February 26, 2025 • 56 mins
What’s a birthday without a little existential dread and a surprise demon attack? This week, we’re joined by Phil Taylor (a.k.a. One True Nerd King) to unpack New Mutants #14, where Illyana Rasputin goes from traumatized teen to Queen of Limbo in record time.
The New Mutants try (and fail spectacularly) to take down S’ym, Professor X gets absolutely wrecked, and somehow, a party still happens. Oh, and Xavier casually STANDS UP AND STARTS DANCING, because why not? Meanwhile, Kitty Pryde’s bestie Doug Ramsey has major news—but it comes with a one-way ticket to the Massachusetts Academy… and straight into the Hellfire Club’s clutches.
Demonic duels, surprise teleports, and a living room that will never be the same—this issue is wild. But has Illyana just taken her first real step toward becoming the Darkchild? Let’s break it all down!
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The New Mutants try (and fail spectacularly) to take down S’ym, Professor X gets absolutely wrecked, and somehow, a party still happens. Oh, and Xavier casually STANDS UP AND STARTS DANCING, because why not? Meanwhile, Kitty Pryde’s bestie Doug Ramsey has major news—but it comes with a one-way ticket to the Massachusetts Academy… and straight into the Hellfire Club’s clutches.
Demonic duels, surprise teleports, and a living room that will never be the same—this issue is wild. But has Illyana just taken her first real step toward becoming the Darkchild? Let’s break it all down!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, everybody. This is Chandler and this is Chris and
I'm Phil and you're listening to the podcast. Everybody, We
are here with episode one nine with our very special guest,
(00:23):
Phil Taylor, aka the One True Nerd King. Now, how
did you earn this title of one True Nerd King?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Like every other king, I just gave it to myself,
self appointed in every way, shape and form. It was.
It was a joke. Actually, I was I was with
a friend at work and I've been playing a game
online and I got into a conversation about comics with
a number of other people in this app called Line
(00:53):
and the app was just just cut on, ringing and
ringing and ringing, and my friend Julianne, she just goes, Phil,
your nerds are calling, get over here and play king
for a while. And that it became the inside joke
with my coworkers, like, oh, it's the nerd King. Look,
he's you know, he's going to talk about whatever this
(01:14):
may be in the class house teaching at the time.
And yeah, then that devolved into Instagram and social media,
and then when we were watching oh what was a
Game of Thrones and you had the One True King
of the North. There was lots of nerd kings out there,
so I became at that point I adopted the moniker instead,
(01:34):
the one true King of the North. It was the
one true nerd King. And then you know, like everybody
else with the whole Facebook side of things like lose
the the and I just became one true nerd king.
So you know, that's the whole evolution of the entire
name that nobody has ever actually heard before.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
So wow, we're the first groundbreaking whistleblower.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah. Yeah, nobody's asked like how that name came to,
Like I came to fruition and I just realized, I'm like,
I've never told this story before. I like, shit, I've
been doing this for a minute. I never I never.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Had to answer that.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Well, as a matter of fact, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
So it's a very Lord of the Rings. I feel like,
you know, it's the one, the one Ring, the one
true nerd King. There's something that rhymes with it. So
I don't know if you're a Lord of the Rings fan,
but I hope you. I feel like you could be
a part of that world.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I am. I love Lord of the Rings. I am.
I am primarily a sci fi guy, but I mean,
if you don't enjoy Lord of the Rings, I don't
really know what kind of what kind of nerd are you?
You know, what kind of what kind of human being
are you if you did not enjoy Lord of the Rings,
Because I mean, everybody's got to have a sam. But yes,
(02:53):
I I am a big Lord of the Rings fan.
I am If the word star is located anywhere in
the I am a fan of it. As my friend
THEO would say, like when they're going through comic book,
somebody goes like, hey, would Phil like this? And he goes,
you know, is the word star anywhere in the title? Yeah,
it's it's a stargate kind of He's gonna love it,
just fucking doesn't care, doesn't as long as it's said
(03:15):
star somewhere, you're happy.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
It's like, so if there's an X in the title,
we love it.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, exactly or ex exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
There you go. I see what you did there, I
see what you did there.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So you cover a lot of things coming out in
the world of pop culture. I want to know your
hot take on the NCU right now. What are you
looking forward to? Are they doing it right? What do
you want to see more of? What are they getting wrong?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I mean, Okay, this is so terrible because it's not
that they're getting things wrong. I just think that these things.
I am a firm believer that the MCU should have
ended and rebooted after Endgame, and I did say that
after Endgame that like it would be a great time
to reboot because there's other properties coming in. We've gotten
new opportunities to do different things with different characters. And
(04:05):
it is the same thing that happens with comic books.
And a reason why I love indies sometimes more than
anything is because of the cannon baggage. Right, The more
the more storylines you get in the background, the more
heavy and harder it is to kind of carry all
the different plots through and and have somebody looking for
something and they don't see it, and then all of
(04:25):
a sudden they're just they're just enfranchised. For me, I've
I do feel like the MCUs in a fine place,
but it's hard to as fans. I think, as somebody
that lived through the era of seeing Captain America on
television with a motorcycle helmet for a hat and riding
around in that that that the motorcycle with the windshield
(04:50):
which was his clear Captain America shield. Some of y'all
are spoiled and don't understand that, you know, things aren't
always you know, endgame. I think that the MC is
in an okay place right now. I think that this
is kind of just another one of those one of
those waves. Like I kind of look at life as
(05:11):
that surfer outlook where there's there's no there's no peaks
and valleys. It's just you're just waiting for the next wave. Man,
And in this case, I would say that we're in
the beginning of that next wave. I do and I
did enjoy Captain America for I just think it would
have been great if they kind of created it like
(05:31):
it was a different universe. We could have had some
people carry through. I'm I'm happy with Sam Wilson being
Captain America. I do feel that it is important to
have a regular man as a superhero besides just Hawkey,
who just you know, happens to be really great with
a bow and arrow. Obviously, Black Widow is a woman
(05:53):
who's gone through training her entire life in the worst
of circumstances to get to where she is, so I
wouldn't want it to be necessarily just just black widow.
But I do feel like Sam Wilson's cap is very
important in the world that we live in, especially right now,
And I did feel some inspiration in the world in
which we live right now after I watched Captain America
(06:15):
for that. You know, there's still some faith in humanity
and this potential for redemption in things. So I do
feel like the MCU is in a good position to
introduce new characters that I think are going to be
more impactful to us in three or four years from now,
(06:35):
when we're able to kind of reboot and get the
and get the X Men into the universe properly in
a way that's not being just shoehorned in right now.
I do feel like it is kind of like we're
just pushing in mutants to do it, as opposed to
giving them the introduction that they deserve, which is a
lot more evolved. You know, the entire mutant scenario in
(07:03):
Marvel Comics was not just a flash in the pan
kind of situation that you can handle in a movie
or two. This is something that needs to evolve throughout
a universe, and so for me seeing them try and
I do like Kamala being a mutant. So I don't
have a problem with Miss Marvel. I've always been a
(07:24):
Miss Marvel fan, so I don't mind the change in
her becoming a mutant. And I understand why Marvel didn't
do it at the time, but I still didn't feel
in the television series that it was a great way
to kind of introduce the word mutant into the MCU.
It felt it felt fake. So for me, as the
X Men kind of changed my life as a teenager,
(07:45):
and you know Jim Lee's X Men, especially with X
Men one most popular comic on Earth. Of course I
had a copy of it. Of course, that's what really
got me into comics. I just it didn't feel right,
you know. So for me in my mind, I'm I
kind of wanted the universe to end so that we
(08:05):
can reboot it correctly, hopefully get Spider Man in there too,
but if not, worst case, that's just one character in
a cadre of you know, villains. But they won't they
won't stop me with a ex powerful kind of universe
as well as the Avengers and all the other characters
that we've got to choose from. That was a very
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long answer.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And podcast is over.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So obviously I have a lot of opinions on this. Okay, guys,
a lot of opinions.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Well, we talk a lot about pop culture, we talked
about the MCU in depth, and we are an X
Men podcast, So I would like to ask you some
rapid fire questions all about you.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I'm going so do terrible at this just now, so
that way I can prove everybody that my name is
entitled in self appointed title only. Keep that in mind, everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
It's not trivia, it's just dearly opinion.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah, all right, okay, right, Question number one, Jean Gray
or Emma Frost? Who do you trust to keep your secrets?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Oh? Oh, to keep the secret, I'd have to go
with Jean Gray. I mean, I guess the kinds of
the kind of secret I'm hoping she'd keep. Maybe it
would be Ema Frost, but I mean, at the end
of the day, it's going to be Jen Gray.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Who makes a better leader? Is it Cyclops or Storm?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh? This isn't fair because I really have no respect
for Cyclops in a lot of ways. But I do,
you know, right, because it's like as a nineties cartoon kid,
like seeing the way he was treated in the cartoon.
I kind of have that that that vision of him
in my head, but I know him from the comics.
I know he's not that way. But then their storm,
you know, Roo, I would actually say Storm, I am
(09:55):
a bit more of that X Men gold team, and
I am I would actually I would go with Storm.
I do have a great deal of uh more more
refined respect as of late in comics, getting back into
them again the last few years and cyclops. But yeah,
it's gonna be a storm.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Cool all right? So picture this, you're starting to a
mute and team. You have to either choose Magneto or
Professor X as your mentor which one.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I got to go with Magneto.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Very good?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
What's a better soap opera twist? Soap opera twist? Is
it Gene coming back from the dead or Mystique secretly
being Nightcrawler's.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Mom, Mystique being nightcrawlers mom. What the hell is that? No,
that's that's that's that's me. That's the truth. And yes
see here here's.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
My Oh oh, we've got a Magneto going on. Everybody.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yes, so I I am one Magneto.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
He was right, Pick your X Men family home. Are
you going to live on Kracoa or do you want
to live inside of Xavier Institute.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I'd actually pick Xavier Institute. I'm a nineties kid. I
remember watching them going through the halls in the comic books,
in the movies as a child more so, and I'd
like to I like to be a part of the
rest of the Marvel universe. Man. You know, I know
it's I know I'm going to be persecuted in this universe,
(11:26):
but at the end of the day, that's some pretty
cool in the world still, regardless, and there's some other
good people in there too, And that being the case,
I'd want to be more around it and not kind
of removed from it like I always felt they kind
of isolated themselves in Crica.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Would you rather party in Madrapore with Wolverine or in
New Orleans with Gambit New.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Orleans one all day, all day, all day. Yeah, seriously,
Remy and Knowledge, I mean, really a question. I mean,
Wolverine's cool, but he's more likely to get me killed.
Remy is gonna just show me a hell of a
good time.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, Wolverine's just gonna be depressed drinking.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
And Wolvers gonna be mad. He's gonna be talking about
some girl, whichever one it was this time. You know
that he still doesn't have looking at his picture of
Gene with Cyclops folded out of it and all the
fun stuff, So yeah, I don't need that.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah, all right, who's the real ex villain MVP? Is
it Mystique or Apocalypse.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
It's gotta be Mistique. She just plays both sides, so
damn well, whenever she wants to, it's gotta be a mistake. Yeah,
I'm gonna stick with a mistake, all right.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Which mutant is the most underappreciated? Is it Polaris or
is it Forge Forge?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I mean, Polaris is one daughter. But at the same time,
Forge Forge. If it weren't for Forge, I mean, how
many of the X Men would not even be Like
a Storm and her issue, like the the the jet,
the everything that we've come to see that's really been
(13:05):
able to give the X Men the edge that they've
needed in different ways shapes and forms, has always come
from Forge, And he's always just been the side character.
