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

Fall of X: New Comics for Oct. 4 - Immortal X-Men #16, X-Men #27, X-Force #45 and X-Men Unlimited

Everyone's got secrets and they're all coming out! I'm looking at you Chronicler, Shadowkat, Stasis, Xabeard, Mother Righteous and so many more. A stacked week of three hearty books as we get ready for New York Comic Con. Plus the first iteration of a new News Segment, Data is Beautiful. Let us know if you have any questions about comic sales data! We talk Immortal X-Men #16, X-Men #27, X-Force #45 and X-Men Unlimited

1:21 News
19:43 X-Men Unlimited
26:29 X-Force
45:16 X-Men
01:13:50 Immortal X-Men

Thanks for listening to our twelfth episode of Season 5! We're off into the Fall and damn it's not off to a great start for our merry mutants. 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 X: New Comics for Sept.27 - Invincible Iron Man #10, Jean Grey #2, Realm of X #2, Ms Marvel: New Mutant #2 and X-Men Unlimited

A bunch a twos coming to yous! Please forgive me.. it's been a long weekend. Tony and Emma are married! Or Tony and Hazel... plus Feilong gets a new layer. Jean Grey shakes the magic eight ball on the first Phoenix visit, what if my boyfriends did it? Realm of X is having some magic block on all fronts, but the Four are sneaking into something juicy. Ms. Marvel doesn't know how to not get busted and it's fun. We finally kick off Sunfire's Redroot story in X-Men Unlimited!! We talk Invincible Iron Man #10, Jean Grey #2, Realm of X #2, Ms Marvel: New Mutant #2 and X-Men Unlimited

1:39 News
16:31 X-Men Unlimited
21:52 Storm
25:49 DoFP Doomsday
32:05 Ms Marvel
48:05 Realm of X
01:04:36 Jean Grey
01:30:04 Iron Man

Thanks for listening to our eleventh episode of Season 5! We're off into the Fall and damn it's not off to a great start for our merry mutants. 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 X: New Comics for Sept.20 - Dark X-Men #2, Uncanny Spider-Man #1, Wolverine #37, Uncanny Avengers#2, Alpha Flight#2 and more!

So many great comics! So much sickness :( but we're powering through y'all. Dark X-Men splits the team and complicates things with the other Madelyne. Uncanny Spider-Man delights on all levels as Kurt tries to make a difference in NY. Wolverine catches up with his bubs and Bruce while the Uncanny Avengers have some infighting. Alpha Flight is trying to be the boots on the ground while not getting caught. Then some high level visits to Wolverine vs Predator and X-Men Annual. Plus the final Hellfire Gala Infinity Comic. We talk Dark X-Men #2, Uncanny Spider-Man #1, Wolverine #37, Uncanny Avengers#2, Alpha Flight#2, Predator vs Wolverine #1, and X-Men Unlimited!

1:54 News
19:40 X-Men Unlimited
21:50 X-Men Annual
26:07 Predator vs Wolverine
31:06 Alpha Flight
44:53 Uncanny Avengers
01:08:17 Wolverine
01:26:49 Uncanny Spider-Man
01:49:42 Dark X-Men

Thanks for listening to our tenth episode of Season 5! We're off into the Fall and damn it's not off to a great start for our merry mutants. 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 X: New Comics for Sept. 13 - X-Men Red #15, Children of the Vault #2, X-Force #44, Astonishing Iceman #2 and Infinity Comics

Uploading live from the hotel in Minneapolis! I did not edit on the plane, as I suspected, and instead watched One Piece and I Think You Should Leave Now... Enough about that, what about the comics!? A stack of them all over the Fall of X landscape. The Genesis War is at Ororo's doorstep and she's brought friends! Plus a peek into the history of Fisher King. The Children don't like being messed with, but that's all Cable and Bishop want to do, taking the fight to the Vault now. Family ties are becoming tenuous in X-Force as Mikhail seems to be losing his patience. Iceman fights the Elementals and they're definitely not working for Orchis... wink. We talk X-Men Red #15, Children of the Vault #2, X-Force #44, Astonishing Iceman #2 and Infinity Comics

1:49 News
14:57 X-Men Unlimited
18:01 Venom vs Deadpool
19:21 Astonishing Iceman
34:49 X-Force
51:21 Children of the Vault
01:16:21 X-Men Red

Thanks for listening to our ninth episode of Season 5! We're off into the Fall and damn it's not off to a great start for our merry mutants. 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 X: New Comics for Sept. 6 - Immortal X-Men #15, X-Men #26, Weapons of Vengeance, Magneto #2 and Infinity Comics

Ooo I don't trust her at all! Mother Righteous that is. Firestar, sure that makes sense... I guess. The wedding proposal twist of the year! With a lost shot at cutting things up, Marauders style. Our hellride concludes in a flaming pile of glory and Magneto's family tree might be even messier than we thought. We talk Immortal X-Men #15, X-Men #26, Weapons of Vengeance, Magneto #2 and Infinity Comics

1:45 News
12:29 Love Unlimited
15:33 X-Men Unlimited
18:04 Scarlet Witch 
21:02 Magneto
26:15 Weapons of Vengeance
43:06 X-Men 
01:13:21 Immortal X-Men

Thanks for listening to our eighth episode of Season 5! We're off into the Fall and damn it's not off to a great start for our merry mutants. 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 X: New Comics for Aug. 30 - Ms. Marvel: New Mutant #1, Wolverine #36 and X-Men Unlimited

