Mutant Studies 101

Better late than never, students! We are finally getting our X-Men 97 coverage up on our feed for ya! Justin Jordan returns to discuss everything episodes 3 and 4!

Alright, time to lock in and get organized students! For this special BONUS Episode, your hosts are joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning National Security reporter and comics writer Spencer Ackerman (Reign of Terror, Iron Man, Waller v. Wildstorm, Forever Wars) to talk about his new book from Boom! Studios NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC.Topics include: How the book functions as a tool guide for fighting fascism, comics as copaganda, the difficulty of writing a book like this, how it uses the form in interesting ways, basketball, and Dean being stuck in a package room in Toronto, Ontario.You can find Spencer @attackerman on Bluesky and at forever-wars.com. You can find Morgan @beakerbarnes and Dean @deancoburnld. You can find the show on Instagram @mutantstudies101. Links to our show notes, transcripts, and citations can be found at mutantstudies101.tumblr.com.As always, we'd like to thank Ollie Pritchard and Hayden Kierkeide for our music and graphic design, respectively.

Welcome into the terrifying world of adulthood, students! For this week's BONUS episode, your professors are joined by returning guests Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, better known as the Hivemind, to talk about their upcoming creator-owned book YOU'LL NEVER LEAVE THIS PLACE ALIVE. Final order cutoff is TODAY, so get the order in and then give the ep a listen!You can follow the Hivemind @hivemindactual on TikTok, Instagram, and Bluesky. You can follow the show @mutantstudies101 on Instagram and Bluesky and @mutant101pod on Twitter and TikTok. Links to our show notes, transcripts, and citations can all be found at mutantstudies101.tumblr.com.As always, we'd like to thank Ollie Pritchard for our theme music, Hayden Kierkeide for our graphic design, and Anneliese Gelberg for their research assistance.

It's time to RIOT, Students! For this lecture, your professors are joined by the absolutely LOVELY hosts of the X-Men True Friends podcast Kyle Gibson and Joshua Catone to dive DEEP into Quentin Quire-related shenanigansContent Warning: This episode contains discussion of school shootings, teenage drug use, and the alt-rightYou can follow the show @mutantstudies101 on Instagram. You can follow the True Friends @xmentruefriendspodcast. You can find links to our show notes, transcripts, and citations at mutantstudies101.tumblr.com.As always we'd like to thank Ollie Pritchard for our theme music, Hayden Kierkeide for our art, and Annelids Gilbert for our research assistance

Be prepared to start our psychic affairs and absorb the sins of the father, students! For this week's lecture, your professors are diving REALLY deep into New X-Men 127-133, titled New Worlds. Joining us is comics scholar and host of the SubteXt-Men podcast Chapman Blake!Topics for this lecture include: Diving further into what Xorn means and represents in this run, unpacking what exactly is the deal with Fantomex, a psychoanalysis of the O5 (but who's shocked), the beginnings of the psychic affair, our VERY complicated feelings on Sooraya Qadir, and more!Content Warning: This lecture contains discussions of genocide, the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and sexual manipulation.You can follow SubteXt-Men on Instagram and Bluesky @subtextmenpod and Chapman @chapmancblake. As always, we'd like to thank OlliePhresh for our theme music, Hayden Kierkeide for our art, and Anneliese Gelberg for their research assistance