Hi, everybody. This is Chandler, and this is Chris, and this
is Chad. And you're listening to the podcast. Everybody. We're here with
episode one six and we have a very special guest, Chad Anderson of Gray
Maulk and Lane Podcast. Welcome Chad. Hello, Chad. I'm so happy
to be back at your house. This is great. It's good to have
you back. Now. You've been on the show before and now you've come
back to us with this very special issue that we're going to get into,
all about the nineties and a rogue sentinel. But before we get into that,
we have no questions about your podcast. Yeah, I want to dive
into the history. Why did you start it? Now? Has your podcast
evolved over time? Give us a little like taste of the format. All
they the super fast version. I have a lot of creative energy to offer,
and I used to write comics, then I wrote books, and then
I made a movie, and then a pandemic hit and I was like,
what do I do with all this energy? And I researched and thought things
over for a while and launched a show. We are now over three years
later. My show involves the formulation of small ensembles of comic book professionals.
We review old Silver Age comic books together and it's a ton of fun.
We're hitting the early seventies right now, building slowly toward Giant Size X Men
number one, which should be the premiere episode of twenty twenty five. So
I'm very excited to be in a new era of the Silver Age. It's
been a great time this year on the show. Wonderful. Who have been
some of your favorite guests on the show. Oh, that's like choosing my
favorite child, my favorite Every episode is so unique. My favorite episodes that
stand out though, are those that have involved me meeting and befriending some of
my like childhood heroes. Jam Day, Matteus, Anni Nassenti, Fabe Nicieza,
and Ian Churchill are probably the top four. These are people that I
just adored growing up, and to be on like a first name basis with
them is such a crazy thing to happen to be at forty five, you
know, absolutely, yeah, Well you know, not only do you have
a podcast, but you're so talented and creative. You have other projects going
on too, like Gay Mormon Dad. Can you tell us about that?
Gay Mormon Dad is my memoir that I published back in twenty eighteen, which
I am now adapting into a graphic memoir. So it was crazy taking my
own story of trauma and survival and resiliency. I have commissioned excuse me,
I'm partnering with Remy Burt, who is an incredible non binary artist. Seeing
my life captured through the eyes of another penciler like using my references, it's
a crazy experience. We ran a successful Kickstarter and April the book is fully
funded and the art is coming in regularly. It is such a joy to
see my story interpreted in this way, so I'm really proud of it.
The print memoir is still out there on Amazon. I'm also proud of that.
But seeing it in this format, I think is it's going to tell
my story in a different way, and I think it has the potential to
help a lot of people. It's a powerful story. It also feels like
a legacy. I'm leaving my children in a weird way, like it's just
it's a really big honor to put this book together. To see where I've
come from and what I've created with my life, you know, that's fantastic.
When can we expect it to be available. It depends on the speed
with which the art is finished, So my loose answer is January through July
next year. But I'm really looking forward to it awesome. Can't wait to
see it and read it in our favorite format of comic book form. Same
now, you attended The Uncanny Experience for our inaugural freshman year. We're just
curious what were some of your favorite moments from the event. You know,
it was so intensely legitimizing, and to be asked by you guys to moderate
the panel for the voice actors from the original cartoon series, what a just
tremendous joy being present there. I got to be a professor in a class
about the Silver Age, and I got to meet some of my childhood heroes
again. It was also an opportunity to meet thirty to forty of the people
that I have befriended through the show, including the two of you. Seeing
everyone in person and having those connections be real in real life was so wonderful.
Everyone there was just all smiles the entire weekend. Everyone was so happy
to be there, and I would not say this word not true. It's
my favorite con I've ever attended. I can't wait to come back again this
summer, and I've got some really fun plans for panels. We're doing a
fashion review, which is maybe the most fun you've ever had at a panel
ever. I promise, trust me, you'll come and see you You'll see
what I'm talking about. We're also going to do a sentinels class this year,
which I'm very excited about. We're talking sentinels today. I feel like
I have a college degree in sentinels after doing a whole month of sentinels on
my show. Right, I can't wait for your dissertation on sentinels. Yeah,
it's something well, super fun. I'm so glad to hear the feedback
because you know, we worked tirelessly on that event and we cannot wait for
it to come back this September twenty eighth and twenty ninth in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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it's a pretty fun show. I think you'll have a lot of smiles.
