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Friday, December 4, 2020

X-Lapsed, Episode 078 - Giant-Size X-Men: Magneto #1 (2020)

X-Lapsed, Episode Seventy-Eight

Giant-Size X-Men: Magneto #1 (September, 2020)

Writer - Jonathan Hickman

Art - Ramon Perez

Colors - David Curiel

Letters - VC's Clayton Cowles

Design - Tom Muller

Edits - Bissa, White, Cebulski

Cover Price: $4.99

On-Sale: July 15, 2020

Today we go shopping for islands with the Master of Magnetism. We also see him have to escape out the back-end of a Kraken. It's yet another installment of Giant-Size, that may as well have been any old issue of X-Men (vol.5)!

Also - A great mailbag segment, that facilitates my sharing some of my more obsessive collecting habits.

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Thursday, December 3, 2020

X-Lapsed, Episode 077 - X-Force #10 (2020)

X-Lapsed, Episode Seventy-Seven

X-Force (vol.6) #10 (June, 2020)

"The Deadly Garden"

Writer - Benjamin Percy

Art - Joshua Cassara

Colors - GURU-eFX

Letters - VC's Joe Caramagna

Design - Tom Muller

Head of X - Hickman

Edits - Robinson, White, Cebulski

Cover Price: $3.99

On-Sale: July 10, 2020

Today we wrap up our time in Terra Verde - home of the violent "veg"!

Guess what -- we also kill the same couple of characters who keep getting killed in these books! Your humble host is growing more and more tired. X-Force also loses a member - it's "moral compass" no less!

All that, and I talk a whole lot about creators having "skin in the game" during the mailbag portion - which I hope doesn't ruffle too many feathers! It's a good time as always - hop aboard and join us!

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Wednesday, December 2, 2020

X-Lapsed, Episode 076 - New Mutants #10 (2020)

X-Lapsed, Episode Seventy-Six

New Mutants (vol.4) #10 (June, 2020)

"Parasomnia"

Writer - Ed Brisson

Art - Flaviano

Colors - Carlos Lopez

Letters - VC's Travis Lanham

Design - Tom Muller

Head of X - Hickman

Edits - Bissa, White, Cebulski

Cover Price: $3.99

On-Sale: June 10, 2020

Journey with me into the mind of a mania--er, reality warping mutant.

Today, the New Mutants take a walk on the wild side... with, Wildside in order to give "good dreams" to a scared little girl who might just destroy an entire country. All that, plus our DOX Magazine subplot keeps bubbling away!

Also: An X-Tended Mailbag, full of great analysis and discussion!

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Tuesday, December 1, 2020

X-Lapsed, Episode 075 - Excalibur #10 (2020)

X-Lapsed, Episode Seventy-Five

Excalibur (vol.4) #10 (June, 2020)

"Verse X: A Crooked World"

Writer - Tini Howard

Art - Marcus To

Colors - Erick Arciniega

Letters - VC's Cory Petit

Design - Tom Muller

Head of X - Hickman

Edits - Bissa, White, Cebulski

Cover Price: $3.99

On-Sale: June 10, 2020

Welcome to the landmark seventy-fifth episode of X-Lapsed - which, is also, as luck would have it our third monthiversary, having started this little journey back on September 1!

Today, we're dealing with altered realities, Otherworld, and That Weirdo Jamie Braddock - and, somehow - I managed to have a really good time with it! I also talk a bunch about the "Protect and Survive" PSAs from the late 70s/early 80s a whole lot.

Plus - Our usual x-cellent mailbag section!

"Protect and Survive" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6U9T3R3EQg

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Monday, November 30, 2020

X-Lapsed, Episode 074 - Marauders #10 (2020)

X-Lapsed, Episode Seventy-Four

Marauders #10 (June, 2020)

"Leave None to Tell the Tale"

Writer - Gerry Duggan

Art - Stefano Caselli

Colors - Edgar Delgado

Letters - VC's Cory Petit

Design - Tom Muller

Head of X - Hickman

Edits - Robinson, White, Cebulski

Cover Price: $3.99

On-Sale: May 27, 2020

Today we usher in the double-digits era for our Wave One Dawn of X books... starting with Marauders! This is also a notable issue for being the first DoX book to hit the shelves after the current pandemic set in. Can it possibly live up to the x-pectations of the starving X-Fandom? Well... I suppose your mileage may vary.

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Sunday, November 29, 2020

Major X-Lapsed, Episode 7 - Major X #0 (2019)

Major X-Lapsed, Episode Seven

Major X #0 (October, 2019)

"All Along the Watchtower, Parts 1 & 2"

Writer/Plot/Pencils - Rob Liefeld

Script - Eric Stephenson

Inks - Liefeld, Adelso Corona, Cory Hamscher

Colors - Romulo Fajardo, Jr. & Digital Broome

Letters - VC's Joe Sabino & Comicraft's Troy Peteri

Edits - Bissa, White, Cebulski, Powers, Harras

Cover Price: $4.99

On-Sale: August 7, 2019

(middle bits originally from Wolverine (vol.2) #154-155 (September-October, 2000)

Six issues just wasn't enough, was it? Anyone else up for another romp with the Major and M'Koy? Well... uh, howsabout we spend this final episode of Major X-Lapsed talking about a two-part Wolverine story from the year 2000 instead?

That's right folks - we're spending all but eight pages of this $5 zero issue looking at a story that appeared in Wolverine (vol.2) #154-155 (September-October, 2000) - featuring characters who haven't been seen since! As for those other eight pages... well, they might just cause an X-Istential crisis... we're going to meet a whole lotta bucketheads... who we'll probably (hopefully?) never see again.

Whatever the case - Major X-Lapsed is now complete... I want to humbly thank everybody who has hung on for this weird little seven-week sidebar!

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