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For every X-Men fan who’s wanted to get their partner into the conversation and every friend or family member who just doesn’t want to read the comics, welcome to “The X-Wife Podcast.” Justin’s wife Alicia has never read an X-Men comic and she plans to keep it that way… for now! Join as they dive in, break down and question Jonathan Hickman’s new vision of Marvel’s merry mutants on Krakoa. House of X, Powers of X, and the Dawn of X all kick off a story that’s billed as a perfect jumping-on point for new readers, but with more than 50 years of continuity that overwrites and contradicts itself, can there ever be a seamless start?
Episodes
Saturday Jun 29, 2024
Saturday Jun 29, 2024
Bring on the blood! We dive into the vampire event that has sunk its teeth into our hearts. A high level conversation about the major plot points and players of main event story, followed by our X specific tie ins. Are you reading Blood Hunt? What tie-ins are you picking up?
05:40 Main Event #1-4
39:44 Jubilee #1
47:02 Wolverine #1-2
01:00:04 Magik #1
We're floating in between Eras with bits of both sides carrying us through. Like, subscribe, follow, email, and @ us all over the internet at thexwifepodcast. If you enjoyed the episode, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and tell your friends!
Wednesday Jun 19, 2024
Wednesday Jun 19, 2024
Who shall become the fittest of them all!? Apocalypse lays down the gauntlet in our book of the week as 12 mutants vie to be his replacement on Earth. Wait, what? He can just do that?
We do a speed round catch up for Ms. Marvel, Ultimate X-Men, Deadpool and Wolverine WWIII and Hellverine. Plus the first two issues of the new Infinity Comic, From the Ashes. We're saving the Wolverine and Jubilee Blood Hunt stories for next week to focus on the event as a whole!
01:33 News
08:59 Poll and Personal News
13:29 From the Ashes
18:30 Hellverine
25:24 Deadpool and Wolverine WWIII
30:50 Ultimate X-Men
40:17 Ms Marvel Mutant Menace
55:28 Heir of Apocalypse
We're floating in between Eras with bits of both sides carrying us through. Like, subscribe, follow, email, and @ us all over the internet at thexwifepodcast. If you enjoyed the episode, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and tell your friends!
Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
KRAKOA! Oh wow what a ride, y'all. Twists, surprises, emotions, betrayals, confusion and more. It feels surreal. So ends the First Krakoan Age. The toys go back on the shelf and yet never the end.
We talk X-Men #35 / Uncanny X-Men #700
Thanks for listening to our forty-five episode of Season 5! The LAST ISSUE OF KRAKOA. Emotional writing that. Like, subscribe, follow, email, and @ us all over the internet at thexwifepodcast. If you enjoyed the episode, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and tell your friends!
Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
Enigma! We catch up and close out the second week of Krakoa's goodbye tour as we get a match up of cosmic proportions. Phoenix is mutants, a development that hits with mixed reactions but ultimately makes sense for what they've been building to. Wolverine gets his last hoorah before bubsing off into the sunset, along with a goodbye tour of some notable Krakoan spots. Plus X-Men: The Wedding special showcasing a variety of LGBTQ characters and creators in a connected anthology centered around Destiny and Mystique's wedding. Love!
New comics from May 29 we talk Rise of the Powers of X #5, Wolverine #50 and X-Men: The Wedding Special #1
01:18 News
04:09 Data is Beautiful
06:45 Personal News, Poll and General Questions
17:45 X-Men: The Wedding Special
35:00 Wolverine
01:00:28 RotPoX
Thanks for listening to our forty-fourth episode of Season 5! We've maybe stopped falling? There's some rise and resurrection happening, but it still doesn't look great. Fighting through? Like, subscribe, follow, email, and @ us all over the internet at thexwifepodcast. If you enjoyed the episode, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and tell your friends!
Friday Jun 07, 2024
Friday Jun 07, 2024
Now that the Externals have been handled, we took a trip up to X-Corp Island and caught up with series artist Phillip Sevy! Phillip worked on some of our favorite arcs of this series including this finale, but also the Feral and Marrow story in Madripoor. We talk about Phillip's wide spanning career in comics as an artist and writer, the differences and opportunities in the digital comics space and more!
Thanks for listening to our forty-third episode of Season 5! We've maybe stopped falling? There's some rise and resurrection happening, but it still doesn't look great. Fighting through? Like, subscribe, follow, email, and @ us all over the internet at thexwifepodcast. If you enjoyed the episode, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and tell your friends!
Tuesday May 28, 2024
Tuesday May 28, 2024
Nimrod! We close out our first section of the books this week as we prepare to say goodbye to Krakoa. Fall of the House of X sees the mutants taking a stand for what they want in this world - at this point in time... PLUS we get a flashback to the 90's with the continuing X-Men 97 comic. And the always spectacular X-Men Unlimited arc continues to deliver. Ready for that one on one fight!!
