Mutant Menace

One of the funny things about reading all the X-Books at once is that sometimes they align very well, and sometimes they are so deeply incongruous that it's head-spinning. This has never been so true as in this episode. In the X-Men, we have an epic conclusion to a thrilling super-villain tale about grief, loss, insanity, and how amazing Cyclops is. In New Mutants, we have a man named Axe who is holding an Axe and his mutant powers are he found an Axe. BUT at least we start the show with some EXCITING NEWS!! Topics Discussed: Cyclops whipped his thing off. Earthrise. The Lahzbees. A surprise kiss… I hate plants now. A familiar priest! "Hey fiancé, are you my dead girlfriend?" Goodbye, Paul Smith. Hello John Romita, Jr! Allegedly electricity. Jazzercise Kitty. GHOST CYCLOPS. A remote control on his hip! Kissing an ugly guy. Disguised as a cave. PHILLIP AND DEBORAH SUMMERS! The Wedding of Scott Summers and Madelyne Pryor. Claremont the lil' pervo. "Judge" Petrie. VAL COOPER! Getting revenge on a shark! Nightcrawler's cocoa. Professor X returns to his old ways. Carnival! A man named Axe holding and Axe and his powers are Axe. My fear is pink goo. A Magnum P.I. Plan: "Do A Plan." Sunspot beats Axe's Ass. WHY IS HE TRAINING THE MOTORCYCLE GUYS STILL!? Lots of fish fightin'. Kidnapping a random girl. Is this The Living Pharaoh again? Or Maga Yogi? Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod]

Welcome back to the grind, folks! The holidays are over and we are right back into the action! Join us as we join the X-Men deep under Manhattan, high up in Alaska, and back over to Japan for a crazy destination wedding! Plus, we've been a little sick! Tune in!! Topics include: It's 2026! We're bad at compliments. Encyclopedias. Contest of Champions. The Drew Carey Show. We're sick and rusty. Skin care with feathers. Candy Southern! Amanda Sefton! Nudecrawler. The Morlocks are here! Cassette tapes. Weak restraints. A duel to the death. Brilliant Paul Smith art. Carol Danvers visits her parents. Rogue's back! The X-Men have gone to Japan! Rooftop city over here. Yukio and Ororo team-up. Rogue zipping around. Lilandra almost ruins the wedding. Punk Storm! Issues: Uncanny X-Men #169-173 Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod]

Happy New Year! Kick it off by visiting some iconic and, uh, uniconic moments in mutant history; and rest assured that, through it all, Professor Xavier is a JERK!  Join us as we meet some of the silliest characters we've seen in a long while, and tackle it all with complete grace and professionalism. It's 2026! Topics Discussed: Coming clean. Matt Rogers. Professor Xavier is a JERK! Paul Smith's perfect Wolverine. Stevie Hunter's full mailing address. Booty calls. Tunnels. A dragon! You've gotta stop saying "stank face". Dani's frisbee skills. Can't be hurt while I'm blasting. Mulled cider. Team America! Silver Samurai and Serpent. Running over people with motorcycles. Cerebrating. A very obvious plan. We just don'tacare. Can Cannonball see through walls?! 2 shacks 2 explosions. BLIP Magazine. Issues: Uncanny X-Men #168, X-Men Special Edition #1 (bonus story), New Mutants #4-6 Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com    Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Instagram: @mutantmenacepod  [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod]

Listen Bub, it's Christmas.... We're the best there is at what we do, and what we do is friggin precious! Matt and Pat welcome on YouTuber, podcaster, and friend PushingUpRoses to read the landmark 1983 WOLVERINE MINI-SERIES by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller. We get pretty goddamn deep on this one, so expect to laugh, cry, half-laugh/half-sob, and growl through this Christmas Day episode on WOLVERINE (Vol. 1) #1-4. Topics Discussed: Link climbing in the rain. Wolverine peaking between two knees. A rogue bear. One eye apart. Who is Wolverine's father? Unpackin' my costume. Undressing and redressing Logan. Professional assassins with terrible aim. YUKIO! THE HAND! A closet full of lamps. Not my Carmen Sandiego hat! "That is NOT a swimming position". One of the finest Kabuki troops Logan has ever seen. PICKING UP A SUMO WRESTLER!? Asan-ment. Bullet Train Chicken. An uncreative dream. Breaking the same window. Part-laugh/Part-sob. Spider-Man kicking through a box of cocaine. Can Wolverine get drunk? Weapon collecting. Find PushingUpRoses at: * PushingUpRoses on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@pushinguproses * Save Your Game https://zencastr.com/Save-Your-Game Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeVInstagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod]