In fact, I just recorded an episode before we're doing this and I'm still
smiling from of that one. It was really fun. Yes, that's great
happiness and joy. So you brought us a very huge, ginormous, big
issue with a whopping eighty four pages of awesome in which nothing happens. Well,
no, there's one climate moment which we'll get into regarding a sentinel,
but and a lot of weird moments. Yes, such a choice. So
why did you choose this issue? You know, when I was doing a
Sentinels month on my show, I did a lot of research into how we
tell robots stories in popular fiction. I'll cover this very quickly. There's three
ways that we tell robot stories, and the sentinels all fall into this.
Number one is we tell the story of robots as the tool of man being
programmed in a particular way. And then people like what their responsibility is with
that technology. Number two is when the robots become sentient and do they decide
to be good or evil compared to how Man feels about them. And then
the third story, oversimplifying, is when robots become like the Doomsday weapon.
It's the thing that tries to destroy everything on the earth. And we see
these three types of stories revisited a jillion million times in the Sentinels over the
years. There's a shocking number of Sentinels becoming sentient stories and this is one
of them, and it's kind of a cute one. So when I was
asked to come on the show, this was a fresh one in my mind.
It's a simple read, it's a standalone issue, and I have fond
memories of it. It's fun and as Chris says, big it has so
many characters in it. And yeah, we'll dive into it, but first
let's set the era. Yes, so this is X Men Annual Volume two,
ninety six. How do you say this? Yeah, so x x
Men Annual ninety six. This isn't an era where they stopped doing numbers and
they just started like the year of the annuals. So it's X Men Annual
Apostrophe ninety six. Yeah, number ninety six, I know that. I
got like confused for a second because we're so everything ninety seven. I was
like, oh wait, there was a ninety six the Dawn of ninety seven?
Was this the prequel? But anyway, the publication date was November thirtieth
of nineteen ninety five. Actually. Yeah. The top song of this era
was a song that I sang anytime it came on the radio. It is
One Sweet Day by Mariah Carey and Boyce to men, all right, this
is this is taking me back to like high school dances in the cap and
uh oh yeah, no that was That was a song that was everywhere.
Somebody I love a music video too, where they're all in the recording studio
and Maria Carey's doing her whistle tone work. Come on you want you want
the bar? Yeah? I want the song, suby. I never told
you all I wanted to say, And now it's too late to hold you
because you've gone away so far away, all right. Never have I imagined
I could say the whole song. I don't know, I don't know.
I don't remember this song. My I know this song, but I have
a little weird jukebox brain. So when you say one fine day, I
go back to like the nineteen fifties, like one fine day. Yeah.
He looked at me like that's where my brain goes. Well, this is
one sweet day on sweet so keep it, keep it sweet. What was
the top movie, Chris? The top movie was Toy Story, the original
the og the first Pixar movie of all time. Yeah, I was a
big deal in this air. That was a huge deal in nineteen get I
think it was one. Yeah, one of the first all CGI animated you
know releases. Obviously it caught Disney's attention and they bought them. Yeah,
that's right. And now, at the time of recording this, we are
currently in a timeline of Pixar where Inside Out Too is out in the movie
theaters. Yes, so they have come a long way, Pixar. So
we are doing as Chris said. Xcellent Annual nineteen ninety six or Apause Free
ninety six written by Larry Hama. Oh love Larry Hama, Yes, a
previous guest on our show. Go back and listen to whatever episode number that
is. We can't keep track anymore. It is art Yes by Roberto Flores
and Anthony Castillo. Yeah, all right, well let's start with the cover.
The cover is beautiful. It's by Bernard Chang. I could tell by
the signature it is not the interior artist. And it's great. But Storm
looks very sad on this cover. Yeah, she's actually giving kind of a
Disney princess sprawl. Yes, like at the at the foot of a graves
or at the fountain or at the foot of the bed. Yes, a
sentinel has just fainted and there's like thirty characters gathered around it. But they're
they're setting up the story well, because we get this wolverine looking at cable
moment, which you know, kind of delves in, and also everyone's looking
at each other suspiciously. We get a little side eyes. Bishop has a
side eye. Joseph has a side eye. Joseph. Joseph just blew out
his homemade yes, exactly. Well, he just keeps it electromagnetically flowing at
all times. I'm so glad that we get a Joseph isshue, because I
feel like we never get it. This is a wrap around cover. By
the way, my gosh sore even more characters. I didn't even see this
until this very moment I was today years old. There's more, there's rogue,
we have, Oh, Emma Frost is making an appearance. All of
it's all of the characters who were in the X Men, X Force and
Generation X at the time, and the post on slat. This is like
the healing issue where the teams are getting together after all the Onslaught crazy and
Professor X is missing and like the world was ending for a minute there.
Yeah, And it's funny because we've did another healing issue after Extinction. What
extinct executioner song? Not Extinction executioner, So there's too many ex'es. We
did executioner songs at the log with Jubilee teaching Xavier how to rollerblade and everybody,
like those come down issues always are people's favorites, so I'm glad that
you chose one. I actually never read the Onslaught stuff because I was losing
interest at this time in my life. I was like, no, I
was like, I just went through Age of pocalyps it was fantastic, and
now we're doing this well. Speaking of the history of the Sentinels, which
is relevant for this issue, Onslaught was the rage baby of Xavier and Magneto
and they repurposed their own sentinels to work for them. And there's so many
issues, so this is where all the heroes were, all all the books
were canceled, so like the final issue of Avengers and Fantastic Four, and
all these books have giant sentinels in them because they're all disappearing in Onslaught and
they're all over the Marvel universe right now. So the sentinel we're going to
meet in this one is a former Onslaught sentinel who has become sentient. Yes,
indeed, And of course we have covered the Dawn of Onslaught with X
Men number twenty five that was written by Fabian Ns and he was our special
guest for that issue, so you can read and hear all about the act
of Xavier wiping Magneto's brain and thus seating Onslaught. Yes, all right,
well let's get into this issue. Yes, right away. We have some
portraits panels with Wolverine, Cannibal, Rogue, Siren, Sunspot and m Yes
they are they're they're kind of setting us up like it's going to be a
battle. Yeah, And the cable on the bottom it gives a lot of
X Men ninety seven energy. When you get to the group shot like Gambit
shirtless Will Ranson is like ratchet, like post post transformation, no nose era.
Yes, yeah, they love to get a little slutty when they're playing
sports. They love it. They're like, we're showing all the skin cannonballs
wearing the worst shirt. What is that? What is like just a It's
like a waste basket upside down with glasses that look like a trash bin with
googly eyes or something. I don't know what that is. Yeah, No,
I'm not loving the fashion in this issue. I don't know what is
happening. But Storm, I just got to say, like, I look
at her and she's like beautiful fit, looks like Alicia Marie body. Yes,
with the Tea Boss hair from TLC. Yes, just gorgeous. I
don't know why her socks are so baggy or she had leg warmers that fell
down around her ankles, but I don't I don't know what's happening around her
ankles. Yeah, that's a real odd Actually, we also get Calibin here,
who gets a big moment in this year. Caliban's a dear favorite of
mine. I love this character. I'm so fond of him. Yeah,
he's Wolverine. And the hair growing off of Wolverine's arms is so gross.
It's so gross. That's like a lie. It's so specific too, It's
like, why doesn't it grow everywhere? No, it's just this four arm
razor hair. I do not want to see his pubes. I hope it's
all right to say that on your show. It's totally fine. Yeah,
he's looking barrel oh so fair. I vote for Rogue for best look because
it just looks like her her character. She looks like the Barbie doll version
of her, a little bit like more of a bratstall brats doall. Yes,
Castillo U Ethnic Castillo, Robert to Flora's and Anthony Castrio. Yeah,
I don't recall them from other issues or other areas. It's a big cast
to draw. And Iceman's wearing like a goofy hat and just being the biggest
dumbass through this hole. Yes, he absolutely is. Well, yeah,
so they're they're they're playing ball, you know, as they do and uh
as as you set up. The Storm is up to bat. The teams
are tied. This could be the deciding hit if Wolverine can strike her out.
Then the oh it's the wolver the Wolfsters versus the Stormers. I forgot
to visit the team names. But yeah, Wolverine is trying to strike her
out and also psych her out at the same time. Because everybody's you know,
yelling a big game and everyone's trying to steal bases. There's a lot
there's a lot of baseball talk. There's a lot of really cute little character
moments, and we don't have to cover them all. But like Shatterstar being
Domino, this game is no challenge for a true warrior born. Shouldn't we
be training and boom boom going give it a rest? Shatterstar like just a
lot of cute little nineties shit like that. It makes me happy. We
have our very first out and this is for Sprinklins dan In Magic Crystals.
