Tuesday, October 12, 2021

X-Lapsed, Episode 259 - X-Force #23 (2021)

X-Lapsed, Episode Two Hundred Fifty-Nine

X-Force (vol.6) #23 (November, 2021)
"The New Tsar"
Writer - Benjamin Percy
Art - Martin Coccolo
Colors - GURU-eFX
Letters - VC's Joe Caramagna
Design - Tom Muller
Head of X - Hickman
Edits - Amaro, Basso, White, Cebulski
Cover Price: $3.99
On-Sale: September 8, 2021

Where's yer crown, King X-Lapsed?

Today your humble host is "workin' hurt", as the crown I had put in last week decided to pop out on me!  But, as we say... neither rain, nor sleet, nor X-Corp or dental trauma will keep us from our assigned X-Duties!

I guess it's a good thing we don't have a whole heckuva lot to talk about regarding today's issue... though, I do go on at length about the feeling that we're simply in "treading water" mode until the January retooling of the line!  Please listen anyway!

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Monday, October 11, 2021

X-Lapsed, Episode 258 - Excalibur #23 (2021)

X-Lapsed, Episode Two Hundred Fifty-Eight

Excalibur (vol.4) #23 (November, 2021)
"In the Service of Lord Doom"
Writer - Tini Howard
Art - Marcus To
Colors - Erick Arciniega
Letters - VC's Ariana Maher
Design - Tom Muller
Head of X - Hickman
Edits - Bissa, Brunstad, White, Cebulski
Cover Price: $3.99
On-Sale: September 8, 2021

Doom demands passage... to Otherworld?!  Oh c'mon, Vic... why ya gotta do us like that?

Today's Excalibur adventure takes us back to... where else?  It's also kind of a mess.

Least we got the Mailbag, Shout-Outs, This Week in X... and some news about Penguin Random House's shoddy shipping!  It's a good time as always, I hope you'll join me!

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Sunday, October 10, 2021

X-Lapsed, Episode 257 - X-Men Unlimited #5 (2021)

X-Lapsed, Episode Two Hundred Fifty-Seven

X-Men Unlimited (vol.3) #5 (September, 2021)
"X-Men Green, Chapter One: Clean Up on Aisle X"
Writer - Gerry Duggan
Art - Emilio Laiso
Colors - Rachelle Rosenberg
Letters - VC's Joe Sabino
Edits - Amaro, Bissa, White, Cebulski
On-App: September 24, 2021

It's Jeff! #5 (September, 2021)
"Holland-dayz"
Writer - Kelly Thompson
Art - Gurihiru
Edits - Pyle, Go, Wacker, Cebulski
On-App: September 24, 2021

It's not that you're wrong... you're just a jerk!

Today, we kick off the second arc of the Marvel Unlimited X-Clusive - X-Men Unlimited... and they're calling it X-Men Green... with good reason.

We're going to join perpetual killjoy, Nature Girl as she shows us how much she values human life.  It's a rough one, that feels like it was written by a petulant teen-ager doing their best to rebel, but we'll get through it together!

Also, Jeff the Land Shark runs through a tulip patch.

Plus: We take a look at Marvel Previews for all the goods we're gonna be getting in December -- it's the "calm before the storm" month, wherein many of our favorites (and not-so-favorites) are coming to an end!

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Saturday, October 9, 2021

The Collected X-Lapsed, Episode 23 - Reign of X, Volume 1 (2021)

The Collected X-Lapsed, Episode Twenty-Three

Reign of X, Volume 1 (2021)
(00:00:00) Hellions #7: "Whetstone"
(00:42:36) X-Factor (vol.4) #5: "Volksgeist"
(01:23:08) S.W.O.R.D. (vol.2) #1: "Mysterium"
(02:04:01) X-Men (vol.5) #16: "Sworded Out"
(02:41:21) Hellions #8: "The Grinning Neonate"
Writers - Zeb Wells, Leah Williams, Al Ewing, & Jonathan Hickman
Art - Stephen Segovia, David Baldeon, Valerio Schiti, & Phil Noto
Colors - David Curiel, Israel Silva, Marte Gracia, & Phil Noto
Letters - VC's Cory Petit, Joe Caramagna, Ariana Maher, & Clayton Cowles
Design - Tom Muller
Edits - Basso, Amaro, Bissa, White, Cebulski
Cover Price: $17.99
On-Sale: June 30, 2021

Ecks of Tens is firmly in the rear-view and we're rockin' and rollin' into the Reign of X era.

In today's compilation, we will be dealing with some Arrako-fallout, and formally introducing the world to the new-look S.W.O.R.D.!  Plus, all of my usual nonsense - you won't wanna miss it... well, if you missed it the first time around, anyway!

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Friday, October 8, 2021

The Essential X-Lapsed, Episode 38 - X-Men #28 (1967)

The Essential X-Lapsed, Episode Thirty-Eight

X-Men #28 (January, 1967)
"The Wail of the Banshee!"
Writer - Roy Thomas
Pencils - Werner Roth
Inks - Dick Ayers
Letters - Artie Simek
Edits - Stan Lee
Cover Price: 12¢

Welcome to the world, Sean Cassidy!

Today we meet one of the more enduring X-Characters of the Silver-Age... future X-Man, Headmaster of the Massachusetts Academy, and Horseman of Apocalypse: Banshee!  I also somehow wander into complaining a lot about how commercialized internet search engines have become... and how difficult it is to research when you're wading through pages and pages of advertisements-posing-as-search-results.  Please listen anyway!

Plus: All of the late 60's era back-matter that you never knew you needed in your lives!

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Thursday, October 7, 2021

The Essential X-Lapsed, Episode 37 - X-Men #27 (1966)

The Essential X-Lapsed, Episode Thirty-Seven

X-Men #27 (December, 1966)
"Re-Enter: The Mimic!"
Writer - Roy Thomas
Pencils - Werner Roth
Inks - Dick Ayers
Letters - Sam Rosen
Edits - Stan Lee
Cover Price: 12¢

With all of the D-List baddies outta the way, it's time to get back to X-Business as Usual... and reintroduce The Menace of the Mimic!  How did ol' Cal Rankin get his mojo back?  Is he friend or foe?  What does this mean to our Merry Mutant heroes?  We'll sorta-kinda get those answers and a whole lot more today!

Plus: In our Letters Page, we learn that Rascally Roy doesn't take to corrections and criticisms with the same charm and good humor that Stan the Man did!  Roy does NOT like being corrected!  Looks like these letters pages are about to become even MORE fun to cover than they already have been!

Check it out!

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Wednesday, October 6, 2021

The Essential X-Lapsed, Episode 036 - X-Men #26 (1966)

The Essential X-Lapsed, Episode Thirty-Six

X-Men #26 (November, 1966)
"Holocaust!"
Writer - Roy Thomas
Pencils - Werner Roth
Inks - Dick Ayers
Letters - Sam Rosen
Colors - A Big Fan of the Color YELLOW
Mayan Headdresses - Irving Forbush
Edits - Stan Lee
Cover Price: 12¢

Wrapping up our two-part KooKoo epic!

... and despite how boring it was, we do get some interesting character beats to discuss!  Will Scott finally admit that he's got the hotpants for Jean Grey?  Will Warren swoop in, Professor X-style, at the last moment to snag all the glory?  And what of Jean's creepy co-ed, Ted Whatshisface?  It's starting to get soapy up in here, and I'm diggin' it!

Also: The All-New X-Men Letters Page, Bullpen Bulletins, our own Mailbag, Shout-Outs, and much more (including an x-tended pre-ramble about how I spent my October Vacation)!

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