Chris And Reggie's Cosmic Treadmill

Wrapping up the Dawn of X - Wave One #4's with the flagship book, X-Men! Today we join the Autumn Quarter of the Krakoan Quiet Council as they attend a meeting of the World Economic Forum.  When Magneto is offered a pulpit, you can be sure he's going to take it! Also: Listener Mail discussing Boom-Boom's depiction as a drunk, more plotting and planning for the future of this program, and chatting about Dawn of X's unfortunate habit of picking some of the easiest targets around to critique. -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen x-lapsed.tumblr.com/

What could be better than an issue of Fallen Angels?  Well, how about a "Part 4 of 6" issue of Fallen Angels?  Join me as we have the same revelations we've already had three times... and we inch ever closer to the finish line. -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen x-lapsed.tumblr.com/

Welcome friends, to a most deadly episode of X-Lapsed.  Today, we're covering X-Force #4, which turns out to be rather aptly named... considering how "Forced" much of this issue feels! Featuring dialogue no human would ever say... and yet another fatal cliffhanger ending... it's safe to say that X-Force #4 is not my favorite post HoXPoX outing.  Please listen anyway! -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen x-lapsed.tumblr.com/

Today, playing to role of Drunk Captain Kate... Boom-Boom! We return to Pilger, Nebraska... and the Bohusk family farm.  Last issue ended with the arrival of a Cartel of goons who wanted to talk terms.  Today, we find out what they meant by that... and, well... Big Pharma is a pretty "safe" target, right? Let's make the best of this... -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen x-lapsed.tumblr.com/

Hooray!  Today's issue of Excalibur does not take place on Otherworld... but, is that enough to make me enjoy it?  Well, yeah... turns out it is!  Don't worry, Otherworld fans... it looks like it won't be a long respite.  I'll enjoy it while it's here.  Excalibur #4 sees our team officially get its charter... and introduces a jerk so smarmy he makes Pete Wisdom look like someone I wouldn't mind being stuck in an elevator with! Also: Some great feedback, discussing more about the HoXPoX info-pages, an impassioned plug for the From Claremont to Claremont series of shows on this channel, and much more! -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen x-lapsed.tumblr.com/

Today's issue of Marauders pays off the Taipei subplot from the first chapter, in a very fun way.  We also get some actual Post-Human sightings, and a weird blast from the past that I certainly wasn't expecting!  Also: Storm hammers a Brazilian Rent-a-Merc with lightning... twice! Plus: Great listener mail, some chatter about DC Comics' Millennium, Cypher's role as a "heavy-hitter" in the post HoXPoX X-Books, and much more... well, maybe not "much" more... but, more nonetheless. -- Damien's DC Millennium Coverage: https://shouldilovethis.blogspot.com/2020/04/episode-1-millennium-2_13.html https://shouldilovethis.blogspot.com/2020/05/episode-1-image-gallery.html The "Living and Breathing" Millennium #8 post at Chris is on Infinite Earths: http://www.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/2017/04/millennium-8-1988.html -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen x-lapsed.tum

Wrapping up the Dawn of X Wave One #3's, with an extended fight scene in Fallen Angels.  Not much to say about this one... but plenty to say about other stuff, so please listen anyway! Also: Some excellent listener mail, and I complain about half-hearted Wikis, discuss a bit more of the Chuck Austen run, and continue to whinge about the overreliance on power damp(en)ing devices in these here X-Books! -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen x-lapsed.tumblr.com/

Well, that didn't take long, did it? Ol' REDACTED has only been dead for like twenty-pages... and now they're back!  I guess that's just the world we're living in nowadays.  Not only that, but our new Court of Owls looking group of bad guys gets a name... Wolverine and Quentin Quire fight something out of Attack on Titan... and I furrow my brow as Jean Grey jokes about how often she's died. -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

And now for something completely different! While our main cast are still in spaaaaaaace, we're given a weird little story with some of Xorn's Special Class, Armor, and a whole bunch of Mutant-hating hillbillies.  Never have I ever been so disappointed not to see Deathbird! Also: The concept of a cure-all in comics, a bit of my babbling about my academic career, and a whole lot more -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Today we're discussing Excalibur #3, where Betsy Britain and her Beautiful Brother Brian X their Swords in Otherworld... perhaps for the final time.  Well, no, probably not.  We also get our latest addition to the cast in Mr. Julio Richter... and a cameo from MI-13's finest, ol' Pete Wisdom. Also: Listener Mail where we try to think of an X-Book worse than Fallen Angels #2?  Could it be Mutant X?  The Brotherhood?  The Chuck Austen run?  Perhaps, X-Men Unlimited #4?  Reach out if you got one! -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

