
well as Holly Chow who is avoice of Jubilee. Yes. And then
we have Alison Court, the originalJubilee, but she is Absessa in X
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Men ninety seven. We have IsaacRobinson Smith who voices Bishop, and last
but not least, Jp Carliac whovoices More So excited for it, and
there's so much more. We aredoing our annual coin op Arcade meet up
as well on Friday night. It'sactually super exciting this year because we got
an Airbnb for the first time.Normally we're in a hotel. But Chandler,
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you found the most perfect airbnb.Why because it's literally upstairs from coin
op Arcade. It's yes, soit's gonna be awesome. We're so excited
to have everybody get together if youguys want to join us on Friday night
at Comic Con, that would bethe twenty six around. APM will be
at coin Up in Gas Lamp startingeight o'clock and video games are on us,
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so come see us and we willcover your games and super cool news
for all U X Men fans.If you want to get an autographed print
or a signed comic book or evena signed funkal Pop, or maybe you
have a cool toy like an XMen legend or an action figure from ninety
seven, come on down to theUnknown Comics boot to get it signed.
At San Diego Comic Con, allthe X Men are going to be there.
I'm gonna be assisting Lenora's on whois the voice of Rogue. Some
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famili faces will be there to sayhello to two like Dylan Carter from House
of X podcasts, our co founderat The Uncanny Experience, who will be
assisting Alison Seely Smith, the voiceof Storm. And it's just a wonderful,
amazing opportunity to get your autographs andyour photos with the cast, because
this is one of those conventions whereyou're going to see more cast than any
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other place. Yes, well,with the exception, if you come to
one of our parties in Hollywood,because we tend to do those oh oh
those Yeah. So that Unknown Comicsbooth number is twenty eight thirty four,
and you can find them because theyare right next to Lego. So if
you see the Lego booth, rightacross from the Lego booth, you'll find
Unknown Comics and all these amazing actorsand Chris and Dylan. Yes, and
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there are so many amazing parties thisyear. Like, I'm so excited to
be going for the first time.You've been to it many times, I
think the Entertainment Weekly party. Yes, I'm very excited. Actually, no,
it will be my first time.It's the hardest party to get into.
And god, we got We're in. We got into the hardest party
to get into. Yes, Hamler, what is life? I know it's
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amazing. Well, and there's manyother parties too, of course we've got
you know. Bernie's XLLY Productions hasa number of parties going on, including
the Anti Hero Party. Yes,Bernie Bregman is the geek Gatsby online and
he is the party king of thecosplay and conventional world. And I have
such a blast at his parties.He really brings out a lot of the
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community to come and it's so coolbecause when he has celebrity guests, a
lot of time they come in andperform. So Bernie's been a bro of
mine since the dawn of time,and I said, let's collaborate, let's
hook things up. So we're bringingin the cast of X Men ninety seven
for the Anti Hero after party andyou can party it up with us.
And there's gonna be a very specialperformance, an acoustic set by Gill Augustini.
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So cool. Yeah, yes,he's going to take to the stage
and perform with his guitar. Canbring that flair right, Oh yes,
nice? Awesome. Well, Ialso am moderating another panel on music.
Well, first of all, Iguess I'll back up. I'm going to
be on a cosplay panel for Cosplayover thirty because I'm over thirty and over
forty. But I will be doingthat on Friday at ten am and the
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Grand Ballrooms of twelve and thirteen andthe Marriotte Marquis. But I will also
be moderating a music and animation panelright after X Men fandomil and we will
be covering projects with composers likely fromx Men ninety seven. We've got the
Newton Brothers coming, We've got theKiner family who do all the animated Star
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Wars projects, and many more soincluding the songwriter of Arcane Maco, who
is so cool anyways, that willbe in the room right after. And
also if you're at the x Menfandom panel and you're an x Men cosplay,
don't forget to go to the cosplaymeetup out on the stairs. Chief
Geek Photography will be your guide andyou guys can get your photo taken in
the big costplay group. Yes,and Julian Judson will be helping lead that
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group photo ops, so check inwith him because Chandler and I will immediately
after the panel have to run indifferent directions exactly, but I guarantee that
it's a good time. The photosare great. It's a lot of fun
to get together with the other xMen cosplayers, and it's fun to shoot
content like it's a great chance toget some TikTok and reels together for Instagram.
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It's being a cosplay. I'm notgoing to cosplay this year because I'm
working the whole time. But areyou I am, Yes, Well,
As I mentioned, I'm on acosplay panel, so I better show up
in a look. So I'm justbringing my classic Doctor Strange look because I
polled my Instagram followers and he becameout as number one, so I was
like, okay, well we'll doWe'll do Doctor Strange. People love him.
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And I also am building a brandnew look of Cable, so Cable
specifically from the Marvel versus Capcom lookor the blue suit with the yellow suspender
look that he has in X Menninety seven. I'll be doing that on
Saturday. Is your cosplay going tohave the special light up ey It's not,
I mean as far as I don'thave a glowing eyeball, but that's
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gonna be installed into my head.But I do have a flare effect I'm
putting onto my eye so to simulatethe spark. Yes, yes, and
you'll turn around and you can cosplayas Kane because he's got that too,
indeed. And then long Shot,Uh huh, you've done launch Out before.
You were a great launch Shot.Thank you. I appreciate that.
Yeah, that was really fun.I would love to do that again.
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So Ryan Cosplay, if you're listening, please lend me that outfit because I
loved it. Yes, So thereare just so many things that are coming
up at San Diego Comic Con.I'm not going to go into too much
detail. I will just mention thingsand you're gonna have to go and look
it up because it's too much tosay in this episode and we're running out
of time. So there's a Dazzlermeetup, a Dazzler group photo shoot.
The Dazzler like meetup party is ata bar on Sunday. There's there is
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a psychology the X Men panel thatLenora's a Rogue and Alison Ce Alison Seely
Smith who plays Storm, are gonnabe on and they're going to talk about
the psychology of their characters. Yes, and right before X Men fandom,
Larry Houston will be giving a panelon the making of X Men ninety seven
and x Men the animid series withsome of the creative talent that had put
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the shows together. There's a lotof going on. Oh and Bubba Buba
breaking news. If you didn't breakit, Deadpool and Wolverine are going to
be at Comic Con this year.Yeah, literally dropped right before we recorded
this podcast. I know you haveto go into a lottery though I put
my name in and stuff, andI don't know who is going to win.
It's everybody's on pins and needles.Who gets to know this panel?
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No, I know. I putmy my email, my name in as
well, and yeah, I justgot to get everybody I know to enter
for me, because you can bringa friend, so ps, bring me,
yes me, tell me, bringme, now me. But that's
not all. I am the realto share that upper deck because I'm a
trading card fan, is bringing outX MEN ninety seven trading cards exclusively for
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San Diego Comic Con this year.It's the only place you're going to be
able to get these x N ninetyseven cards. The co creator a Bishop.
He is going to be there andhe's going to be signing the Bishop
trading cards. So cool. Yougo and get that signed, and then
you walk over the Unknown booth andmeet Isaac Robinson Smith, the voice of
Bishop, and then you got twosignatures on that card. And that card
is all of a sudden worth alot of money. Yes indeed? Okay,
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Well, speaking of X men ninetyseven exclusives at San Diego Comic Con,
let's not forget one hundred percent soft. They have gorgeous collectible enamel pins.
We have the Mondo booth which hasMondo collectible figures. They are debuting
Cyclops, but the like the XMen Arcade version of Cyclops with the bald
cap look whatever. And they alsohave the Colossus Juggernaut figure that they're releasing
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at San Diego Comic Con. Socrazy X Men exclusives going on. Yeah,
And you know, for anybody thattheir ears perked up when I said
trading cards, because you're a bignerd like me, We had the Matt
Dumfert, the talent coordinator for UpperDeck Trading Card, come on episode number
yeah, So tune into that oneto hear all about the behind the scenes
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making of Upper Diect Trading Card.So much stuff Sandio Comic Con. This
is going to be legendary this year. Mm hmm. But that's not all.
We've got the Uncan experience in September. Yes, that's right. It
is fast approaching. We are ingo time. We're in the moment where
it's just like all right, weare hunkered down and we are getting through
everything, and we are making allthe announcements that we can left and right,
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and we have a bunch of announcementshere for you right now. As
a matter of fact, I havea very u a very hot solar flare
coming at you. Why because Sunspotis going to be in the mansion.
Amazing, he is coming. Heis the voice of Roberto DaCosta Sunspot from
X Men ninety seven, and he'sgoing to be coming to the Uncanny Experience
for photo ops and autographs and he'sgonna be on the panels. So come
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to the Uncanny Experience to meet Gee. Yes, and you can also meet
the incredible artist Tyler Kirkcam who isnow a guest at the Unking Experience.
We are very excited that he isjoining us thanks to Unknown Comics, and
he is also going to do theart of our con exclusive comic book that
we'll be releasing and revealing very soon. So Tyler Kirkham, he is known
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for his incredible variant covers. Youdefinitely would recognize how he puts characters in
beds looking at picture frames with sadforlong faces. But he's just amazing.
So you get to meet him atthe uncan Experience as well. Yeah,
I got to put his X MenPhoenix War Song on my reading list or
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well, we are also super excitedand happy because why this announcement involves booz
This is Earl Giles's Distillery is goingto be one of our liquor sponsors for
the after party in the mansion.They're kind of known for their rich history
and exceptional craft. They're going tobe providing complimentary gin cocktails to the after
party attendees. So get ready toenjoy a taste of Pearl edition era ingenuity
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with a modern toy lovely. Itcan't wait. And if you guys go
to our shop on the Uncanny Experiencedot com, you can currently purchase a
pre sale opportunity to have a gambitor a Jubilee comic book signed by the
actors. So if you guys areinterested in these amazing autograph opportunities on these
beautiful variant covers by Luciano Vecchio ofGail Simone's new on Canny X, men,
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run and go check out our shop. Yes, and that wraps it
up, folks. That's all posvery appropriate. YEA, Well, that
was fun. That was a greatissue. I'm so glad we ex reddit
and you guys stay tuned for moreexciting episodes with more guests. And if
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you guys also like just christ andChandler, let us know because we like
bringing you guests, but we alsolike just being us. If you love
what you hear, leave us areview on Apple podcast. It gives us
lots of love and fills us withgratitude when we see these, and you
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hear, please let us know.Thanks so much for listening. Everybody,
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