New comics from May 22 we talk Fall of the House of X #5 and X-Men 97 #3
01:01 News
12:07 Personal News and General Questions
19:51 X-Men Unlimited
26:23 X-Men 97
35:10 FotHoX
Thanks for listening to our forty-second episode of Season 5! We've maybe stopped falling? There's some rise and resurrection happening, but it still doesn't look great. Fighting through? Like, subscribe, follow, email, and @ us all over the internet at thexwifepodcast. If you enjoyed the episode, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and tell your friends!
Tuesday May 21, 2024
Tuesday May 21, 2024
Moms and dads man, what a trip. We need a family counselor in the Marvel universe STAT! We're getting non-Krakoan heavy as our books start to wind down. X-Men Forever closes out the Immortal X-Men story with some interesting Phoenix developments. Ms Marvel has a romantic encounter amidst all the violence. Ultimate X-Men continues to delight, albeit at a slower pace than some would prefer. Weapon X-Men and Wolverine Madripoor Knights are comics and we read them... X-Men Unlimited! The unsung hero of the Fall of X. Simply joyful.
New comics from May 15, we talk X-Men Forever #4, Ms Marvel #3, Ultimate X-Men #3, Weapon X-Men #4 and Wolverine Madripoor Knights #4
01:15 News
06:27 Personal News
09:05 Polls and General Questions
18:02 X-Men Unlimited
23:02 Madripoor Knights
29:12 Weapon X-Men
42:14 Ultimate X-Men
56:06 Ms Marvel
1:09:52 X-Men Forever
Thanks for listening to our forty-first episode of Season 5! We've maybe stopped falling? There's some rise and resurrection happening, but it still doesn't look great. Fighting through? Like, subscribe, follow, email, and @ us all over the internet at thexwifepodcast. If you enjoyed the episode, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and tell your friends!
Tuesday May 14, 2024
Tuesday May 14, 2024
That fire chicken is really seeding their way into the narrative as things HEAT UP in X-Men Forever. Hope's past, present and future are in question - I can barely wait to find out what happens! Wolverine is gearing up for the final battle as character threads get tended to and set up. Giant Size X-Men gives us a unique Angel story that challenges his vision of himself as a hero. Plus the X-Corp have waves of plans! This is only step one!!
New comics from May 8, we talk X-Men Forever #3, Wolverine #49 and Giant Size X-Men
01:49 News
12:05 Data is Beautiful
14:48 Personal News
16:16 Polls and General Questions
21:46 X-Men Unlimited
24:40 Giant Size X-Men
37:46 Wolverine
53:31 X-Men Forever
Thanks for listening to our forty-first episode of Season 5! We've maybe stopped falling? There's some rise and resurrection happening, but it still doesn't look great. Fighting through? Like, subscribe, follow, email, and @ us all over the internet at thexwifepodcast. If you enjoyed the episode, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and tell your friends!
Tuesday May 07, 2024
Tuesday May 07, 2024
The end feels like it's closer than ever. We're one month away until last call at The Green Lagoon. As mutants take their last stand, some aren't given the ending we thought they were working for. Some get to team up with otherwise known enemies. And some continue to fight themselves into side quest shenanigans. But we've got Wolverine! In more books than you know what to do with, in more ways than you ever thought possible. Never the end...
New comics from May 1, we talk X-Men #34, Invincible Iron Man #18, Cable #4 and a couple of Bubs' Books
01:37 News
08:48 Personal News
12:17 Polls and General Questions
23:09 X-Men Unlimited
27:58 FCBD Issue
32:39 Deadpool & Wolverine
38:55 Weapon X-Men
47:14 Cable
52:48 Invincible Iron Man
1:07:19 X-Men
Thanks for listening to our fortieth episode of Season 5! We've maybe stopped falling? There's some rise and resurrection happening, but it still doesn't look great. Fighting through? Like, subscribe, follow, email, and @ us all over the internet at thexwifepodcast. If you enjoyed the episode, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and tell your friends!
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
The issue numbers are getting higher, the stories are starting to wrap and we're just trying to keep up with the concepts! Holy high brow sci-fi y'all! Some much needed exposition on how we got where we are, but still a lot how and why questions on the table. Do we think the Sentinels actually trust this dude? Because nobody else does. We take things a little slower in this issue of Wolverine as the finale comes in hot. What do you think about that suit of armor? How's he even doing that? Plus the Avengers kick robot but and it's simply beautiful. We talk the Wolverine Legends story from way back when and of course everyone's favorite scroller, X-Men Unlimited!
New comics from April 24, we talk Fall of the House of X #4, Dead X-Men #4 and X-Men Unlimited
01:19 News
09:54 Personal News
14:07 Poll and General Questions
26:26 X-Men Unlimited
30:30 Wolverine: Madripoor Knights
34:16 Avengers
41:01 Wolverine
53:50 RotPoX
1:21:31 X-Men Forever
Thanks for listening to our thirty ninth episode of Season 5! We've maybe stopped falling? There's some rise and resurrection happening, but it still doesn't look great. Fighting through? Like, subscribe, follow, email, and @ us all over the internet at thexwifepodcast. If you enjoyed the episode, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and tell your friends!