You know he's been you see him working on them,
you know, it's kind of like you just see him
in the background. He's always tinkering with something, but he's
never really given even the respect that they give beast
in enough lines in a in an arc, in a panel.
So for me, yeah, i'd have to say, forge.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
If you're trapped on the island, what are you going
to take with you? X Men cartoons are x Men comics.
This TV on the island has electricity somehow magically, let's
just say. And it has not only the cartoons but
also the films everything medium versus the comic books.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
So now you're getting a little bit more detailed with it.
But at the end of the day, there are thousands
of comics, thousands of X Men comics, right, you know
what I mean? At the end. And at the same
time too, I didn't have the X Men movies really
when I was younger to make me fascinated with them,
so I would have been fine with just the comic books.
I'd have been fine. So yeah, I'll still stick with
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the comic book answer all.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Right, last question, if you had to room with one
of the X Men, if you had a roommate, which
one would it be? Hm?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I looking for like you need to look over my shoulders.
Anybody listening to me is just gonna get me in
trouble for this answer. I mean, I was a teenage
boy when I was reading the X Men comics. What
kind of room is this? Are these co ed dorms?
(14:38):
Can you have Rogue and Silock in the same room? Sorry,
this turned into a whole other podcast. Gosh, you know, honestly,
this is a buddy.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
This is a buddy, not a romantic.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Well then then I don't want to be friend zone
for sure. No. If I go with Nightcrawler, I really would. No,
I think he would be I think it would be
a hell of an awesome roommate cook's cleans. You know,
he's going to come in quietly, minus the banff and
the smell perhaps, you know, but I'm not going to
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hear a door slam, and for you know, I'm not
going to hear creaking floorboards. It's all this sudden going
to be in his bed. Yeah, I think I'd pick Nightcrawler.
Absolutely awesome.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Well, thank you so much for that answer, question and
answer of all that inpropation. Yes, well, you know, we
are here to recap an issue, and you selected the
issue the New Mutant's number fourteen. I should say we
collectively picked this one. Because your one directive is I
want to talk about magic, and why do you want
to talk about magic? Why is magic important to you?
(15:48):
And it's I also, it's ironic that you mentioned magic
because we just had the writer of Magic, Ashley Allen,
who currently writes the solo series on so we're like,
we're in really, so let's continue the magic block and
and and hear why why you pick this character?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Look at the perfect timing. So as a girl dad,
I do feel like female heroin characters are important. I
do feel like there's a lot of examples out there,
whether they be you know, more of our reality TV
(16:28):
Kardashian or whatever it may be role models out there
that necessarily I'm not sure if they're necessarily famous for
the things I would want my my my for the
virtues I would want to instill in my child and
my daughter. Uh. My daughter was diagnosed with cancer at
a very young age, at the age of two, and
(16:49):
we spent a lot of time in chemotherapy, and this
cancer that she had was affecting her vision, so she
couldn't watch TV ease up in the corner of the rooms.
We had to. She was the first person in her
family in an iPad actually right, and they got that
for her so that way she could put things close
(17:11):
up so she could see them. And I used to,
you know, read comics, and one of the characters, the
Gateway characters that really got my daughter into comics as
Spider Man. And that's a whole other different story, and
I'll try not to get into that, but we started
reading comics and I realized quickly that you know, there's
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lots of there's lots of male characters, but there's not
a lot of female characters. And I did find that
a lot of the strongest female characters were from the
X Men universe, whether it be Storm or Jean Gray,
or Rogue or Silock or Magic, many different characters of
many different eras that I could introduce her to that
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were characters that were based on empathy and we're based
on trying to do something good. Even though they knew
they wouldn't get the credit or they wouldn't get the
good recognition of it, they could still be you know,
kicked at the same time of trying to do that
good thing. And not that I have wanted my daughter to,
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you know, ever have to suffer through those similar situations.
I wanted her to have that as an example. I
wanted her to see these kinds of characters and feel
like those are the kinds of the kinds of people
that she should be, you know, in a fictional world
or in the real world, be aspiring to be. So
I started to look for those kinds of characters, and
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one of those kinds of characters was Magic. She's been
through a lot since a very young age, and so
has my daughter. And my daughter's also a very big
Harry Potter fan at the same time too, so you know,
also tying in magic and all the fun stuff with it.
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My daughter was very naturally attracted to magic, and I've
grown to appreciate her as a character more so than
when I was younger as an adult and a father.
So yeah, that's why, That's why I chose magic, and
that's why I am. I'm I'm definitely a magic fan
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now still too, because my daughter is heart.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
That's awesome. Well, we are covering the New Mutants number four.
This comic book was published April first of nineteen eighty four.
Written by Chris Claremont, art by Sal Bussima. So let's
see what was the top song back in April first,
nineteen eighty four, Chandler.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
The top song was Footloose by Kenny Loggins.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
No kidding, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
So now I gotta cut loose, lose.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Kick off Sunday Shoes. Oh yeah, Oh man, do.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
You have any memories of this song?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Oh, of that song? Dating girls that you know, obsessed
over this and flash dance and Greece and you know,
I was a drama kid, you know, so yeah, it's
it was, you know, anything that had lots of music
and dancing, and it was just the kind of stuff
you know, you you you you you lived through and
(20:28):
you were participatory in if you were in drama, so
you know, it's just kind of one of those things.
So yeah, yes, very very very familiar with.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Plus well, the top movie, Chris, what was the top movie?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Police Academy. This is where the mayor declares that anyone
can roll in the Police Academy, irrespective of their physical
condition or education level, and many misfits descend on the academy,
including a young troublemaker who's forced to apply or go
to jail.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Stephen Cood.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Right, you know this is a movie I've never seen,
so I can what on it.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I'm I'm is it too late for me to back
out of the show.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Well, that's true.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I mean we still have two episodes, Phil, so whatever. Yeah,
that was please that. I think that was one of
my first boobs on TV and that I ever saw. Yeah,
that would have. Steve Gutenberg was the was the main
character in that one too, wasn't he? I know he
definitely wasn't the following ones, but it was much more
(21:35):
of an ensemble cast the first episode, I believe. Well, right, obviously,
something I was gonna say. I'm not asking you, Chandler, Okay,
I'm talking to Christopher.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I will say that I love Police Academy because I
love puns. I love stupid humor. You know, it tickles
me pink and Chandler hates it. So I can't wait
to watch it with him.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Oh man, I want to see some I need to
see some video of the reactions to the different jokes,
cause I mean it gets pretty, I mean it gets
thick different parts and places in that.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I could already hear Chandler's eyes rolling.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yes, the audible roll.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
An audible role, an audible role. Okay, So let's get
into the X Men. You guys on the cover of
this issue, which is by Tom Mandrake. What do we see, phil.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Oh, jeez, I'm seeing Honestly, the one thing I didn't
like was the New Mutants' uniforms. I didn't like just
the I didn't like the black and yellow with the
red eye. It just felt too old X Men to me.
So for me, I've always kind of just the New
Mutants are a cast of characters that I've always appreciated,
but I don't like their gear in this I don't
(22:51):
like their gear on the cover. I'll be totally honest.
I mean, I'll let you I'll let you go into
greater details of it here, but looking at it, it's
it's always been a little I don't know. I wish
magic came gotten ners start more in the X Men,
I'm not gonna lie, and the X Men proper universe,
where we were just starting to get a little bit more,
you know, into individualistic as opposed to just what kind
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of bell am I wearing to stand out in the
New Mutanes. But that's just me.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Well, yeah, these New Mutants, obviously they are taking on
the demon from Limbo named Sim, who we have seen before.
H and Sim is huge.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, So we're going more for me to explain what
everybody's seeing on the page. I'm sorry. I apologize, yes.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Opinion, it's a bit.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I went a little bit more with a hot take.
I hate what they're wearing.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Okay, we talked about what people were all the time,
but you just went right for it. You just went
right for the hot tea. You're like, sorry, get these
kids away, Jesus, just this is obviously not sorry. Guys, Well,
they need more budget or.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Clare.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
He's running out of ideas, big purple sim demon and
he's got a big tail. They these kids cannot take
him down. They're all getting capowed and Magic is knocked out.
And yeah, he's taken him down.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah yeah, with with with ease too. It doesn't even
look like he's needing an appendage for every single person.
He's just kicking their ass with He's like, now you
hit me, it's going to hurt you more than it
does me.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Well, when we open the book onto the first page,
we see the title, which is do you Believe in Magic?
And this is probably my favorite page of the whole
comic book. Why because it tricked me and I thought, oh,
we're going to get a sailor Moon Cammeo. Here is
this in prison power time, you know, very close, very
close to it.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
God, everything feeds off of everything. You're not wrong. I
didn't even see that. That's just where you're like, He's right.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
This is the Amulet with the Bloodstone. Just a little
bit of history on this. So as essence of Magic's
life gets sucked out of her due to evil deeds,
it turns into bloodstones, it goes into this pendant, and
then once all five edges are connected, it opens a
gateway between Limbo and Earth and allows Blasco to take over.
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But we're only three out of five now, so we're okay.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
She has done some evil stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yes, and she's on a cliff. She's reminiscing the fact
that she, you know, was in Limbo. She was you know,
trained under Belasco. She missed her childhood. Her life kind
of sucks right now, and she wants to throw away
her Amulet, but she realizes that she can't. And she
knows that once the Amulet comes to power that and
(25:49):
Blasco comes to take over, it's going to be her
versus him, and only one of them will live. And
she doesn't even know if she survives. If that's a
good idea.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
But then it starts snowing, and everywhere outside covered in snow.
All the kids are rushing out to go play. Rad
is transforming into wolf form. You know. They are wearing
some cozy plaid outfits, some fur outfits. They're cozy and
they are excited to be into snow.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yes, this is like the recap page where they explain
all the powers, like, if this is the first issue
you're picking up, these are who these characters are, and
these are the flowers that they have, and this is
what they do. And we get to Danny Moonstar, who
creates psychic illusions for people, mostly based on fear.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Yeah, this time it's a little bit different because Amara
is having not the best day, so she wants to
go cheer her up. And what does she conjure up.
She conjures up a vision of a coconut tree, a
palm tree, and she's all like, Danny, is.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
This you're doing?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Oh if only you knew what happened under.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
This tree, which makes me want to go back because
I know, I know generally what happened down in Nova Roma,
but I don't remember the specifics so ask Roberto.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Okay, they must have shared some sort of romantic twist.
Then we get we get a creeper. We get a
creeper up in here named Professor X, who is just
a lurking creepily from the window.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
He doesn't always feel like a creeper though, I mean,
at the end of the day, is just not wrong.
I mean, the guy can just go into your head
at any time if he really wanted to, just kind
of like I said, Magneto, that's my mentor yeah, yeah,
I get that, kind of like you know, a school
full of kids, the old weird ball guy that everybody's mind.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Well you know what, good thing for magic? Her mind
is blocked and she cannot be read. And he's just like,
wait a minute, there must be some barriers around that.
