Great X-pectations: An X-men Discussion Podcast

Explicit Content MUSIC INTRO - "Jolene" - Dolly Parton Sean and Gerry are back again for the second time after an X years hiatus! This time we're dealing with the fallout of Marvel's (in?)famous 1984's Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars! We cover Uncanny X-Men 181-183 by Chris Claremont and John Romita Jr. 181- The X-Men return from Battleworld, but to Japan instead of NY. They fight a giant dragon and Wolverine's family gets one little girl bigger. 182- We learn just how much the events of Avengers Annual #10 have changed Rogue's life, as she attempts to save the life of the only man she's ever loved. 183- You demanded it! It's Colossus vs. #Juggs as Kitty Pryde's world is turned upside down. MUSIC OUTRO - "Careless Whisper" - Wham! You can ALWAYS find all of our past episodes at gxpod.podbean.com OR FIND IT ON ITUNES AND STITCHER! Follow us on Twitter @GXPod *FUCK TWITTER*and and on Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/groups/GXPod/ Album art borrowed without permission from Marvel Entertainment GXPod logo by Ju

Explicit Content MUSIC INTRO - "Welcome Back" - John Sebastian Sean and Gerry are back after an X years hiatus! We recorded a special episode to help celebrate the legendary Marvel Noise Podcast's 400th episode, but in case you missed it we're bringing it to you here. Buckle up, because we're taking on 1984's Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars! MUSIC OUTRO - "Heart and Soul" - Howard Shore You can ALWAYS find all of our past episodes at gxpod.podbean.com OR FIND IT ON ITUNES AND STITCHER! Follow us on Twitter @GXPod *FUCK TWITTER*and and on Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/groups/GXPod/ Album art borrowed without permission from Marvel Entertainment GXPod logo by Justin Peterson. Follow him at @justinpeterson

Explicit Content MUSIC INTRO - "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Mambo" - Billy May Sean and Gerry shoot the breeze, catching up on what's happened since Episode 54 a mere 2 weeks ago. Sean gives a massive retrospective on his sequential reread. Hot Cocoa is drunk in Claremontean fashion. MUSIC OUTRO - "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" - John Denver and the Muppets Look us up at http://greatx-pectations.tumblr.com/ You can ALWAYS find all of our past episodes at gxpod.podbean.com OR FIND IT ON ITUNES AND STITCHER! Follow us on Twitter @GXPod and and on Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/groups/GXPod/ Album art by Baron Strucker. Follow his monacled ass on twitter @BaronVStrucker GXPod logo by Justin Peterson. Follow him at @justinpeterson

Explicit Content MUSIC INTRO - "School's Out" - Alice Cooper Sean and Gerry fly solo together (?) in this episode! We first discuss Uncanny X-Men #180 by Claremont and JRJr. This issue is the final hashing out of Kitty and Ororo's differences, and a lead-in to both Secret Wars and the New Mutants arc we'll be discussing next! Then we move on to New Mutants #15-17, where the New Mutants try to free Kitty Pryde from the clutches of The White Queen (cue Alan) and her own teen super team, The Hellions! MUSIC OUTRO - "Warpath" - Ingrid Michaelson You can ALWAYS find all of our past episodes at gxpod.podbean.co OR FIND IT ON ITUNES AND STITCHER! Follow us on Twitter @GXPod and and on Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/groups/GXPod/ Album art by Baron Strucker. Follow his monacled ass on twitter @BaronVStrucker GXPod logo by Justin Peterson. Follow him at @justinpeterson

Explicit Content MUSIC INTRO - "Do You Believe In Magic" - The Loving Spoonful Sean and Gerry aren't sharing this time, because this is one of Gerry's favorites! First up is Uncanny X-Men #177 "Sanction" by Claremont, JRJr, and JRSr! The X-Men have stolen something precious from Mystique and she wants revenge! Then we discuss Uncanny X-Men 178 "Hell Hath No Fury" by Claremont, JRJr, and Wiacek Kitty scrambles to save a life, while the X-Men go toe-to-toe with the Brotherhood of Mutants! We then hit the last book in the arc, Uncanny X-Men 179 "Whatever Happened To Kitty?" by Claremont, JRJr, and Green The Morlocks come a-callin' to collect on an old bill. Lastly, we talk about one of our favorite characters- MAGIK! in New Mutants #14 : Do You Believe In -- MAGIK??? by Claremont, Buscema, and Mandrake This is the story that brings Illyana Rasputin into the fold, and is the story that frames the entire Magik miniseries we discussed with Wendi Freeman in Ep. 20! *IF YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED TO EP 20, GO DO IT NOW

Explicit Content MUSIC INTRO - "The girl fro Ipanema" - Astrud Gilberto & Stan Getz NO EDITS! Sean and Gerry tackle this one solo, and talk about: New Mutants 11-13, introducing Magma to the New Mutants, AND giving us Doug Ramsey's first appearance! Then, we delve into the first issue of John Romita's Uncanny X-men run, discussing Uncanny X-Men #176 *mea culpa: Gerry was old enough to catch the reference to "Tales of the Gold Monkey" in UXM 176, but missed it. It's missing from the episode, and tearing him up inside. Scott and Madelyne's honeymoon destination is Bora Gora - The home port of Jake Cutter and his Cutter's Goose! MUSIC OUTRO - "I Would Walk 500 Miles" - The Proclaimers Our podcast, as always, can be found at http://earth2.podbea Find us at greatx-pectations.com You can find all of our past episodes at gxpod.podbean.com OR FIND IT ON ITUNES AND STITCHER! Follow us on Twitter @GXPod and and on Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/groups/GXPod/ GXPod logo by Justin Peterson. Follow him at @j

Explicit Content MUSIC INTRO - "The X-Team" Sean and Gerry bring back their A-Team, Alan "New Mutant" White and Steve Raker, to finish off the Paul Smith Uncanny run by discussing UXM #174 and 175. Then, we throw in a very quick discussion of mutant appearances in Marvel Team-Up Annual #6 and #135 You'll hear about: -4 beer Gerry! -The Starjammers' origin in Classic X-Men #15! Claremont/Bolton -Professor X's love life cramped by the Brood -Kitty really an adult playing a kid? -Character moments -Done in one storytelling -Scott showing he really is the best X-Man -Mastermind -A new appreciation for PMS -Our introduction to JRJr -Sober Gerry -Cloak and Dagger! -Human Morlocks? MUSIC OUTRO - "Fingerhut" - Biffy Clyro Our podcast, as always, can be found at http://earth2.podbean.com along with our Earth2 pals (Earth2, Comic Book Bears, The Womb Mates, The Boob Toob, and New Worlds) Find us at greatx-pectations.com You can find all of our past episodes at gxpod.podbean.com OR FIND IT ON ITUNES AND STITCHER! Fol

Explicit Content MUSIC INTRO - "The X-Team" Sean and Gerry bring in their A-Team, Alan "New Mutant" White and Steve Raker, to go deep into New Mutants #7-10. You'll hear about: -1 beer Gerry! -The death of Karma? -Bobby Da Costa's mom! Does she look familiar? -The dreaded Axe -2 beer Gerry! -Nova Roma! -The first appearance of Amara Juliana Olivians Aquilla! -The first appearance of Selene! -Drunken teenage antics! -3 beer Gerry! Look for us in just 1 week when we return with a special bonus episode! That's right! Three straight weeks of GXPod! MUSIC OUTRO - "Volcano" - U2 Our podcast, as always, can be found at http://earth2.podbean.com along with our Earth2 pals (Earth2, Comic Book Bears, The Womb Mates, The Boob Toob, and New Worlds) Find us at greatx-pectations.com You can find all of our past episodes at gxpod.podbean.com OR FIND IT ON ITUNES AND STITCHER! Follow us on Twitter @GXPod and and on Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/groups/GXPod/ Find New Mutant on twitter @newmutant and at thepowerprinc

Explicit Content MUSIC INTRO - "Welcome to Japan" - The Strokes Happy New Year! Sean and Gerry bring in the mighty Zack Kruse, organizer of Appleseed Comics and Arts Convention, host of "The Quad," and writer of "Mystery Solved!" to drop knowledge about the Claremont/Miller/Rubinstein Wolverine mini-series of 1982! Then we go solo to give the blow-by-blow for Uncanny X-Men #172-173! You know what? I don't feel like writing notes. Listen to the show. MUSIC OUTRO - "Lovers in Japan" - Coldplay Our podcast, as always, can be found at http://earth2.podbean.com along with our Earth2 pals (Earth2, Comic Book Bears, The Womb Mates, The Boob Toob, and New Worlds) Find us at greatx-pectations.com YDID YOU KNOW YOU CAN FIND ALL OF OUR EPISODES AT gxpod.podbean.com OR FIND IT ON ITUNES AND STITCHER! Follow us on Twitter @GXPod and and on Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/groups/GXPod/ Find Zack on twitter @zackkruse and at http://zackkruse.tumblr.com/, and for the love of all that's holy, visit http://appleseedcon.

MUSIC INTRO - "O Tannenbaum" - Vince Guaraldi Trio Sean and Gerry slip into the Christmas spirit and discuss ! We discuss our most coveted pages of original X-Men art: Uncanny #211 pg 21, Colossus vs Riptide - Brett Blevins & Al Williamson Uncanny X-Men #209 pg 14 John Romita Jr. & P. Craig Russell Bizzare Adventures #27 pg 43 - Dave Cockrum Astonishing X-Men Vol 2 #4 pg 21 - John Cassaday Astonishing X-Men Vol 2 #22 pg 24 - John Cassaday Uncanny X-Men 132 final page - John Byrne & Terry Austin Uncanny #134 pg 4 - John Byrne & Terry Austin X-Men #69 pg 1 - Pacheco/Larocca/Thibert Uncanny X-Men #173 pg 12 - Paul Martin Smith & Bob Wiacek Uncanny X-Men 275 pgs 10-11 Jim Lee & Scott Williams Uncanny X-men Annual #9 pg 1 - Art Adams Uncanny X-Men #287 pg 15 John Romita Jr. & Scott Williams Our X-Men related Christmas traditions, and The Island of Misfit Mutants. MUSIC OUTRO - "Stille Nacht" - performed by Don Cardenas T'was the Night Before X-Mas written by Gerry McDade and Sean

Sean and Gerry discuss Ultimate X-Men #54-57 with guest Mike Mullins, then tackle New Mutants #4-6! MUSIC INTRO - "Are You Ready?" - Devo -Mullins' comics origin -Your house is on fire, what do you save? -Ultimate Bobby Drake - douche. -The Most Dangerous game and its offspring: The Running Man, Battle Royale, Hunger Games -Silver Spoons! (Sean and Mullins don't know who Erin Gray is and it kills Gerry inside.) -Struggling to put together the chronology of the Ultimate Universe. -What we thought worked and didn't work with the Ultimate Universe in the early days. -Ultimate Colossus & Nightcrawler vs our beloved 616 versions -Ultimate Arcade and Gamergate -Ultimate Spiral! Mullins hates them furry boots! -Dr. Doom, Doom War, Dr. Strange & Dr. Doom: Triumph & Torment *BARON STRUCKER RETURNS!* -The results of the Strucker Challenge-New Mutants! -Stevie Hunter -Those sweet, sweet McLeod inks -Thoughtful character creation -Fish Face? -Eye Boy? -Hijack! -Discussing the challenges of making great X-Me

Sean and Gerry discuss Uncanny X-Men #168-171, Marvel Fanfare #24, and X-Men Annual #6 with Alan White!   MUSIC INTRO - "Down Under" - Men At Work   Shout out to the Cos! Wait. What? NO! Kitty Pryde. Sweet tantrumy Kitty. Illyana, THAT friend. Paul Smith draws Ellen Page 25 years before Ellen Page. The quality of Paul Smith's line - simplicity implies detail The Twitter spoiler machine What is Twitter really for, then? Axis #5 - SPOILERS - discussing artists hitting or not hitting the important details. The movie universe bleeding into the comics. Wolverine's face! Storm wears fur. You read that right. Storm's losing control of her powers. Was this leading somewhere? How Storm got her unique look. Lee Forrester is back! Nighcrawler brings a special package to Amanda Sefton. Or does he have 2 packages??? Great Ads - Spider-Man's Christmas ad, and a Bill Willingham D&D ad! Hey, why NOT talk about D&D on an X-Men podcast? Alan's Madelyne Pryor story! Warren Worthington has a private

Sean and Gerry discuss Marvel Graphic Novel #5: God Loves, Man Kills with guests Jim Johnson and BRENT ANDERSON?! MUSIC INTRO - "Losing My Religion"(instrumental) - R.E.M. JJ tells us how Sean always makes a good first impression Red Skull Incarnate Age of Ultron Archie's got a way with the ladies. Betty or Veronica? TRUST US, THIS IS AN X-MEN PODCAST JJ's comics origin story: X-Men #112 Operation Zero Tolerance! Morrisson/Quitely's New X-Men What Do Artists Do All Day, featuring Frank Quitely: http://youtu.be/Uy6lSE0bTeA http://youtu.be/CQhmkarzA1k Sean coming to terms with the run, Tank Emma replacing Colossus Cyclops was right, or what? New X-Men from any direction! Anyone out there Finally, God Loves Man Kills! Dark Phoenix Saga, Days of Future Past The graphic novel format was... novel! Death of Captain Marvel by Jim Starlin, Elric: The Dreaming City by P. Craig Russell, Dreadstar by Starlin, New Mutants by Claremont and McLeod Pushback over Brent Anderson as the artist at the time, but come on. He

Sean and Gerry discuss Marvel Team-Up #100 and The New Mutants Graphic Novel and issues 1-3 with guest BOB MCLEOD! MUSIC INTRO - "Karma Police" - Radiohead In this mega ultra sized episode, Gerry and Sean clean up their act and keep it classy and all ages as they spend a couple hours at Genre Con 2014, held at the Livonia Public Library in scenic Livonia, MI -Our first discussion is of Chris Claremont and Frank Miller's double sized Marvel Team-Up #100, featuring the origin of Karma and a great backup story by Claremont, Byrne, and McLeod telling the tale of Storm and Black Panther's first meeting -Then we move on to one of Gerry's personal favorite stories, Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants We spend a good bit of time on this book, so if you love it, you'll love our conversation, and if you've never read it you'll learn why you SHOULD! -We move on to our impressions of New Mutants Vol. 1 #1-3, all penciled by Bob McLeod, before moving on to our Main Event... -A 1 hour interview with the man hims

  Explicit Content Sean and Gerry discuss Uncanny X-Men #162-167! MUSIC INTRO - "Infected" - Bad Religion Out with the Cockrum, in with the Smith! Scolding the listeners for turning on Gerry in the Strucker Sketch Challenge. Charles Xavier is not a nice person. Claremont's "wordiness" and what we think about it (again...) Wolverine's heavy drug use leads to interesting life choices Why Cockrum is perfect for this story Wolverine hooking up with Carol Danvers?/Kitty Pryde?/Storm? The Brood Queen is an early hint that Marvel and Disney will unite. The Brood as the stuff of nightmares. Plotting the death of Wolverine then and now. Shooter's New Universe and the New New Universe by Ellis and Larocca. The fate of Fang I. Michael Golden's Superprint Colossus: Weakest willed X-Man? X-Ladies go crazy in Shi'ar space! Holiday special! X-Mas comes early for Chloe and Finn R.I.P. Saturday morning cartoons. Gabe Kaplan Illyana ignored as a potential New Mutant. The relationship between Storm's powers and the Earth. C

Great X-Pectations Episode 24 - Enter the Starjammers! Explicit Content What we did for summer vacation! Sean's evil thorn in his side Gerry's run of conventions: Wizard World Chicago, Toronto Fan Expo, Cincy ComiCon A Fraction of an opinion of Fraction's work: Casanova, Defenders, Iron Man, Hawkeye, and (of course) X-Men Sean's problem with Utopia RIP Bendis Board Bendis's X-Men -What's Maria Hill doing in all these X-stories??? -The Ultimate Universe crossing over -What we dug/ didn't dig about the Ultimate U Bucking the completist attitude Taking a hard look at our comic collections What are those old books worth to us, anyway? What are we willing to let them go for? Trying to understand the back issue market digital vs paper U2 and how "stuff" doesn't mean as much anymore Gravity Falls and Girl Meets World Sean is hurting because of all the Cyclops hatred and Wolverine love. Sean's origin story and his relationship with the Church. Cyclop's change in attitude. Writers using fan complaints to screw with

