X-Lapsed, Episode 323 - X Lives of Wolverine #2 (2022)

X-Lapsed, Episode Three Hundred Twenty-Three

X Lives of Wolverine #2 (April, 2022)
"Forgotten Pasts"
Writer - Benjamin Percy
Art - Joshua Cassara
Colors - Frank Martin
Letters - VC's Cory Petit
Design - Tom Muller
Edits - Baumgartner, Basso, White, Cebulski
Cover Price: $4.99
On-Sale: February 2, 2022

Back in the XLADOW saddle, where our premise is beginning to make a bit more sense (at least to your denser-than-most humble host).  We follow our titular hero through various phases of his life... where he's granted both the opportunity to protect and save an Xavier... as well as perhaps right a few of his own past wrongs -- Chekhov's Butterfly Effect looms large here, gang!

Will this series wind up shaking the foundations of the Krakoan Era... or, just be a DC Comics Convergence-like nothin'?  I suppose we'll find out together!

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X-Lapsed, Episode 322 - Sabretooth #1 (2022)

X-Lapsed, Episode Three Hundred Twenty-Two

Sabretooth (vol.4) #1 (April, 2022)
"The Adversary"
Writer - Victor LaValle
Art - Leonard Kirk
Colors - Rain Beredo
Letters - VC's Cory Petit
Design - Tom Muller
Edits - Amaro, White, Cebulski
Cover Price: $4.99
On-Sale: February 2, 2022

Into the Pit... for a bat-spit insane and hyperviolent romp with Sabretooth!

Had a lot of fun with this issue... it's almost enough to make me pollyannishly optimistic for the Destiny of X era!  Without the "Head of X" handcuffs, we might just get some fun stories! 

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X-Lapsed, Episode 321 - X-Men #7 (2022)

X-Lapsed, Episode Three Hundred Twenty-One

X-Men (vol.6) #7 (March, 2022)
"The Secret Origin of Captain Krakoa"
Writer - Gerry Duggan
Art - Pepe Larraz
Colors - Marte Gracia
Letters - VC's Clayton Cowles
Design - Tom Muller
Edits - Amaro, White, Cebulski
Cover Price: $3.99
On-Sale: January 26, 2022

Celebrating eighteen months of X-Lapsed with the Secret Origin of Captain Krakoa!

This is still a story I'm having a hard time getting out of my own way on... but, if I squint and forget that this takes place in a shared and fantastical comic book universe... I can *almost* get it?

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X-Lapsed, Episode 320 - Marauders Annual #1 (2022)

X-Lapsed, Episode Three Hundred Twenty

Marauders Annual #1 (March, 2022)
"Hellfire and Brimstone"
Writer - Steve Orlando
Art - Creees Lee
Colors - Rain Beredo
Letters - VC's Cory Petit
Design - Tom Muller
Edits - Amaro, White, Cebulski
Cover Price: $4.99
On-Sale: January 26, 2022

Ahoy, Muties... let's put together a new Marauders team!

What's that in the distance?  It's awkward and wildly unnatural dialogue!

What's that even further in the distance?  Well... it's some very interesting ideas I hope to see fleshed out in the next volume!

We've got a bit to talk about...

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X-Lapsed Triple-Dip, Episode 7 - X-Men by Jonathan Hickman, Volume 2 (2021)

X-Lapsed Triple-Dip, Episode Seven

X-Men by Jonathan Hickman, Volume 2 (2021)
(00:00:00) X-Men (vol.5) #7: "Lifedeath"
(01:07:24) X-Men (vol.5) #8: "Swarm"
(01:45:44) X-Men (vol.5) #9: "The King Egg"
(02:23:33) X-Men (vol.5) #10: "Fire"
(02:44:48) X-Men (vol.5) #11: "One War, One Mutant"
Writer - Jonathan Hickman
Art - Leinil Francis Yu & Mahmud Asrar
Colors - Sunny Gho & Rain Beredo
Letters - VC's Clayton Cowles
Design - Tom Muller
Edits - Bissa, White, Cebulski
Cover Price: $17.99
On-Sale: October 6, 2021

From Feast to Famine... and back to Feast again!

The sophomore volume of Hickman's flagship is... uneven.  It starts off amazingly strong, with one of the seminal stories of this entire era, and the source for many of our podcast discussions... the introduction of the Crucible!

From there, he wastes a bunch of our time with the Brood, a "funny, ha-ha" with Broo eating an Egg, a Deadly Genesis continuity error that breaks one of the ONLY rules associated with the Resurrection Protocols... then Empyre cash-ins!  At least ONE of those Empyre cash-ins was fun to read!

This is an interesting assortment... I've often wondered how folks who ONLY read the flagship were "receiving" this new era -- here's a chance to find out!

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The Collected X-Lapsed, Episode 31 - Reign of X, Volume 9 (2022)

The Collected X-Lapsed, Episode Thirty-One

Reign of X, Volume 9 (2022)
(00:00:00) X-Factor (vol.4) #7: "Suite No. 7: Scientia Vincere Tenebras"
(00:37:13) Wolverine (vol.7) #11: "A Confusion of Monsters"
(01:00:58) S.W.O.R.D. (vol.2) #5: "Giallo"
(01:44:41) Hellions #11: "Funny Games III: Kill Screen"
(02:37:18) Wolverine (vol.7) #12: "Penumbra"
(03:13:41) New Mutants (vol.4) #16: "Homecoming"
Writers - Leah Williams, Benjamin Percy, Al Ewing, Zeb Wells, & Vita Ayala
Art - David Baldeon, Scot Eaton, Valerio Schiti, Stephen Segovia, & Rod Reis
Inks - JP Mayer & Oren Junior
Colors - Israel Silva, Matthew Wilson, Marte Gracia, David Curiel, & Rod Reis
Letters - VC's Joe Caramagna, Cory Petit, Ariana Maher, & Travis Lanham
Design - Tom Muller
Head of X - Hickman
Edits - Thomas, Andrews-Ballesteros, Basso, Amaro, Bissa, White, Cebulski
Cover Price: $17.99
On-Sale: February 23, 2022

A collection of episodes that... I can barely even remember performing!

We've got a lotta "versus" stuff this time out... Wolverine vs. Dracula, Karma vs. Dani Moonstar, and... if ya can believe it - Psylocke vs. Kwannon?!

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X-Lapsed, Episode 319 - Devil's Reign: X-Men #1 (2022)

X-Lapsed, Episode Three Hundred Nineteen

Devil's Reign: X-Men #1 (March, 2022)
"The Queens of Fear"
Writer - Gerry Duggan
Art - Phil Noto
Letters - VC's Cory Petit
Design - Tom Muller
Edits - Amaro, White, Cebulski
Cover Price: $3.99
On-Sale: January 19, 2022

A Devil's Reign tie-in, that feels more like an issue of X-Men than... most issues of X-Men!  That, unfortunately, isn't an indictment on its quality, however... as our titular heroes continue their de-evolution from actual characters to Bendisonian snark-bots!

We've got a great mailbag though!

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