Chris And Reggie's Cosmic Treadmill

Today we resume our therapeutic mission with the "inconvenient" mutants of Krakoa - the Hellions!  They are at the Home for Foundlings in Omaha, NE with one goal - burn the place to the ground! What'll happen, though - when they run into the new head of the household - the Goblyn Queen herself? Also: Nanny's fallen... and she can't get up! -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Today we wrap up the first story arc of this Dawn of X volume of Wolverine... and answer such questions as: "Wouldn't it be funny if... Magneto got completely wasted and had his helmet stolen?" Spoiler Alert: No.  No, it wouldn't. -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Who's ready for more Carnage in Carnelia? Who's ready to meet a new Krakoan citizen? Who's ready for this story arc to be over? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions - well, then I've got an issue for you.  Not much "meat" on the preverbal bone here, but a scene in this issue does facilitate my revisiting a well-worn X-Lapsed topic regarding altering mutants during the resurrection process (and otherwise). Also: As always, some great and thoughtful listener mail -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Welcome friends, to the new X-Lapsed "Sunday Special Series", wherein we're going to spend the next five weeks looking at Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey by Matthew Rosenberg and Friends. This is a series I've been long curious about, and so I figured it was high time we get to the bottom of just how Jean Grey made her return.  So far, so good - this was an issue so strong that... I'm even tempted to go back revisit the 2016-2018 Blue and Gold era! If you too are ResurreX-Lapsed, please consider joining me in this little reading endeavor! -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Welcome back to From Claremont to Claremont: An X-Men Podcast, Episode 3! Today, I am joined by Joe Crawford (@IowasJoe) to discuss the second chapter of - well, a storyline that really made me think the Shivas were going to be a hyooge deal going forward - Dreams of Gore aka. The Shiva Scenario! Wolverine is still looking for clues to his origin... if only he could travel through time, and know that some questions probably don't need answering... Also: The FCTC, Episode 3 "hook" continues, as Joe shares with us the "Soundtrack of his Life".  It's a great time as always - we hope you join us! -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Today we go shopping for islands with the Master of Magnetism.  We also see him have to escape out the back-end of a Kraken.  It's yet another installment of Giant-Size, that may as well have been any old issue of X-Men (vol.5)! Also - A great mailbag segment, that facilitates my sharing some of my more obsessive collecting habits. -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Today we wrap up our time in Terra Verde - home of the violent "veg"! Guess what -- we also kill the same couple of characters who keep getting killed in these books!  Your humble host is growing more and more tired.  X-Force also loses a member - it's "moral compass" no less! All that, and I talk a whole lot about creators having "skin in the game" during the mailbag portion - which I hope doesn't ruffle too many feathers!  It's a good time as always - hop aboard and join us! -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Journey with me into the mind of a mania--er, reality warping mutant. Today, the New Mutants take a walk on the wild side... with, Wildside in order to give "good dreams" to a scared little girl who might just destroy an entire country.  All that, plus our DOX Magazine subplot keeps bubbling away! Also: An X-Tended Mailbag, full of great analysis and discussion! -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Welcome to the landmark seventy-fifth episode of X-Lapsed - which, is also, as luck would have it our third monthiversary, having started this little journey back on September 1! Today, we're dealing with altered realities, Otherworld, and That Weirdo Jamie Braddock - and, somehow - I managed to have a really good time with it!  I also talk a bunch about the "Protect and Survive" PSAs from the late 70s/early 80s a whole lot. Plus - Our usual x-cellent mailbag section! -- "Protect and Survive" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6U9T3R3EQg -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Today we usher in the double-digits era for our Wave One Dawn of X books... starting with Marauders!  This is also a notable issue for being the first DoX book to hit the shelves after the current pandemic set in.  Can it possibly live up to the x-pectations of the starving X-Fandom?  Well... I suppose your mileage may vary. -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Six issues just wasn't enough, was it?  Anyone else up for another romp with the Major and M'Koy?  Well... uh, howsabout we spend this final episode of Major X-Lapsed talking about a two-part Wolverine story from the year 2000 instead? That's right folks - we're spending all but eight pages of this $5 zero issue looking at a story that appeared in Wolverine (vol.2) #154-155 (September-October, 2000) - featuring characters who haven't been seen since!  As for those other eight pages... well, they might just cause an X-Istential crisis... we're going to meet a whole lotta bucketheads... who we'll probably (hopefully?) never see again. Whatever the case - Major X-Lapsed is now complete... I want to humbly thank everybody who has hung on for this weird little seven-week sidebar! -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Episode 3 of From Claremont to Claremont: An X-Men Podcast rolls on -- and goes off the beaten path, with our first look at a comic (prestige format dealie, actually) that isn't one of our regular monthlies! This time out, I am joined by Mark Radulich (@MarkRadulich) to discuss one of Wolverine's many, many... many guest appearances.  It's a little ditty called Hearts of Darkness by Howard Mackie and John Romita, Jr.! After going through the story cover-to-cover, we continue the FCTC Episode 3 "hook" where my co-host discusses the "Soundtrack of Their Life"!  Another very fun conversation... I hope you all decide to join us - and maybe even share your own personal "soundtrack"! -- Check out more from Mark at the W2M & Radulich in Broadcasting Network! https://www.spreaker.com/user/wrestling2themax https://www.spreaker.com/show/radulich-in-broadcasting -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

