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.
There comes a time in every little girl’s life where she must shed the follies of youth and grow into a super-cool secret ninja assassin mutant with her big hairy friend Wolverine. And this, for Kitty Pryde, is that time.
Matt and Pat dig into the 6-issue miniseries KITTY PRYDE AND WOLVERINE from 1984 and are pretty damn stoked about it.
Topics Discussed:
Family-owned banks. A sumo wrestler in a fine Italian suit. The dumbest we’ve ever seen Kitty Pryde. Two bank break-ins. SHE REEKS. Wolverine’s sweater crop-top. “Yes. We shall do crimes together.” Ninja baby. Best Kitty costume yet! ITBTIAWIDBWIDBIVN. Boning on the rooftops. STINK BOMB! Logan covers himself in trash. Does Yukio care about dying? “STOP HANGING OUT WITH YUKIO!” How do you stab Wolverine in the heart? Whiny Carmen Pryde. THE RETURN OF THE UPDRAFT. Logun. Share the bridges! Rocky IV. Thor Winter! “Agghhh! Ghost!” Wild genes. SHADOWCAT!!! Mariko’s Mariko wig. “SURPRISE SUCKER!” “screwed her on the roof.”
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 – Intro
6:35 – Pat’s Email Corner
24:45 – X-Men Related Things
28:55 – Background
31:50 – Issue #1 “Lies”
45:45 – Issue #2 “Terror”
53:48 – Issue #3 “Death”
1:03:30 – Issue #4 “Rebirth”
1:19:20 – Issue #5 “Courage”
1:31:22 – Issue #6 “Honor
1:49:38 – [REDACTED]’s Steals and Deals
1:54:05 – Goodbyes!
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