It's finally time to cover perhaps THE definitive X-Men story! Join us for God Loves, Man Kills; a deep, dark, and unsubtle exploration of the Mutant Metaphor. The topics are heavy, the writing is deep, and the art is striking. We tackle the silly and the serious with the help of our very cool guest, YouTuber and video maker Andre (@mostlyandre)! Tune in! Topics include: Egg Nog. A brief physics lesson. X-Men Evolution. Brent Anderson! Neal Adams! A very heavy prologue. Reverend William Stryker! Kitty whooping some jerk's ass. THAT moment. Nightline. Ariel?? The Mannequinov family. Not the Rolls! Wolverine's claws. Xavier's crucifixion. The Joe Rogan of the X-Men. Dr Phillip Ramsey. Abominations. The Village People. Idolatry. Magneto! John Cheever. Scott gets it. Dang that ruled. Find Andre on YouTube at @mostlyandre (https://www.youtube.com/@mostlyandre) Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Instagram: @mutantmenacepod (https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod)

Issues: Marvel Graphic Novel #4, New Mutants #1-3, Uncanny X-Men #167 It's a brand new day on Graymalkin Lane! Where a rebuilt Xavier Mansion hosts a brand new group of young mutants - you might even call them The New Mutants! Join us as we meet each member of this future-star-studded team and watch them write their own origin story, define themselves and their villains, and even take on the freakin X-Men themselves! Plus, a conclusion - FINALLY - to the final cliffhanger of the Brood Saga! Tune in! Topics discussed: Matt does his best. Al Jolson. You can't trick us and you can't derail us. Egg nog. No one wanted this. Bob McLeod. Torch-wielding mobs. Ruffled sleeve = Hellfire Club. White men. The scariest Wolverine possible. Wolf to werewolf to girl. Mind Tap. What file type is a thought? Superheroes with rifles. "Nossir." Stevie Hunter is in over her head. "I can't be hurt while I'm blastin'." Psyche! ET at the Salem Center Mall. Col. Michael Rossi. Frigi-Beam. Sentinels! Magnum P.I. New Mutants vs. X-Men. Professor Xavier is a prick! Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod]

It's an epic tale of tragedy and heroism. Of good and evil. Of monsters and heroes. Of mutants and bugs. And it all takes place within these 6 issues. It's THE BROOD SAGA. The X-Men are shuffled off to space to fight a menace that legitimately proves too much for them to handle. It's a wild, emotional ride and we just absolutely loved it. Topics discussed:  Was Illyana in Limbo a filler issue? Woke King Wolverine. Moira MacTaggert has Pikachu tears. The Xavier Stare. Xavier's ethical failings. Following a mental map to a special African cave to find Hitler's secret gold! A familiar man. WE LOVE WOLVERINE! The scale of Berzerker Moods. Punching VCRs. Illyana doesn't know Xavier is a telepath? EFL without consent! Carol kills everyone by accident. So many bad cliff hangers!  PAUL SMITH!"I have to tap that White Hole". Trying to justify Storm's powers in space. The X-Men are set on genocide. Greaser Cyclops. Come into my mouth, I swear I have a plan! The Acanti Baby Plan. A DRAGON!? Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod]

Folks, prepare yourselves for some truly Strange Tales as the X-Men hold hands with Dracula, take a quick trip to Limbo, and ignore time and space! We even get some incredible Spider-Man and Fantastic Four action, with the debut of a brand new mutant! Plus, some very impressive creative teams! Join us! Topics discussed: Bill Sienkiewicz! A very rude entrance. Harmony Young. Brothers blastin. Indiana Jones. Dracula?! Wolverine - NOT a christian. Jim Stupid. Divorce. ZARK! A Van Helsing! Big slap. Why Wolverine's cool. Lilith! Very silly stuff. Stupid questions. Cripes! Limbo! Belasco! Bloodstones and an amulet. Creepy Nightcrawler. Old Storm. Time and space. Waving skeletons. Cerebus. 7 years in 2 panels! Karma! She possesses people. Frank Miller! Spider-Man & The Fantastic Four! So, so cool. Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod]

Get ready listeners - this episode, we introduce an iconic character with an iconic guest, Abby Denton! Comedian and writer of Gamer Mom! We're talking Avengers, ROM Spaceknight, and the X-Men all facing off with this...villain?!? Who IS this woman?? Topics discussed: Jeez what DON'T we discuss? Local pro wrestling circuits. Gamer Mom. Digimon. San Francisco. Spider-Woman. Carol Danvers? The pretty fucked up events of Avengers 200. My Dark Angel. ROM's back! Is he stupid? The SISTERhood of Evil Mutants. Wraiths! Hybrid! Mack Killburn, Hack Reporter. Death by twirling. Two girlfriends. In love with ROM. Can claws do that? Alien virus. And a lot of mentions of Philadelphia. Go birds! Find Abby Denton here: https://abbydenton.com [https://abbydenton.com/] and the Gamer Mom Kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/abbydenton/gamer-mom-the-mom-who-games Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com    Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV      [https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV]  Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod]

Buckle up, folks; we're going to space this episode! But first, we have to stop by and hang out with our friend Spider-Man! Get ready for adventures across New York, Earth's orbit, and the Shi'ar Empire, making friends like Corsair and the Starjammers along the way! A LOT of X-Men down, and an eerie forecast of things to come. Topics discussed: Guy Ritchie's X-Men. Dog ate a book. Marvel movies. J.M. DeMatteis! Wolverine touchin' butts. Wolverine at Ren Faire. Bunkies. Roman orgies. Robot heads roll. Spider-Man's awkward sleepover. Professor Anthony Power. Mentallo? The Fixer?? Vacation-mode Professor X. Corsair! Shi'ar drama! Father issues. Spider-bots blowing the hell up. Tigra! The Imperial Consort. Calling Professor Xavier "Charlie". Kitty still in a bikini. The Brood?! Deathbird! Is Colossus dead?!? The Starjammers are back! Lilandra and Charles reunited. A full-fledged Space Opera. A handheld costume generator. Kitty's raddest costume. Admirable Admiral. Xavier down! The Phoenix?! Nope haha. Peter Pan. Intercepting lasers. WEBWING! Another T-Rex. Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV    [https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV] Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod]

Issues: Marvel Fanfare #1-4, Marvel Treasury #27, Marvel Team Up #100 (back-up story), X-Men Annual #5 We're not puffyfaffing around this episode! We're getting to it! We've got so many stories to tell you! Among them: A story about the Savage Land, Sauron, Angel, Mutates, and Spider-Man! A pointless short story about Angel beating up an underdog on behalf of his evil father! A story about how all African people know each other! And a story about the Badoon. Topics discussed: Extremely accurate Nightcrawler fancasting. Angel's Aerie. Warren's shirtless era. Peter Parker strips while fighting. Marvel Fanfare! Warren's nipples. The best T-Rex so far. Karl remembers his ex. A terrifying Big Bird. Insulted by a giant spider. "Watch me beat the shit out of your frog friend!" Tally ho! A polite earthquake. COLONEL CATHCART IS HERE! Moses Magnum...? "TIMBERIUS"!? WHERE'S LUPO!???!? "zonk". A big moment for the frog-man. Angel runs away. The dreaded downdraft! The New Toad. They forget a cliffhanger. A gendered de-evolution machine. "The youth is demented!" Ka-Zar gets The Ick. SCOTT EDELMAN! Andreas De Ruyter! Walking from Cairo to South Africa to Kenya. "...in a word..." A big orange robot who looks like Alpha from the Power Rangers. Chris goes ALL OUT on the FF. "...in a word..." The Fantastic Four cause a lady's death. Finding the old bolts. Colossus' berzerker rage! Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/]