I gotta work on that. I gotta get into that
brain to figure out what's going on in there.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
What's that fifteen year old girl thinking about right now?
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Damn, the kids are playing pranks on each other, you know,
for instance, where Bodor gets tossed into the snow. But
guess what, this is not all fun and games anymore,
because there's something lurking in the shadows exactly, Professor X. Sorry,
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it is another demonic farm.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I couldn't help it, man, I'm so sorry, lurking professor damn. Well,
if anybody had your money on him for a second time,
you're out.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
It's a demon. Uh. But we cut to inside the
city and Salem City Salem Center. Sorry, we uh have
the kids at their dance class with Stevie Hunter. And
it's been a while since I've seen Stevie, so I'm
really excited to see her come back into the storylines
because I really liked her. While this creepiness is happening,
you know, they decide that they need to cheer up
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the professor and give him a surprise.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Party because he can't get in her head right now,
so he's very obviously he needs some cheering up. Sorry,
I'm not going to let this go.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Well, what better place to prepare for a party? What
better place than he did? Go to the mall? Yes,
so they a TV's car. I love them all moment.
Sometimes there's sentinels that attack at the mall's you know.
Sometimes you pop into a mall with your gallipals and
there's a male strip club, you know, in the case,
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and you believe the Richard story.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
And kids nowadays. Yeah forrdiately speaking of but I mean
like kids kids now are never going to really understand
like what the mall was, Like this is almost now
like you know, a dated artifact of what things go
on at these locations that we're called malls. What did
you do there? Why would you actually hang out there?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Food court? Like food courts are dead now. Man, It's
it's crazy, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
So they're at the mall. They're getting party supplies for
Professor X's surprise party. Sam is showing off because he
wants Amara to like him, so he's carrying all the
bags and runs into rain and she's not loving it.
But I know that there's this scene that Chris probably
definitely wants to talk about, which is this old lady
pulling this crying child because the background characters are Chris's
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favorite thing. So we have to Phil, you have what
do we think is happening? Is this the baby?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Is it the is it the grandmother or the mother
or like what is the scenario here?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Phil, you get to fill us in on this entire
backstory of these two characters.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I feel like she had a child very late in life.
And her husband's even older, right, you know, and he's
now passed, and now she's this older lady that looks
like a grandma. But she's stuck with a crying baby.
And she probably just said something like, oh, your granddaughter's
so cute, and she's just like, it's not my granddaughter,
is my daughter, And she yanked her real hard walking
away because like she's embarrassed and being out in the public.
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I don't know, that's the what I think I can
think of right now looking because that's a lot of
gray gray hair. It's not like it's not like kind
of gray, it's gray.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Gray hair, full gray hair.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's just me though.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
I'm going to take this a step further and says
in the book club that May.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Oh, honestly, she could be a doppelganger for in a
lot of ways. It's just a few less wrinkles, a
few less wrinkles.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Yeah, And and she actually is at the book club.
All the other ladies like May, they don't even read
the book, they just drink the wine. But she reads
the book.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
So is this maybe is this maybe her niece that's crying? Then?
Is she an aunt as well? Is this like an
aunt's book club.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Oh no, she she's the mom. But she tells everybody
that you know, she tells the other girl, tells everybody
she's the Yeah, she.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Tells everybody's my daughter. That's my sister's daughter. Lat left
me with her kid.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Well, what I want to know is that they run
into these people that I've never seen before, Diana and Tony,
friends from here in town. And I just like, I
feel like there's rarely civilians in x men life. If
it's a human character, it's like a warrior person or whatever,
Stevie Hunter, the dance teacher. But like these just like
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casual friends in town. I was very surprised to see this.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yeah, that is that is strange, actually, because usually if
it is, it's if they run into somebody from town.
It's not usually a good thing. It is like, you know,
there's there's something under their breath, or they're saying something
you know, rude, or you know they're secretly turning them
into whoever.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
And how many times has Professor Xavier wiped their memories?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Yeah, right, right.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Tony and Diane or whatever.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
You ever see what we do in the shadows, You
wipe their memory too many times they start to kind
of like, you know, go gooey mm hm.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Exactly. Well, we're back at the mansion and Xavier senses
that there is an intruder or there's a problem in
the mansion and he scoots over to the door, and
inside the doorframe is sim our evil demon, and they
take on a battle. He tries to get a psychic
blast in, it doesn't work, and with a slap, he
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slaps Professor Xavier right out of his chair.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
I mean, honestly, somebody needs to slap the man because
he's reading in the dark in the first panel. I mean,
and I'm the only one seeing that right now. We
got we had, we had the creepy first panel where
he's like ominously lurking through the side of the windows,
still looking out at wondering why he can't read a
fifteen year old girl's mind. And then all of a sudden,
you come in and he's reading in the dark. Yeah,
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it's super sssm Charles.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Everybody arrives from the mall in Stevie's car and they're
starting to unload, but they're like, oh, we can't go
kind the professor's in there. He's gonna read our minds
immediately because he's invasive, as he's a craper and he's
going to know that we're planning the surprise party. And
Alianna is like, well, he can't read my mind, so
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I'm going to go in first, and I'll let you
know if the coast is clear.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
And everything is dark. Yes, And she is going down
the hallways, peeking around the corners, and then what does
she get grabbed by? Nothing other than Sim, the big
giant purple demon.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
No, she screams, wearing just a vest and some tidy greenies.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yes, damn green City child, in the name of your
sovereign Lord. But Alasco misses you. He sent Sim to
bring you to him d D. And in a panicked moment,
Eleana summons a stepping disc to teleport the car and
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Stevie and all of the new Mutants to her location.
And she has to do that, of course through limbo.
And I love how they do a quick little flash
because we covered the Magic Mini series Chris, and I
don't remember specifically this moment. I gotta go back and
read it. But apparently if you reference back the Magic
Mini series, there is a moment where that all the
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new Mutants and a car appear, so as they're passing
through Limbo, they end up in the mansion as Sim
has knocked out Ileana by crushing her lungs how violently.
And see isn't happening? And they all spring to action.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Cannonball goes in for it and whack, he just bounces
right off of Sim. Nothing happens. Roberto comes in sunspot
flame that powered on, but backhand he just flies through
the window. No match for Sim. Rain turns into a
wolf form leaves and oh but that tail smacks Rain
out of the way. Nothing is helping but Danny moonstars.
(35:57):
She's like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait wait, y'all
are trying to take them on one at a time.
We gotta work as a team, y'all. So Omara, just
I'm gonna do something. Wait for my signal, and then
we're gonna get them. So what happens? She conjures up
an image of the thing that he fears the most,
Blasco himself. You disappoint me, Sim, Can I no longer
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depend on you for even the most trivial of errands.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
And Sim screams, Bolasco have mercy, Lord, Sim is obedient
to your will Sim is loyal.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
How sad for that means you are truly doomed after
all if you serve the dark Lord. And then like
he kind of fades into the darkness and comes back
out as the demon Ilia and says, you must therefore
be the sworn enemy of his dark child. Either way
means a betrayal, sweet Sim. Either betrayal will cost you
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most dear. But then Stevie, she burst under the seat.
What does she say, phil.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Oh Ileana, that monster dropped her. That is exactly what
happened at that very moment. So she ran and yeah,
now we start seeing her get beginning to gather Eleanna
and pull her away from Sim.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
We get a big Magma moment.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Oh yeah, I forgot the whole Danny.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Yeah, tell us what we see here?
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Well, as we see Sim suffering from these psychic attacks
and believing that he's in trouble, we see this, you know,
we see this volcano erupting from the center of the floor,
coming through the floorboards and beginning to burn the demon
in molten lava, burying, actually not burning, because obviously he's
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a demon. This is probably second nature. But yeah, it
looks like they totally just stuck him in the solid
rock obviously going through here. Now, oh wait, where's the
boys fighting alone? Did not litla where the boys fighting alone?
Did not? A gasp. It looks like Sim is showing
(38:09):
up here at the very end of this panel on
the page, and it looks like we cut screen here.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Yes, because the molten does not hold it. We think,
oh whew, we did it. And then they turn around
and they're ready to, you know, knock the dust off
their hands. And then who should come right up to
her shoulder and tap her with a tap tap tap.
She turns around with a gasp, and of course it
is Sim and we cut to the elevator as Steve
(38:37):
is trying to drag Magic away. She hears the screens.
She goes, oh no, and Sim tries to pull the
elevator up, but she leaps out and apparently she hurt
her knee, so she was like, oh my god, I
help my knee holds and she leaps onto the floor
with the unconscious Ileana and injures herself and tries to
drag this limp body and she just can't get away,
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and Sim approaches menacingly through the hallway.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
It's quite scary.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Of course we're in this era of these are the
horror tropes of these movies. Yea, them like thinking, oh,
they're just referencing back to the movies. I was like, no,
this is the era of those movies. So I love
that we're in this moment.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
We're in Halloween is the dark Hallway. I fell slowly
getting back.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Up and oh my gosh, my ankle, I can't run.
We're like glasses.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
How am I going to carry this child?
Speaker 1 (39:31):
At the same time, I tell you what, well.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Well, magic is up. She is now no longer unconscious,
and she is fighting back. She's blasting him in the
face and they are going at it toe to toe,
and then she brings out her sword she summoned to
soul sword.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Yeah, she summoned her soul sword and is able to
subdue him and make him swear fealty to her. Not
only she's just like a sixteen year old, but now
she's like a demon lord's sixteen year old. And she
wielded all this magic, her soul sword and everything. And
Stevie Hunter is witnessing this whole thing. And what she does,
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because she wants to keep her magic a secret, is
that she casts a spell on Stevie to make her
forget that she saw any of that, just the fact
that she banished him through a stepping disc. Because she's
allowing everybody to know that she's a mutant, because they
don't know. Earlier they didn't know if she was a
mutant or not, and now they know because she is
revealed and allowed Stevie to report that she can stepping
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disc transport teleport people around. So cutting to later in
the evening, the X Men show up. We have Colossus, Rogue, Nightcrawler,
Kitty Storm, and Wolverine coming through the front door and
they have They see quite a sight, don't they.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
They see, well, the surprise party for one, and a
car and a volcano in the middle of the room,
so many wacky balloon I know, all right, it's decorated
for a party, but with a volcano and a car,
and Professor X just like smiling, Hey guys, you know,
like hey, perfect timing. Where'd you guys come from? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Yeah, yeah, well, well you know, Professor and Magic. They
try to have a little moment and Professor's like, hey,
why don't you just treat me to this dance? And
then just stands up and starts dancing together. They're like, wait, Professor,
you can.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
You can walk?
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Like what what? It's a miracle. I don't understand why
this is happening, but okay, I'm going with it. H
And my favorite is on the next the last page
of the comic is that Kitty's just thinking to herself that,
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you know, she was scared Ileana might never relax and
loosen up. And she's so happy to see her in
the professor happy and then out of the corner of
her eye she sees a creepy guy outside the window.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Oh my god, they're everywhere.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
There's creepy Honestly, you know, what, can we can we
rethink that Krakola and that you know, living at the
X mansion kind of idea again and just revisit that
because I'm feeling like there's a lot of glass and there's
a lot of weird ass dudes leering in and out
of the windows there. I'll take my I actually take
my chance in the Savage Lands right now.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
He says, Hey, Kitty, it's me Doug Ramsey.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
What are you doing at the window? Come inside, jerk
before you freeze.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
You're having a party. I didn't want to intrude friends
are allowed.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
Dummy, is that.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
A mountain in your living room?