We're talking all about mutants in public this week! Ms. Marvel makes her debut, sporting an X themed costume at an Orchis funded program. Optics and identity politics abound! Wolverine blazes through his penultimate issue and ends up with a serious status change - at least he's interested in finding mutants? Jubilee takes the spotlight in our Infinity Comic and there were a few other things we could have added but didn't...yet! We talk Ms. Marvel: New Mutant #1, Wolverine #36 and X-Men Unlimited

1:24 News
17:07 X-Men Unlimited
19:34 Wolverine 
33:46 Ms. Marvel

Thanks for listening to our seventh episode of Season 5! We're off into the Fall and damn it's not off to a great start for our merry mutants. 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 X: New Comics for Aug. 23 - Jean Grey #1, Realm of X #1, X-Force #43, Iron Man #9, Deadpool #10, Storm #4 and Infinity Comics

We're traveling through time and space via the White Hot Room, getting last week's episode in at the last possible moment. Happy new comic book eve recap! Life gets in the way sometimes folks. Jean Grey has us split, where did you fall through the continuity what if series? Realm of X brings us outside Earth and inside a group of X ladies as they fight through troubles. X-Force brings us to the happier before times; Orchis wasn't the only evil force in play at the Hellfire Gala. Iron Man tees up the next biggest Marvel Universe love story and Alicia is unsure how she feels. Deadpool ends with a bang and then there's Storm. We talk Jean Grey #1, Realm of X #1, X-Force #43, Iron Man #9, Deadpool #10, Storm #4 and Infinity Comics

2:07 News
14:04 X-Men Unlimited
21:32 Deadpool 
30:31 Iron Man
49:15 X-Force
01:08:41 Realm of X
01:40:10 Jean Grey 

Thanks for listening to our sixth episode of Season 5! We're off into the Fall and damn it's not off to a great start for our merry mutants. 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 X: New Comics for Aug. 16 - Dark X-Men #1, X-Men Red #14, Uncanny Avengers #1, Alpha Flight #1, more!

It's a dark time for mutantkind. An extra helping of new teams are needed to stand up and fight for the X gene, pushing back toward the oppressors of their livelihood! We're in New York with a dark and gritty squad fighting for mutant freedom. We're on Arakko (read Mars for flatscans) with the instigated war of Genesis vs Storm, the battle over the planet's soul. We're in the sewers, at the camps and on the trail with Uncanny Avengers, avenging the mutants caught in Orchis' crosshairs. Plus the anti-mutant bigotry has spread across the boarder into Canada. A quadruple set of books that span Fall of X adjacent, time displaced anthology or vs stories with some universal displaced expansions. X-Men. We talk Dark X-Men #1, X-Men Red #14, Uncanny Avengers #1, Alpha Flight #1, Marvel Voices X-Men #1, Iron Man Annual #1, Ghost Rider #17, DOFP Doomsday #2 and X-Men Unlimited #100

18:06 X-Men Unlimited
21:49 DOFP Doomsday 
27:59 Ghost Rider
33:14 Iron Man Annual
40:09 Marvel Voices X-Men
47:57 Alpha Flight
01:02:59 Uncanny Avengers
1:28:51 X-Men Red
1:46:33 Dark X-Men

Thanks for listening to our fifth episode of Season 5! We're off into the Fall and damn it's not off to a great start for our merry mutants. 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 X: New Comics for Aug. 9 - Immortal X-Men #14, Children of the Vault #1, Ghost Rider / Wolverine #1, Spider-Man Tangents and X-Men Unlimited

The Fall keeps falling, but the mutants seem to catch a sandy ledge on the way down. Immortal X-Men checks in across the Council, primarily with Shaw and Charles, with some key features from Emma... and others. Children of the Vault kicks off with a high concept and great delivery. Ghost Rider / Wolverine start their not so Fall of X journey into fighting demons. We go on a Spider-Man tangent in how his story connects in various ways to what's in X-Men. Plus Polaris' final Control segment on Unlimited. We talk Immortal X-Men #14, Children of the Vault #1, Ghost Rider / Wolverine #1, Spider-Man Tangents and X-Men Unlimited

1:18 News
17:27 X-Men Unlimited
20:36 Ghost Rider / Wolverine
33:46 Children of the Vault 
1:00:28 Immortal X-Men

Thanks for listening to our fourth episode of Season 5! We're kicking off the Fall and damn it's not off to a great start for our merry mutants. 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 X: New Comics for Aug. 2 - X-Men #25, Astonishing Iceman #1, ASM Annual #1, Magneto #1, Scarlet Witch #7 and X-Men Unlimited

A whirlwind of a week and weekend has us catching up to bring on the Fall! Two titles start under the grim banner that's affecting mutantkind - Iceman is on a superhero journey, buoyed by his boyfriend, while Kate and the rest of the underground X-Men slowly make their moves. Plus House of M representing as we catch some classic Magneto in his new mini series, hang out with Wanda and Fake Magneto in Scarlet Witch and see what's up with Ms. Dane in X-Men Unlimited. AND a double dose of Krakoan relevance in Amazing Spider-Man Annual! We talk X-Men #25, Astonishing Iceman #1, ASM Annual #1, Magneto #1, Scarlet Witch #7 and X-Men Unlimited

1:30 News
13:28 X-Men Unlimited
21:08 Scarlet Witch
27:40 Magneto
35:13 ASM Annual
42:00 Astonishing Iceman
1:05:24 X-Men

Thanks for listening to our third episode of Season 5! We're kicking off the Fall and damn it's not off to a great start for our merry mutants. 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!