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Tuesday, January 4, 2022

X-Lapsed, Episode 297 - X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #4 (2022)

X-Lapsed, Episode Two Hundred Ninety-Seven

X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #4 (January, 2022)
"Verdigris"
Writer - Leah Williams
Art - Lucas Werneck & David Messina
Colors - Edgar Delgao
Letters - VC's Clayton Cowles
Design - Tom Muller
Head of X - Hickman
Edits - Amaro, White, Cebulski
Cover Price: $3.99
On-Sale: November 17, 2021

Coming to us from the "Oh, is THAT still coming out?" pile - it's the skatey-eight hundredth attempt to "fix" the Scarlet Witch! A character who they seem to break more every time they touch her! Who knows... maybe THIS time, it'll stick! Ya know, until the next superstar writer comes in and decides to ignore it...

Anyway, let's do this!

Plus: A full-on Mailbag segment, a belated "This Week in X", and a big question for friends of the show - Share with me YOUR "State of the X Books", lemme know what your thoughts are about this, arguably "lame duck" period in the line!

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Tuesday, December 7, 2021

X-Lapsed, Episode 288 - Marvel's Voices: Identity #1 (2021)

X-Lapsed, Episode Two Hundred Eighty-Eight

Marvel's Voices: Identity #1 (October, 2021)
"That One Thing"
"Personal Heroes"
"Traditional Pink Sushi"
And from Marvel's Voices: Pride #1: "When a Black Cat Crosses Your Path, You Give Them the Right-of-Way"
Writers - Christina Strain, Alyssa Wong, Ken Niimura, & Leah Williams
Art - Jason Loo, Whilce Portacio, Ken Niimura, & Jan Bazaldua
Colors - Christina Strain, Jay David Ramos, Ken Niimura, & Erick Arciniega
Letters - VC's Joe Sabino & Ariana Maher
Design - Carlos Lao
Edits - Brunstad, Roche, Gregorowicz, Shan, Cebulski
Cover Price: $5.99
On-Sale : August 25, 2021

Righting the wrong of... forgetting to discuss this Marvel's Voices one-shot back in October!

Today's a "Just the X, ma'am!" look at Marvel's Voices: Identity... covering three stories that are... kinda just there! Plus, we right a second wrong when I go back to Marvel's Voices: Pride #1 to discuss the Jesse Drake story that I didn't even realize I missed!

Plus, we've got Destiny of X and X-Men Unlimited news... and, as this is the "November Finale", we're deep-diving the Sales of X for August, 2021!

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Monday, November 29, 2021

X-Lapsed, Episode 282 - X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #3 (2021)

X-Lapsed 282 - X-Men: Trial of Magneto 3

X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #3 (December, 2021)
"Schrodinger's Corpse"
Writer - Leah Williams
Art - Lucas Werneck & David Messina
Colors - Edgar Delgado
Letters - VC's Clayton Cowles
Design - Tom Muller
Head of X - Hickman
Edits - Andrew-Ballesteros, Amaro, Thomas, White, Cebulski
Cover Price: $3.99
On-Sale: November 20, 2021

It's "hump day" for the (bordering on false-advertising) Trial of Magneto... and you all know what that means - it's time for a pointless fight to take up two-thirds of the issue!

Yes, folks - while we wonder what's going on with Wanda... and whether or not Magneto will be held responsible, the X-Men and Avengers team-up to fight off... giant kaiju monsters? Oh... okay.

In addition to the story, we will touch briefly on the concept of the Triple Goddess concept from Neopaganism -- which might just be where this story will be headed once we get ridda Godzilla and Pals.

Plus - Mailbag, Shout-Outs, and news and hot-takes over whatever "Destiny of X" is going to be!

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Thursday, October 14, 2021

X-Lapsed, Episode 261 - X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #2 (2021)

X-Lapsed, Episode Two Hundred Sixty-One

X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #2 (November, 2021)

"Welcome to Krakoa"

Writer - Leah Williams

Art - Lucas Werneck

Colors - Edgar Delgado

Letters - VC's Clayton Cowles

Design - Tom Muller

Head of X - Hickman

Edits - Andrews-Ballesteros, Amaro, Thomas, White, Cebulski

Cover Price: $3.99

On-Sale: September 15, 2021

Wanda - How can we miss you if you won't stay dead?

Today we continue working our way through one of the event miniseries which will take us into the next phase of the X-Books! The Avengers have popped in for a visit... and to pick up Wanda's remains - only to find themselves embroiled in a battle with her former father figure!