Back in the X-Men's main title, the X-Men are doing X-Men stuff! For example, fixing the Danger Room, visiting an old petrified friend/friend who may or may not be a Sun God, switching bodies, and telling bedtime stories! Also, we finally learn the origin of Magneto!? Topics discussed: Studying Kermit. Kitty's new costume sucks! Being "precise" about "broads." Curling with Colossus. Magneto the Designer. "Hey, Cyclops!" RONALD REAGAN IS HERE! The Bermuda Triangle. Magneto's philosophy. BONK! Why is Carol Danvers here? X-Men goofin' on the beach… Deus ex Claremont. A missed eye opportunity. A FREAKY FRIDAY. Cyclops Snipin'! THE ARMORY RETURNS. Distracting lettering. The worst "No time for that now!" yet. Kitty Pryde's arch-nemesis. Persona Exchange Gun! Stevie Hunter's life has gotten pretty fucked up. Sebastian Shaw hitting himself. "THIS IS FOR WOLVERINE, SWINE!"  Pirate Kitty! Wolverine is comic relief. Un-mutinying. Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/]

Issues: Uncanny X-Men #147, Rom #17-18, Spider-Woman #37-38, Marvel Treasury #26 The X-Men take some time off of their regular title to hang out with some pals in ROM, Spider-Woman, and Marvel Treasury! The boys say goodbye to an old frenemy, hello to some new characters, and get a cool new poster. Topics Discussed: ROM. A murderous, yet agreeable, Wolverine. Bill Mantlo hates people with disabilities. Ham-fisting. "So there's two Steves?" A 15-year-old playing with trucks. Breaking your vow to murder a child. How to communicate a complex situation without talking. THE SECRET, THIRD SETTING. Wolverine can smell evil. Nightcrawler and Colossus makin' out. "Who Am I?" Spider-Woman's unfathomable backstory! La Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. Sleeping with your landlord. Mint is not candy shop it's where they make money. SIRYN! My buddy, Benny D'Israeli. AN UPDRAFT! Figuring out Cerebro ONCE AND FOR ALL!!! Black Tom's Bio-Beam. PLOP, PLOP Bub. Wolverine loves a bar fight. Matt is a better writer than Lee Forrester. Caliban's Natalie Portman-eque crush. 5 identical cliffhangers. Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/] Show less

Goodbye, John Byrne; we hardly knew ye! It's time to move on to bigger, fresher things like... Dave Cockrum?  The infamous Claremont/Byrne run ends with a Kitty Pryde solo story that whips ass, followed by a Cyclops soio story that's... you know... it's fine. Then the X-Men get wrapped up in a big ol' Arcade/Dr. Doom catastrophe and we get... Dark Storm!? Topics discussed:  Stealing a Christmas Tree. Home Alone/Alien. Brent Anderson! A demon era. MAN THING!? Paolo for Loser League. Reverse pool-hustling. Do you smell bad? Dave Cockrum returns! Iceman's dorm room. Wolverine's bare butt. Storm and Doom's love story. Al or Lee? Reusing Arcade's rooms. "EAT HOT LEAD SUCKER!" Doom's sex robot. Havok pulls a Bugs Bunny. Claremont embellishing. Rogue & Storm! Oh, wait… Why not catch an updraft? "I don't engage in fisticuffs" Covering a planet in Skin. Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/]

Plus X-Men Annual #4! Hot off the heels of one of the most famous X-Men stories of all time, we take a short respite with… ONE OF THE GREATEST X-MEN STORIES OF ALL TIME. A story made even more salient, unfortunately, by current events. Plus, we get a recap issue, we get to know Kitty a bit more, and we take a brief pit stop in HELL (?) First, though, we spend some time imagining an X-Men Stardew Valley. Topics Include: A funeral, but other than that it's pretty funny. Cyclops' Brain damage. Holoempathic Matrix Crystal. Goodbye, Cyclops! A shirt that says "BITCH". Warren's back and worse than ever. "I'm sorry, Mr. Robot, but I'm much stronger than you." A Wolverine and Nightcrawler road trip! STEVIE HUNTER!! The Night Creeper. Alpha Flight! Oh, the Wendigo. John Byrne is a baby. Snowbird is rude. Justin Trudeau. The Blob?? The NEW Brotherhood??? Days of Future Past!! It's shorter than you think. Big Alex, Robbo, and George. Logan looks fucking cool, twice. Franklin Richards! A LOT of first-time appearances. The fulcrum. Everyone dies. Dr. Strange! The X-Men are going to Hell! Dante's Inferno, but it's a little messy. This run was good. Saturday Morning Cartoons. VISIT OUR NEW FRIENDS at Big Bang Comics in Bayamon, PR, Blackbird Comics in North Las Vegas, NV, and Nerds 4 Ever in Newcastle, WY! Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Instagram: @mutantmenacepod Show less

