The X-Wife Podcast: An Introduction to X-Men Comics

Phoenix and NYX! Two new titles start within From the Ashes

Two weeks of comics smashed into one episode as we catch up after our Deadpool and Wolverine travels. Phoenix, the Marvel Cosmic connector taking one mutant deep into the cuts of villain history. Balancing god-like powers with very human feeling. How does the title fair after some heat? NYX takes to the streets of New York with a team / not team of mutants who are finding their way. Get ready for some great character beats! Plus, Tony and Emma annul! A double dose of the From the Ashes Infinity Comic and more.

01:34 News
13:46 Personal News and Poll 
18:09 Deadpool and Wolverine Movie
24:00 From the Ashes
33:00 Deadpool and Wolverine WWIII
37:58 Ultimate X-Men
41:56 Invincible Iron Man
51:24 Phoenix
1:16:45 NYX

From the Ashes! Rising up out of the end of Krakoa, a new slate of titles takes the mutants in a variety of directions. What will they discover? How will they play off each other? Join us as we find out! 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!

From the Ashes Begins! X-Men #1 Kicks off in Alaska

We're in our new era folks, a scattering around the globe and beyond. We take a peek into one of the directions forward after the end of Krakoa as Cyclops gathers a team in the barren lands of Alaska. Did you read X-Men #1? Plus we continue our grudge match between those vying for Apocalypse's crown - who will be the last one standing? AND we catch up on a Wolverine throwback story with Deep Cut. The From the Ashes Unlimited Comic (digi) brings up old wounds and new mysteries from Chuckles... intrigue!

New comics from July 10, 2024

01:27 News
04:39 Data is Beautiful, Personal News and Poll 
09:52 From the Ashes
19:07 Wolverine: Deep Cut
28:59 Heir of Apocalypse
48:59 X-Men

From the Ashes! Rising up out of the end of Krakoa, a new slate of titles takes the mutants in a variety of directions. What will they discover? How will they play off each other? Join us as we find out! 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!

Heir of Apocalypse #2 and some Catch Up!

We're moving fast through these books - but not as fast as Apocalypse's tournament is moving through contestants, am I right? A deep dive into Big A's version of Survivor! Plus a number of other books that we catch up on with some high level reactions and feels. Hellverine was the surprise Wolverine book we weren't aware of. Iron Man's love story pulls on our heart strings. And then we bounce around other times and timelines while also checking in on those crazy lovebirds Scott and Jean.

01:31 News
09:06 Personal News and Poll 
11:11 General Questions
17:41 From the Ashes
23:35 Madripoor Knights
27:46 X-Men 97
32:52 Invincible Iron Man
36:08 Hellverine
45:35 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!

Blood Hunt - First Half

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!

Heir of Apocalypse #1, Ms Marvel: Mutant Menace #4, Ultimate X-Men #4, and Bubs!

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!

X-Men #35 / Uncanny X-Men #700 - The Finale of the Krakoan Era

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!

Rise of the Powers of X #5, Wolverine #50 and X-Men: The Wedding Special #1

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!

Interview with Phillip Sevy, X-Men Unlimited Artist

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!

Fall of the House of X #5 and X-Men 97 #3

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!

X-Men Forever #4, Ms Marvel #3, Ultimate X-Men #3, Weapon X-Men #4 and Wolverine Madripoor Knights #4

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!