Author: Miles

Hello, all!

We’ll be switching to a new hosting provider tomorrow (11/30/16) evening to help our site and podcast feed better survive the onslaught of new-episode downloads each week.

The upside: new episodes will download more quickly and reliably!

The downside: because DNS changes can take some time to go through, our site and feed will be down for a while. Hopefully it’ll just be a few hours, but it could theoretically be up to two days.

So: if you plan on listening to episodes between Wednesday and Friday nights, now’s the time to download them!

-Miles

Listen to the episode here.

Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

“Hey, let’s play Final Fantasy! You bring the drama and I’ll bring the fetch quest!” (Uncanny X-Men Annual #13)

Imagine a world where Boomslang showed up in Giant-Size X-Men #1 instead of Wolverine. IMAGINE IT. (Uncanny X-Men Annual #13)

“Brightly-colored pureed veggies – my only weakness!” (Uncanny X-Men Annual #13)

This is the happiest Longshot will ever be. (Uncanny X-Men Annual #13)

Namorita’s pretty awesome, but… why would you wear that underwater? (New Mutants Annual #5)

Please note Undertow’s tastefully covered nipples. He’s a gentleman. (New Mutants Annual #5)

I believe the sound effect you’re looking for is TOOT, Ghaur. Are you even trying? (New Mutants Annual #5)

I’ll give you this, Rob: you draw a pretty awesome weird-Fizzgig-monster-thing. (New Mutants Annual #5)

In which John Byrne’s writing and art are two great tastes that taste great together. (X-Factor Annual #4)

Come on, Attuma – didn’t you read Avengers #263 and Fantastic Four #286? (X-Factor Annual #4)

“No time to process your deep-seated trauma at watching half your friends die – time to punch my dad!” (X-Factor Annual #4)

FUCK YEAH JEAN GREY (X-Factor Annual #4)

I mean, there’s really no subtlety here. It’s just straight-up the Blues Brothers. (X-Factor Annual #4)

Hey, it’s that guy! (X-Factor Annual #4)

I mean, this panel is fine, but it mainly makes me miss Marc Silvestri. (X-Factor Annual #4)

Watch out for Magneto’s brain-hat! (X-Factor Annual #4)

And also watch out for Doom’s brain-face! (X-Factor Annual #4)

Magneto’s backstory: more tragedy than any three Lifetime movies. (Seriously, though – poor guy.) (X-Factor Annual #4)

Everything about Boom Boom and Rictor’s body language is perfect. Jon Bogdanove, please draw both of them forever. (New Mutants Annual #5)

Tabitha Smith, living cartoon. (New Mutants Annual #5)

No caption can add to the perfection that is this sequence. (New Mutants Annual #5)

Do you know how many coats it takes to get adamantium to hold color? (New Mutants Annual #5)

This narration? Yeah, the entire story’s like this. And it is PERFECT. (Uncanny X-Men Annual #13)

Amid all the motormouth bluster, Jubilee basically just wants friends. Aww, kid. (Uncanny X-Men Annual #13)

The origin of both the best costume parts Jubilee didn’t keep and the best part she did. (Uncanny X-Men Annual #13)

Next time: the X-Babies! (Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem)

Listen to the episode here!

Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

“So you’re saying she’s definitely not my actual, literal grandmother, right? Cool; glad we made that absolutely, incontrovertibly clear.” (New Mutants #53)

Previously, on New Mutants… (New Mutants Forever #1)

“I mean, I know things are urgent what with the gunfight we’re trying to stop, but those old outfits were so 1987.” (New Mutants Forever #1)

Hela’s presence makes any scene in which she appears at least 20% more epic than it would otherwise have been. I mean, damn – that hat, right? (New Mutants Forever #1)

Remember when Magneto and the New Mutants were actually capable of completing a conversation without Sunspot throwing something? (New Mutants Forever #1)

Absorbing that wretch’s life-force also gave her a gift certificate to Frederick’s of Hollywood. (New Mutants Forever #1)

I personally think Warlock is hotter as a Sienkiewicz-style asymmetrical scribble-monster, but tastes vary. (New Mutants Forever #2)

Roberto’s pretty perfect, but what’s up with Warlock’s generic robot form? You’re better than this, Warlock. (New Mutants Forever #2)

Nice visual continuity work, Al Rio. Seriously. (New Mutants Forever #2)

Okay, that’s legitimately horrifying. It’s a good thing nothing bad ever happened to Doug Ramsey in mainstream continuity. (New Mutants Forever #2)

“Selene… What the hell are they wearing?” “I… I have no idea, kids.” (New Mutants Forever #3)

This would be disturbing regardless, but Rio’s rendition of Warlock as more purely mechanical makes his injuries that much more viscerally cringe-inducing. (New Mutants Forever #3)

The art / dialogue disconnect here makes me giggle every time. (New Mutants Forever #3)

Limbo as we’ve never seen it. (New Mutants Forever #3)

Red Skull, you are officially a terrible person. Ew. (New Mutants Forever #4)

Okay, that’s actually pretty awesome. A little silly, sure, but still pretty awesome. (New Mutants Forever #4)

I AM SO UNCOMFORTABLE RIGHT NOW (New Mutants Forever #4)

Cool, Warlock got Muscular Augments and Grooved Spines! (New Mutants Forever #4)

Pathos, thy name is skullified-Doug-in-tighty-whities. (New Mutants Forever #4)

Hey, Amara’s not wearing her weird Nazi fetish outfit anymore! …Oh, she’s still mind-controlled. Damn. (New Mutants Forever #4)

This battle sequence is rad, but I wish we could swap out a couple of those Nova Romans for Dani and Rahne. (New Mutants Forever #5)

Eh, it’s only a bullet to the head. She’ll be fine by the next page. (New Mutants Forever #5)

“I’ll beat you with my fists and my knowledge of first century Roman political history!” (New Mutants Forever #5)

Weirdly, the most perfectly on-model characters in New Mutants Forever aren’t actually the New Mutants. (New Mutants Forever #5)

This was a really weird episode of House, MD. (New Mutants Forever #5)

Next time: even more Nazis. (Excalibur #9)

LINKS:

• Check out guest host Elisabeth Allie’s blog!
• And: check out the band she represents, the Doubleclicks: a nationally touring, Billboard charting pop band with a cello, a meowing cat keyboard, and songs about Dungeons and Dragons!

Miles here!

So: we were planning to record episode 117 this past Saturday (giving us our usual eight days of time for editing, post-production, proofing, and patching) – things were going to be a little tighter than usual for our producer Kyle since he was traveling during the second part of the week, but he volunteered to kick extra ass around his day job to get the episode done around his trip.

Aaaaand then Jay very suddenly got very sick, and between our schedule and Kyle’s, by the time it became clear that they weren’t going to be able to record, it was too late to find an emergency back-up co-host, do the prep we’d need for a guest, and record and produce an episode.

All of that to say: we’ll be recording episode 117 a week later than we planned, which means it’s going up a week later. Jay’s going to be fine and we’re going to do what we can to make sure this doesn’t happen again, but we won’t have a new episode this coming Sunday.

Apologies to all of you – and thanks for your understanding. In the meantime, we’ll have video reviews up at the usual times this and next week, and episode 117 will be up on July 17th.