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Good lord?
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Well, anyways, she gets trying to pull uh Doug Ramsey in,
but he is there to share the good news. He says,
I've been offered a full foundation scholarship. I'm flying up
to the school for final interview, and I'd like you
to come along. And this is to the Massachusetts Academy,
the one run by Gus and my frost.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
In the hell Fire Club.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Say at the very end, but how am I going
to tell him?
Speaker 2 (43:24):
What am I going to do?
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Well?
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Yeah, she says, oh, Doug, No, that's run by the
X Men's deadliest enemies, the hell Fire Club. Yeah, so
but how can I tell him? What can I do?
Speaker 1 (43:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (43:37):
So what comes up next?
Speaker 2 (43:40):
To you?
Speaker 3 (43:40):
Guys Scaredy Cat.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
For the answer? See X Men one eighty on sale
in two weeks For the consequences of that answer. Be
here next month to read Scaredy Cat.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
And Rogue's Hair. I just want to like completely go
back and revisit that though. But Rogue's hair kind of
still like during this era and time just kind of
maybe glad for the nineties when they let her get
along didn't have the weird kind of like over.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
Oh yes, the skunk yes act and everything.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Yes, yeah, this wasn't the era for Rogue. This wasn't
This wasn't the Hara for era. No now now Storm
memorable af I love the Mohawk, but no Rogues. Just
you know, I can't do it. I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Well, Magic, she has joined the New Mutants. This is
what this issue is all about, is the kind of
iconic issue where Ileana joins the New Mutants, reveals that
she is a mutant herself, and we get a little
bit more kind of backstory on her before we cut
to all the modern day stuff where she is on
the X Men team up in Alaska and she's got
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her own solo series, you know, written by Ashley Allen.
If you want to listen to that episode, go back
to I guess that would be episode one thirty seven
and you can listen to Allen talk all about current
day Magic.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
And I must say, Magic is my favorite character to
play in Marvel Rivals. Yeah they anything to say on that,
you two.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
Oh no, hello, Magic's a great character to play.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
I actually you're made on Marvel Rivals.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
Yeah, I play I play Jeff the Shark a lot.
I won't lie. I'm I'm I'm toxic as fuck. It's
like grabbing everybody even no, I'm I'm yeah, I'm one
of those people like fucking Jeff. But no, that's a
great game. I just uh, I heard that they just
(45:47):
let go of one of the US uh, one of
the US web teams to develop the game in Marvel Rivals.
So I'm very hopeful that it won't have any consequences
on additional characters dropping. I know that more information is
coming to light from it. But there was a big
post on the director's LinkedIn profile talking about all the
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great people he worked with and how he's hoping they're
all going to find these new jobs and things of
that nature. And I'm just like, we can't do this
with like the best game that's come out in the
let since basically Fortnite. You know, there's been, there's been.
For me, nothing is fun. So yeah, I agree, I
don't want anything to happen to Magic. I enjoy using her.
(46:31):
Also in Midnight Suns is a turn based game, but
I do, I actually do enjoy Midnight Suns.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
Okay, Chris and I love that game.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
Really okay, because I don't know anybody else that plays.
Everybody else is just.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Like like the Turn Base. I love the time. I
love turn based games, but I love Midnight Signs. It's one.
I think the game is so much fun and Magic
is a great character in it. Anyways, thank you so
much Phil for joining us on x Reads the podcast
to talk about Magic, talk about yourself, talk about the
new mutants. We really appreciate you being a guest.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
I really appreciate the opportunity to meet you both in
person finally, and to get to be a part of
the show. I don't get these opportunities a lot. And
I apologize for going off the rails with my so
many long winded responses this one included, but I just
want to thank you for your hospitality and your patients.
(47:26):
For those that don't know, I'm like the worst kind
of guest, the guest that's late, and the guests that
missed the first two appointments, So you know, ladies and gentlemen,
for all those listening, these two gentlemen right here are
freaking amazing and kind and still let me come out here,
regardless of my obviously terrible job at scheduling and adhering
(47:52):
to a schedule. So be that's the word I'm looking for.
Just just be smitten with the awesomeness that these two
exude on a regular basis.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
Please, I'm just going to point out that we are
not fathers of children and we do not have broken legs,
so I think we can give you some passes here.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
Well, and I'm also just a giant child to begin with.
I mean, you guys haven't picked this up conversationally. To
begin with, I'm a lot to handle. So at the
end of the day, I mean, can I blame it
truly on the actual child in the house or the
fact I just have the mental capacity of one?
Speaker 1 (48:29):
Well, it was fun to be children with you and
talk about the new Mutants and everything. And yeah, everybody
go check out your social media profiles. Which is the
one true nerd king not the one sorry, I'm just.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
One true nerd king. Yeah, I'm on I'm on Instagram mostly,
And are we doing a giveaway soon? I'm going to
be giving away a nic on DSLR camera, a oh,
the Lego Daily Bugle, and today I'm a comic. I
still haven't decided yet. It may be a strange Academy
(49:04):
number one, Jay Scott Campbell.
Speaker 1 (49:07):
Oh, I want that cover desperately. I love that cover
of Strange Academy number one.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
Yes, so I'm going to be doing that for my
getaway for my one hundred and fifty thousandth anniversary coming
and going and uh so yeah, I'm gonna do a
big giveaway for that. So you guys will probably see
that in the probably about the time, hopefully by this
episode airs, So check out one you're ner king on Instagram,
YouTube and TikTok. That's pretty much where I'm at right
(49:33):
now and threads.
Speaker 3 (49:35):
Sweet all great, well, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
Thanks again, gentlemen. I appreciate it so much.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
And now it's time for the uncanny news segments. It's
the news, all right, X Men fans, We've got some
legendary guests heading to the Mutant market, so get ready
to nerd out.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
That's right. Eric and Julia Leewaald, the creative power couple
behind X Men the animated series, are in appearance. If
you grew up in the nineties, or let's be honest,
just have great taste, you know, their work shaped the
way to see Marvel's Mutants.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
Forever, not only did they bring us the show that
made Saturday mornings worth waking up for, but their work
turned an entire generation into lifelong X Men fans, and
now they're bringing that same energy to this event.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Okay, here's what you need to know. They'll be at
the Mutant Market signing copies of X Men The Art
and Making of an animated series, and if you don't
have it yet, fix that immediately. You can buy the
book on Amazon or buy it from them at the event,
and they'll also be on panel programming sharing behind the
scenes stories, creative battles, and what it took to bring
the X Men to life.
Speaker 3 (50:43):
This is your chance to meet the minds behind the
series that made us all obsessed with Wolverine's angst and
Gambit's questionable flirting.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
Indeed questionable, don't miss it. And Chris, let's be honest.
If you could ask them one question, what would it be?
Speaker 2 (50:57):
Oof?
Speaker 1 (50:58):
Probably?
Speaker 3 (50:59):
Did they know that the theme song would live in
our heads, rent free for the rest of our lives?
Speaker 1 (51:06):
And speaking of Gambit's questionable flirting, oh no, oh yes.
If you've ever wanted to come face to face with
the rage in Cajun himself, now's your.
Speaker 3 (51:15):
Chance, that's right. Let at x x x Xavier. This
is his Instagram handle, by the way, as Gambit charmed
the hell out of you at the Uncanny Experience. Whether
he's dealing a winning hand or throwing charged up cards,
he's bringing that signature swagger in mischief.
Speaker 1 (51:33):
Mm hmm. You can snap a photo with him and
see if you can keep your cool. But let's be real,
Gambit never plays fair.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
Yeah, you might want to walk away thinking you one,
but trust me, he already stacked the deck.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
All right, all right, right. From one dangerous mutanto another,
this time we're talking about a guy you don't want
to run into in a dark alley.
Speaker 3 (51:53):
Unless you're looking to own a piece of X Men
in history. That is Tyler Mayne, the man who brought
Saber two to life, X Men films and Dead Pull
of Mooverine is signing comics and you can get your
hands on one.
Speaker 1 (52:06):
The pre sale for this comic is now live, and
we've got five epic comics to choose from Wolverine number
eight by Bengus. It's a Marvel versus capcom variant, Sabertooth
The Dead Don't Talk Number five a Rafael de Torre
or de la Torre variant, Wolverine Number forty five, Carrie
Andrews variant, Wolverine forty five, Carrie Andrews Virgin variant, and
(52:30):
Sabertooth The Dead Don't Talk number one by Miko Cyanan variant.
Speaker 3 (52:35):
And don't worry, these aren't just any sign comics. Each
one comes with a certificate of authenticity, making it a
must have for any serious collector.
Speaker 1 (52:45):
Tyler Man will be signing them on July twelfth of
twenty twenty five, and they ship out the week of
July fourth. So if you want to own a piece
of Sabertooth history, now.
Speaker 2 (52:53):
Is your chance.
Speaker 3 (52:54):
And trust me, Sabertooth doesn't ask twice, all right, Chris?
Speaker 1 (53:00):
Picture this. You step into a room filled with the
scent of old books and polished wood. The air is
heavy with history, and right in front of you the
desk where some of the biggest decisions in Mutant history
were made.
Speaker 3 (53:14):
Oh you mean Professor Xavier's office, Because yes, the doors
are officially open and x Men fans, this is your
chance to step inside.
Speaker 1 (53:24):
You can scan the shelves. Who knows what Mutants secrets
you'd find. Take a seat at the desk where to find.
The fate of mutant kind has been decided way too
many times, and you can also feel the weight of
leading the X Men.
Speaker 3 (53:37):
No pressure and for those bold enough cerebro is waiting,
slip on the helmet, snap a photo, and channel the
power of the world's greatest telepath.
Speaker 1 (53:49):
The X Mansion is alive around you. The only question
is what will you do next?
Speaker 3 (53:56):
Alrighty mutints, If you're looking for charu power, get ready
because Jean Gray is a sending.
Speaker 1 (54:03):
That's right. Oh yeah, We're excited beyond to announce that
Michelle Waffle, the legendary X Men cosplayer and influencer, is
bringing Jean Gray to life at the Uncanny Experience once again.
Speaker 3 (54:13):
If you know the name, you know the resume. She's
the mastermind behind the legendary hal Fire Galiwac is one
of the organizers. She was featured in Marvel's Becoming x
Men and even serves as a Hot Topic brand ambassador. Basically,
she is Mutant Fashion Royalty.
Speaker 1 (54:30):
She also works for Shortbox, so you can see her
do all sorts of cool social media activations for Shortbox.
Speaker 3 (54:35):
She's the perfect.
Speaker 1 (54:36):
Embodiment of gen Gray, powerful, iconic and not afraid to
set the world on fire.
Speaker 3 (54:42):
Let's just hope we don't all end up in the
dark Phoenix Saga situation and you know promises.
Speaker 1 (54:48):
But one thing's for sure, this is a mussy moment
for X men fans.
Speaker 3 (54:52):
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Speaker 3 (56:05):
Thanks so much for listening. Bye.
Hi, everybody. This is Chandler and this is Chris and
I'm Phil and you're listening to the podcast. Everybody, We
are here with episode one nine with our very special guest,
(00:23):
Phil Taylor, aka the One True Nerd King. Now, how
did you earn this title of one True Nerd King?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Like every other king, I just gave it to myself,
self appointed in every way, shape and form. It was.
It was a joke. Actually, I was I was with
a friend at work and I've been playing a game
online and I got into a conversation about comics with
a number of other people in this app called Line
(00:53):
and the app was just just cut on, ringing and
ringing and ringing, and my friend Julianne, she just goes, Phil,
your nerds are calling, get over here and play king
for a while. And that it became the inside joke
with my coworkers, like, oh, it's the nerd King. Look,
he's you know, he's going to talk about whatever this
(01:14):
may be in the class house teaching at the time.
And yeah, then that devolved into Instagram and social media,
and then when we were watching oh what was a
Game of Thrones and you had the One True King
of the North. There was lots of nerd kings out there,
so I became at that point I adopted the moniker instead,
(01:34):
the one true King of the North. It was the
one true nerd King. And then you know, like everybody
else with the whole Facebook side of things like lose
the the and I just became one true nerd king.
So you know, that's the whole evolution of the entire
name that nobody has ever actually heard before.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
So wow, we're the first groundbreaking whistleblower.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah. Yeah, nobody's asked like how that name came to,
Like I came to fruition and I just realized, I'm like,
I've never told this story before. I like, shit, I've
been doing this for a minute. I never I never.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Had to answer that.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Well, as a matter of fact, yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
So it's a very Lord of the Rings. I feel like,
you know, it's the one, the one Ring, the one
true nerd King. There's something that rhymes with it. So
I don't know if you're a Lord of the Rings fan,
but I hope you. I feel like you could be
a part of that world.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I am. I love Lord of the Rings. I am.
I am primarily a sci fi guy, but I mean,
if you don't enjoy Lord of the Rings, I don't
really know what kind of what kind of nerd are you?
You know, what kind of what kind of human being
are you if you did not enjoy Lord of the Rings,
Because I mean, everybody's got to have a sam. But yes,
(02:53):
I I am a big Lord of the Rings fan.
I am If the word star is located anywhere in
the I am a fan of it. As my friend
THEO would say, like when they're going through comic book,
somebody goes like, hey, would Phil like this? And he goes,
you know, is the word star anywhere in the title? Yeah,
it's it's a stargate kind of He's gonna love it,
just fucking doesn't care, doesn't as long as it's said
(03:15):
star somewhere, you're happy.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
It's like, so if there's an X in the title,
we love it.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yeah, exactly or ex exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
There you go. I see what you did there, I
see what you did there.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So you cover a lot of things coming out in
the world of pop culture. I want to know your
hot take on the NCU right now. What are you
looking forward to? Are they doing it right? What do
you want to see more of? What are they getting wrong?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I mean, Okay, this is so terrible because it's not
that they're getting things wrong. I just think that these things.
I am a firm believer that the MCU should have
ended and rebooted after Endgame, and I did say that
after Endgame that like it would be a great time
to reboot because there's other properties coming in. We've gotten
new opportunities to do different things with different characters. And
(04:05):
it is the same thing that happens with comic books.
And a reason why I love indies sometimes more than
anything is because of the cannon baggage. Right, The more
the more storylines you get in the background, the more
heavy and harder it is to kind of carry all
the different plots through and and have somebody looking for
something and they don't see it, and then all of
(04:25):
a sudden they're just they're just enfranchised. For me, I've
I do feel like the MCUs in a fine place,
but it's hard to as fans. I think, as somebody
that lived through the era of seeing Captain America on
television with a motorcycle helmet for a hat and riding
around in that that that the motorcycle with the windshield
(04:50):
which was his clear Captain America shield. Some of y'all
are spoiled and don't understand that, you know, things aren't
always you know, endgame. I think that the MC is
in an okay place right now. I think that this
is kind of just another one of those one of
those waves. Like I kind of look at life as
(05:11):
that surfer outlook where there's there's no there's no peaks
and valleys. It's just you're just waiting for the next wave. Man,
And in this case, I would say that we're in
the beginning of that next wave. I do and I
did enjoy Captain America for I just think it would
have been great if they kind of created it like
(05:31):
it was a different universe. We could have had some
people carry through. I'm I'm happy with Sam Wilson being
Captain America. I do feel that it is important to
have a regular man as a superhero besides just Hawkey,
who just you know, happens to be really great with
a bow and arrow. Obviously, Black Widow is a woman
(05:53):
who's gone through training her entire life in the worst
of circumstances to get to where she is, so I
wouldn't want it to be necessarily just just black widow.
But I do feel like Sam Wilson's cap is very
important in the world that we live in, especially right now,
And I did feel some inspiration in the world in
which we live right now after I watched Captain America
(06:15):
for that. You know, there's still some faith in humanity
and this potential for redemption in things. So I do
feel like the MCU is in a good position to
introduce new characters that I think are going to be
more impactful to us in three or four years from now,
(06:35):
when we're able to kind of reboot and get the
and get the X Men into the universe properly in
a way that's not being just shoehorned in right now.
I do feel like it is kind of like we're
just pushing in mutants to do it, as opposed to
giving them the introduction that they deserve, which is a
lot more evolved. You know, the entire mutant scenario in
(07:03):
Marvel Comics was not just a flash in the pan
kind of situation that you can handle in a movie
or two. This is something that needs to evolve throughout
a universe, and so for me seeing them try and
I do like Kamala being a mutant. So I don't
have a problem with Miss Marvel. I've always been a
(07:24):
Miss Marvel fan, so I don't mind the change in
her becoming a mutant. And I understand why Marvel didn't
do it at the time, but I still didn't feel
in the television series that it was a great way
to kind of introduce the word mutant into the MCU.
It felt it felt fake. So for me, as the
X Men kind of changed my life as a teenager,
(07:45):
and you know Jim Lee's X Men, especially with X
Men one most popular comic on Earth. Of course I
had a copy of it. Of course, that's what really
got me into comics. I just it didn't feel right,
you know. So for me in my mind, I'm I
kind of wanted the universe to end so that we
(08:05):
can reboot it correctly, hopefully get Spider Man in there too,
but if not, worst case, that's just one character in
a cadre of you know, villains. But they won't they
won't stop me with a ex powerful kind of universe
as well as the Avengers and all the other characters
that we've got to choose from. That was a very
(08:27):
long answer.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And podcast is over.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So obviously I have a lot of opinions on this. Okay, guys,
a lot of opinions.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Well, we talk a lot about pop culture, we talked
about the MCU in depth, and we are an X
Men podcast, So I would like to ask you some
rapid fire questions all about you.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
I'm going so do terrible at this just now, so
that way I can prove everybody that my name is
entitled in self appointed title only. Keep that in mind, everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
It's not trivia, it's just dearly opinion.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah, all right, okay, right, Question number one, Jean Gray
or Emma Frost? Who do you trust to keep your secrets?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Oh? Oh, to keep the secret, I'd have to go
with Jean Gray. I mean, I guess the kinds of
the kind of secret I'm hoping she'd keep. Maybe it
would be Ema Frost, but I mean, at the end
of the day, it's going to be Jen Gray.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Who makes a better leader? Is it Cyclops or Storm?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh? This isn't fair because I really have no respect
for Cyclops in a lot of ways. But I do,
you know, right, because it's like as a nineties cartoon kid,
like seeing the way he was treated in the cartoon.
I kind of have that that that vision of him
in my head, but I know him from the comics.
I know he's not that way. But then their storm,
you know, Roo, I would actually say Storm, I am
(09:55):
a bit more of that X Men gold team, and
I am I would actually I would go with Storm.
I do have a great deal of uh more more
refined respect as of late in comics, getting back into
them again the last few years and cyclops. But yeah,
it's gonna be a storm.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Cool all right? So picture this, you're starting to a
mute and team. You have to either choose Magneto or
Professor X as your mentor which one.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I got to go with Magneto.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Very good?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
What's a better soap opera twist? Soap opera twist? Is
it Gene coming back from the dead or Mystique secretly
being Nightcrawler's.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Mom, Mystique being nightcrawlers mom. What the hell is that? No,
that's that's that's that's me. That's the truth. And yes
see here here's.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
My Oh oh, we've got a Magneto going on. Everybody.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Yes, so I I am one Magneto.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
He was right, Pick your X Men family home. Are
you going to live on Kracoa or do you want
to live inside of Xavier Institute.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I'd actually pick Xavier Institute. I'm a nineties kid. I
remember watching them going through the halls in the comic books,
in the movies as a child more so, and I'd
like to I like to be a part of the
rest of the Marvel universe. Man. You know, I know
it's I know I'm going to be persecuted in this universe,
(11:26):
but at the end of the day, that's some pretty
cool in the world still, regardless, and there's some other
good people in there too, And that being the case,
I'd want to be more around it and not kind
of removed from it like I always felt they kind
of isolated themselves in Crica.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Would you rather party in Madrapore with Wolverine or in
New Orleans with Gambit New.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Orleans one all day, all day, all day. Yeah, seriously,
Remy and Knowledge, I mean, really a question. I mean,
Wolverine's cool, but he's more likely to get me killed.
Remy is gonna just show me a hell of a
good time.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, Wolverine's just gonna be depressed drinking.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
And Wolvers gonna be mad. He's gonna be talking about
some girl, whichever one it was this time. You know
that he still doesn't have looking at his picture of
Gene with Cyclops folded out of it and all the
fun stuff, So yeah, I don't need that.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah, all right, who's the real ex villain MVP? Is
it Mystique or Apocalypse.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
It's gotta be Mistique. She just plays both sides, so
damn well, whenever she wants to, it's gotta be a mistake. Yeah,
I'm gonna stick with a mistake, all right.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Which mutant is the most underappreciated? Is it Polaris or
is it Forge Forge?
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I mean, Polaris is one daughter. But at the same time,
Forge Forge. If it weren't for Forge, I mean, how
many of the X Men would not even be Like
a Storm and her issue, like the the the jet,
the everything that we've come to see that's really been
(13:05):
able to give the X Men the edge that they've
needed in different ways shapes and forms, has always come
from Forge, And he's always just been the side character.
You know he's been you see him working on them,
you know, it's kind of like you just see him
in the background. He's always tinkering with something, but he's
never really given even the respect that they give beast
in enough lines in a in an arc, in a panel.
So for me, yeah, i'd have to say, forge.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
If you're trapped on the island, what are you going
to take with you? X Men cartoons are x Men comics.
This TV on the island has electricity somehow magically, let's
just say. And it has not only the cartoons but
also the films everything medium versus the comic books.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
So now you're getting a little bit more detailed with it.
But at the end of the day, there are thousands
of comics, thousands of X Men comics, right, you know
what I mean? At the end. And at the same
time too, I didn't have the X Men movies really
when I was younger to make me fascinated with them,
so I would have been fine with just the comic books.
I'd have been fine. So yeah, I'll still stick with
(14:08):
the comic book answer all.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Right, last question, if you had to room with one
of the X Men, if you had a roommate, which
one would it be? Hm?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I looking for like you need to look over my shoulders.
Anybody listening to me is just gonna get me in
trouble for this answer. I mean, I was a teenage
boy when I was reading the X Men comics. What
kind of room is this? Are these co ed dorms?
(14:38):
Can you have Rogue and Silock in the same room? Sorry,
this turned into a whole other podcast. Gosh, you know, honestly,
this is a buddy.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
This is a buddy, not a romantic.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Well then then I don't want to be friend zone
for sure. No. If I go with Nightcrawler, I really would. No,
I think he would be I think it would be
a hell of an awesome roommate cook's cleans. You know,
he's going to come in quietly, minus the banff and
the smell perhaps, you know, but I'm not going to
(15:16):
hear a door slam, and for you know, I'm not
going to hear creaking floorboards. It's all this sudden going
to be in his bed. Yeah, I think I'd pick Nightcrawler.
Absolutely awesome.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Well, thank you so much for that answer, question and
answer of all that inpropation. Yes, well, you know, we
are here to recap an issue, and you selected the
issue the New Mutant's number fourteen. I should say we
collectively picked this one. Because your one directive is I
want to talk about magic, and why do you want
to talk about magic? Why is magic important to you?
(15:48):
And it's I also, it's ironic that you mentioned magic
because we just had the writer of Magic, Ashley Allen,
who currently writes the solo series on so we're like,
we're in really, so let's continue the magic block and
and and hear why why you pick this character?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Look at the perfect timing. So as a girl dad,
I do feel like female heroin characters are important. I
do feel like there's a lot of examples out there,
whether they be you know, more of our reality TV
(16:28):
Kardashian or whatever it may be role models out there
that necessarily I'm not sure if they're necessarily famous for
the things I would want my my my for the
virtues I would want to instill in my child and
my daughter. Uh. My daughter was diagnosed with cancer at
a very young age, at the age of two, and
(16:49):
we spent a lot of time in chemotherapy, and this
cancer that she had was affecting her vision, so she
couldn't watch TV ease up in the corner of the rooms.
We had to. She was the first person in her
family in an iPad actually right, and they got that
for her so that way she could put things close
(17:11):
up so she could see them. And I used to,
you know, read comics, and one of the characters, the
Gateway characters that really got my daughter into comics as
Spider Man. And that's a whole other different story, and
I'll try not to get into that, but we started
reading comics and I realized quickly that you know, there's
(17:34):
lots of there's lots of male characters, but there's not
a lot of female characters. And I did find that
a lot of the strongest female characters were from the
X Men universe, whether it be Storm or Jean Gray,
or Rogue or Silock or Magic, many different characters of
many different eras that I could introduce her to that
(17:56):
were characters that were based on empathy and we're based
on trying to do something good. Even though they knew
they wouldn't get the credit or they wouldn't get the
good recognition of it, they could still be you know,
kicked at the same time of trying to do that
good thing. And not that I have wanted my daughter to,
(18:19):
you know, ever have to suffer through those similar situations.
I wanted her to have that as an example. I
wanted her to see these kinds of characters and feel
like those are the kinds of the kinds of people
that she should be, you know, in a fictional world
or in the real world, be aspiring to be. So
I started to look for those kinds of characters, and
(18:40):
one of those kinds of characters was Magic. She's been
through a lot since a very young age, and so
has my daughter. And my daughter's also a very big
Harry Potter fan at the same time too, so you know,
also tying in magic and all the fun stuff with it.
(19:00):
My daughter was very naturally attracted to magic, and I've
grown to appreciate her as a character more so than
when I was younger as an adult and a father.
So yeah, that's why, That's why I chose magic, and
that's why I am. I'm I'm definitely a magic fan
(19:25):
now still too, because my daughter is heart.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
That's awesome. Well, we are covering the New Mutants number four.
This comic book was published April first of nineteen eighty four.
Written by Chris Claremont, art by Sal Bussima. So let's
see what was the top song back in April first,
nineteen eighty four, Chandler.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
The top song was Footloose by Kenny Loggins.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
No kidding, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
So now I gotta cut loose, lose.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Kick off Sunday Shoes. Oh yeah, Oh man, do.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
You have any memories of this song?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Oh, of that song? Dating girls that you know, obsessed
over this and flash dance and Greece and you know,
I was a drama kid, you know, so yeah, it's
it was, you know, anything that had lots of music
and dancing, and it was just the kind of stuff
you know, you you you you you lived through and
(20:28):
you were participatory in if you were in drama, so
you know, it's just kind of one of those things.
So yeah, yes, very very very familiar with.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Plus well, the top movie, Chris, what was the top movie?
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Police Academy. This is where the mayor declares that anyone
can roll in the Police Academy, irrespective of their physical
condition or education level, and many misfits descend on the academy,
including a young troublemaker who's forced to apply or go
to jail.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Stephen Cood.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Right, you know this is a movie I've never seen,
so I can what on it.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
I'm I'm is it too late for me to back
out of the show.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Well, that's true.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
I mean we still have two episodes, Phil, so whatever. Yeah,
that was please that. I think that was one of
my first boobs on TV and that I ever saw. Yeah,
that would have. Steve Gutenberg was the was the main
character in that one too, wasn't he? I know he
definitely wasn't the following ones, but it was much more
(21:35):
of an ensemble cast the first episode, I believe. Well, right, obviously,
something I was gonna say. I'm not asking you, Chandler, Okay,
I'm talking to Christopher.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I will say that I love Police Academy because I
love puns. I love stupid humor. You know, it tickles
me pink and Chandler hates it. So I can't wait
to watch it with him.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Oh man, I want to see some I need to
see some video of the reactions to the different jokes,
cause I mean it gets pretty, I mean it gets
thick different parts and places in that.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
I could already hear Chandler's eyes rolling.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yes, the audible roll.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
An audible role, an audible role. Okay, So let's get
into the X Men. You guys on the cover of
this issue, which is by Tom Mandrake. What do we see, phil.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Oh, jeez, I'm seeing Honestly, the one thing I didn't
like was the New Mutants' uniforms. I didn't like just
the I didn't like the black and yellow with the
red eye. It just felt too old X Men to me.
So for me, I've always kind of just the New
Mutants are a cast of characters that I've always appreciated,
but I don't like their gear in this I don't
(22:51):
like their gear on the cover. I'll be totally honest.
I mean, I'll let you I'll let you go into
greater details of it here, but looking at it, it's
it's always been a little I don't know. I wish
magic came gotten ners start more in the X Men,
I'm not gonna lie, and the X Men proper universe,
where we were just starting to get a little bit more,
you know, into individualistic as opposed to just what kind
(23:14):
of bell am I wearing to stand out in the
New Mutanes. But that's just me.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Well, yeah, these New Mutants, obviously they are taking on
the demon from Limbo named Sim, who we have seen before.
H and Sim is huge.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Yeah, So we're going more for me to explain what
everybody's seeing on the page. I'm sorry. I apologize, yes.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Opinion, it's a bit.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I went a little bit more with a hot take.
I hate what they're wearing.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Okay, we talked about what people were all the time,
but you just went right for it. You just went
right for the hot tea. You're like, sorry, get these
kids away, Jesus, just this is obviously not sorry. Guys, Well,
they need more budget or.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Clare.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
He's running out of ideas, big purple sim demon and
he's got a big tail. They these kids cannot take
him down. They're all getting capowed and Magic is knocked out.
And yeah, he's taken him down.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Yeah yeah, with with with ease too. It doesn't even
look like he's needing an appendage for every single person.
He's just kicking their ass with He's like, now you
hit me, it's going to hurt you more than it
does me.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Well, when we open the book onto the first page,
we see the title, which is do you Believe in Magic?
And this is probably my favorite page of the whole
comic book. Why because it tricked me and I thought, oh,
we're going to get a sailor Moon Cammeo. Here is
this in prison power time, you know, very close, very
close to it.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
God, everything feeds off of everything. You're not wrong. I
didn't even see that. That's just where you're like, He's right.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
This is the Amulet with the Bloodstone. Just a little
bit of history on this. So as essence of Magic's
life gets sucked out of her due to evil deeds,
it turns into bloodstones, it goes into this pendant, and
then once all five edges are connected, it opens a
gateway between Limbo and Earth and allows Blasco to take over.
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But we're only three out of five now, so we're okay.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
She has done some evil stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yes, and she's on a cliff. She's reminiscing the fact
that she, you know, was in Limbo. She was you know,
trained under Belasco. She missed her childhood. Her life kind
of sucks right now, and she wants to throw away
her Amulet, but she realizes that she can't. And she
knows that once the Amulet comes to power that and
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Blasco comes to take over, it's going to be her
versus him, and only one of them will live. And
she doesn't even know if she survives. If that's a
good idea.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
But then it starts snowing, and everywhere outside covered in snow.
All the kids are rushing out to go play. Rad
is transforming into wolf form. You know. They are wearing
some cozy plaid outfits, some fur outfits. They're cozy and
they are excited to be into snow.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Yes, this is like the recap page where they explain
all the powers, like, if this is the first issue
you're picking up, these are who these characters are, and
these are the flowers that they have, and this is
what they do. And we get to Danny Moonstar, who
creates psychic illusions for people, mostly based on fear.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Yeah, this time it's a little bit different because Amara
is having not the best day, so she wants to
go cheer her up. And what does she conjure up.
She conjures up a vision of a coconut tree, a
palm tree, and she's all like, Danny, is.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
This you're doing?
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Oh if only you knew what happened under.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
This tree, which makes me want to go back because
I know, I know generally what happened down in Nova Roma,
but I don't remember the specifics so ask Roberto.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Okay, they must have shared some sort of romantic twist.
Then we get we get a creeper. We get a
creeper up in here named Professor X, who is just
a lurking creepily from the window.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
He doesn't always feel like a creeper though, I mean,
at the end of the day, is just not wrong.
I mean, the guy can just go into your head
at any time if he really wanted to, just kind
of like I said, Magneto, that's my mentor yeah, yeah,
I get that, kind of like you know, a school
full of kids, the old weird ball guy that everybody's mind.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Well you know what, good thing for magic? Her mind
is blocked and she cannot be read. And he's just like,
wait a minute, there must be some barriers around that.
I gotta work on that. I gotta get into that
brain to figure out what's going on in there.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
What's that fifteen year old girl thinking about right now?
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Damn, the kids are playing pranks on each other, you know,
for instance, where Bodor gets tossed into the snow. But
guess what, this is not all fun and games anymore,
because there's something lurking in the shadows exactly, Professor X. Sorry,
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it is another demonic farm.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I couldn't help it, man, I'm so sorry, lurking professor damn. Well,
if anybody had your money on him for a second time,
you're out.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
It's a demon. Uh. But we cut to inside the
city and Salem City Salem Center. Sorry, we uh have
the kids at their dance class with Stevie Hunter. And
it's been a while since I've seen Stevie, so I'm
really excited to see her come back into the storylines
because I really liked her. While this creepiness is happening,
you know, they decide that they need to cheer up
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the professor and give him a surprise.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Party because he can't get in her head right now,
so he's very obviously he needs some cheering up. Sorry,
I'm not going to let this go.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Well, what better place to prepare for a party? What
better place than he did? Go to the mall? Yes,
so they a TV's car. I love them all moment.
Sometimes there's sentinels that attack at the mall's you know.
Sometimes you pop into a mall with your gallipals and
there's a male strip club, you know, in the case,
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and you believe the Richard story.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
And kids nowadays. Yeah forrdiately speaking of but I mean
like kids kids now are never going to really understand
like what the mall was, Like this is almost now
like you know, a dated artifact of what things go
on at these locations that we're called malls. What did
you do there? Why would you actually hang out there?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Food court? Like food courts are dead now. Man, It's
it's crazy, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
So they're at the mall. They're getting party supplies for
Professor X's surprise party. Sam is showing off because he
wants Amara to like him, so he's carrying all the
bags and runs into rain and she's not loving it.
But I know that there's this scene that Chris probably
definitely wants to talk about, which is this old lady
pulling this crying child because the background characters are Chris's
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favorite thing. So we have to Phil, you have what
do we think is happening? Is this the baby?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Is it the is it the grandmother or the mother
or like what is the scenario here?
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Phil, you get to fill us in on this entire
backstory of these two characters.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
I feel like she had a child very late in life.
And her husband's even older, right, you know, and he's
now passed, and now she's this older lady that looks
like a grandma. But she's stuck with a crying baby.
And she probably just said something like, oh, your granddaughter's
so cute, and she's just like, it's not my granddaughter,
is my daughter, And she yanked her real hard walking
away because like she's embarrassed and being out in the public.
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I don't know, that's the what I think I can
think of right now looking because that's a lot of
gray gray hair. It's not like it's not like kind
of gray, it's gray.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Gray hair, full gray hair.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's just me though.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
I'm going to take this a step further and says
in the book club that May.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Oh, honestly, she could be a doppelganger for in a
lot of ways. It's just a few less wrinkles, a
few less wrinkles.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Yeah, And and she actually is at the book club.
All the other ladies like May, they don't even read
the book, they just drink the wine. But she reads
the book.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
So is this maybe is this maybe her niece that's crying? Then?
Is she an aunt as well? Is this like an
aunt's book club.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Oh no, she she's the mom. But she tells everybody
that you know, she tells the other girl, tells everybody
she's the Yeah, she.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Tells everybody's my daughter. That's my sister's daughter. Lat left
me with her kid.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Well, what I want to know is that they run
into these people that I've never seen before, Diana and Tony,
friends from here in town. And I just like, I
feel like there's rarely civilians in x men life. If
it's a human character, it's like a warrior person or whatever,
Stevie Hunter, the dance teacher. But like these just like
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casual friends in town. I was very surprised to see this.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yeah, that is that is strange, actually, because usually if
it is, it's if they run into somebody from town.
It's not usually a good thing. It is like, you know,
there's there's something under their breath, or they're saying something
you know, rude, or you know they're secretly turning them
into whoever.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
And how many times has Professor Xavier wiped their memories?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Yeah, right, right.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Tony and Diane or whatever.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
You ever see what we do in the shadows, You
wipe their memory too many times they start to kind
of like, you know, go gooey mm hm.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Exactly. Well, we're back at the mansion and Xavier senses
that there is an intruder or there's a problem in
the mansion and he scoots over to the door, and
inside the doorframe is sim our evil demon, and they
take on a battle. He tries to get a psychic
blast in, it doesn't work, and with a slap, he
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slaps Professor Xavier right out of his chair.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
I mean, honestly, somebody needs to slap the man because
he's reading in the dark in the first panel. I mean,
and I'm the only one seeing that right now. We
got we had, we had the creepy first panel where
he's like ominously lurking through the side of the windows,
still looking out at wondering why he can't read a
fifteen year old girl's mind. And then all of a sudden,
you come in and he's reading in the dark. Yeah,
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it's super sssm Charles.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Everybody arrives from the mall in Stevie's car and they're
starting to unload, but they're like, oh, we can't go
kind the professor's in there. He's gonna read our minds
immediately because he's invasive, as he's a craper and he's
going to know that we're planning the surprise party. And
Alianna is like, well, he can't read my mind, so
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I'm going to go in first, and I'll let you
know if the coast is clear.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
And everything is dark. Yes, And she is going down
the hallways, peeking around the corners, and then what does
she get grabbed by? Nothing other than Sim, the big
giant purple demon.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
No, she screams, wearing just a vest and some tidy greenies.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yes, damn green City child, in the name of your
sovereign Lord. But Alasco misses you. He sent Sim to
bring you to him d D. And in a panicked moment,
Eleana summons a stepping disc to teleport the car and
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Stevie and all of the new Mutants to her location.
And she has to do that, of course through limbo.
And I love how they do a quick little flash
because we covered the Magic Mini series Chris, and I
don't remember specifically this moment. I gotta go back and
read it. But apparently if you reference back the Magic
Mini series, there is a moment where that all the
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new Mutants and a car appear, so as they're passing
through Limbo, they end up in the mansion as Sim
has knocked out Ileana by crushing her lungs how violently.
And see isn't happening? And they all spring to action.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Cannonball goes in for it and whack, he just bounces
right off of Sim. Nothing happens. Roberto comes in sunspot
flame that powered on, but backhand he just flies through
the window. No match for Sim. Rain turns into a
wolf form leaves and oh but that tail smacks Rain
out of the way. Nothing is helping but Danny moonstars.
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She's like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait wait, y'all
are trying to take them on one at a time.
We gotta work as a team, y'all. So Omara, just
I'm gonna do something. Wait for my signal, and then
we're gonna get them. So what happens? She conjures up
an image of the thing that he fears the most,
Blasco himself. You disappoint me, Sim, Can I no longer
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depend on you for even the most trivial of errands.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
And Sim screams, Bolasco have mercy, Lord, Sim is obedient
to your will Sim is loyal.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
How sad for that means you are truly doomed after
all if you serve the dark Lord. And then like
he kind of fades into the darkness and comes back
out as the demon Ilia and says, you must therefore
be the sworn enemy of his dark child. Either way
means a betrayal, sweet Sim. Either betrayal will cost you
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most dear. But then Stevie, she burst under the seat.
What does she say, phil.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Oh Ileana, that monster dropped her. That is exactly what
happened at that very moment. So she ran and yeah,
now we start seeing her get beginning to gather Eleanna
and pull her away from Sim.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
We get a big Magma moment.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Oh yeah, I forgot the whole Danny.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Yeah, tell us what we see here?
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Well, as we see Sim suffering from these psychic attacks
and believing that he's in trouble, we see this, you know,
we see this volcano erupting from the center of the floor,
coming through the floorboards and beginning to burn the demon
in molten lava, burying, actually not burning, because obviously he's
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a demon. This is probably second nature. But yeah, it
looks like they totally just stuck him in the solid
rock obviously going through here. Now, oh wait, where's the
boys fighting alone? Did not litla where the boys fighting alone?
Did not? A gasp. It looks like Sim is showing
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up here at the very end of this panel on
the page, and it looks like we cut screen here.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Yes, because the molten does not hold it. We think,
oh whew, we did it. And then they turn around
and they're ready to, you know, knock the dust off
their hands. And then who should come right up to
her shoulder and tap her with a tap tap tap.
She turns around with a gasp, and of course it
is Sim and we cut to the elevator as Steve
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is trying to drag Magic away. She hears the screens.
She goes, oh no, and Sim tries to pull the
elevator up, but she leaps out and apparently she hurt
her knee, so she was like, oh my god, I
help my knee holds and she leaps onto the floor
with the unconscious Ileana and injures herself and tries to
drag this limp body and she just can't get away,
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and Sim approaches menacingly through the hallway.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
It's quite scary.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Of course we're in this era of these are the
horror tropes of these movies. Yea, them like thinking, oh,
they're just referencing back to the movies. I was like, no,
this is the era of those movies. So I love
that we're in this moment.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
We're in Halloween is the dark Hallway. I fell slowly
getting back.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
Up and oh my gosh, my ankle, I can't run.
We're like glasses.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
How am I going to carry this child?
Speaker 1 (39:31):
At the same time, I tell you what, well.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Well, magic is up. She is now no longer unconscious,
and she is fighting back. She's blasting him in the
face and they are going at it toe to toe,
and then she brings out her sword she summoned to
soul sword.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Yeah, she summoned her soul sword and is able to
subdue him and make him swear fealty to her. Not
only she's just like a sixteen year old, but now
she's like a demon lord's sixteen year old. And she
wielded all this magic, her soul sword and everything. And
Stevie Hunter is witnessing this whole thing. And what she does,
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because she wants to keep her magic a secret, is
that she casts a spell on Stevie to make her
forget that she saw any of that, just the fact
that she banished him through a stepping disc. Because she's
allowing everybody to know that she's a mutant, because they
don't know. Earlier they didn't know if she was a
mutant or not, and now they know because she is
revealed and allowed Stevie to report that she can stepping
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disc transport teleport people around. So cutting to later in
the evening, the X Men show up. We have Colossus, Rogue, Nightcrawler,
Kitty Storm, and Wolverine coming through the front door and
they have They see quite a sight, don't they.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
They see, well, the surprise party for one, and a
car and a volcano in the middle of the room,
so many wacky balloon I know, all right, it's decorated
for a party, but with a volcano and a car,
and Professor X just like smiling, Hey guys, you know,
like hey, perfect timing. Where'd you guys come from? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Yeah, yeah, well, well you know, Professor and Magic. They
try to have a little moment and Professor's like, hey,
why don't you just treat me to this dance? And
then just stands up and starts dancing together. They're like, wait, Professor,
you can.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
You can walk?
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Like what what? It's a miracle. I don't understand why
this is happening, but okay, I'm going with it. H
And my favorite is on the next the last page
of the comic is that Kitty's just thinking to herself that,
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you know, she was scared Ileana might never relax and
loosen up. And she's so happy to see her in
the professor happy and then out of the corner of
her eye she sees a creepy guy outside the window.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Oh my god, they're everywhere.
Speaker 2 (42:02):
There's creepy Honestly, you know, what, can we can we
rethink that Krakola and that you know, living at the
X mansion kind of idea again and just revisit that
because I'm feeling like there's a lot of glass and there's
a lot of weird ass dudes leering in and out
of the windows there. I'll take my I actually take
my chance in the Savage Lands right now.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
He says, Hey, Kitty, it's me Doug Ramsey.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
What are you doing at the window? Come inside, jerk
before you freeze.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
You're having a party. I didn't want to intrude friends
are allowed.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
Dummy, is that.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
A mountain in your living room?
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Good lord?
Speaker 1 (42:51):
Well, anyways, she gets trying to pull uh Doug Ramsey in,
but he is there to share the good news. He says,
I've been offered a full foundation scholarship. I'm flying up
to the school for final interview, and I'd like you
to come along. And this is to the Massachusetts Academy,
the one run by Gus and my frost.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
In the hell Fire Club.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Say at the very end, but how am I going
to tell him?
Speaker 2 (43:24):
What am I going to do?
Speaker 1 (43:29):
Well?
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Yeah, she says, oh, Doug, No, that's run by the
X Men's deadliest enemies, the hell Fire Club. Yeah, so
but how can I tell him? What can I do?
Speaker 1 (43:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (43:37):
So what comes up next?
Speaker 2 (43:40):
To you?
Speaker 3 (43:40):
Guys Scaredy Cat.
Speaker 1 (43:42):
For the answer? See X Men one eighty on sale
in two weeks For the consequences of that answer. Be
here next month to read Scaredy Cat.
