Mutant Menace
Mutant Menace
Podcast Description
An X-Men podcast, where Matt Aukamp (Save Your Game, The Very Worst) and Pat Reber (The Very Worst) read the X-Men in chronological order talk about all the weird, funny, ridiculous, insightful, and interesting things within.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast covers a variety of themes including the bizarre and humorous elements of the X-Men comics, political commentary related to storylines, and character development. Early episodes delve into the origins of main characters like Cyclops and Magneto, exploring their quirks and relation dynamics, while also highlighting strange plot points such as Professor X's questionable behavior and the antics of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
Comedians Matt Aukamp (Save Your Game, The Very Worst) and Pat Reber (The Very Worst) read the X-Men in chronological order and talk about all the weird, funny, ridiculous, insightful, and interesting things within.
MAGNETO tries to settle into his new role as the headmaster of the New Mutants this week, and boy do things go wrong. Everyone dies! Just kidding. Or are we? Tune in to find out, folks, in what turns out to be a realllly good run of issues, even amidst the turdstorm of Secret Wars II!
TOPICS DISCUSSED:
The Odyssey rejects. The new Spider-Man movie. Mary Wilshire and Bill Sienkiewicz! He’s still doing supervillain stuff. The original X-Men would never have sex. “Also, I’m very sad.” Chris Claremont’s The Beyonder. John Wayne. Believing in the Grim Reaper. Counting coup. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Everyone’s dead. More Secret Wars II stuff. “You made her go to hell.” Charles Xavier’s mysterious older cousin, Michael Xavier is here! Avengers sleepwear. Steve Garvey’s Space Jam.
TIMESTAMPS:
4:52 – Pat’s Email Corner
24:32 – New Mutants #35 : “The Times, They Are A’changin’!”
55:21 – New Mutants #36 : Subway to Salvation
1:04:06 – New Mutants #37: “If I Should Die”
1:31:14 – New Mutants #38: “Aftermath”
1:47:59 – New Mutants #39: “Pawns of the White Queen”
1:59:48 – New Mutants #40: “Avengers Assemble!”
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