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After the party is the after-party! And the Hellfire Gala is no different. Heck, we even have an after-after-party!! Plus a reflective conversation with our helmet and some familial reconciliation. Will the Regent of Sol please stand up #Queen Ready for X-For… err, no, Wolverine! We’re kicking it off with an action packed part twoContinue reading “The Hellfire Gala – Part 4”

An episode that is out of this world! We’re getting Planet Sized y’all. Some big things are on the horizon for mutantkind as we catch up with our Omegas. Back at the gala we check-in on the New Mutants and our X-Corp CXOs. Holy home improvement projects, Magneto has a plan and he’s calling inContinue reading “The Hellfire Gala – Part 3”

We were hanging out on the Green Carpet and caught up with Marauders’ artist Matteo Lolli! He tells us all about what it’s like to be a part of such a huge X-Men event, collaborating with Gerry Duggan, how some key character developments have happened along the way, and a behind-the-scenes explanation for Iceman’s flipContinue reading “Interview with Matteo Lolli”

The party’s just getting started! And Rictor wants nothing to do with it. Neither do AAAK. And maybe even the Avengers… but don’t worry the new X-Men team will save the day! Eyes to the skies for what’s still to come. There’s something rumbling underneath the Hellfire Gala and it seems to be upsetting relationshipsContinue reading “The Hellfire Gala – Part 2”

Things are heating up for the X-Men as one of their team members literally becomes fire incarnate! We’re tackling the classic story of Jean Grey’s initial leveling-up, The Phoenix Saga. Not to be confused with every movie adaptation, this one’s a slow burn. We first take a tour of the X-Men Villains’ Greatest Hits beforeContinue reading “The Claremont Run – The Phoenix Saga”

We’re jumping into real-time dahlings! Alicia had wanted to read the Hellfire Gala as it was coming out and has been BINGEING comics for the last week to make some sense of it all. We talk about the first three issues of the new Hellfire Gala story arc. Y’all, Alicia’s reading comics that came outContinue reading “The Hellfire Gala – Part 1”

For our fiftieth episode, we’ve made it giant-size folks! We laid the foundation with Volume 1 of Dawn of X and now Alicia has read the other 5 volumes of the opening arcs. That’s 36 comics! Justin has succeeded!! And she enjoyed it all… to varying degrees. Download The X-Wife Podcast on:Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts,Continue reading “Dawn of X – Opening Arcs Vol. 1-6”

Sweet mummudrai we’ve got ourselves a doozy of a story! Grant Morrison’s epic New X-Men run kicks off with our final Seminal Moment. It seems Alicia’s developed a Secondary Mutation and it involves an inability to be left on a cliffhanger… so scroll down a little further for Part 2! Download The X-Wife Podcast on:AppleContinue reading “Seminal Moments: New X-Men (2001)”

It’s a legendary episode as we dive into Justin’s other Marvel obsession! Comics may have lit the nerd spark, but Marvel Legends added fuel to the fire. Little does Alicia know, she had a hand in causing the madness of the full-blown collection that currently takes over the Room of Requirement. We talk through theContinue reading “Marvel Legends”

A new age is upon us! And Legion has some serious explaining to do. We kick off the 1995 smash hit Age of Apocalypse with X-Men: Alpha #1. Charles is dead? Magneto is leading the X-Men? Apocalypse is in charge!? Everything’s different!! Alicia loves it. Justin keeps most episode topics and openings a surprise untilContinue reading “Seminal Moments: Age of Apocalypse (1995)”