GIANT-SIZED SPECTACULAR This is a big one folks. An epic episode for an epic story. The Dark Phoenix Saga is one of the most transformative and dramatic chapters in all of X-Men history and listen, it's every bit as good as (or better than) you'd imagine. These 9 issues bring in the Hellfire Club, Sebastian Shaw and Emma Frost, Dazzler, KITTY F'IN PRYDE, Senator Robert Kelly, and a bunch of unforgettable random henchmen like "Murray" and "Jacko." Plus, the return of Angel, a creepy old villain, and –for a second– Peter Corbeau (with his clothes on). This story was so big that Matt and Pat couldn't handle it alone, so they brought in the very funny actor and fight choreographer QUINTON J. ALEXANDER to help! The drama is high. The action is intense. The characterizations are note-perfect. The consequences are far-reaching. And Matt, Pat, and Quinton are stoked about it. Topics Include: Scott wasn't thinking about it! Professor X can't stop getting cucked. Giving a 47-year-old man 10 demerits. Why didn't they buy Blob ice cream? A blowing-guys-up epidemic. DISCO DAZZLER. Emma Frost is not hot, she's just rich! An awkward Blackbird flight. "It's okay to be scared, as long as I don't let my fear foul me up." Goons are people, too. A teapot bun. We always comment when someone is shirtless. John Byrne Techno-Tunnels. Harry Leland sucks. Emma Frost is a super inventor? Why people like Wolverine. "If woman become powerful… She start kiss everybody?" #TheyBonedontheButte The X-Men Plummeting To The Ground Rule. The Book of Hells. "A galaxy far, far away." Just a basic pnemonic scrambler. Angel is also here. Professor X fucks up everything. No one got to pack jammies. The Blue Area of the Moon. A robot that's two robots, my one weakness! The Watcher sucks. "Impies." We all get choked up. Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Join our new Discord: https://discord.gg/fPv7hRgTeV Instagram: @mutantmenacepod

Issues Covered: The Champions #11-17, Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #17-18, Incredible Hulk Annual #7 We're losing our goddamn minds. In the second installment of our marathon record of the entire 1975 run of the Champions, we start falling apart! Were humans even meant to podcast this long?  Topics Discussed: John Byrne is here! The Two-Gun Kid makes an appearance. Bill Mantlo still the worst. Stilt Man?!? The Stranger?!? Kamo Tharn?!? Hive?!? This is all so stupid (Pat, you can't do this in the description!!) The Champscraft. Former Nazi and avid Beekeeper. Bees everywhere. A bunch of other issues we forgot about. Beast?!? Magneto?!? Dr. Doom?!?Jimmy Carter?!? Vanisher?!? Boy this stays stupid. Spidey?!? The Hulk?!? Terri Sue Bottoms!?!?!? Matt and Pat deliriously sound tf off. Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Join our new Discord: https://discord.gg/rEwuSmfU Instagram: @mutantmenacepod