It's Black Friday in America -- and not only does sharing this final compilation of Reggie and my coverage of DC's Sandman Universe books help me not to have to record an all-new show on Thanksgiving Day - I can also sorta play it off with a "Hey, remember in the 90s - when all those kids wearing black wouldn't shut up about Neil Gaiman's Sandman?  Black clothes... Black Friday... ehh?  ehh?"   Okay, I tried... I'm sorry.   Whatever the case, I hope you all enjoy this final installment.   --   Today's discussions originally aired in segment form during the following episodes of the Weird Science DC Comics Podcast:   Episode 225 (04.28.2019) - Books of Magic (vol.3) #7 Episode 226 (05.05.2019) - The Dreaming (vol.2) #9 Episode 227 (05.12.2019) - House of Whispers #9 Episode 228 (05.19.2019) - Lucifer (vol.3) #8 -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com

In which your stumblin', fumblin', humble host hits his personal "tipping point" as it pertains to "X-Men in Space" stories.  Sure, Cyclops and Havok's daddy lives out there... and the X-Men have a lotta friends and enemies out there - but, can we please get an issue without a reminder of that fact?! Also: Happy Thanksgiving! -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

In which your stumblin', fumblin', humble host hits his personal "tipping point" as it pertains to mutant deaths.  Sure, the Resurrection Protocols of the HoXPoXDoXSoX era have changed the "rules"... but, with this issue, it's almost turned to parody.  We'll talk a lot about that today... Also: More great listener mail! -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Dawn of X, Wave Two rolls on with the introduction of a very bizarre book, indeed - it's Hellions! What happens when you put Sassy Sinister in charge of a group of "inconvenient mutants"?  Well, we're about to find out.  This is a book that should NOT work - but, damned if it doesn't!  We're gonna have fun with this one! Also: A Giant-Size (and somewhat emotional) mailbag segment!  Thank you all for helping to push the Chris and Reggie Channel over 100,000 downloads! -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Today we're going Giant-Size to discuss an issue that claims to focus on Nightcrawler... and, while he IS in this story - the more accurate title for this might've been Giant-Size X-Men: Magik.  We're going to talk about continuity and costs here... as our entire story is built to add a resident to Krakoa, who we already saw pass through the portal months ago! Also: An actual Giant-Size Mailbag segment, talking about all things HoXPoXDoXSoX!  It's a great time as always, I do hope you'll join us! -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Today we wrap up the Major X miniseries proper... and, well - I wish I could say we've got a lot to talk about... but, we don't!  We will see some Deadpool-on-Deadpool action... and our big-bad will get taken down by the Care Bear Stare.  I will also rail on about inconsistencies in the depiction of our titular character. Just one more episode to go... if we're bad enough dudes and dudettes to see our way through! -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

A little something different for your Saturday! Your humble host has been long dragging his feet on releasing the next full (12+ hour long) episode of From Claremont to Claremont: An X-Men Podcast - however, today I'm dropping the segment where Jody Yerdon (@regalfan) and I discuss the final issue of the Chris Claremont run - X-Men (vol.2) #3 (December, 1991). In addition to covering the issue itself, we also include a bit of a "hook" in that Jody (along with the rest of the FCTC hosts) will share with us the "Soundtrack of Their Life" - It's a very fun conversation - and I hope you all enjoy, and maybe even share some of the songs that would be on your own playlists! For the handful of folks who even remember that FCTC was even a "thing", I apologize for taking forever to start releasing these! -- The First Two Episodes of From Claremont to Claremont: Episode 1 https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-5rv7d-d8251c Episode 2 https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-cmb5r-db1878 -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshi

What's (no longer) Eating Neena Thurman? Today, after a short stint in [dead], we welcome Domino back to the X-Force fold -- only, she's a little bit different than last we left her.  For one, well - she's alive, but for another - she's no longer tormented by all of the things she suffered toward the end of her previous life.  We will be asking questions... Also: More great listener mail... and a whole lot of my babbling!  It's a fun show as usual, I hope you'll decide to join us! -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen