X-Force (vol.6) #26 (February, 2022) "Wipeout" Writer - Benjamin Percy Art - Robert Gill Colors - GURU-eFX Letters - VC's Joe Caramagna Design - Tom Muller Head of X - Hickman Edits - Baumgartner, Basso, White, Cebulski Cover Price: $3.99 On-Sale: December 15, 2021
While all eyes are on Inferno, the X-Filler train rolls on!
X-Force closes out it's "season" (it will return in April, 2022) with more Surf-Baddies, and... well... not a whole lot more!
Wolverine does his own version of "jumping the shark", so that's something! At least this one was kinda fun to chat about. I hope it's just as fun to listen!
Hellions #18 (February, 2022) "The Losing End" Writer - Zeb Wells Art - Ze Carlos & Stephen Segovia Colors - Rain Beredo Letters - VC's Ariana Maher Design - Tom Muller Head of X - Hickman Edits - Basso, White, Cebulski Cover Price: $4.99 On-Sale: December 8, 2021
A most bittersweet day in the neighborhood, as we bid farewell to one of the greatest comic series' I've read in... maybe a decade?
We wrap up our stint with the Hellions... and writer, Zeb Wells truly lives up to his name, by making your humble host WELL up on more than one occasion during the reading! This was a truly special book... that I would suggest any and all X-Fans need in their lives. As always... if you ain't reading Hellions, read Hellions!
We're back to the "grind" - and we're talking that one issue of Phoenix Song: Echo we X-Lapsed folk were all quite excited for! I mean, just look at all that Krakoan Goodness on the cover!
Well... about that? Ehh, we'll talk about it. In any event, I'm having a pretty okay time with this one... despite the lack of X-Stuff.
In addition to chatting up this ish, we're also going to deep-dive on All Thing X in Marvel Free Previews for March, 2022! I tried to keep my snark in check... you tell me if I succeeded!
X-Men: The Seeds of Tomorrow Hickman's X-Men Revealed ~or~ House of X/Powers of X Free Preview #1 (September, 2019) Writer - Jonathan Hickman Art - Pepe Larraz, R.B. Silva, Mark Brooks Colors - Marte Gracia Letters - VC's Clayton Cowles Edits - Jordan D. White, C.B. Cebulski Cover Price: FREE On-Shelves: July 17, 2019
Celebrating THREE-HUNDRED Episodes of X-Lapsed... and SIX-YEARS of DAILY content at Chris is on Infinite Earths, by taking a look into the past -- to the very seeds of the era I've dedicated thousands of hours to over the past couple of years - the 2019 House of X/Powers of X Free Preview!
In addition to our hindsight-fueled look at "What's to Come" in the X-Men Universe, I also chat a bit about how we got to where we are... and do a full-on "State of the Union" chatting up all of the books we've covered to this point.
Plus: Great Mailbag and a Stuffed Voice Mailbox! It's near two-hours of me talking to myself... you don't wanna miss it!
Chris and Reggie's Comix Tawk, Episodes 1-6 (00:00:00) Episode One: Variant Covers (00:43:15) Episode Two: Dreaded Deadline Doom (01:33:49) Episode Three: No Sir, We Don't Like it! (02:48:40) Episode Four: Completionism, Collecting, and Addiction (04:01:07) Episode Five: Decompression (04:50:05) Episode Six: The Four Kinds of Fans
Sharing a compilation of a very special series of episodes. Comix Tawk was Reggie and my Patreon Exclusive program, in which we basically shot the breeze and recorded it. Well, it was a little bit more structured than that... but, it's probably as "pure" Chris and Reggie as you'll find.
Sharing them out here as I don't know if many listeners had the opportunity (or interest) in checking them out before. For this set, we talk about several of the hot-button topics in the comics industry and fandom -- the glut of variant covers, creators treating their deadlines as though they were optional, characters and concepts in comics that we don't really care for, the "myth" of decompression, and a breakdown of the "Four Kinds of Fans" that exist!
Generation X (vol.2) #1-9, 85-87 (July, 2017-April, 2018) (00:00:00) Generation X (vol.2) #1 (00:39:19) Generation X (vol.2) #2 (01:00:10) Generation X (vol.2) #3 (01:25:50) Generation X (vol.2) #4 (01:47:22) Generation X (vol.2) #5 (02:10:46) Generation X (vol.2) #6 (02:33:14) Generation X (vol.2) #7 (03:01:08) Generation X (vol.2) #8 (03:23:53) Generation X (vol.2) #9 (03:47:51) Generation X #85: "Survival of the Fittest, Part 1" (04:17:15) Generation X #86: "Survival of the Fittest, Part 2" (04:42:48) Generation X #87 Writer - Christina Strain Art - Amilcar Pinna, Martin Morazzo, Alberto Jimenez Albuquerque, Eric Koda Inks - Roberto Poggi Colors - Felipe Sobreiro, Jay David Ramos, Chris Sotomayor, Nolan Woodard Letters - VC's Clayton Cowles Edits - Ketchum, Shan, Robinson, Paniccia, Alonso, Cebulski
Collecting the latest (to this point) Sunday Special Series... wherein I checked back in with one of the X-Books that made me go running for the hills back in 2017!
Generation X (vol.2) starts off... well, kinda clunky... kinda cringey... but, it does manage to turn the corner right before the axe of cancellation fell! This is why we can't have nice things...
This is a decently long compilation, collecting a dozen episodes... I hope you enjoy!
Wyler's Presents... (1992) "What's Holding Up the Game?" Yanked from - Green Lantern: Mosaic #1 (June, 1992)
So, this might be the laziest Sequential Ads yet... and, that's saying something!
Whattaya get when your folks are too cheap to buy Kool-Aid? Well, probably Flavor Aid, right? Which, I don't wanna immediately head off on a tangent, but... anyone out there who makes a "Drink the Kool-Aid" reference, needs to actually do some Googling.
I probably don't have to remind you, but... ya'll remember how much sugar we used to put into these? Like, it was to the point where it was tough to stir! And... that was by following the directions! An entire cup of sugar to eight-cups of water. Nowadays, the directions have changed a bit -- Kool-Aid recommends Splenda... which, might offer an even worse aftertaste than the wooden spoon you use to stir the stuff together. Y'all remember tasting the wooden spoon? No? Was that just me? Anyway... Wyler's, on the other hand (which, sorta surprisingly, still exists) recommends sweetening "to taste". No actual measurement... they want NONE of the responsibility for your pending diabetes.
Anyway... let's take a look at today's offering, which, as mentioned -- is a bit on the lazy side, both as an advert and as a Sequential Ads piece!
We open during... uh, the Rapture? Everyone in the crowd of, what I assume to be a high school baseball game, has been whisked asleep... except for the young fella who stole Simon William's 1980's jacket.
He then... breaks the fourth wall (take that, Deadpool!) to address us directly. Ya see, there are ten things holding up the game and putting the crowd to sleep. I'd say it might be fun to go through the baseball boners... but, the answer key is on the bottom of the page. If you're playing along at home, we're doing this on the honor system.
Anyway, in the very next panel, everything has magically been fixed... and our hero is holding what appears to be a glass full of purple gas. It's actually a poorly rendered serving of Wyler's... grape (I assume), and with that - our boy reminds us that Wyler's winning taste can get any game started.
I don't recall Wyler's ever coming into the equation... I thought WE fixed this scenario by pointing out the ten things wrong with the above panel? I didn't drink any purple stuff in the process... did any of you?
Anyway, from here -- we wrap up with the plug panel. Wyler's tag-line has to do with "turning on the world", which... I didn't realize this stuff had any aphrodisiac qualities... but, stranger things have happened.
That reminds me of an odd anecdote from my high school years. I went to high school in the mid-late 1990s, and every day after school my friend and I would make our rounds in the hoppin' town of Sayville, NY. It was the next town over, but, for a time, it was where the nearest comic shop was. So, we'd walk the train tracks from Locust Ave to Railroad Ave in Sayville - hit the shop, then head home toward Oakdale via Montauk Hwy.
Along the way, depending on our cravings, we'd stop at one of two places -- the "Super-Deli" as we called it (because it was a deli with tables and chairs, ya see?), for Fritos and Dr. Pepper... or, the 7-11 for Combos and an Arizona Iced Tea (w/Ginseng).
I'd say I'm not sure why we'd buy these specific Arizona Iced Teas... but, I totally do. They had these really cool-looking blue bottles. I mentioned that this was the mid-late 90s... when so many things were becoming "blue".
So, we bought these things -- they were delicious, and just looked friggin' cool. I mean, tell me they don't! Ya can't.
Now, all was well and good... until we were approached by a group of, I guess nowadays we'd call 'em "bullies", but back then, going by today's definitions, I feel like most people were bullies... it was a different time. Anyway, we were approached... and were told that only [derogatory term] drank this stuff, because it was an aphrodisiac. Naturally, since it was just me and my buddy -- allusions were made, and we ultimately just stopped buying the stuff.
Like I said, it was a different time. I suppose it's a good thing the bullies didn't know about Wyler's having those same qualities, right?
Anyway... that's all I got for today. As of this morning, I'm officially back in the "studio" working on the upcoming X-Lapsed 300 -- which, knock on wood, will premiere on January 31!