We're going to talk a whole lot about Cerebro backups, telepathic torture, and so much more!

Plus - Mailbag, Shout-Outs, and News - oh, my!

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Friday, September 24, 2021

X-Lapsed, Episode 250 - X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #1 (2021)

X-Lapsed, Episode Two Hundred Fifty

X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #1 (October, 2021)

"Dial M for Wanda"

Writer - Leah Williams

Art - Lucas Werneck

Colors - Edgar Delgado

Letters - VC's Clayton Cowles

Design - Tom Muller

Head of X - Hickman

Edits - Andrews-Ballesteros, Amaro, Thomas, White, Cebulski

Cover Price: $4.99

On-Sale: August 18, 2021

Friends, we have arrived at 1/4 of 1000 episodes of X-Lapsed... and what better way to celebrate than by kicking off one of our most anticipated series'? This one's been a long time coming... and, we might eventually look back at is as the first domino being tipped over in wrapping up the Hickman Era!

Plus: Mailbag, Shout-Outs, Gushy Thank Yous, and the announcement of the X-Lapsed Patreon Launch (along with the entire first episode of the Patreon X-Clusive X-Lapsed Point One!)

Thank you all so much for being part of this silly journey of mine back into X-Relevance!

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Friday, July 23, 2021

X-Lapsed, Episode 223 - X-Factor #10 (2021)

X-Lapsed, Episode Two Hundred Twenty-Three

X-Factor (vol.4) #10 (August, 2021)

"Finale"

Story - Leah Williams & David Baldeon

Art - David Baldeon, David Messina & Lucas Werneck

Colors - Israel Silva

Design - Tom Muller

Head of X - Hickman

Edits - Andrews-Ballesteros, Thomas, White, Cebulski

Cover Price: $3.99

On-Sale: June 30, 2021

Welcome friends, to a day of Multiple Milestones! Today we wrap up both the Hellfire Gala and the fourth volume of X-Factor... as well as celebrate TWO-THOUSAND days of Daily Comics Content at Chris is on Infinite Earths!

We bid a sad farewell to our Boneyard residents, mysteries are awkwardly solved, people are horribly dressed... and wrap up with the discovery of SPOILER ALERT's dead body! Whodunnit... well, we're going to have to wait and see!

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Thursday, June 17, 2021

X-Lapsed, Episode 206 - X-Factor #9 (2021)

X-Lapsed, Episode Two Hundred Six

X-Factor (vol.4) #9 (July, 2021)

"Interlude: DJ Mark's Mixtape of Mojoverse Beats to Make Out To"

Writer - Leah Williams

Art - David Baldeon

Colors - Israel Silva

Letters - VC's Joe Caramagna

Design - Tom Muller

Head of X - Hickman

Edits - Andrews-Ballesteros, Thomas, White, Cebulski

Cover Price: $3.99

On-Sale: May 12, 2021

When is a penultimate issue more like a finale? Well, when your actual final issue is a chapter of an Event Crossover... like the Hellfire Gala.

Oh, you didn't know? There's a Hellfire Gala on the horizon. They totally don't talk about it every chance they get... so, I don't blame you for not knowing!

Today, we look at a book whose watchword is "truncation". The axe of cancellation appears to have fallen during the production of this issue... and yet, Williams and Baldeon still manage to deliver an enjoyable outing! We've got Morrigan and Mojoworld... um, please listen anyway - I promise it'll be fun!

Also: An X-Panded Mailbag Segment full of x-cellent x-chatter!

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Friday, April 30, 2021

X-Lapsed, Episode 178 - X-Factor #8 (2021)

X-Lapsed, Episode One Hundred Seventy-Eight

X-Factor (vol.4) #8 (May, 2021)

"Suite No. 8: Scio Me Nihil Scire (Tritone Substitution -- Jazz Arrangement)"

Writer - Leah Williams

Art - David Baldeon

Colors - Israel Silva

Letters - VC's Joe Caramagna

Design - Tom Muller

Head of X - Hickman

Edits - Andrews Ballesteros, Thomas, White, Cebulski

Cover Price: $3.99

On-Sale: March 10, 2021

The Boneyard's Haunted... by X-Factor?!

Today's episode features plenty of Mutant death... and morr of the Morrigan. It also feels a bit truncated - which will likely be today's "watchword"

Also: A very challenging Mailbag for your humble host, who tries not to stumble over his words too badly.