The Father and Child Re-oo-oo-niun... is only a mutant away-ay. Today we hang out with the Shaws... Sebastian and Shinobi, as they (maybe?) attempt to put aside their differences and work together for the betterment of mutantkind... or, the financial milking of humankind. Also: I wax nostalgic over Shinobi's old running buddies: the Upstarts, Bill Jemas' failed EPIC Comics relaunch (announced in Marville), and trawlin' Mall Cons looking for the early issues of X-Factor! -- @acecomics / @cosmictmill / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen  

Thank you for being a friend... For this landmark 25th Episode of X-Lapsed, we are visited by an octogenerian group of "radical botanists" who have designs on controlling... or crushing Krakoa.  It's up to Cyclops, Emma Frost, and Sebastian Shaw to try and stop them. Also: "Comedy" in comics, the Golden Age of Fandom, Learnin' the Legion, and much more! -- @acecomics / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

You ever hear the one about the butterfly?  Well, ya will today... a few times! Join me as I look at the difficult second issue of Fallen Angels... of which, there isn't a whole heckuva lot to say. Also: Some great listener mail! -- @acecomics / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

In the wake of the assassinations of REDACTED, X-Force goes on the offensive to track down who might have been behind it.  What they find is something... well, pretty gross!  Join me as we take a trip to a most peculiar South Korean Printing Press. Also: Conflicts between logic and faith in a universe as extraordinary as the one we're reading about, more threats of discussing the Alan Moore Captain Britain, more feedback on the Uncanny Lives of Moira X... and much more! -- @acecomics / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Order in the court!  (Ham and Cheese) It's here that the New Mutants have their day in court... will Roberto's wicked space lawyer get them off, or will our young heroes wind up incarcerated by the Shi'ar Empire for life?  Worse yet, will they get stuck hanging out with Cannonball's annoying better half?  Those answers, and a whole lot more... in this very episode! Also: Losing touch with friends, dealing with the realization that you're no longer a comics' intended audience, and some great listener mail! -- @acecomics / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Trouble on the High Seas, and Terror in the Boardroom... Marauders #2 by Duggan, Lolli and Co. finally fills the Red Throne... with, exactly who you think. Also: Tattoos, Dancing, Auctions, and Batroc the friggin' Leaper! -- @acecomics / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Whattaya get when you cross an X-Men comic with a sub-par D&D campaign?  Uh, don't answer that. Today we're discussing the second issue of Excalibur by Tini Howard and Marcus To... and, well... by no fault of the creatos, this really isn't the sort of story that falls in your humble host's wheelhouse.  Maybe I can be proven wrong... then again, maybe not. -- @acecomics / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Who's ready for more Summers family weirdness? On this episode of X-Lapsed, we join Cyclops, Prestige, and Cable as they investigate a new island that just appeared on the horizon... we also get to see a kink... err, softer side of Krakoa.  X-Men (vol.5) #2 comes to us from Jonathan Hickman and Leinil Francis Yu, and was certainly not what I expected! Some insightful (?) comics chat with a side of wonderful listener mail is waiting for you! -- @acecomics / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Hello Friends, Today's episode of Morituri Mondays is a special one that we couldn't wait to share!  Not only are we discussing the penultimate (monthly) issue of Strikeforce: Morituri, but we were granted a Q&A session with original Strikeforce: Morituri artist and co-creator, Brent Anderson!  The first half of those questions will be covered in this very episode! But first, the Chris's go "Full Treadmill", providing a bio for Mr. Anderson from his earliest days in the fandom to when he took up the pencil for this very series.  Fans of Chris and Reggie's Cosmic Treadmill will hopefully fondly remember coverage of creator bios. As for this issue we'll be discussing... it's another banger!  And, what's more, it opened up the opportunity for another Treadmillism to sneak its way back into the limelight... "The Hook" returns for a long-form discussion on some of the mysteries surrounding the death (?) of Elvis Presley! It's a great time as always... made better by Brent!  We hope you enjoy, and will retu

Y'ever hear the one about the butterfly?  No?  Well, you're going to... a lot. Today we wrap up the first wave of Dawn of X #1's with, perhaps the oddball of the group - Fallen Angels #1 by Bryan Hill and Szymon Kudranski.  Who said we only needed on Psylocke?  Probably the same person who said we only need one Psyocke-led book!  Will this one be near as interesting as Excalibur?  Let's find out together... Also: I remember rate the Dawn of X Wave One #1's in the order I most enjoyed them, and some great listener feedback with some varying opinions on the HoX/PoX/DoX landscape! -- @acecomics / weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen