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Here is Leonora zan aka Road.
It's cal Don here, voice of Wolverine

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from X Men, the animated series, Baba. Join me at the Uncanny

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Experience, the ultimate destination for X
Men fans just like you. You will

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become a mutant student at Xaviers and
be able to explore the school campus,

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shop the vendor hall, and meet
the creators and stars of the X Men

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universe. Get your tickets now,
Sugar at the Uncanny Experience dot Com guys

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were so excited for you to join
us at this September sixteen and seventeenth at

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the Uncanny Experience. It's going to
be incredible. We have some news that

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we're going to break for you guys, so you can learn about it here

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first. What do we have,
Chris? Yes, every episode we are

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going to highlight a new aspect of
the convention that maybe of interest to you.

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Are you a cous player, Are
you a costumer? Do you love

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the X Men and want to express
yourself through fashion? Well, guess what

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we have the perfect place for you
to do it. Jumbo Carnations Cosplay Contest,

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which will be held at the Uncanny
Experience Sunday, September seventeenth at two

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PM. So, Chandler, why
did we call it Jumbo Cardnation's cosplay contest?

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Who is Jumbo Carnation, explained to
us. All Well, for sure,

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of course, Jumbo is the mutants
like fashion guru. He is the

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top designer of mutant fashion. He
has Emma Frost's choice fashion designer, so

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you know that she's got the best
taste. He's got the best styles.

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So he is somebody that has four
operational arms, and he's got like tough,

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tough skin. He's strong, and
he is just somebody who is a

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joy to read in commas. And
also spoiler alert, he makes out with

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the Lighthouse Island guy who runs the
place where the hell Fire Galla takes place.

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Oh, so he's queer. He's
also a queer mutant, which we

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love. Yes, well, Jumbo
Carnation was the absolute perfect mutant to attached

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to our cosplay contests. So I'm
excited to see, you know it come

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to life. And if you're going
to compete, get ready because you may

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win an epic prize like medals,
a trophy assigned comic book exclusive that we

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have at our convention. You could
also win an xim in the animated series

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book that's signed by all the cast
and the creatives. Also VIP tickets to

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next year's event in twenty twenty four. Yeah, so definitely when you get

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to the event and you go show
up on Sunday, make sure you sign

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up for the cosplay contest so that
you can win some of these cool prizes.

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Some of our judges include award winning
costplayers and designers, like coming H

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two, who is our Juggernaut costplayer. Also his name is Roger by the

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way, oh yeah, he also
has a fabulous omega red and he's really

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known for his massive, big builds. We also have Ray who is a

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cause player and designers, and then
of course we have our community manager and

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person of interest with our Samantha Ray. She is a contestant from Project on

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Way season sixteen. She's a local
fashion designer and she will be one of

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your cosplay judges. To sign up, you just have to visit the info

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booth during show hours prior to the
contest and fill out our entry form.

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So I can't wait to see all
of your mutant fashions. Everybody, Good

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luck, good luck. Hi everybody. This is Chandler, and this is

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Chris and this is Nikkiel and you're
listening to X Ray three. Here we

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are here with episode one oh five, and we are here with the amazing

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nikkil Clayton. Welcome to kill.
Thank you for joining the show. Thank

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you guys so much for having me. Of course, I just was watching

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your latest TikTok on the hell Fire
Galla issue recap of the What the Fuck

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Comics recap you know, segment that
you do, so I can't wait to

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dive into that later. Chris,
we have some questions for Nick Hill.

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Let's introduce him a little bit,
Let's get to know it. Yeah,

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Well, something about you that I
love is that you are all over TikTok.

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You have a seven hundred over seven
hundred and fifty thousand followers, which

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is like monumental, and you cover
X Men and other pop culture properties.

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So I wanted to know what started
your passion for the X Men. What

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was your first introduction? What made
you fall in love with the X Men?

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So the X Men, I think
I first discovered as a kid watching

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what were my version of the cartoons, which were X Men Evolution and Wolf

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in the X Men, And when
I saw them they were both coming out.

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I think it reruns. Honestly,
by the time I was watching them,

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but I had a little kid brain, and I thought they were the

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same show. And I thought it
was so amazing that they were skipping back

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and forth in time from them being
in high school to the post apocalyptic moment

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of like most of them being dead. This is the greatest show I've ever

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heard of. It was. I
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realized they were two different shows that
had nothing to do with each other.

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But that really kick started my love
of the characters. And then from there

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I picked up a bunch of random
comics back in the day from my middle

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school library, and my parents whould
dropped me off at Barnes and Noble,

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and I just spent my time reading
X Men and it's been that ever since.

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Amazing. That's great. So as
far as your TikTok goes, which

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TikTok video have you released about the
X Men that has been the most well

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received, the most loved, the
most liked. Oh, I don't know.

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I post a lot of it is
with the X Men. I post

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a lot of like fan fiction any
skits, and those are usually very well

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liked. I think the one that
maybe did the best in numbers is I

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made just a video talking about the
X Men movies and pointing out all of

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the cameos they have with the most
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are in the background of one scene, and that got a lot of reception

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because everyone was just like, what
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in film? Wow, Well,
what are some content that you have coming

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up on the channel and where can
people find you on TikTok So On TikTok

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I'm at Nikil Clayton and I Khil
Clayton. Basically, I'm doing a lot

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more just normal skits, a lot
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split my time between comic and movies, but to honor the strikes, I'm

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doing only comics for the next foreseeable
future. I just uploaded a skit today

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about the Five, which is funny
because I recorded it before the Health Hire

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Gala and it doesn't really work at
the current canon anymore. But I had

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to go out and then I'm also
going to start launching a YouTube that is

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at nikkil Clayton, where I will
my first post is going to be a

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documentary or mocumentary version of the Dark
Phoenix saga, and I'm looking very forward

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to that. So are you going
to play like all the care I'm gonna

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play all of them. Yeah,
it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting.

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I got a lot of I got
wigs for the first time ever. I

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usoly just put names over myself.
But I'm really committing for YouTube. I

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love it. Now are you doing
Are you doing it like as the X

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Men are talking, or as claremontin
Burne and everybody as the X Men?

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That my idea is that someone has
found the X Men and is just interviewing

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them about what happened with the Phoenix
at all, and it's just them sitting

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there in like the black room,
having the two shots of them discussing what

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was going on, and then using
like the comic panels themselves as the Ken

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Byrne style photos. Excellent and can't
wait to see it. But you're also

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currently running a Kickstarter for a TV
pilot called The Bumbling Immortal, which is

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an adaptation of your TikTok series.
So what's that all about? So I

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actually that kickstarter is funded and we
are working on it. But what it

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was is one of my original series
I used to do was about just the

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world's worst immortal character in one of
these stories, because I feel like usually

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when you have immortals, even in
like X Men with the externals, they're

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always like, we're involved in great
societies, doing shadowy things in the past,

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you know, having moments that mattered, and this is just a guy

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who didn't do any of that.
It was always basically, I'll get to

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it when I'm older. But he
never has any reason to rush or do

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anything because he's always going to be
around. So he's been like crashing on

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a couch for like six hundred years
and stuff, and this is the story

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of him finally doing something. Oh, that's actually so true that procrastination affects

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us all, even immortals. So
well, let's let's make up some San

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Diego comic con a little bit.
I mean, all three of us were

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down in San Diego this past couple
of weekends, and it was pretty cool.

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They were celebrating sixty years of X
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stuff, including the D twenty three
Hellfire Galla, which was immense. It

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was amazing. What was your reaction
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really did. My partner and I
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we did drive down just for the
night to go to the gala, and

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I thought it was beautiful. You
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for to take a picture in front
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the cutouts of the Gala people and
their outfits. Then they had three rooms.

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They had the Green Lagoon, they
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They had what they called the X
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room but was more nineties based.
It met my expectations and then exceeded them.

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So what were you wearing? I
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hell Fire outfit, which was an
interesting choice because it required me to not

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wear a shirt, but I decided
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at a like the one event.
I know that you guys are also going

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to get Xpit event, but the
one Xpit event that happened already. Yes,

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well you've you've alluded to the uncanny
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But the Gambit look was really hot. I mean, everybody loves that

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that Russell Dodderman design gambit. Yeah, I love it. Myself friend of

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ours named west Offer he also wore
that last year, I think great Chris

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at our x Menda panel and he
looked amazing in it too. So if

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you've got the body, even if
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and you just have the confidence,
you can wear that outfit. Oh

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yeah, I drew the body on. I did not have that naturally,

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but I got makeup and a pen
that was enough. Hey, you know,

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I know a lot of people that
are very fit that still draw definition

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on muscles because superheroes are a bit
beyond what we can achieve as humans.

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So you got to augment yourself as
much as possible. But I love it.

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I love it. What's one of
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at the Galla. Oh that's a
very good question. There was a storm

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I saw that had an actual cloud
situation on her head, which amazed me.

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I don't know how you pull that
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the way. I thought it was
fantastic. There was also a no that

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was really cool who had the three
lights. Yeah, we're going on.

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Yes, name more cosplay, friend, Name more cosplay? Ye addressed as

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as Nova the new Gala look for
Nova and that storm. I saw her

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too, and just to give the
listeners a little sense of what it was,

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so she uh yeah, had this
cloud effect going on as like almost

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a hat that was her hair,
but it also lit up and kind of

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looked like it was storming inside of
it. It was next level, like

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amazing her and there was an Emma
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To me, I felt like were
the highlights for me? That's a

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Michelle a friend of mine is Actually
she came with a friend of mine to

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that party and she was great.
It was like photo accurate Emma Frost.

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Yeah, Michelle Waffle. Of course, we we know and love Michelle Waffle.

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She was an excellent Emma Yeah.
Well let's talk about the decor,

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like inside so people can understand.
I know you mentioned the green lagoon,

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the nightclub room, whatever, Let's
get into some details. Like I would

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say the green lagoon was really interesting
because it had that green carpet with a

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step and repeat, the purple step
and repeat that we saw in the first

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year Gala. I thought that was
fascinating. If people remember the Russell Dottoman

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connecting variants from the first half fire. They kind of recreated that, which

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was really neat. What I loved
was the fact that the lighting fixtures they

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had, like the laser lights pointing
so that it formed an X, so

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you saw x is everywhere, you
know, in light. It was really

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cool to see that. By the
way, I didn't go to the Helfire

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Gala, didn't didn't take it.
I was standing outside going, but I

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saw on social media it made it. It's still making a splash. They

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I will say it was very crowded, it was very hot, and it

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did get very hot. It was
a lot of people, especially in that

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one the second level that was the
club room, that was very crowded from

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what I saw online. My favorite
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It was this misst that you had
to walk through and they had a

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projection, a light projection over it. So I think everybody that went to

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the hel Fire Gala has a special
TikTok video where they're making their grand entrance

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through this crackohen Gate. I definitely
do. I waited specificly, it was

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a little updated filmed a video walk
it through that thing. It was so

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cool. Plus, they had the
flower right next to it, which meant

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mysteriously missing at some point that I
noticed, is it stopped being there?

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Who ended up going away with that
flower? Oh? Wow, I'm jealous.

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I wish I thought about that.
When you guys entered, you guys

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had a hell Fire Gala invitation which
looked really cool. Was that a pen

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attached to it? A little X
pinta? What an amazing extra touched twenty

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three? Yeah? Absolutely, And
then we got a gift bag on our

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way out which came with hell Fire
Gala branded bag, a pin, a

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refrigerator magnet, and then randomized was
either like a graphic novel or these like

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prose novelizations of X Men stories,
including two books by guests of previous episodes

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on X Rays the podcast, including
Carrie Harris and Neil Clyde. So I

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was really excited to see their books
being held by people in the in the

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club. That's so nice. I
got the graphic novel, but it's good

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to hear that the novelizations were around
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really cool. I hope they do
it again. I really feel like it

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would be amazing. I just want
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creators and artists and writers from the
X Men universe. Were you able to

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hob mob with anybody? Did you
have cool conversations? Did you get any

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spoilers about things that are to come? I personally I met some other X

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Men comicy creators that I knew were
coming when I went there, But I

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went online after and saw that like
Teeny Howard and everyone was there. I

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was so I could have talked to
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your work, and I had no
idea you were there, and I did

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not see them because it was so
crowded. But yeah, I was fortunate

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enough to kind of station myself where
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got to hang out with Teeny Howard, zeb Wells, Jerry Duggan, Joshka

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Sarah. Jordan D. White was
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Men ninety seven was there, so
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of them. I will say.
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I was hobnobbing was this current issue
of hell Fire Galo that we just read

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may not be the last hell Fire
Gala as we predicted. Interesting The phrase

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was keep the faith when one questioned
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Wow. By the way, the
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is huge. It is swept the
internet. It is triggered people to go

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to the comic bookstores and pick up
their hard copies like never before. This

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is red Wedding, Game of Throne
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I have not ready yet. I
am still going to get that com books,

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so I don't want any spoilers from
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hear your reaction to this issue.
I was blown away. I really was.

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I expected something big, given that
I was supposed to kick off all

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of x and everything, but I
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everything they accomplished. And two points, it is physically also huge. Like

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I remember going, I was like, how are they going to wrap up

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all of the stuff that they've been
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And the issue it's like seventy five
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that's how it's like three books of
one. It's insane. I posted

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a wrap up of it that we
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the whole thing and it took like
six or seven minutes. It was insanity.

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spoil it for you, but it
shook the foundation a lot, and I

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was very blowed away. Yeah,
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read it. I am shook it. I was upset, like physically,

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there's there's definitely moments in there that
it's a lot to take in. And

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our beloved X men totally get it
at like they've been telling us for months

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now. I feel like that it
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and be prepared for depth destruction in
Mayhem. And they did not disappoint one

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bit. But some of it was
gory, like to the point of where

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I was like, oh no,
oh yeah, the visuals of it.

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I was surprised they got away with
some of the stuff. They got away

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with genuine little nightmare fuel and I
was like, oh my god, m

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but Modoc's in it, so Chris, you'll love it. Oh my gosh.

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Really, okay, Modo is there? Yeah, I just I just

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binge the Modoc theories from Hulu and
now I'm in love with the character more

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than I was before. So and
how fire Gella, I am checking out

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this issue? Can you tell me
though, like I'm a little behind.

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Do I have to go far back
in order to be able to understand what's

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happening with all the setup that they
do? Like how far back? Like

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six months of comics? Oh,
that's it's a complicated question because it ties

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in threads that are like one of
the threads is straight up from twenty eighteen,

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like when the whole thing kicked off. But I think for the most

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part, don't understand most of what's
going God, you need just the general

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understanding of the task quo of Cocoa
and then maybe the last few months of

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comics of like the flagship title is
help you understand, Yeah, because I

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know that they wrote it in a
way that I think you can almost pick

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it up as a first comic just
to kind of get a sense of the

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world. Are They're really good at
establishing kind of what we already know from

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what we've been reading. But yeah, in order to appreciate the depth of

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that issue, you've definitely my advice
is to read every book that's been out

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since Hoxxbox, because the only way
to really grasp every detail that's going on,

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But at the same time, you
can pick it up as a new

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reader. They designed it in a
way that you can kind of get introduced

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to the people and then be like, what the hell just happened? I

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need to keep reading? Cool?
Well, everybody, stay tuned after our

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issue recap for a special bonus segment
where me and Chandler are going to do

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a deep dive into our San Diego
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cool, Well, let's let's start
setting the era of May of nineteen ninety

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two, because the issue that you
selected is Chef's Kiss Primetime nineties. X

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Men Jim Wee are like it is
so good and so it came out in

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May of nineteen ninety two, and
we liked to set the air of like

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top film, top song. So
that's what's the top song? Chris.

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The top song of May of nineteen
ninety two was Jump by Chris Cross.

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Chris Cross is gonna make you jump
Jump? Yes, Wow, the number

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one for eight weeks in a row. I mean, I definitely remember and

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being in school in nineteen ninety two. I was definitely alive at this time

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and remembering Criss Cross and remembering all
the backwards clothes because I had to wear

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my jacket backwards. Like I was
very influenced by Chriss Cross confession. I

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try to wear my clothes backwards to
school. They would not let me because

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there was like a loose uniform code, and yeah, I almost got sent

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home. I had to like change
that. But it's how us tell us

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your experience about Chris Cross. Do
you remember this song? Does it resonate

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with you. I'm gonna be honest, I don't. I don't know.

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I think when you sag a bit
of it sounded a bit familiar. But

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the backwards close things, that's very
interesting. I was still eight years from

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being bored with it. Nine two. I know we're talking to embryo here.

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So what was the top movie of
nineteen ninety two? In May Chandler?

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It was Lethal Weapon three, a
movie I've never seen, but of

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course a franchise that people love.
And this is definitely not an era where

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I was into action movies. Obviously
I was a little young, so you

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know, as we were in grade
school essentially at this time, Lethal Weapon

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three was not on my watch list. What about you, Chris? I

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also did not watch Lethal Weapon three, But I did watch a lot of

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the other movies that hit the box
office. Oh yeah, that mud like

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for instance, Sister Act, absolutely
Alien three and in Sin No Man,

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I've seen him all yeah, what
about you, nikkil Nevy? Have you

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seen any of these movies we just
mentioned? Actually, I love Lethal Weapon

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three. I binged all the Lethal
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and Lethal Weapon three. I think
my favorite one because it's the one with

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where Joe Peshi's character takes them more
center stage and he's hilarious to that movie.

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Let's get into the issue, you
guys. Let's do it. Oh

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my god, do it. I
can't wait. We're We're doing X Men

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number eight. The cover date was
May of nineteen ninety two. The title

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of this issue is Tooth and Claw. Yes. The credits are Jim Lee

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as writer, penciller and inker,
Scott Lobdell as writer, Art Tibert as

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inker, Joe Roses or Ross's or
I don't know how to say, his

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last name is colorist and oh Tim, Tim and your last name, your

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Polish last name or Zechowiski or ze
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the best we're gonna be able to
do so well, I'll take it cool,

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all right. Well on the cover, guys, what do we see

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on the cover? Man, this
is a Gambit versus Bishop, Enuff said,

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I think first in saying this Bishop
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He's got his flaming fist going on. Gambit, who is established so

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far as already being a huge badass, is just down for the count and

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looks very much at pain. And
so Bishop is like, he seems very

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menacing at this moment, and a
rogue seems very upset. Yes, absolutely,

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And Scott in jubilee in the background
with the shock and off faces like,

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oh no, he didn't you know
what I just discovered about this cover

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in this very moment right now?
What if you look in the lower right,

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I just I don't know why I
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goes right space. Yeah, that
was awesome. Ghostwriter. I was also

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just looking at that because in my
head the cover is the Bishop and Gambit

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like standoff, but there is a
ghostwriter down there. You know what's funny

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is that? Yes, so special
appearance by ghostwriter as if it like has

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anything to do with the story.
No, it literally is a bait switch

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of like you know, oh,
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No, he literally is just trying
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series. I believe it's like the
last panel of correct Pas. I'm also

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noticing for the first time that Gambit
shirt is torn open. Yeahly from the

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flaming fist as well. Yeah,
no, he got blasted pretty hard.

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Well, let's dive into the issue. We start on Wolverine doing some desk

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work. He's doing his office hours
at the computer and he is just going

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through cigar after cigar. He is
I see a couple of coffee. You

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know, he must be doing all
nighters doing his homework or whatever he's doing

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on this computer. But unfortunately he
can't use a computer because it keeps blocking

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him with an access denied. Do
you think it's because he's got chunky fingers

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and as he's typing, they just
keeps fumbling the password because Wolverine just setting

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stocky on all levels, including his
fingers. I imagine they don't work well

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in keyboards. I love. He
also is threatening the computer like he's like

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one of us is going to have
to give computer. It ain't gonna be

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me like this is how his approach
to getting his information is. Oh,

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the files are in the computer.
Little Zoolander moment for everyone. Well,

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he's wearing a red flannel shirt and
a black tank top, which is kind

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of like my go to look.
So I think I found my next cosplay,

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great casual Wolverine cosplay. I'm loving
it, Julie Yo Wolfster. Maybe

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not now is at the time,
you know, the prof is Dave Bautant,

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his latest ex dude top side names
Bishop. Now I don't feel bad

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about Jules go away, and cyclop
says as I said, now, probably

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is when I say what I do
later Jubilation and he's like grabbing her shoulder,

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like, come on, get out
of here. Yes, I love

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this era of Jubilee, just because
she was such a fun voice in comics.

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You know, they're so serious,
all these adults dealing with very adult

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issues, and she's in there being
like, what, I have a good

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time. Oh and then we get
our next splash page, which is a

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really beautiful portrait of Storm and Bishop
with Professor Xavier in the background. Storm

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is giving him a guided tour around
the mansion and she's very cautious of this

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man. She's like, who is
this dude. I'm gonna keep my eye

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on him. He's from the future, allegedly, Like I know, they

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deal with a lot of stuff,
you know, broods and aliens and space

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and people dying and coming back to
life and whatnot, but somebody from the

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future. I'm sure she was not
too pleased to be able to have him

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join the team automatically because the Professor's
like, he's cool. I love Storm.

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She's the Gold team leader and she
is cautious. But something that I

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love about this is that Bishop is
from the future and he has all the

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tea, and one of the things
that he alludes to is that Storm is

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legendary, so he knows a goddess, oh when he sees one. And

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then she brings him around to the
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No Forge, Now, ah,
Genesis is actually Forge's name in the

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future. Yes, I love it. Close I name Forge. He's like,

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for the moment, that's what Bishops. I don't know what at what

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point Forge becomes Genesis. But obviously
I didn't realize this kind of you know,

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nineteen ninety two drop of like we're
gonna at some point, Forge is

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going to change his name. We
see this covered in XP, the animated

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series. I believe this issue definitely
has has a two parter of the nineties

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animated series for sure. Well.
Forge has been working on the Blackbird all

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night and he is eventually going to
get picked. But Professor is just like,

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you know, even your newton ability
to create a repair, anything mechanical

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has its limits. He's like,
rest up, dude. Well, and

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Forge is super shady to Storm in
this panel. He says, the work

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needs to be done Aurorro, and
I find most of my evenings have been

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free lately because they're fighting. Oh
is this when they were in the relationship.

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Yeah, yeah, this is when
they're in relationship. But obviously they're

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on the outs right now, so
you know there's no cuddle time before bed,

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So Borge just like I'm not sleeping
on the couch. I'm going to

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work on the Blackbird. I'll show
them. And now they're on their way

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to meet Cyclops and Bishop as a
fan girl, and he was just like,

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what the greatest leader of all time? Oh? So excited. But

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Storm takes immediate offense to this term. He says, you will assimilate much

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sooner if you do not believe everything
you hear in your history books. Mhmm,

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indeed, oh yes. And then
so the elevator doors open, he

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gets to get a glimpse at the
team. His eyes are wide with glee.

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He is a fan at San Diego
Comicon, going to his first panel

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in getting to see all of his
all of his you know, his dreams

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and helps come alive because yeah,
he gets to see Cyclops, Jean Gray,

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Beast, Row, Psiloc, Gambit, and Jubilee. Something interesting,

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um he mentions about Beast is that
he vote unquote, was in the future

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Randall's most read philosopher, and pieces
are like, and who's Randall? What

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do you think Randall is? Is
that a school? No, Randall is

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one of his buddies that come through
from the future, but they die unfortunately

405
00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:23.279
in the Trevor Fitzroy storyline. I
think it's also a very beast like to

406
00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:30.720
respond Grassias to this like why are
you saying it in Spanish? Well,

407
00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:37.240
yeah, exactly. Another thing he
says is you are jubilation the Last X

408
00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:42.720
Men, And she's like, really
cool, what do you know about the

409
00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:48.400
Last X Men? How how big
was the last X Men in the storyline

410
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:51.279
in the future. Well, you
know, Gamba technically is the last,

411
00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:55.119
which we get to ye, but
I don't know. I feel like Jubilee

412
00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:57.519
just was the last to go down
there. Technically Kitty Pride was the last

413
00:30:57.519 --> 00:31:00.640
to go down, So I don't
know. This is a bit weird that

414
00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:04.319
they're like twite if we don't know
a ton about Bishop's future. I think

415
00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:08.599
it's just a fun nod that Jubilatians
like important. You know what's interesting is

416
00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:14.039
they're doing that storyline right now called
X Men Days a Future Past Doomsday,

417
00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:19.039
and they are telling the story of
how the X Men were destroyed in that

418
00:31:19.519 --> 00:31:22.200
timeline, which I can't remember.
It's not six one six obviously, but

419
00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:27.519
that timeline. So I wonder if
we actually get to see Jubilie last till

420
00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:30.559
till the end. So I'm very
curious. We've only have one issue come

421
00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:34.400
out so far. It was Brutal
Is Bishop from the Day's Future past timeline?

422
00:31:34.440 --> 00:31:37.640
There was from like a different time. I thought he was maybe,

423
00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:41.599
oh, yeah, you're right,
he is from it, because because in

424
00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:45.480
that one, for sure, there's
like Rachel Summers is still around and Kitty

425
00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:48.960
still around and everything, and Jubilee
is not there because it came up before

426
00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:52.079
she existed. So I feel like
some reason, yeah, he wasn't the

427
00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:55.000
same, But I guess I do
think you're right that he is in a

428
00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:57.200
different timeline. His has to do
with like Hope, Summers and everything.

429
00:31:57.240 --> 00:32:02.759
That's why he wants to kill Hope
for some reason later. Yeah, there's

430
00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:07.119
a lot of alternate horrible ways the
expect could all die. I asked things.

431
00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:09.839
Also, what you're saying about Jubilee, Like she hears she's the last

432
00:32:09.960 --> 00:32:15.279
X Man and she's like, all
right, cool, great sounds fun.

433
00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:21.599
Yeah, so I live the longest
of all these schmucks. But yeah,

434
00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:27.279
Bishop he is upset because he says
Gambit and he doesn't quite know who Gambit

435
00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:30.319
is. But then he hears the
French accent or the Creole accent, and

436
00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:35.240
he media is like, oh,
you're fucking Lebau. Oh I'm gonna rip

437
00:32:35.319 --> 00:32:37.599
you in half. Because he was
the trader, the one who gave away

438
00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:43.640
the location of the X Men that
caused their demise, So he is pissed

439
00:32:43.720 --> 00:32:47.400
at seeing Gambit once he realizes that
he is Lebou. I also love that

440
00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:52.440
Gambit immediately is just like, if
she's the last X man, what are

441
00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:55.599
you? Because Bishop's got a giant
X on his suit and he's like,

442
00:32:55.599 --> 00:33:00.599
well, that doesn't make any sense. And Bishop's response is to say le

443
00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:04.400
Beau. And I think I'm pretty
sure this is the first time Lebou's ben

444
00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:07.799
said in comics A interesting. I
think he's just been Gambit until this point,

445
00:33:08.279 --> 00:33:14.960
and now they're saying Lebou. Okay, but what's up with Jean's face

446
00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:17.640
in this panel? Is she like
psychically hearing him and going, oh my

447
00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:22.880
god, this is yeah? No, right, no, this is a

448
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:27.480
bit of a sloppy panel. I
feel. No, he learns that Gambit

449
00:33:27.640 --> 00:33:32.640
or Lebau is the trader because Jean
left a video transmission that he watched in

450
00:33:32.680 --> 00:33:37.759
the future, and then she like
dies because of having essential attacks the video.

451
00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:42.119
But the video stays, you know, in the computer, so that's

452
00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:45.960
just a reference back to him watching
that video. She supposed to be much

453
00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:49.839
older, but she just looks like
regular Jean. Yeah. I've also been

454
00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:54.559
curious why Gene is having a solid
reaction to just say Lebau. And then

455
00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:59.599
we have a macho face off.
We have Gambit versus Bishop and they are

456
00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:02.240
a lock. Their eyes are locked, and they were about to go at

457
00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:07.400
it, but Cyclops steps in between. Is the mediator. Yes, so

458
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:09.960
I love they're throwing insults, they're
they're getting there, puffing their chests up,

459
00:34:10.519 --> 00:34:14.960
and Bishop's like, you gotta believe
me, and Everyone's like, yo,

460
00:34:15.079 --> 00:34:20.960
we don't know you see, And
I love how Gene is just like,

461
00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:25.119
um, I hate to sound insensitive
to the needs of the chronologically displaced,

462
00:34:25.519 --> 00:34:32.719
but can we discuss this over our
previously scheduled a picnic? And Bishops

463
00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:37.639
pick exact this exact concept is why
I love this comic so much, like

464
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:44.159
I do think it's the best example
of the X Men cheesiness because the response

465
00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:46.880
of this man from the future is
telling us that this guy's going to be

466
00:34:46.920 --> 00:34:51.639
try us to kill us all.
But we were supposed to be on a

467
00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:54.320
picnic right now, so can we
get back to what's important? Please go

468
00:34:54.360 --> 00:35:02.360
on our picnic is amazing O.
Jane says, hate to sound insensitive to

469
00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:07.519
the needs of the chronologically displaced,
but can we discuss this over our previously

470
00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:13.360
scheduled picnic? Picnic? I inform
you you're impending desk at the hands of

471
00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:16.679
a trader and you suggest a picnic. We do our best thinking on a

472
00:35:16.719 --> 00:35:28.800
full stomach, says Professor, but
to the like but everyone. Oh and

473
00:35:28.840 --> 00:35:34.360
then this early early Gambit Rogue love
I forgot that they're just getting warm to

474
00:35:34.440 --> 00:35:38.599
each other, and so Gambit hears
that Rogue feels like accusing him was insulting,

475
00:35:38.639 --> 00:35:43.000
and he's like, oh, insulting
a share I didn't know you cared.

476
00:35:43.639 --> 00:35:49.159
So she's she's getting a little smug
smile on her face and she says,

477
00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:52.960
I'm sorry, did y'all get the
impression I cared? Oh? I

478
00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:57.519
could just hear Leonora Zanne read that
line. Oh yes, Like I don't

479
00:35:57.519 --> 00:36:01.480
know why, but I want to
snap snap for that. Yeah. Yeah.

480
00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:05.320
And Bishop's a bit upset. He's
like, no one's taking me seriously.

481
00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:07.960
And Storm's just like, well,
would you take somebody you just met

482
00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:12.559
seriously? Like, let's go have
food. It's also notable that two people

483
00:36:12.559 --> 00:36:15.559
that jumped to Gabbit's defense are Storm
at Rogue, which Rogue is obviously the

484
00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:20.079
budding relationship, and the Storm is
like his best buddy at this little moment

485
00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:22.920
because he's just found her. It
helped her like not be a kid and

486
00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:25.639
everything again, right, And so
Storm's just like, no, I trust

487
00:36:25.679 --> 00:36:29.800
him, boy that I trust you
totally. And then we go back down

488
00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:35.159
to the basement and Wolverine has discovered
one word, Barrington. He doesn't know

489
00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:37.199
anything about Barrington, if it's a
person, if it's a place. He's

490
00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:40.920
trying to figure it out, and
Professor's just like, picnic. Now,

491
00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:49.519
we got one thing we had to
do today. You will have this bay.

492
00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:52.840
It's just like family meeting, or
like you will all come to dinner

493
00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:55.480
and sit down, put your phones
away. We're gonna have this picnic.

494
00:36:55.880 --> 00:37:01.719
Stop brooding about your mystery past and
come enjoy our picnic. And this is

495
00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:06.679
like the best. I when I
got to this part of the issue,

496
00:37:06.719 --> 00:37:09.239
I'm like, I'm fully in Nick, He'll pick the best issue in the

497
00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:15.559
entire universe of X Men, because
we have our swimsuit edition of the X

498
00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:20.280
Men up in this panel. Because
at that moment, on the very edge

499
00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:24.000
of the Xavier estate, we see
them playing around on the lake and they're

500
00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:30.039
all in sexy bathing suits. Oh
yes, oh she is. I had

501
00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:37.719
not noticed. That's so fun.
I love best is just chilling at the

502
00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:42.119
top of a rock. I think
he's eating an apple. Yes, on

503
00:37:42.159 --> 00:37:45.480
top of a rock. Of course, the casual X Men is the best.

504
00:37:45.559 --> 00:37:47.159
I love it when they have downtime
because it's like when the best ship

505
00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:52.000
goes down because they're always fighting for
their life, trying to stay alive,

506
00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:54.159
helping one another out. And then
when all the dust settles, they go

507
00:37:54.239 --> 00:37:58.920
back home and they're just like who
are you looking at? And who are

508
00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:04.880
you grabbing the other night? And
who are you sleeping with? Comes out?

509
00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:09.840
It devolves into like reality TV so
quick. It's so beautiful because like,

510
00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:14.519
yeah, Jean is trying to have
a serious conversation because the Professor has

511
00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:16.800
just been put in a wheelchair again, and he's like, it's weird that

512
00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:22.079
he's not talking about it, and
Scott is fully ignoring her. M Jean

513
00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:25.079
leans into Cyclops and she says,
it hasn't you know, he hasn't said

514
00:38:25.079 --> 00:38:29.119
a word about his condition since the
Shadow King crushed his leg. It's not

515
00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:34.719
natural even for the professor. What
do you think about? What about the

516
00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:39.280
Professor? And then all of a
sudden, we see Sylock emerging from the

517
00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:45.800
lake in the most sexual and provocative
outfit you can possibly think of. And

518
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:52.679
she is built and she is gorgeous, and she is curty Oh my gosh,

519
00:38:52.719 --> 00:38:57.119
I'm questioning my own sexuality right now. And she has a Pikachu on

520
00:38:57.159 --> 00:39:01.280
her belly. Oh, oh my
god, you guys, I know,

521
00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:10.800
Wow, she caught Pikachuma. I'm
gonna have to, like, you know,

522
00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:15.519
post this on our social follow us
on Exert's podcast on Instagram. I'm

523
00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:21.079
going to show you this Pikachu inspired
sexy swim suit. But anyway, she's

524
00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:24.159
emerging, she has her hands over
ahead her, she's dripping wet, and

525
00:39:24.239 --> 00:39:31.639
she is looking all sexy, and
cyclop says, I think that the Charles

526
00:39:31.639 --> 00:39:37.280
professor guy, I think the Professor
is um doing the that is he's just

527
00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:44.519
perfect. Excuse me. She is
like like we see a zooming shot of

528
00:39:44.760 --> 00:39:47.760
psiloc kind of like caressing her chest
in her mouth is open, and it's

529
00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:53.440
probably like the most erotic thing that
I've ever seen from Silocum. And I

530
00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:58.000
just I have to give a shout
out to the letter or who did a

531
00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:07.199
great job of conveying Scott's very awkward, very stunted speech here. But Gene

532
00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:10.960
Gene is not happy. She side
blast cyclops right on the side, right

533
00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:21.960
in the delt. Yeah, she
says, excuse me, Gene, you

534
00:40:22.119 --> 00:40:27.440
remembered. I'm flattered. And then
Silock is coming out of the lake and

535
00:40:27.519 --> 00:40:30.840
she's drying her hair and she looks
over at Scott. But then there's kind

536
00:40:30.840 --> 00:40:36.440
of like a knowing sexy like I
saw you looking at me, and we

537
00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:38.000
see the close up on her eye, and then we see a close up

538
00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:43.719
on cyclops side and then he says, sorry, my mind must have been

539
00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:51.960
um been somewhere else the gutter perhaps
absolutely. I also love his like gene

540
00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:54.920
exclamation when he gets hit does have
a question mark like he is confused what's

541
00:40:54.920 --> 00:40:59.800
happening? He was not aware she
was there. And then we cut to

542
00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:06.199
a more serious encounter between Storm and
Bishop. Storm is also in a bathing

543
00:41:06.199 --> 00:41:09.239
suit, but she's got like a
little strong kind of wrap around her bikini

544
00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:15.480
bottom. It's like a purple and
pink patterned look. And she's got all

545
00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:19.280
sorts of bracelets going on, because
when we go swimming, we wear bracelets.

546
00:41:19.400 --> 00:41:22.320
Yes, actually they they're floaters.
You don't know this. They're X

547
00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:28.079
men technology. Yes, because she
actually doesn't know how to swim, that

548
00:41:28.119 --> 00:41:30.920
makes perfect sense, that's why she
flies. But I have to say I

549
00:41:31.239 --> 00:41:38.639
vote storm swimsuit as the best swimsuit
of the issue. She's gorgeous. It's

550
00:41:38.800 --> 00:41:43.039
a It's not a Pokemon bathing suit, but at least it's high fashion.

551
00:41:43.159 --> 00:41:46.760
It's beautiful, Yes, hell Fire
gall of the Swimsuit edition. Yes.

552
00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:52.360
So yeah. They're talking about how
Bishop has forgotten that there's more forms of

553
00:41:52.360 --> 00:41:54.400
life on Earth than just mutants and
humans, that there's nature, there's bugs

554
00:41:54.480 --> 00:41:58.480
or whatever. Storm's a little depressed
to hear that. And then we hear

555
00:41:58.480 --> 00:42:06.559
a gem in the background. Cyclops. He's under attack, and you know

556
00:42:06.599 --> 00:42:10.159
what Bishop does. He is already
get his gun out. He is cocking

557
00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:14.639
it. He's like, let's charge
into battle, because in the future you

558
00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:17.719
got to act quick because you are
always in danger. But Storm's just like,

559
00:42:20.119 --> 00:42:24.119
can you like chill out a little
bit? Yeah, it's not like

560
00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:28.800
the future here. The only thing
I'm really I love this and I hate

561
00:42:28.800 --> 00:42:31.639
this is that we don't see this
Gene throwing Cyclops into the lake moment.

562
00:42:32.119 --> 00:42:37.119
We get to imagine it because we
see a big on Amapia that goes splush

563
00:42:37.280 --> 00:42:39.400
after he screams out, so we
know that she threw him into the lake,

564
00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:43.000
and I kind of want to see
it. So I'm going to give

565
00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:45.480
a shout out to art of Lucas. Can you please fan art this moment

566
00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:49.559
because I want to see it.
Yeah. Then we get the X Men

567
00:42:49.559 --> 00:42:52.119
philosophy that, you know, we
cannot do the same that our enemies do.

568
00:42:52.239 --> 00:42:54.840
We have to be better. We
have to think for peace, we

569
00:42:54.880 --> 00:42:59.760
have to fight for that, otherwise
if we do a resort to violence,

570
00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:05.159
we've already lost. And then we
get to the picnic. This is where

571
00:43:05.159 --> 00:43:08.519
the soap opera stuff happens. And
I'm a huge fan of the soap opera.

572
00:43:09.039 --> 00:43:14.960
So we see on a picnic blanket
Gambit and Rogue, and Rogue is

573
00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:22.079
looking all sudden gorgeous. She's wearing
a yellow tube top more like bikini top

574
00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:24.159
that also covers her arms in a
little bit. I don't know, it's

575
00:43:24.199 --> 00:43:29.679
it's very revealing. And she has
Daisy Duke Duke Duke shorts on like basically

576
00:43:30.199 --> 00:43:35.559
denim briefs, and she she's got
her No, she doesn't have her cowboy

577
00:43:35.559 --> 00:43:37.920
boots on at this moment. She
took them off because they're on the picnic

578
00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:40.599
blanket. And then of course she's
wearing her signature yellow gloves and she's got

579
00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:45.679
a yellow bandana in her hair instead
of green, and Gambit is looking like

580
00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:52.119
a street swamp rat with a toward
up shredded black tshirt that's super tight and

581
00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:54.760
that shows off his muscles, and
you know, he just kind of looks

582
00:43:54.760 --> 00:43:59.039
like he rolled out of bed and
didn't even try. And he is also

583
00:43:59.119 --> 00:44:06.000
wearing yellow brass yes signature gloves,
the signature gloves that are missing the pinky

584
00:44:06.119 --> 00:44:10.760
and the pointer finger and his thumb. There archery gloves because he chucks.

585
00:44:10.239 --> 00:44:15.599
Thus, oh, archery gloves.
Interesting. I didn't know that archery gloves

586
00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:20.199
had select fingers. So they're trying
to get close to each other. Rogue

587
00:44:20.239 --> 00:44:22.960
is like, you idiot. You
know I can't get close to people.

588
00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:24.639
You can't touch me. I don't
want you in my head. He's like,

589
00:44:24.679 --> 00:44:29.920
are you sure about that? Like? What would be different than right

590
00:44:29.960 --> 00:44:35.480
now? I'm always in your head
and love it. She so she's replying

591
00:44:35.519 --> 00:44:37.920
away. She's kind of, you
know, lifting herself off the ground.

592
00:44:37.960 --> 00:44:43.119
She goes honestly, talking to y'all
is like talking to oh frick wall,

593
00:44:43.159 --> 00:44:49.519
And she runs right into Bishop are
We, who knocks her sunglasses off.

594
00:44:49.559 --> 00:44:53.599
I didn't realize she was wearing sunglasses. Maybe they were touched into her shirt

595
00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:59.000
somewhere Gabby gets up to kind of
protect rogue and help her up, and

596
00:44:59.039 --> 00:45:01.360
he's all like, to Bishop,
it's only been ten minutes, moan of

597
00:45:01.480 --> 00:45:07.360
me, and I already know I
don't like you much. And then she's

598
00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:14.039
all like, as in at all, she replies. Bishop says, I'm

599
00:45:14.079 --> 00:45:17.159
devastated. I was hoping we'd be
friends, le beau, seeing as how

600
00:45:17.199 --> 00:45:22.840
I'm going to be following your every
move until I figure out exactly what it

601
00:45:22.920 --> 00:45:25.960
is you're up to. It's all
like that may be a while. You

602
00:45:27.079 --> 00:45:30.320
might best take a shot now,
avoid the rush. And he's pointing his

603
00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:35.760
finger. They're they're about to have
a confrontation. The level of heat is

604
00:45:35.920 --> 00:45:38.599
rising, yes, and I love
how Bishop's waiting for the first strike.

605
00:45:38.719 --> 00:45:43.199
And he takes Bishop poking his chest
as like the first punch, and he's

606
00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:47.519
just like, that's what I was
waiting for. He scupouse him, dam

607
00:45:47.639 --> 00:45:53.400
it right in the face. Uh. This this panel is pretty epic because

608
00:45:53.400 --> 00:45:58.239
if you look at the borders,
um, it's red and it's black,

609
00:45:58.360 --> 00:46:00.519
and you know, it's all over
the place and it looks like, ouch,

610
00:46:01.480 --> 00:46:05.679
that's what I look at that that
border and it says ouch, I'm

611
00:46:05.719 --> 00:46:08.880
in pain. I just got hit
totally. Yeah, this is like the

612
00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:14.320
straightest callback to the cover, I
think, because we see why Gabbitt is

613
00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:17.960
in such bad straits on there,
because he takes a massive punch from this

614
00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:23.800
guy, flies through the air and
runs into rams into Rogue, knocking her

615
00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:28.960
off the cliff and causing her to
fall into the lake. She's like yelling

616
00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:36.679
up at him, tell me you
didn't do that. On purb Broke,

617
00:46:36.760 --> 00:46:45.239
a character who could notably fly is
pushed off a cliff. But as also

618
00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:51.199
we get from here Bishop's announcement that
he was raised by Gambit, which is

619
00:46:51.199 --> 00:46:53.840
a plot thread that I don't think
we ever really build on again. But

620
00:46:53.920 --> 00:46:58.280
he says, for I was raised
by you in the aftermath of the Great

621
00:46:58.280 --> 00:47:00.960
Betrayal. Well, I might not
know exact actually how it came about.

622
00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:02.800
Rest of shared, I will do
everything in my power to see that it

623
00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:08.559
does not wow interesting, I don't. Yeah, see, I'm there's a

624
00:47:08.599 --> 00:47:13.280
lot of Bishop storyline that I don't
know. I think there would be a

625
00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:15.519
great character to dive into and kind
of dissect a little bit, or maybe

626
00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:19.920
there's just not a lot written specifically
about all of the eras of time,

627
00:47:21.199 --> 00:47:23.719
it's this specifically has to do with
there was a character called the Witness,

628
00:47:23.800 --> 00:47:30.599
which is the Trader that was at
this time very clearly stated to be Gambit,

629
00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:34.320
and later on would be Reckon to
not be Gambit, which makes these

630
00:47:34.360 --> 00:47:38.280
lines not make sense. But I
think they just didn't like the idea that

631
00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:46.199
Gambit raised. Bishop. Well,
Gambit is very upset and he decides to

632
00:47:46.559 --> 00:47:50.920
pick up some rocks and throw it
at Bishop, causing them to explode,

633
00:47:50.920 --> 00:47:53.559
and he reminds them, Yeah,
anything I pick up that solid, I

634
00:47:53.559 --> 00:47:57.280
can energize it, and I can
make a blow up in your face.

635
00:47:57.880 --> 00:47:59.920
And he also reminds them like,
hey, if you're going to try to

636
00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:02.920
to me in my sleep, you
can't because other people have already tried.

637
00:48:04.679 --> 00:48:08.079
You know, I'm good. But
this is this is my best. Oh,

638
00:48:08.119 --> 00:48:13.280
this is the best part. I
know. I keep saying the best

639
00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:16.000
many moments of this issue, but
this is one of my favorites because it

640
00:48:16.039 --> 00:48:22.159
involves pie. Ye yes, the
boys and Berry Pie. Specifically, Gabbit

641
00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:24.920
says a plasma rifle against a boys
and Berry pie? Can you find the

642
00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:30.599
christ psychopath in this picture? I
think, right, Bishop, if anyone's

643
00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:36.960
behaving like a prime candidate for the
accolades. It's you. You're wasting your

644
00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:40.079
massive lung share. He's not to
listen to reason, and he is like

645
00:48:40.159 --> 00:48:43.760
trying to, you know, throw
a plasma plast at him. And then

646
00:48:43.880 --> 00:48:51.159
he throws the pie, the charged
electric explosive pie. And where does it

647
00:48:51.239 --> 00:48:59.559
land? Right on Rogue's face.
Splat, Bishop ducked out of the way.

648
00:49:00.559 --> 00:49:05.159
This is pure comedy gold you guys. Oh it's so good. I

649
00:49:05.239 --> 00:49:12.199
know, Gambit, It's like,
whoops, I spent four hours sweat over

650
00:49:12.239 --> 00:49:17.719
a hot stove and the best you
can offer is oops. The look of

651
00:49:19.079 --> 00:49:27.440
horror of sheer, just shock on
Rogue space in this moment, something you

652
00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:30.920
would think that this is a reaction
panel of like finding out someone died.

653
00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:37.440
Yeah, but it's about her pie
and then livid and then be Bishop and

654
00:49:37.559 --> 00:49:40.760
Gambit have like a little bro out
session over this. Would they just start

655
00:49:40.880 --> 00:49:46.480
laughing together? Bishop's all like,
is this wise? Gabb It's like,

656
00:49:46.679 --> 00:49:55.639
keep laughing or she'll kill us.
What does Rogue say? She there,

657
00:49:57.599 --> 00:50:02.480
She says, I suppose it's fitting
you die with a smile on your face.

658
00:50:04.559 --> 00:50:07.239
And Gambit's all like, I'm not
shaking Sherry. I got it on

659
00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:13.079
good authority I'm gonna outlive every one
of you do, Yeah, being to

660
00:50:13.239 --> 00:50:16.880
see the absurdity of it all,
y'all is trying to hold Gambit responsible for

661
00:50:16.960 --> 00:50:21.400
something he may or may not have
done in the future that may or may

662
00:50:21.440 --> 00:50:23.679
not ever happen. If you're gonna
hate him, Sugar, at least hate

663
00:50:23.719 --> 00:50:29.119
him for the scoundrel that he is. How can a body argue with an

664
00:50:29.199 --> 00:50:32.079
endorsement like that? And then Bishop's
all like there is so much of the

665
00:50:32.119 --> 00:50:38.719
past that remains a mystery. Yeah, well, and then suddenly from behind

666
00:50:39.079 --> 00:50:45.400
there is a sprat, says some
lady. Everybody, Bishop, Gambit,

667
00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:52.519
Rogue all gets zapped from behind and
incomes Belladonna. Belladonna. Now, let's

668
00:50:52.639 --> 00:50:58.400
let's dissect this outfit here, because
this is this is Belladonna's very first appearance

669
00:50:58.519 --> 00:51:01.920
in the X Men comic books.
So what is a monumental moment? Oh?

670
00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:06.639
Yeah, what is she wearing you
guys? Oh well, first of

671
00:51:06.719 --> 00:51:15.119
all, she is wearing a body
suit that is very like Lady Death Strike

672
00:51:15.400 --> 00:51:24.599
legs with a loinclothey, mystique vibe
belted things with looks like test tubes full

673
00:51:24.639 --> 00:51:30.039
of something, and it has had
a very layered cape let thing over her

674
00:51:30.079 --> 00:51:34.559
shoulders that come swooping around, and
then a head sock that goes up and

675
00:51:34.599 --> 00:51:38.000
over her head. It looks sort
of like a version of Gambits costume because

676
00:51:38.039 --> 00:51:43.000
it has the metal legs and it
has the head sock and everything. Yeah,

677
00:51:43.039 --> 00:51:45.800
and it's got like the little crossy
bits that he has over his pink

678
00:51:45.800 --> 00:51:52.880
shirt or go down in a very
deep v on hers. But it's that

679
00:51:52.000 --> 00:52:01.400
plus a cape plus swirling energy.
Yeah, what's that we've learned now later

680
00:52:01.400 --> 00:52:06.960
in life? Is that so the
crisscross kind of chest thing that Gambit also

681
00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:12.159
has and whatnot? We learned that
Lila Chenny got him that armor from the

682
00:52:12.239 --> 00:52:16.840
Sher Empire and that's why he dresses
so unlike a normal thief wood in New

683
00:52:16.920 --> 00:52:21.440
Orleans. And so now that Belladonna
is wearing this outfit, I'm like,

684
00:52:21.599 --> 00:52:24.360
wait a minute, where are we
going to get the Belladonna Lila Chenney she

685
00:52:24.519 --> 00:52:30.159
are armor storyline? Because they matched
so perfectly. It is very death like

686
00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:32.440
a death bird like in a way
the way the outfit is constructed. So

687
00:52:32.880 --> 00:52:37.480
I see the resemblance. And if
you are all wondering where else have I

688
00:52:37.519 --> 00:52:42.000
seen Belladonna before? If you're a
fan of xim. In the animated series,

689
00:52:42.679 --> 00:52:45.440
we get a first image of Gambit's
passed in season one, but she

690
00:52:45.599 --> 00:52:51.960
actually fully appears in the episode called
Externally Yours, where she goes in and

691
00:52:52.039 --> 00:52:58.280
blackmails Gambit to come to her.
M well, we learned that this is

692
00:52:58.440 --> 00:53:02.639
his laugh and then we cut to
the next page and you usedee the whole

693
00:53:04.320 --> 00:53:12.639
the whole building, screaming your what, your what? I laughed out loud

694
00:53:12.719 --> 00:53:16.800
so hard at the first time.
I just love this. The drama full

695
00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:22.000
looty tunes and mayhem. We are
in an Animaniacs episode of Absolutely it's so

696
00:53:22.199 --> 00:53:25.719
perfect. I wish we would have
more of this. It's so much because

697
00:53:25.719 --> 00:53:30.599
on the past page there was Bishop
in Beldada are about to fight each other

698
00:53:30.920 --> 00:53:37.079
because they want to like both kill
Gambit, and I like that is such

699
00:53:37.119 --> 00:53:39.480
a setup at a cartoon of like, no, I have to kill this

700
00:53:39.519 --> 00:53:42.280
guy, and I was like,
well, I want to kill him,

701
00:53:42.760 --> 00:53:45.440
so what do we gotta do?
Yeah? Exactly. Oh, but Jubilee's

702
00:53:45.480 --> 00:53:52.599
reaction was great. You mean somebody
was actually desperate enough to become missus Gambit

703
00:53:53.239 --> 00:53:59.039
and Belladonna's like desperate. You don't
know the half of it child, and

704
00:53:59.199 --> 00:54:05.800
the name is Anna Donna Burdreaux boud
Raw Boudreau. I think it's Boudreau Boudreau.

705
00:54:06.840 --> 00:54:10.400
It's an amazing name. Bella Donna
Boudreau is such a comic book day.

706
00:54:12.920 --> 00:54:15.519
Well, I love Julie. She
thinks it's a scam. He goes

707
00:54:15.559 --> 00:54:20.119
sure, he becomes a big,
fancy famous X men. Suddenly he's got

708
00:54:20.159 --> 00:54:24.360
a wife that comes across. Shush, shush, child, my husband and

709
00:54:24.400 --> 00:54:30.119
men business to discuss clan business.
Not that, Oh my gosh, am

710
00:54:30.159 --> 00:54:35.559
I doing like this weird Southern accent. That's guy, Not that that's nobody's

711
00:54:35.639 --> 00:54:38.679
know how. But I was raised
by my grandpa and the Assassin's Guild,

712
00:54:38.880 --> 00:54:43.599
And why nobody ever did dumb enough
to take blame for that actual birth?

713
00:54:43.960 --> 00:54:50.639
Me and loving husband was brought up
in a thieves guild, and Gamba says

714
00:54:50.760 --> 00:54:53.360
it sounds more dramatic than it is. Amazing. Clans and guilds is just

715
00:54:53.400 --> 00:54:59.480
a big easy way of referring to
families, which is such a gross understatement

716
00:55:00.039 --> 00:55:01.880
of the fact of both things they
belonged to. He's like, yeah,

717
00:55:01.920 --> 00:55:05.760
it's just our family. It's not
like an international criminals said the kit we

718
00:55:05.760 --> 00:55:10.159
happen to belong to or anything exactly. Oh yeah, But then we get

719
00:55:10.199 --> 00:55:16.360
like a montage history of what's going
on. Gambit's brother accidentally killing somebody in

720
00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:22.079
the assassin's guild causing all this drama, and that made Gambit and Belladonna have

721
00:55:22.159 --> 00:55:29.360
to get married to ease the tensions. Yeah, it's essentially Romeo and Juliet.

722
00:55:29.559 --> 00:55:35.440
They get married to merge the guilds. But then Belladonna's brother is like,

723
00:55:35.559 --> 00:55:37.519
no, she can't marry a thief, so he duels Gambit and then

724
00:55:37.559 --> 00:55:43.599
Gambit kills him, and then Gambit
has to flee because he's killed an assassin

725
00:55:44.159 --> 00:55:52.679
and does not take Belladonna with it. So they decide that they're going to

726
00:55:52.800 --> 00:55:57.119
go to New Orleans Facili's business,
and like Professor's like, okay, who's

727
00:55:57.119 --> 00:55:59.239
going to be on this trip?
I just know the fact that piece is

728
00:55:59.280 --> 00:56:04.559
all like great, just in time
for Mardi Gras. I love that Cyclops

729
00:56:05.039 --> 00:56:08.599
speak specifically for Beast and him.
He's like, I'm sure I speak up

730
00:56:08.599 --> 00:56:10.880
behalf of the Beast. What I'd
say, we'd be happy to enjoin you

731
00:56:12.239 --> 00:56:15.320
doesn't speak for the team or anyway. It's just being Beast. We're going

732
00:56:15.119 --> 00:56:20.480
yeah, and then Rogue is just
like dripping with dread. She's all like

733
00:56:20.559 --> 00:56:23.800
want it and sit for the world. Can we see that in the letter

734
00:56:24.199 --> 00:56:30.440
the lettering in the bubble, it's
frozen almost like it's almost got icy.

735
00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:35.360
She's so icy. Cilox like you
have to ask, what did you?

736
00:56:35.400 --> 00:56:39.480
Belie say right like, I got
anything better to do? And Wolverine John

737
00:56:39.559 --> 00:56:44.679
said, he's all like room for
one more slam always I love He asked

738
00:56:44.719 --> 00:56:50.199
Cyclops it's gambits thick, and then
Cyclops nominates himself a beast and they all

739
00:56:50.199 --> 00:56:55.079
are enjoined a Cyclops gable us not
asked for any of this. Hey,

740
00:56:55.280 --> 00:56:58.480
you know what if I were an
extent on the team in that moment and

741
00:56:58.719 --> 00:57:00.480
I knew that everybody else is going
to Mandy Grass, I would have a

742
00:57:00.519 --> 00:57:02.800
little bit of phobo and I'd be
like me, two of you guys,

743
00:57:04.280 --> 00:57:08.119
you're bringing me too. I'm gonna
I'm gonna earn those beads. Mhmm.

744
00:57:09.480 --> 00:57:14.400
Wolverine, he says, so you're
the skirt that tamed the cage in and

745
00:57:14.519 --> 00:57:19.880
Belladonna says house broke to be more
accurate. Nice to see everyone's having their

746
00:57:19.960 --> 00:57:23.559
ha has in my expense since Ford
has the Blackbird sprawled across the hangar deck.

747
00:57:23.800 --> 00:57:28.320
Hope nobody minds the first class on
the Red Eye to the Big Easy

748
00:57:30.239 --> 00:57:34.239
yep. And now we're gonna get
our little travel montage here because now we're

749
00:57:34.239 --> 00:57:37.480
in New Orleans. But we're not
with the X men. We are with

750
00:57:37.960 --> 00:57:43.000
a police officer. He has his
radar gun up and he gets startled awake

751
00:57:43.039 --> 00:57:45.159
because it goes b b b b
b B beads. Somebody is traveling one

752
00:57:45.239 --> 00:57:52.159
hundred and twenty miles per hour,
which is very fast. Yeah, so

753
00:57:52.280 --> 00:57:55.280
he's like, what what what?
And he really really he starts chasing after

754
00:57:55.400 --> 00:58:01.079
this speed stir allows a little two
willed speed freak bikers think they could drive

755
00:58:01.119 --> 00:58:06.639
any which way they please, not
in my town. And he's smoking a

756
00:58:06.679 --> 00:58:09.719
cigarette, looking at all medacine.
Pull it over, son, So what

757
00:58:09.800 --> 00:58:14.800
do we have here? And he
pulls over this guy and he says,

758
00:58:14.840 --> 00:58:17.320
you want to extinguish your helmet because
he sees that the motorcycle guy has a

759
00:58:17.400 --> 00:58:23.480
big flaming head. Then I'd like
to see your license and your redge stray.

760
00:58:23.559 --> 00:58:35.039
Shit. He's really scared. Why
because as a ghostwriter a ghost writer's

761
00:58:35.360 --> 00:58:40.800
ghostwriter saying is there a problem officer? And the security or the police officer

762
00:58:42.039 --> 00:58:47.280
is just completely at a loss for
words. Very Scooby Doo vibes again as

763
00:58:47.320 --> 00:58:52.760
he's running away scram big. Yes, I can hear the like kick up

764
00:58:52.880 --> 00:59:04.760
run car effect. Yes, we
see this gorgeous panel of the ghost Writer

765
00:59:04.920 --> 00:59:08.519
who's actually popping out of the panel
with his wheel, just popping out into

766
00:59:09.039 --> 00:59:14.679
our imaginations. It says, next
issue, what do you think to be

767
00:59:14.760 --> 00:59:20.079
continued in Ghostwriter number twenty six?
And that's the issue? That's it.

768
00:59:20.639 --> 00:59:22.760
Wow, well that was so much
fun, as we said, like literally

769
00:59:23.800 --> 00:59:28.960
a joy to read, So thank
you so much for picking that one course.

770
00:59:29.639 --> 00:59:32.440
Yes, tell me what was your
favorite part of the issue. Oh?

771
00:59:32.880 --> 00:59:38.000
Absolutely, it's it's the gambit Bishop
poisonberry pie incident. I think that

772
00:59:38.199 --> 00:59:43.719
steals the whole issue. It's so
funny, the fact that he throws it.

773
00:59:43.880 --> 00:59:49.719
It's like the first funny pie in
the face joke since like Vaudeville in

774
00:59:49.920 --> 00:59:54.440
this X MEB comic is so good
the whole interaction. Yes, totally.

775
00:59:55.559 --> 00:59:59.679
And what was your favorite part Chandler, Oh god, there's so many.

776
01:00:00.239 --> 01:00:04.280
I just love Jubilee, the whole
issue. I just I love how she's

777
01:00:04.360 --> 01:00:10.639
like, somebody actually is missus campit
like gro It's she's lying, don't.

778
01:00:10.920 --> 01:00:15.000
I don't even know what scam Jubilee
thinks exists. That this is to just

779
01:00:15.280 --> 01:00:21.079
pretend to be someone's ex wife.
Wow, not even a current wife,

780
01:00:21.159 --> 01:00:23.519
like like she's gonna come take half
the mansion from them. I think my

781
01:00:23.639 --> 01:00:30.800
favorite part was the Gene and Cyclops
interaction about Ciloc that was just so juicy,

782
01:00:30.920 --> 01:00:35.480
and the fact that like Ciloc looked
back at a Cyclops going I saw

783
01:00:35.559 --> 01:00:40.559
you looking like ooh that's juicy.
Yeah, great issue, so much fun.

784
01:00:40.639 --> 01:00:44.159
I can't believe I had never read
at all until just now, Like

785
01:00:44.239 --> 01:00:46.559
I've seen bits and pieces of all
of this, like I've known it all

786
01:00:46.599 --> 01:00:50.400
happened, but this is the first
time I've read it cover to cover and

787
01:00:50.480 --> 01:00:53.679
I was like, oh, it's
just so good Prime goofy x men.

788
01:00:53.760 --> 01:00:57.840
I love it. Thank you so
much for joining us. Can you remind

789
01:00:57.880 --> 01:01:01.159
our audience where can we follow you
on social media? Because listeners you need

790
01:01:01.199 --> 01:01:05.679
to follow this man. No,
thank you guys so much for having me.

791
01:01:05.719 --> 01:01:10.000
It's been absolutely amazing, And I'm
on TikTok and Instagram and soon to

792
01:01:10.039 --> 01:01:15.039
be YouTube all under Nikhil clayton n
I k h il cla y t O

793
01:01:15.239 --> 01:01:21.960
n perfect. All right, Well, thanks again and we look forward to

794
01:01:22.159 --> 01:01:27.199
seeing more of your TikTok and video
content across social media. Thank you so

795
01:01:27.400 --> 01:01:29.840
much. I look forward to listening
to more episodes of this. You guys

796
01:01:29.880 --> 01:01:37.920
do great. Thank you. Okay, everybody, As promised, we have

797
01:01:37.000 --> 01:01:43.000
a very special bonus segment for you
today. We wanted to do a deep

798
01:01:43.119 --> 01:01:49.320
dive into our adventure at San Diego
Comic Con otherwise known as SDCC because there

799
01:01:49.519 --> 01:01:53.360
was a lot it being the sixtieth
anniversary of the X Men, there was

800
01:01:53.800 --> 01:02:00.800
fandom out in full celebration at this
convention with so many activations and annals and

801
01:02:00.159 --> 01:02:07.719
ex celebrities there. We had we
had the honor of presenting the fourth annual

802
01:02:07.320 --> 01:02:13.360
X Men Fandom Panel. Yes,
we had panelists such as David Nakiyama,

803
01:02:13.480 --> 01:02:17.960
the iconic cover artist, Michelle Wopple
who's the cosplayer and also one of the

804
01:02:19.000 --> 01:02:22.960
originators of the halfire Galla Walk.
We had Blaine Rodenberg, who is also

805
01:02:23.039 --> 01:02:28.760
known as Blainer Things. He is
a toy designer and concept artists with Necca

806
01:02:28.920 --> 01:02:34.679
Toys. Justin Wilder, who is
the co host of the ex wife podcast,

807
01:02:35.119 --> 01:02:39.599
Love Them m and the Amazing Anemia. She is a cost player and

808
01:02:39.679 --> 01:02:44.000
comic book writer who has been around
a long time. She also works for

809
01:02:44.119 --> 01:02:45.840
Previews, so if you ever go
to previews dot com to see what comics

810
01:02:45.880 --> 01:02:51.519
are coming out, you'll see her
going promo videos. We also had Warpath

811
01:02:51.679 --> 01:02:55.400
Dylan, who is the co host
of House of X podcast and is on

812
01:02:55.480 --> 01:03:00.440
staff at The Uncanny Experience, one
of our co founders and our cohorts in

813
01:03:00.559 --> 01:03:06.039
our adventure there. Yes, boy, howardy was that panel amazing we were

814
01:03:06.360 --> 01:03:10.280
in? We got upgraded. Yes
again. Every year it seems like they

815
01:03:10.360 --> 01:03:15.239
keep putting us in bigger and bigger
rooms, and this year we were in

816
01:03:15.440 --> 01:03:20.280
room six a where you know,
pretty big, amazing panels happened with major

817
01:03:20.360 --> 01:03:24.360
celebrities and brands. Yeah, the
energy was amazing. Everybody's love for the

818
01:03:24.519 --> 01:03:29.119
X men can be felt. It
was so fun just to geek out with

819
01:03:29.239 --> 01:03:34.480
all of our fellow mutants, and
it was really special to provide an exclusive

820
01:03:34.639 --> 01:03:39.000
art print by Lucas Vernick, who
did a beautiful piece of Jean Gray and

821
01:03:39.079 --> 01:03:46.400
Emma Frost that literally was so breathtaking, like I've felt really special that he

822
01:03:46.480 --> 01:03:49.880
made that for us. Chris,
I can't believe he made that for us,

823
01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:53.519
Like, I know, it's so
gorgeous. I really, It's one

824
01:03:53.559 --> 01:03:58.079
of the pieces that I want to
have framed on my wall. That's how

825
01:03:58.159 --> 01:04:00.039
gorgeous it is. It's amazing.
So many people are like, how did

826
01:04:00.079 --> 01:04:02.440
you get him to commission that?
I was like, we didn't. He

827
01:04:02.519 --> 01:04:05.400
actually wanted to do it for the
fans. You know, this is not

828
01:04:05.599 --> 01:04:11.280
something that we like bought for our
personal collection, then decided to duplicate for

829
01:04:11.360 --> 01:04:14.239
people. We just he wanted to
be on the panel. He unfortunately had

830
01:04:14.280 --> 01:04:16.039
to cancel his trip to San Diego, but he's like, listen, I'm

831
01:04:16.079 --> 01:04:18.679
going to provide you guys this art
so you can hand it out to all

832
01:04:18.719 --> 01:04:21.440
the fans at X Men Fandom.
And then he shared it online afterwards and

833
01:04:21.519 --> 01:04:25.880
people just like, we're melting over
it. So if you want to see

834
01:04:25.920 --> 01:04:29.760
what this our print looks like,
just go to Lucas Vernick's Instagram or Twitter

835
01:04:29.840 --> 01:04:34.000
or whatnot and you will see he
just recently posted it. It's beautiful and

836
01:04:34.199 --> 01:04:44.519
next year we'll be in hall Age
Ballroom twenty to work. Yeah. Well,

837
01:04:44.639 --> 01:04:46.880
I was very excited that a lot
of X Men Cause players came out

838
01:04:46.920 --> 01:04:50.480
to the panel to celebrate their fandom
and connect with each other, and we

839
01:04:50.639 --> 01:04:57.239
have a tradition after our panel to
do a Cause player photoshoot, and I

840
01:04:57.360 --> 01:05:00.719
want to give a very special thank
you to Cheat Geek Photography, who is

841
01:05:01.159 --> 01:05:08.119
an official San Diego Comic Con photographer
who once again came out and took gorgeous

842
01:05:08.159 --> 01:05:13.079
photos of the group of X Men
Cause players that came out, and there

843
01:05:13.119 --> 01:05:15.920
were so many of them, Yes, there, they were incredible. Big

844
01:05:16.000 --> 01:05:20.039
shout out to the cost player who
dressed up as current day Goblin Queen,

845
01:05:20.239 --> 01:05:26.599
the Emissary of Limbo in New York
City like her modern day with the crown

846
01:05:26.679 --> 01:05:30.679
and everything. She looked so good, her her Instagram handles and the geek

847
01:05:30.760 --> 01:05:34.400
ange the Geek she looked amazing,
So I'm going to give her a special

848
01:05:34.400 --> 01:05:38.880
shout out. Who was one of
your favorite looks, Chris Well. I

849
01:05:39.079 --> 01:05:43.199
thought there was these two kids that
were super adorable that did cyclouds in Wolmarine,

850
01:05:43.360 --> 01:05:47.239
but they were almost like venomized versions
of them. Yeah I correct,

851
01:05:47.440 --> 01:05:51.679
Yeah, yeah, yeah. They
put a lot of effort and a lot

852
01:05:51.760 --> 01:05:57.039
of time and energy into those Cause
plays and it showed. They were adorable.

853
01:05:57.320 --> 01:06:00.719
I think they really stood out and
if you look at our photo on

854
01:06:00.159 --> 01:06:05.039
x Reid's podcast on Instagram, you'll
be able to see them standing right up

855
01:06:05.079 --> 01:06:09.400
in the front. Absolutely. You
know, it's a joy and we love

856
01:06:09.480 --> 01:06:13.400
putting that together every year and seeing
all the X Men fan cosplay community come

857
01:06:13.400 --> 01:06:15.960
together. So thank you to all
the cost players who came out, and

858
01:06:15.039 --> 01:06:18.440
I hope you got some great photos
out of it. We also did our

859
01:06:18.480 --> 01:06:23.920
annual kind of geek out meetup thing, so we love to gather kind of

860
01:06:24.119 --> 01:06:27.440
all of the geek community that we
can when we're in San Diego with a

861
01:06:27.519 --> 01:06:29.920
free event. You know, there's
a lot of parties that happen, but

862
01:06:29.960 --> 01:06:31.159
you have to be on a list
or you need your badge or whatever.

863
01:06:31.280 --> 01:06:34.559
So we're like, well, let's
just create something that's you know, free

864
01:06:34.599 --> 01:06:39.199
for everybody to show up. So
it was a blast. We do it

865
01:06:39.280 --> 01:06:43.880
at Coin Up, the Arcade Bar
and the gas Lamp District and everybody showed

866
01:06:43.920 --> 01:06:46.360
up. We got to have drinks, food, games, good times.

867
01:06:47.239 --> 01:06:51.440
Oh yeah, I had a blast. I love playing the pinball machines there.

868
01:06:53.280 --> 01:06:57.679
And there was a lot of panels, a lot of X Men panels,

869
01:06:57.800 --> 01:07:01.599
I got to say the X Men
the Animated series panel with Larry Houston.

870
01:07:02.480 --> 01:07:06.239
I stood in line for it,
and the line was out the door,

871
01:07:06.480 --> 01:07:11.800
around the block, like wrapped around
everywhere outside. I didn't even get

872
01:07:11.880 --> 01:07:15.960
in. Great, but it's okay. Yeah, I know. I'm okay

873
01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:18.840
with it though, because I actually
spent a lot of time talking to other

874
01:07:18.960 --> 01:07:24.400
fans in the lines, and you
know, those are magical memories too.

875
01:07:24.639 --> 01:07:30.800
So yeah, everybody like me who
didn't get in, Yeah, that was

876
01:07:30.840 --> 01:07:33.079
a panel that I didn't go to. But I did it by design in

877
01:07:33.159 --> 01:07:35.960
the sense of, you know,
we we worked with Larry Houston. He's

878
01:07:35.960 --> 01:07:39.360
going to be a guest with the
un Keen Experience. Ron Wasserman was on

879
01:07:39.400 --> 01:07:42.480
the panel, who was on our
fandom panel at wonder Con. Art of

880
01:07:42.559 --> 01:07:45.039
Lucas was on the panel, who
was on our panel at San Diego last

881
01:07:45.119 --> 01:07:48.280
year. So I feel like,
why take up a seat for somebody who

882
01:07:48.360 --> 01:07:51.639
really wants to interact with these friends
of ours? And I really didn't want

883
01:07:51.679 --> 01:07:55.239
to, you know, I wanted
to be supportive. But if it's already

884
01:07:55.280 --> 01:07:58.360
oversold, of like I, you
know, let's get new new blood in

885
01:07:58.400 --> 01:08:01.719
there so they get to experience these
amazing talented people for the first time,

886
01:08:01.800 --> 01:08:04.159
so I'm so glad to hear it
was a hit. And one of the

887
01:08:04.239 --> 01:08:09.159
panels that I got to go to
was the Designing X Men panel that happened

888
01:08:09.320 --> 01:08:13.000
on Thursday, I believe, and
it was that was the hot ticket,

889
01:08:13.239 --> 01:08:16.439
that was the one that made news. Yes, So not only did we

890
01:08:16.600 --> 01:08:19.640
just do this panel about the design
of the X Men, which was really

891
01:08:19.720 --> 01:08:24.439
lovely, we talked about how they
came up with the design of the X

892
01:08:24.600 --> 01:08:29.439
logo. They showed all these different
iterations of it. It's really fascinating to

893
01:08:29.560 --> 01:08:32.239
see all the different ways it could
have looked, and then of course what

894
01:08:32.319 --> 01:08:35.279
they landed on, which is the
logo that you see on comics nowadays.

895
01:08:35.680 --> 01:08:41.199
And we went through like Xavier's hell
Fire Galla look because Joshua Sara, the

896
01:08:41.319 --> 01:08:44.399
artist was on there who designed his
look at this year's Galla, and they

897
01:08:44.600 --> 01:08:46.800
just went and looked through all the
different designs and they landed on, of

898
01:08:46.840 --> 01:08:49.680
course, the one that we see. So it's one of those things where

899
01:08:49.720 --> 01:08:54.279
it was really fascinating to go behind
the scenes on the process of that.

900
01:08:54.600 --> 01:09:00.920
But but they surprised us at the
end because what they did. But they

901
01:09:01.000 --> 01:09:05.000
did not put in the panel description. They did not even tease it at

902
01:09:05.000 --> 01:09:09.000
the beginning of the panel, but
they said, oh, there happens to

903
01:09:09.079 --> 01:09:12.359
be some people in the audience.
Why it looks like it's the showrunner,

904
01:09:12.520 --> 01:09:15.880
director and art director of X Men
ninety seven. Come on up, guys,

905
01:09:16.000 --> 01:09:19.079
and bo to Mayo and Jake and
Larry Houston. They were all there,

906
01:09:19.079 --> 01:09:23.720
and they came up on stage and
they talked a little bit about the

907
01:09:23.760 --> 01:09:26.119
show and they're like, listen,
why are we talking about it when we

908
01:09:26.199 --> 01:09:30.920
can just show you? And so, oh my gosh, they show Okay,

909
01:09:31.000 --> 01:09:33.760
So was everybody screaming. I wasn't
there. I really wanted to be,

910
01:09:33.840 --> 01:09:41.159
but I could just imagine the head
exploding emoji over everybody's had. Oh

911
01:09:41.279 --> 01:09:44.239
my god. Everyone was so excited. It was more of a quiet awe

912
01:09:44.319 --> 01:09:48.800
than anything because everyone's like, yes, of course, there was like cheery

913
01:09:48.800 --> 01:09:51.960
and clapping, but it was mostly
people just like utterly shocked that we got

914
01:09:53.079 --> 01:09:58.000
this. And so they played a
really good chunk of footage. I'm gonna

915
01:09:58.000 --> 01:10:01.039
say it was five minutes, if
not more. We got multiple scenes,

916
01:10:01.079 --> 01:10:05.520
We got to see tons of characters
in action. We got a really dramatic

917
01:10:05.600 --> 01:10:13.079
scene with storm, Cyclops and Henry
Gyrick giving our usual you know speech about

918
01:10:13.239 --> 01:10:17.079
how mutants are persecuted or whatever and
how humans need to prevail, etc.

919
01:10:17.920 --> 01:10:23.920
And then they go on a mission
and they're in the Blackbird and a sentinel

920
01:10:23.920 --> 01:10:28.720
attacks the Blackbird, and the whole
sequence of how the X Men survived the

921
01:10:28.840 --> 01:10:33.520
plane crash using their powers to get
back down to the Earth was just amazing.

922
01:10:33.720 --> 01:10:41.239
Just the creativity of use of power, the just the flex that Cyclops

923
01:10:41.279 --> 01:10:43.439
does. If you saw the footage, you know what I mean. He

924
01:10:43.600 --> 01:10:47.079
pulls out this supermove onlike anything I've
ever seen Cyclops do, and I loved

925
01:10:47.159 --> 01:10:51.800
it. I literally was gasping because
I just was in awe, in awe.

926
01:10:53.800 --> 01:10:57.520
Was there any other like things that
you can reveal to us, Oh,

927
01:10:57.600 --> 01:11:06.319
well, I'm sure what you saw
was that Gene is pregnant. Yes,

928
01:11:08.039 --> 01:11:12.800
she's pregnant with Rachel And we see
her pregnant, and then we see

929
01:11:12.840 --> 01:11:17.079
her in a dream sequence holding a
redheaded girl baby in her arms, and

930
01:11:17.119 --> 01:11:20.600
you're like, oh, that's Rachel
Um And yeah, so that is a

931
01:11:20.680 --> 01:11:24.399
bit of a surprise. We you
know, we did not know that up

932
01:11:24.479 --> 01:11:28.279
until this very moment when we saw
the footage. So it's funny because you

933
01:11:28.359 --> 01:11:31.000
didn't know, like they do a
very low angle shot on Jeane at first,

934
01:11:31.039 --> 01:11:34.279
and you're just like, oh,
she's not looking very fit, like

935
01:11:34.800 --> 01:11:38.720
something like it's just an unflattering angle. And then all of a sudden,

936
01:11:38.760 --> 01:11:42.000
like you see her from like whatever
the front angle and you're like, oh,

937
01:11:42.520 --> 01:11:46.159
she's pregnant. So it just was
like it was it was cool.

938
01:11:46.359 --> 01:11:53.600
It was very cool. Um anything
else in the footage, I mean,

939
01:11:53.760 --> 01:11:56.840
I think that basically sums it up. I really, uh, there was

940
01:11:57.399 --> 01:12:00.439
I wish I recorded, honestly,
I wish somebody recorded it so that it

941
01:12:00.600 --> 01:12:03.720
lives on YouTube somewhere so we can
go back and rewatch it because in the

942
01:12:03.840 --> 01:12:08.840
moment, you know, I only
remember that much. It's great, of

943
01:12:08.920 --> 01:12:13.600
course, here oh our iconic voices. We got to hear Leonora Zan back

944
01:12:13.640 --> 01:12:16.359
as Rogue. We got to hear
cal Dodd doing really funny lines as Wolverine.

945
01:12:17.039 --> 01:12:21.000
We got to hear Alice and Seely
Smith back as Storm. We have

946
01:12:21.079 --> 01:12:26.239
our new cyclops, and we have
Jennifer Hill as Jean Gray this time.

947
01:12:27.840 --> 01:12:31.199
But it was really fun. It
was really amazing. I'm so excited to

948
01:12:31.279 --> 01:12:36.920
see XP ninety seven when it finally
comes out someday one day in the future.

949
01:12:38.359 --> 01:12:43.479
So as far as like the X
Men creatives and artists and writers and

950
01:12:43.560 --> 01:12:45.039
all that stuff, who did you
get autographs from? I know, I

951
01:12:45.399 --> 01:12:50.520
accompanied you to the Marble stage and
I got your hat sign because you can

952
01:12:50.600 --> 01:12:53.800
only get one thing signed. So
I said, you know what, bro,

953
01:12:54.359 --> 01:12:56.840
I'm going to stand in line with
you army get that hat signed for

954
01:12:56.960 --> 01:13:00.399
you, so that way you can
have more signatures besides Chris Clairvot. So

955
01:13:00.640 --> 01:13:05.199
we waited in line and who did
we meet well on that stage was Jerry

956
01:13:05.279 --> 01:13:10.319
Duggan, Peppe Lauras, and Joshka
Sara and it was so cool, So

957
01:13:10.439 --> 01:13:13.199
thank you so much for getting my
hat signed. I got comic books signed

958
01:13:13.239 --> 01:13:16.439
by them, and they had a
poster that neither of us were able to

959
01:13:16.520 --> 01:13:20.079
get. I was a little angry
at the booth attendance because they said you

960
01:13:20.119 --> 01:13:23.039
can only have one thing signed,
and I said, okay, well give

961
01:13:23.039 --> 01:13:24.840
me the poster. I'm not gonna
get it signed, and they said no,

962
01:13:25.039 --> 01:13:31.000
and I'm like no, why,
Like, why can't I have the

963
01:13:31.079 --> 01:13:34.079
poster? I waited in line,
but no, they were being jerks,

964
01:13:34.159 --> 01:13:40.479
honestly, So that happened let's see, I got to meet I mean,

965
01:13:40.560 --> 01:13:43.319
these are people I might have met
before, but I got to interact with

966
01:13:43.560 --> 01:13:53.079
Mark Brooks, Teeny Howard Todd,
knock zeb Wells, this amazing cover artist

967
01:13:53.239 --> 01:14:00.920
from Korea named in Hyuk Lee.
I got to see Ramia Junior from a

968
01:14:00.960 --> 01:14:03.800
distance, but I didn't get have
talked to him. There were so many

969
01:14:04.000 --> 01:14:09.000
other I mean, Joshka Sarah we
already talked about. There was so much

970
01:14:09.079 --> 01:14:13.640
talent at that con. It was
amazing. So Maria Wolf was an amazing

971
01:14:13.720 --> 01:14:16.760
cover artist also from Marvel. I
really had an amazing time. I had

972
01:14:16.840 --> 01:14:21.800
such a great time. Oh so
cool. I mean, besides X Men,

973
01:14:21.920 --> 01:14:26.319
we also have other fandoms that we
love, and I just want to,

974
01:14:26.920 --> 01:14:31.039
you know, mentioned that Futurama is
back, and I love Futurama and

975
01:14:31.159 --> 01:14:35.199
the Adventures of Fry the Time Traveler. Now here's the thing. They had

976
01:14:35.199 --> 01:14:43.720
a huge, giant inflatable walk through
experience of the Planet Express building outside,

977
01:14:43.800 --> 01:14:46.960
which was so cool, and they
even did a drone light show where the

978
01:14:47.079 --> 01:14:53.760
drones formed Fry and they formed Bender
and other Futurama characters in the sky.

979
01:14:55.600 --> 01:14:59.079
That was my favorite. As far
as other things going on at the con

980
01:14:59.239 --> 01:15:01.800
fandom wise, what about you,
Did you have a non x men fandom

981
01:15:02.119 --> 01:15:06.159
experience that you loved. That's a
funny thing to ask, because I feel

982
01:15:06.199 --> 01:15:11.720
like everything was so x meny.
I guess one thing I did is I

983
01:15:11.760 --> 01:15:15.319
went down for work and I was
able to moderate a panel on Star Wars

984
01:15:15.439 --> 01:15:17.880
JETI Survivor, the recent video game
that came out. I was asked to

985
01:15:18.000 --> 01:15:21.960
moderate this panel to talk about the
music of the game, and that was

986
01:15:23.000 --> 01:15:25.119
a lot of fun. So I
love Star Wars. It's probably like my

987
01:15:25.199 --> 01:15:29.000
second favorite fandom, so to speak. So to be amongst Star Wars fans

988
01:15:29.119 --> 01:15:31.359
and all the Calqusta's cost players and
Marin and all the people from the video

989
01:15:31.439 --> 01:15:36.880
game, it was really cool and
it was a really amazing thing to work

990
01:15:36.920 --> 01:15:42.720
with Lucasfilm and EA Games on that. So that was probably a non x

991
01:15:42.800 --> 01:15:47.720
Men highlight for me for sure.
Something that was different this year that was

992
01:15:48.039 --> 01:15:51.840
actually, you know, either a
help or a detriment. I'll let you

993
01:15:53.039 --> 01:15:56.840
be the judge of that. There
was no celebrities. There was no like

994
01:15:57.119 --> 01:16:00.720
actors in the studios pulled out of
the convention for the first time in many

995
01:16:00.800 --> 01:16:02.520
years. I mean, we've been
going so long that we know what it

996
01:16:02.640 --> 01:16:08.840
was like before Twilight quote unquote,
and when it was all about actors and

997
01:16:08.920 --> 01:16:13.840
celebrities. But now in this era
of twenty twenty three, we are experiencing

998
01:16:14.359 --> 01:16:18.039
the actors and the writers. They've
gone on strike, and part of that

999
01:16:18.359 --> 01:16:21.840
is the fact that they are not
allowed to promote their projects. What does

1000
01:16:21.880 --> 01:16:25.399
that mean. They're not allowed to
go to Comic Con, They're not allowed

1001
01:16:25.439 --> 01:16:28.520
to do panels, they're not even
allowed to talk about it. So they

1002
01:16:28.560 --> 01:16:31.960
were all missing. There was no
line at all age. Yeah, and

1003
01:16:32.199 --> 01:16:36.560
honestly, it was still super busy. It was so crowded. Everyone says,

1004
01:16:36.600 --> 01:16:40.840
how it's going to be a diminished
comic Con. I couldn't move in

1005
01:16:40.960 --> 01:16:45.039
that exhibit floor. I couldn't get
into some of the panels. I couldn't

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even get into the door in the
morning because there's so many people. So

1007
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when people were freaking out that no
actors were there, it didn't mean anything.

1008
01:16:51.720 --> 01:16:56.680
People love their stuff, whether an
actor is there or not. We

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look forward to their return because you
know, it's fun, exciting energy.

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But at the same time, I
didn't miss it. You know, I

1011
01:17:03.479 --> 01:17:06.199
don't go for the actors, so
I don't I don't you know, I

1012
01:17:06.239 --> 01:17:11.800
don't need that mayhem in the room. The one thing I missed about it

1013
01:17:11.880 --> 01:17:15.199
though, is every year I bumped
into celebrities left it right, you know,

1014
01:17:15.399 --> 01:17:19.960
whether it is bumping into one of
the supernatural dudes in the elevator after

1015
01:17:20.079 --> 01:17:25.399
our workout at the gym, or
hanging out with the Robot Chicken producers in

1016
01:17:25.479 --> 01:17:29.279
the hot tub at the Hilton.
You know, all of those magical moments

1017
01:17:29.359 --> 01:17:30.800
are a lot of fun. But
no, I mean, none of that

1018
01:17:30.920 --> 01:17:34.800
happened this year. I'm okay with
it though. I thought that it was

1019
01:17:34.920 --> 01:17:39.760
a lot more about shopping for people
and a lot more about you know,

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cosplay, the comics and community.
Yeah, that's that's the vibe that I

1021
01:17:44.880 --> 01:17:50.239
got too big cosplay photo groups.
The Marvel photoshoot was really fun. Yeah,

1022
01:17:50.359 --> 01:17:54.000
all of that stuff, it was
just it was just a gas.

1023
01:17:54.119 --> 01:17:58.279
It was so much fun. Indeed, And to cap this out and circle

1024
01:17:58.439 --> 01:18:01.159
back to the X Men, because
we are an x mement podcast, I

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loved what they did at the Marvel
booth because they were celebrating X Men hardcore.

1026
01:18:06.800 --> 01:18:11.880
A whole section of the Marvel Booth
was dedicated to the x x Men

1027
01:18:12.000 --> 01:18:15.960
fashion and an x Men photo op. Yes it was. They partnered with

1028
01:18:15.119 --> 01:18:21.680
Kith to create Jacket's shirts, shoes, the skate decks. They had all

1029
01:18:21.760 --> 01:18:27.279
sorts of really cool stuff and that
is now available on the Kith website.

1030
01:18:27.319 --> 01:18:30.600
So if you go to Kith dot
com which is ki dot com and look

1031
01:18:30.640 --> 01:18:32.239
at their Marvel collab, you can
see all of the cool Xment stuff,

1032
01:18:32.239 --> 01:18:36.399
including their really cool arcade went up
collaboration where they reskinned it for the X

1033
01:18:36.479 --> 01:18:42.079
Men arcade and they used Jim Lee
X Men number one art instead of the

1034
01:18:42.560 --> 01:18:45.840
Konami art, which to me,
I love it as a collector's item,

1035
01:18:45.920 --> 01:18:48.960
but as a like, you know, purist, I want Dazzler and I

1036
01:18:49.119 --> 01:18:53.239
want Nightcrawler on my cover, and
that X Men cover does not have those

1037
01:18:53.279 --> 01:18:55.800
guys, so or Colossus, No, he's on that cover. Anyways,

1038
01:18:55.920 --> 01:18:59.159
point is it was cool. They
got to have a whole X Men like

1039
01:18:59.479 --> 01:19:03.359
cosplay fashion walk moment, and yeah, Dylan got to be in that as

1040
01:19:03.439 --> 01:19:08.800
Toad. Our friend Alicia from X
Wife podcast was there up as Kate Pride.

1041
01:19:09.239 --> 01:19:11.600
It was a lot of fun to
witness. Oh, Michelle Waffle was

1042
01:19:11.680 --> 01:19:15.279
up there as Dazzler. They did
an Exterminators cosplay group with her and Chrissy

1043
01:19:15.399 --> 01:19:19.760
Lynn and John Carl And that was
so fun to see them as exterminators.

1044
01:19:19.880 --> 01:19:24.560
So I love that moment too.
So yeah, but they were a hit,

1045
01:19:24.720 --> 01:19:28.640
like a lot of the creatives were
sharing them saying, oh my god,

1046
01:19:28.760 --> 01:19:33.920
it's the exterminators. Absolutely yeah.
Well, and it was great to

1047
01:19:33.920 --> 01:19:39.479
see Ryan Pinagos, a former guest
of our podcast not too long ago,

1048
01:19:40.000 --> 01:19:44.199
Ryan Pagos hosting. He was being
the host with the most because he was

1049
01:19:44.359 --> 01:19:49.640
hosting everything including the hasbro X ninety
seven toy line reveals, which I was

1050
01:19:49.680 --> 01:19:53.720
there in the audience screening being like, oh my god, I want them

1051
01:19:55.119 --> 01:20:00.920
yes, and you guys have to
follow him. He's agent ev social medias

1052
01:20:01.880 --> 01:20:04.800
well. That was a great episode, that was a great issue, That

1053
01:20:04.920 --> 01:20:10.079
was a great con We're in a
good spirits and next up is the Uncanny

1054
01:20:10.079 --> 01:20:15.319
Experience and so we can't wait for
that, so excited. X Reads is

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01:20:18.159 --> 01:20:21.800
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01:20:21.880 --> 01:20:26.520
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1058
01:20:26.720 --> 01:20:30.680
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