Speaker 2 (44:00):
And Rogue's Hair. I just want to like completely go
back and revisit that though. But Rogue's hair kind of
still like during this era and time just kind of
maybe glad for the nineties when they let her get
along didn't have the weird kind of like over.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
Oh yes, the skunk yes act and everything.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Yes, yeah, this wasn't the era for Rogue. This wasn't
This wasn't the Hara for era. No now now Storm
memorable af I love the Mohawk, but no Rogues. Just
you know, I can't do it. I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (44:35):
Well, Magic, she has joined the New Mutants. This is
what this issue is all about, is the kind of
iconic issue where Ileana joins the New Mutants, reveals that
she is a mutant herself, and we get a little
bit more kind of backstory on her before we cut
to all the modern day stuff where she is on
the X Men team up in Alaska and she's got
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her own solo series, you know, written by Ashley Allen.
If you want to listen to that episode, go back
to I guess that would be episode one thirty seven
and you can listen to Allen talk all about current
day Magic.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
And I must say, Magic is my favorite character to
play in Marvel Rivals. Yeah they anything to say on that,
you two.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
Oh no, hello, Magic's a great character to play.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
I actually you're made on Marvel Rivals.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
Yeah, I play I play Jeff the Shark a lot.
I won't lie. I'm I'm I'm toxic as fuck. It's
like grabbing everybody even no, I'm I'm yeah, I'm one
of those people like fucking Jeff. But no, that's a
great game. I just uh, I heard that they just
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let go of one of the US uh, one of
the US web teams to develop the game in Marvel Rivals.
So I'm very hopeful that it won't have any consequences
on additional characters dropping. I know that more information is
coming to light from it. But there was a big
post on the director's LinkedIn profile talking about all the
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great people he worked with and how he's hoping they're
all going to find these new jobs and things of
that nature. And I'm just like, we can't do this
with like the best game that's come out in the
let since basically Fortnite. You know, there's been, there's been.
For me, nothing is fun. So yeah, I agree, I
don't want anything to happen to Magic. I enjoy using her.
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Also in Midnight Suns is a turn based game, but
I do, I actually do enjoy Midnight Suns.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
Okay, Chris and I love that game.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
Really okay, because I don't know anybody else that plays.
Everybody else is just.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
Like like the Turn Base. I love the time. I
love turn based games, but I love Midnight Signs. It's one.
I think the game is so much fun and Magic
is a great character in it. Anyways, thank you so
much Phil for joining us on x Reads the podcast
to talk about Magic, talk about yourself, talk about the
new mutants. We really appreciate you being a guest.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
I really appreciate the opportunity to meet you both in
person finally, and to get to be a part of
the show. I don't get these opportunities a lot. And
I apologize for going off the rails with my so
many long winded responses this one included, but I just
want to thank you for your hospitality and your patients.
(47:26):
For those that don't know, I'm like the worst kind
of guest, the guest that's late, and the guests that
missed the first two appointments, So you know, ladies and gentlemen,
for all those listening, these two gentlemen right here are
freaking amazing and kind and still let me come out here,
regardless of my obviously terrible job at scheduling and adhering
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to a schedule. So be that's the word I'm looking for.
Just just be smitten with the awesomeness that these two
exude on a regular basis.
Speaker 1 (48:02):
Please, I'm just going to point out that we are
not fathers of children and we do not have broken legs,
so I think we can give you some passes here.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
Well, and I'm also just a giant child to begin with.
I mean, you guys haven't picked this up conversationally. To
begin with, I'm a lot to handle. So at the
end of the day, I mean, can I blame it
truly on the actual child in the house or the
fact I just have the mental capacity of one?
Speaker 1 (48:29):
Well, it was fun to be children with you and
talk about the new Mutants and everything. And yeah, everybody
go check out your social media profiles. Which is the
one true nerd king not the one sorry, I'm just.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
One true nerd king. Yeah, I'm on I'm on Instagram mostly,
And are we doing a giveaway soon? I'm going to
be giving away a nic on DSLR camera, a oh,
the Lego Daily Bugle, and today I'm a comic. I
still haven't decided yet. It may be a strange Academy
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number one, Jay Scott Campbell.
Speaker 1 (49:07):
Oh, I want that cover desperately. I love that cover
of Strange Academy number one.
Speaker 2 (49:12):
Yes, so I'm going to be doing that for my
getaway for my one hundred and fifty thousandth anniversary coming
and going and uh so yeah, I'm gonna do a
big giveaway for that. So you guys will probably see
that in the probably about the time, hopefully by this
episode airs, So check out one you're ner king on Instagram,
YouTube and TikTok. That's pretty much where I'm at right
(49:33):
now and threads.
Speaker 3 (49:35):
Sweet all great, well, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
Thanks again, gentlemen. I appreciate it so much.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
And now it's time for the uncanny news segments. It's
the news, all right, X Men fans, We've got some
legendary guests heading to the Mutant market, so get ready
to nerd out.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
That's right. Eric and Julia Leewaald, the creative power couple
behind X Men the animated series, are in appearance. If
you grew up in the nineties, or let's be honest,
just have great taste, you know, their work shaped the
way to see Marvel's Mutants.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
Forever, not only did they bring us the show that
made Saturday mornings worth waking up for, but their work
turned an entire generation into lifelong X Men fans, and
now they're bringing that same energy to this event.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Okay, here's what you need to know. They'll be at
the Mutant Market signing copies of X Men The Art
and Making of an animated series, and if you don't
have it yet, fix that immediately. You can buy the
book on Amazon or buy it from them at the event,
and they'll also be on panel programming sharing behind the
scenes stories, creative battles, and what it took to bring
the X Men to life.
Speaker 3 (50:43):
This is your chance to meet the minds behind the
series that made us all obsessed with Wolverine's angst and
Gambit's questionable flirting.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
Indeed questionable, don't miss it. And Chris, let's be honest.
If you could ask them one question, what would it be?
Speaker 2 (50:57):
Oof?
Speaker 1 (50:58):
Probably?
Speaker 3 (50:59):
Did they know that the theme song would live in
our heads, rent free for the rest of our lives?
Speaker 1 (51:06):
And speaking of Gambit's questionable flirting, oh no, oh yes.
If you've ever wanted to come face to face with
the rage in Cajun himself, now's your.
Speaker 3 (51:15):
Chance, that's right. Let at x x x Xavier. This
is his Instagram handle, by the way, as Gambit charmed
the hell out of you at the Uncanny Experience. Whether
he's dealing a winning hand or throwing charged up cards,
he's bringing that signature swagger in mischief.
Speaker 1 (51:33):
Mm hmm. You can snap a photo with him and
see if you can keep your cool. But let's be real,
Gambit never plays fair.
Speaker 3 (51:40):
Yeah, you might want to walk away thinking you one,
but trust me, he already stacked the deck.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
All right, all right, right. From one dangerous mutanto another,
this time we're talking about a guy you don't want
to run into in a dark alley.
Speaker 3 (51:53):
Unless you're looking to own a piece of X Men
in history. That is Tyler Mayne, the man who brought
Saber two to life, X Men films and Dead Pull
of Mooverine is signing comics and you can get your
hands on one.
Speaker 1 (52:06):
The pre sale for this comic is now live, and
we've got five epic comics to choose from Wolverine number
eight by Bengus. It's a Marvel versus capcom variant, Sabertooth
The Dead Don't Talk Number five a Rafael de Torre
or de la Torre variant, Wolverine Number forty five, Carrie
Andrews variant, Wolverine forty five, Carrie Andrews Virgin variant, and
(52:30):
Sabertooth The Dead Don't Talk number one by Miko Cyanan variant.
Speaker 3 (52:35):
And don't worry, these aren't just any sign comics. Each
one comes with a certificate of authenticity, making it a
must have for any serious collector.
Speaker 1 (52:45):
Tyler Man will be signing them on July twelfth of
twenty twenty five, and they ship out the week of
July fourth. So if you want to own a piece
of Sabertooth history, now.
Speaker 2 (52:53):
Is your chance.
Speaker 3 (52:54):
And trust me, Sabertooth doesn't ask twice, all right, Chris?
Speaker 1 (53:00):
Picture this. You step into a room filled with the
scent of old books and polished wood. The air is
heavy with history, and right in front of you the
desk where some of the biggest decisions in Mutant history
were made.
Speaker 3 (53:14):
Oh you mean Professor Xavier's office, Because yes, the doors
are officially open and x Men fans, this is your
chance to step inside.
Speaker 1 (53:24):
You can scan the shelves. Who knows what Mutants secrets
you'd find. Take a seat at the desk where to find.
The fate of mutant kind has been decided way too
many times, and you can also feel the weight of
leading the X Men.
Speaker 3 (53:37):
No pressure and for those bold enough cerebro is waiting,
slip on the helmet, snap a photo, and channel the
power of the world's greatest telepath.
Speaker 1 (53:49):
The X Mansion is alive around you. The only question
is what will you do next?
Speaker 3 (53:56):
Alrighty mutints, If you're looking for charu power, get ready
because Jean Gray is a sending.
Speaker 1 (54:03):
That's right. Oh yeah, We're excited beyond to announce that
Michelle Waffle, the legendary X Men cosplayer and influencer, is
bringing Jean Gray to life at the Uncanny Experience once again.
Speaker 3 (54:13):
If you know the name, you know the resume. She's
the mastermind behind the legendary hal Fire Galiwac is one
of the organizers. She was featured in Marvel's Becoming x
Men and even serves as a Hot Topic brand ambassador. Basically,
she is Mutant Fashion Royalty.
Speaker 1 (54:30):
She also works for Shortbox, so you can see her
do all sorts of cool social media activations for Shortbox.
Speaker 3 (54:35):
She's the perfect.
Speaker 1 (54:36):
Embodiment of gen Gray, powerful, iconic and not afraid to
set the world on fire.
Speaker 3 (54:42):
Let's just hope we don't all end up in the
dark Phoenix Saga situation and you know promises.
Speaker 1 (54:48):
But one thing's for sure, this is a mussy moment
for X men fans.
Speaker 3 (54:52):
If all that wasn't enough to get you hyped for
the Uncanny Experience, then I don't know what will.
Speaker 1 (54:57):
But let's be real, you don't want to miss a
single update. That's why you need to sign up for
our text alerts.
Speaker 3 (55:02):
Just text us at six one two four zero nine
seven zero seven three. Get those pencils ready again because
the number is six one two four zero nine seven
zero seven to three, and you'll get the latest announcement
surprises in insider info sent straight to your phone, no
telepathic abilities required.
Speaker 1 (55:23):
And most importantly, get your tickets now at the Uncannyexperience
dot com. This is the event for X men fans,
and trust us, you will want to be.
Speaker 3 (55:31):
There because once those doors to the X Mansion open,
the only thing missing is you.
Speaker 1 (55:39):
Okay, that's a wrap on this edition of Uncanny News.
We'll see you at the Uncanny Experiences July twelfth and
thirteenth in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (55:47):
X Reads is recorded in the United States.
Speaker 1 (55:49):
Our theme music is written by Austin Wintry.
Speaker 3 (55:52):
Please make sure to follow our podcast to be updated
on when new episodes appear every first and third Wednesdays
of the month.
Speaker 1 (55:58):
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Speaker 3 (56:05):
Thanks so much for listening. Bye.
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