The Essential X-Lapsed, Episode 051 - X-Men #41 (1968)

The Essential X-Lapsed, Episode Fifty-One

X-Men #41 (February, 1968)
“Now Strikes… The Sub-Human!” & "The Living Diamond!"
Writer - Roy Thomas
Pencils - Don Heck & Werner Roth
Inks - George Tuska & John Verpoorten
Letters - Sam Rosen
Colors - ???
Edits - Stan Lee
Cover Price: 12¢

In our Essentials "October finale... in the middle of November", we're going out with a... meh!  The X-Men fight another interchangeable monster of the month... and Cyclops fears that Professor X might have the not-so-secret hotpants for the lovely Ms. Grey!  Plus: Our Origins of the X-Men featurette rolls on, showing us how Scott and the Prof first met!

Plus - All the usual back-mattery nonsense you've come to know and tolerate!

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The Essential X-Lapsed, Episode 050 - X-Men #40 (1968)

The Essential X-Lapsed, Episode 050

X-Men #40 (January, 1968)
“Mark of the Monster!” & "The First Evil Mutant!"
Writer - Roy Thomas
Pencils - Don Heck & Werner Roth
Inks - George Tuska & John Verpoorten
Letters - Artie Simek & Al Kurzrok
Colors - Ya know, that guy
Edits - Stan Lee
Cover Price: 12¢

It's the regular-sized, nothin' happenin' Landmark Milestone FIFTIETH Episode of The Essential X-Lapsed!

And, boy do I wish we had a better story to talk about...

It's the X-Men vs. Frankenstein('s Monster)... by the way, I will refer to him both as "Frankenstein" AND "Frankenstein's Monster"... so, consider that your trigger warning!  Also, we meet the First Evil Mutant, the ridiculous Jack O'Diamonds!

All'at and all of our normal nutty back-matter!

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The Essential X-Lapsed, Episode 049 - X-Men #39 (1967)

The Essential X-Lapsed, Episode 049

X-Men #39 (December, 1967)
“The Fateful Finale!” and "Lonely are the Hunted!"
Writer - Roy Thomas
Pencils - Don Heck & Werner Roth
Inks - Vince Colletta & John Verpoorten
Letters - Artie Simek & Al Kurzrok
Colors - ???
Edits - Stan Lee
Cover Price: 12¢

Finally... our X-Tended stint with Factor Three comes to a close!

Today, your humble host proves that not even threat of illness will keep his stupid ass off the microphone, as we close out this arc, and prepare to jump headlong into the next... even weirder era!

Plus: Mutant Mail-Box, Bullpen Bulletins, a radio interview with Stan Lee, and much more!

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The Essential X-Lapsed, Episode 048 - X-Men #38 (1967)

The Essential X-Lapsed, Episode 048

X-Men #38 (November, 1967)
“The Sinister Shadow of… Doomsday!” & "A Man Called... X"
Writer - Roy Thomas
Pencils - Don Heck & Werner Roth
Inks - George Roussos (as George Bell) & John Verpoorten
Letters - L.P. Gregory & Sam Rosen
Colors - 90% Accurate
Edits - Stan Lee
Cover Price: 12¢

Our Factor-Three story rolls on... well, it kinda limps on, but we'll try and remain positive.  Also, for the first time ever, X-Men has a back-up featurette, as we're kicking off the long-promised "Origins of the X-Men" series of stories!

Plus - The Mutant Mail-Box, Bullpen Bulletins, a new (hopefully unsqueaky) chair and all that nonsense!

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The Essential X-Lapsed, Episode 047 - X-Men #37 (1967)

 

The Essential X-Lapsed, Episode 047

X-Men #37 (October, 1967)
“We, the Jury…”
Writer - Roy Thomas
Pencils - Ross Andru
Inks - Don Heck
Letters - Artie Simek
Colors - blind
Jury-Stacking - Honest Irv
Edits - Stan Lee
Cover Price: 12¢

Finally... FACTOR THREE!

No more lollygaggin' and beating around the bush... it's time to finally get down to it.  Our heroes are faced with the menacing mutants behind the clandestine organization bent on world domination.  Not only that, they're put on TRIAL by them!

Plus: Mutant Mail-box (featuring a missive by VIP Peter Sanderson, Jr. - and a brief biography of the actual Comics Historian himself... delivered by your favorite Fake-Ass Comics Historian), the Bullpen Bulletins Page (featuring an argument about the MMMS Rankings!), Stan's Soapbox, and much more!

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X-Lapsed, Episode 271 - X-Men Unlimited #9 (2021)

X-Lapsed, Episode Two Hundred Seventy-One

X-Men Unlimited (vol.3) #9 (October, 2021)

"X-Men Green, Part Five"

Writer - Gerry Duggan

Art - Emilio Laiso

Colors - Rachelle Rosenberg

Letters - VC's Joe Sabino

Edits - Amaro, Bissa, White, Cebulski

On-App: October 25, 2021

It's Jeff #9 (October, 2021)

"chum like it hot!"

Writer - Kelly Thompson

Art - Gurihiru

Edits - Go, Wacker, Cebulski

On-App: October 22, 2021

For the fifth of... however many weeks, it's more X-Men Green - and rather than waste all of your time kvetching over how much I don't like this story, this is a pretty basic recitation of the story beats... with little (relatively speaking) in the way of editorializing.  We've also got a great li'l It's Jeff! short, which actually ties in with our current year X-Stuff!

Plus - The return of the Mailbag, "real-time" feedback, shout-outs, and much more!

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The Collected Phoenix ResurreX-Lapsed

 The Collected Phoenix ResurreX-Lapsed

Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey
X-Men Red Annual #1
(00:00:00) Chapter One: Frustrate the Sun
(00:25:16) Chapter Two: All Lesser Birds
(00:48:58) Chapter Three: A Constellation of Them All
(01:07:43) Chapter Four: That A Great Princess Falls, But Doth Not Die
(01:29:56) Chapter Five: Be Thou Those Ends
(01:49:51) Mustard and Bigotry
Writers - Matthew Rosenberg & Tom Taylor
Art - Leinil Francis Yu, Carlos Pacheco, Joe Bennett, Ramon Rosanas, & Pascal Alixe
Inks - Gerry Alanguilan, Rafael Fonteriz, Lorenzo Ruggiero, 
Colors - Rachelle Rosenberg & Chris Sotomayor
Letters - VC's Travis Lanham & Cory Petit
Edits - Paniccia, Harrington, Robinson, Shan, White, Bissa, Alonso, Cebulski

Revisiting and Collecting one of the X-Lapsed "Sunday Special Series", where I looked at mini-series and events that I'd missed out on during my 2015-2019 X-Hiatus.

This time out, we're going to find out just how Jean Grey managed to wriggle her way back to the land of the living... and we're also going to find out that hot dogs taste like mustard and bigotry!  It's kind of an uneven thing...

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