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Friday, April 2, 2021

X-Lapsed, Episode 158 - X-Factor #7 (2021)

X-Lapsed, Episode One Hundred Fifty-Eight

X-Factor (vol.4) #7 (April, 2021)

"Suite No. 7: Scientia Vincere Tenebras"

Writer - Leah Williams

Art - David Baldeon

Colors - Israel Silva

Letters - VC's Joe Caramagna

Design - Tom Muller

Head of X - Hickman

Edits - Shannon Andrews-Ballesteros, Jake Thomas, Cebulski

Cover Price: $3.99

On-Sale: February 3, 2021

Lorna's lyin'... everyone's dyin' - just what in the world is goin' on here?

Plus: the mystery surrounding David's original death thickens... could there be two Prodigys... er, Prodigies running around in the 616?!

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Thursday, March 18, 2021

X-Lapsed, Episode 147 - X-Factor #6 (2021)

X-Lapsed, Episode One Hundred Forty Seven

X-Factor (vol.4) #6 (March, 2021)

"Suite No. 6: Scio Me Nihil Scire 'Second Movement'"

Writer - Leah Williams

Art - David Baldeon

Colors - Israel Silva

Letters - VC's Joe Caramagna

Design - Tom Muller

Head of X - Hickman

Edits - Ballesteros, Bissa, Thomas, White, Cebulski

Cover Price: $3.99

On-Sale: January 6, 2021

Why does Theresa Cassidy keep dying? Well, that's what X-Factor's going to have to find out... and it looks like getting those answers is going to be akin to pulling teeth for our heroes. There's a LOT of food for thought dropped in this issue... and as such, we've got tons to blabber about!

Plus: Great Mailbag... annnnd --

-- Since we're getting so close to catching up to "real time", I decided to take a dip into Marvel Previews to check out the X-Books shipping in April, 2021. We'll probably be doing this once a month from this point on... lemme know what you think!

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Friday, March 5, 2021

X-Lapsed, Episode 138 - X-Factor #5 (2021)

X-Lapsed, Episode One Hundred Thirty-Eight

X-Factor (vol.4) #5 (February, 2021)

"Volksgeist"

Writer - Leah Williams

Art - David Baldeon

Colors - Israel Silva

Letters - VC's Joe Caramagna

Head of X - Hickman

Edits - Bissa, White, Cebulski

Cover Price: $3.99

On-Sale: December 2, 2020

Picking up where we left X-Factor when #EcksofTens got in the way, our team is prepared to present "Proof of Death" for that girl whose body they rescued from Mojoworld!

We're going to talk a whole lot about that girl... why she was there... what she knew... and why she allowed herself to be shot in da head! We will also be talking a bunch more about one of my favorite HoXPoXDoXSoXRoX topics: The Crucible!

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Friday, February 26, 2021

X-Lapsed, Episode 133 - Gwenpool Strikes Back #5 (2020)

X-Lapsed, Episode One Hundred Thirty-Three

Gwenpool Strikes Back #5 (February, 2020)

Writer - Leah Williams

Art - David Baldeon

Colors - Jesus Aburtov & GURU-eFX

Letters - VC's Joe Caramagna

Edits - Bissa, White, Cebulski

Cover Price: $3.99

On-Sale: December 18, 2019

Wait... what? What's a Gwenpool doing in our X-Lapsed?

I promise, friends, this will all make sense in the telling - as it has some wonderful and surprising Krakoan ramifications. In fact, even taking the X-ness out of this series, this is a heckuva lot of fun... and is highly recommended by your humble host!

If you don't know Gwenpool... like I didn't... you're gonna wanna check this one out!

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Thursday, January 28, 2021

X-Lapsed, Episode 112 - X-Factor #4 (2020)

X-Lapsed, Episode One Hundred Twelve

X-Factor (vol.4) #4 (November, 2020)

"X of Swords, Chapter 02"

Writer - Leah Williams

Art - Carlos Gomez

Colors - Israel Silva

Letters - VC's Joe Caramagna

Design - Tom Muller

Head of X - Hickman

Edits - Bissa, White, Cebulski

Cover Price: $4.99

On-Sale: September 30, 2020

As we reach the 1/11th point of this massive crossover event, your humble host's barometer moves from "neutral" to "positive" - as what we get here is a wonderfully solid bit of storytelling that really amps up the threat... and includes something these books have been missing since the get-go: actual STAKES!