Great X-Pectations Episode 23: NO EDITS Explicit Content Sean and Gerry discuss Uncanny X-Men #151-155! MUSIC INTRO - "Elmer Fudd Sings Bruce Springsteen" - Robin Williams *HEADS UP - THERE IS LOUD INTERMITTENT YELLING IN THIS EPISODE.* Buckle up, everyone. You're getting this episode IN THE RAW. That's right. No edits! Why? Because we didn't feel like it, that's why! -Kitty is sent to the Massachussetts Academy and the clutches of Emma Frost!!! -Storm and The White Queen swap bodies! -Kitty's Fairy Tale! -The first reference to Lockheed! -The return of Corsair! -The introduction of the Brood! -Deathbird! -Corsair reveals that he is Scott's father! -Lilandra kidnapped! -Professor X promoted to Chief Regent Bang Buddy! MUSIC OUTRO - "In the Garage" - Weezer Rest in Peace Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall. We thank you! We have a Tumblr page!!! greatx-pectations.tumblr.com/ Follow us on Twitter @GXPod and find our Facebook group- https://www.facebook.com/groups/GXPod/ Album art by Baron Strucker. Foll

Great X-Pectations Episode 22: Ooh La La Badoon Explicit Content Sean and Gerry dig into some X-teamups! MUSIC INTRO - "Walk the Dinosaur" - Was (Not Was) -We discuss Uncanny X-Men Annual #5, written by Chris Claremont, with art by Brent Anderson and Bob McLeod. This story features a team-up with the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men's old villain-turned-ally, Arkon! -We then leave the X-Books into uncharted waters, making first time visits to Marvel Fanfare #1-4! -Marvel Fanfare #1 & #2 feature the writing of Chris Claremont and the art of Michael Golden. Angel and Spider-Man team up to search the Savage Land for Karl Lykos, and there's a Ka-Zar appearance! -Marvel Fanfare #3 is written by Claremont and is graced with the art team of Dave Cockrum and Bob McLeod. Angel brings in The X-Men to face the threat of Sauron! -Marvel Fanfare #4 is written by Claremont and features Paul Martin Smith's first X-Men story. You have to see it to believe this conclusion to the Sauron quadrilogy! MUSIC OUTRO - "Ooh

MUSIC INTRO - "Watch Your Step” – Dan Phillips featuring Anna Abbey and the Marvel Music Group -Gerry and Sean make a plan that they’ll probably break next week -Gerry gets ambushed by Sean! -Spider-Woman and the introduction of Siryn -2 seconds later, Sean derails…. -A GXPod drinking game is discussed -Spider-Woman! Quite the badass. -Black Tom & The Juggernaut! -Gerry & Sean hate changes to Colossus -Regina piles! -Peter David X-Factor talk -Poor decisions at funerals have been made -#reXamined -Colossus vs. Juggernaut, always a favorite -Great Colossus one liners & catchphrases! -What a country -Gerry’s comic crush -Share in the joy, read along! -Lee Forrester needs to learn how to read a room -Who needs a danger room? -Wolverine NO! -Father/Daughter reunion -Caliban just wants love -Kitty Pryde to the rescue? -Magneto returns -Xavier’s past with Magneto -Kitty’s worst costume yet -Garokk and that damn lava base! -Find out what happens in 150 in the Earth 2 anthology episode! -******** Annual

Great X-Pectations Episode 20: Magik Explicit Content Wendi Freeman of the Double Page Spread Podcast joins us to talk about her favorite Mutant Mini, Magik: Storm & Illyana! MUSIC INTRO - "Oh Ho Ho It's Magic" - Pilot Big brother is the gateway drug again! Wendi's a drummer? WENDI'S A DRUMMER!!! m/ Digression time, buckle up! -Let's talk Dune and Watchmen and Doctor Who and Blade Runner. Why not? -Following creators vs following characters -Marvel Age! Wizard Magazine! Diamond Previews! Back to the X-Talk -the innovation of setting an entire miniseries between the space of two panels! -She's all growns up and she's all growns up and she's all growns up! - #Ballsacko -Where Magik rates in the X-Universe as a concept and a character -The character design for Limbo's Kitty Pryde -All X-Roads lead to tragedy. Will this include the 616? -Which path do you take, sword or sorcery? -The reproductive health of some of your favorite people -Why aren't the young characters allowed to grow up and become real X-M