Matt and Pat are depriving themselves of sleep so that they can bring you a marathon episode of TEN ISSUES of THE CHAMPIONS in a row! It's gonna be a wild ride, as we catch up with former and future X-Men Angel and Iceman in Los Angeles.  New Russian teacher Black Widow, guest lecturer Hercules, delivery boy Ghost Rider, and students Angel and Iceman all meet up on the campus of UCLA and the absurdity just continues from there. Strap in and get yourself a pizza because this is gonna get weird. Topics discussed: JENNY ISABELLA! Dadfriend. Questionable mythology (in the book, and from the podcast). WHY ARE THEY ALL THERE? A trustworthy cadre of devils. Huntsman is maybe the worst character we've ever met. The Warren Commission. Making a deal with the Devil sucks. Diva Ghost Rider. An Instrument of Peace. There's gonna be a murder in Malibu! "Friend...?" Whoops, Warren's parents are dead. Everybody is Charles Bronson. Iceman's big pouty lips. You can't push lawyers. An AI summary of Spider-Man's core value. ICEMAN COMETH COUNT: 4. Vince Colletta inking over backgrounds. Bullying someone into hiring a lawyer. DARKSTAR! Angel gets his gas bombs back! Three people spying on the Champions all at once. "The Heroes for the Common Man." Ripping out a wall to chase a child. The TITANIUM man? BOB HALL. He survives but he explodes to death. Ghost Rider would make a terrible EMT. A device that tracks pearls that look like each other. "Lenin's Comrade, comrade!" Dick Fenster: Boy Public Relations Man. Black Widow pulls a Ferris Beuller. THE SPOILERS! How is Johnny Blaze's identity secret!?? Darkstar has every power. The Champions abandon a plane in midair.  Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Instagram: @mutantmenacepod

Not much of an intro this week. We've really gotta start doing more X-Men related stuff, I guess. But then we get into a rip-roaring, intense few issues where we finally meet the elusive MUTANT X (remember? from the door?)! Also, just fair warning, there's some pretty rough stuff in this one (CW: descriptions and discussion of sexual assault and rape) Topics Include: Angus MacWhirter?? Jean and Moira are serving looks on Muir Island. Just who the hell is this Jason Wynnegarde guy?? We don't trust him. Subtly cucked in space. What a beautiful Scott and Hank reunion. A less-than-beautiful Scott and Jean reunion. Claremont HATES Jamie Madrox. The Trenchcoat. Oh no, Ferdie Duncan! Jean hunts a human. Wolverine's skeleton is metal?? We don't have to call him Mutant X anymore. Scott never forgets a slight. "That's not what you said when the Leprechauns were here." Has Moira MacTaggert lost her damn mind?! Sparring in the hot cocoa grove. A sharp sweater on a horrible man. Dai Thomas! This stuff is pretty fucking dark. Does Proteus make sense? Do these bees have souls? The horror of being enclosed in the earth. "OWW!" Now let's do a silly one. Danger Room antics. Arkon the half-nude cave viking. The Imperion! Colossus on a dragon!! Storm's great sacrifice – or Scott's? The difference between Claremont and Thomas. Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/]

PLUS: Power Man & Iron Fist #56-57  After an unbelievably long journey, the X-Men FINALLY MAKE it home! But first, they have to stop in Calgary, Alberta and fight a brand new super-team named ALPHA FLIGHT. And THEN they make it home... BUT FIRST AGAIN they have to visit Iron Fist, obviously, and meet up with the worst cameo villain ever. And THEN they make it home. And INSTANTLY have to deal with a new dork who puts them in a big pinball machine. Topics Include: Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Jeryn Hogarth, Lawyerboss. "I LIKE the X-Men." Cyclops is gonna kill ALPHA FLIGHT. Burt. Major Mapleleaf. Darice Duck. Is Mutant Menace going to read Alpha Flight? "That stinks, mister!"  Cyclops hates Canada. The Living Monolith crouching in an empty apartment. The traditional X-Men visit to Iron Fist. Why do Misty Knight and Scott Summers not talk!? Misty scolds Scott... Twice! Iron Fist and Havok really get into it. A big bag of Cheops. Three Archaeologists = One Mutant. Who is Jason Wyngarde? Nightcrawlers greatest fear: Bumper cars with buzzsaws! Proletarian? Arcade's permits. Cracklin' Rosa. What's the point of a Robot Magneto? Betsy is DONE. Cyclaugh! Pat admits to a Federal Crime! Write in to Pat's Email Corner: mutantmenacepod@gmail.com Instagram: @mutantmenacepod [https://www.instagram.com/mutantmenacepod/]