The Resurrection Protocols and yours truly have the same problem, and it's name is "Otherworld"! We're gonna talk a LOT about that... as well as the Father-Daughter relationship between a couple of magnetic personalities, and much, much more!

Also - The always X-Cellent Mailbag! Some great discussions to be had here - and I do so hope you'll join in on the fun!

Plus - The opportunity for you (yes, YOU) to guide the X-Men into their next phase... as Marvel.com is currently holding an election wherein WE the readers can choose the final member of the new X-Men team! Vote runs from today until February 2! Be sure your voice is heard -- and also, mebbe let your pal Chris know who you voted for!

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Monday, January 18, 2021

X-Lapsed, Episode 104 - X-Factor #3 (2020)

X-Lapsed, Episode One Hundred and Four

X-Factor (vol.4) #3 (November, 2020)

"Suite No. 3: Mojoverse Sonata the 2nd, a Celestial Rondo"

Writer - Leah Williams

Art - David Baldeon

Colors - Israel Silva

Letters - VC's Joe Caramagna

Design - Tom Muller

Head of X - Hickman

Edits - Bissa, White, Cebulski

Cover Price: $3.99

On-Sale: September 9, 2020

We're still in the "current year" Mojoverse... and your humble host is doing his best to adapt. Will this be the issue that breaks me? (Spoiler Alert: No).

Some strong scenes in this issue, as well as a returning 'star straight from my wheelhouse as an X-Fan.

Also: Great listener mail, including a sorta-kinda "live-tweeted" tour through Empyre(colon)X-Men!

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Wednesday, January 6, 2021

X-Lapsed, Episode 096 - X-Factor #2 (2020)

X-Lapsed, Episode Ninety-Six

X-Factor (vol.4) #2 (October, 2020)

"Mojoverse Sonata XF.3 Op: 45, Danse Macabre"

Writer - Leah Williams

Art - David Baldeon

Colors - Israel Silva

Letters - VC's Joe Caramagna

Design - Tom Muller

Head of X - Hickman

Edits - Bissa, White, Cebulski

Cover Price: $3.99

On-Sale: August 26, 2020

Between the reading of X-Factor (vol.4) #1 and #2, your humble host had a birthday... one that apparently turned him into an old man - because the issue we've gathered to discuss today, just wasn't for him. We'll talk about the possible reasons why... in a very respectful way.

Also: A very Merry Mailbag, including a friend sharing his "Life and Times as an X-Fan"! You won't wanna miss it... least I hope ya won't!

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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

X-Lapsed, Episode 086 - X-Factor #1 (2020)

X-Lapsed, Episode Eighty-Six

X-Factor (vol.4) #1 (September, 2020)

"Suite No. 1: Prelude: Aurora Moratorium"

Writer - Leah Williams

Art - David Baldeon

Colors - Israel Silva

Letters - VC's Joe Caramagna

Design - Tom Muller

(Uncredited) Head of X - Hickman

Edits - Bissa, White, Cebulski

Cover Price: $4.99

On-Sale: July 29, 2020

Hello Friends - today we finally round out our Dawn of X Wave Two #1's - and your humble host totally forgets to rank them from best to worst... hopefully, I'll remember for next time!

Today we welcome X-Factor to the fold - and I begin this episode by recounting my life and times as a fan of the title... and just how important it was in my earliest days of X-Fandom! We will then discuss the book cover-to-cover... and, whattayaknow, talk about what I liked and didn't like about it! Sounds just like a comic review show, doesn't it?

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Friday, December 11, 2020

X-Lapsed, Episode 083 - Empyre: X-Men #2 (2020)

X-Lapsed, Episode Eighty-Three

Empyre: X-Men #2 (October, 2020)

"Growing Strong"

Writers - Gerry Duggan, Ben Percy, Leah Williams

Art - Lucas Werneck

Colors - Nolan Woodard

Letters - VC's Clayton Cowles

Design - Tom Muller

Head of X - Hickman

Edits - Bissa, White, Cebulski

Cover Price: $4.99

On-Sale: August 5, 2020

You ever hear the one about the old ladies who curse a lot? Well - ya will!

Howsabout the time the X-Men killed "a billion broccolis"? Yeah, you'll hear that one too.

Welcome friends, back to our rip-roaring coverage of the X-Men cash-in... er, tie-in to the Marvel Empyre Event! We're gonna talk all about it... the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Also: Our customarily wonderful and thoughtful mailbag runneth other! I hope you decide to join us!

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