Color change crystals, add magic, you can taste. So basically the ad
is kind of like this folding artwork where I guess it looks like the yogurt
bowl. So it's a cup of yogurt that you add crystals in too,
make your yogurt a different color that you can taste. Yes, magnificent tasting
coloring. I do not need this product. And the art. That character's
eyes on that art are horrified. It's sugar. It's scary. You're adding
sugar to your yogurt. This would be outlawed today in grocery store. Oh
yeah, no, it's fruit or nothing. But yeah, wrecked sugarhistles onto
yogurt for children. No, that boy has a full bathtub full of yogurt
that he's about. Yeah, that's a disgusting ad. I hate it.
I'm so grossed out. But the art is so nineties. Oh it is,
you know product, This product is so nineties. Oh it's one of
those fold I don't want to fold it, fold it, but yeah,
it's like Mad magazine where you fold it. Yeah, I ad, and
then it appre's to be a different image. Oh I don't want to do
that. I don't want to. You don't want to ruin your comic.
Oh okay, we won't ruin your comic. No, we're not going to
ruin that all right. Anyways, Wolverine brows, he would would you feed
your kids that yogurt? My children would not eat that yogurt, all right,
Not because I wouldn't serve them. They just would refuse it. They
will, okay, they're not big sugar kids there. That's just yet.
No, that came vegetables now I've raised them. Well, well, there's
the goofy hat by the way that Iceman's wearing. Oh my gosh, it's
so goofy, like it's literally goofy, literally literally goofy. Yes, without
like copyright infringement goofy. But yeah, I'll wait a minute. I mean,
you know, nowadays it's Disney in the Marvel so it's all good.
They can have Mickey hats and stuff, and that's true. Yeah, they're
all one family now. Yeah, but I don't know about Marvel comics.
Well, they know they have the Disney covers now, yeah, that's right,
the Disney homage, Oh my gosh, Dazzler as many Mouse debuts as
the Dazzler. I have to read that. Is that just a cover?
It's just a cover. Oh damn it. Yeah, they don't. They
don't redo all the story. There's it's such a tease Marvel. That would
be cute though to see some Disney characters in classic Marvel Comics stories just drawn
into the story. There are some of those happening. I think there's a
what if Donald Duck became four coming out? Oh yes, what ifs?
Yes? Yeah, Well, anyways, back to the game. So Wolverine
he has thrown two strikes and Beast is trying to steal a base. Uh.
They try to catch him off guard, but he is safe. Cable
calls him safe and this is the start of the Wolverine versus Cable drama because
everyone's like boo, okay, So who is this girl wearing a muppet on
her tanks? Julie, you believe what are they doing to her? Ass?
Is out? She's in her bikini with a little muppet. That is
a little little bikini. We've got Scott and Jean riding by on dirt bikes
announcing a barbecue. Scott's like open shirt flowing in the breeze. This is
such a mood. I love how they're popping. We leave, all right,
but we got to like rate some hair here. What do you think
of Jube's hair? Well, she's giving season five of X Men, the
animated series. Oh my god, you're right, yes, this is her
season five haircut. Yes, literally in nineteen ninety six, So this is
what she looks like. Are they probably were told to draw her that way
in the show. Interesting if you go to the next page though, on
the bottom panel where Skin is running, look at Monet's hair. It's like
a powerful slick going. I don't know what's happening. Yeah, there's a
lot going on, but anyways, third ball goes in, Storm cracks it,
and Wolverine can't catch it and Gamba can't catch it, and basically the
Stormsters win. Yay, But the game is interrupted by a giant damage sentinel
from the sky and a dad If that got us, Oh yes, it
looked scary. I love I love how sentinels always bring drama. He's all
dance moves out. I love it. Yes, oh my gosh. Well,
as we know, the sentinel is not going to attack them, but
they are going to attack ants. Oh yes they will, yes, which
I truly could not blame them. Right, It's a sentinel over the Xavier
School that like got past their defenses, and you know, I understand it.
I do. Yes. So we got Storm, Rogue, Canniball,
sun Spot, Iceman all going after the sentinel, Cyclops and Gene you know,
hitting the brakes because they're like, oh my god, a sentinel whipping
around Zarkin, the optic blasts, oh and then it knocks the Sentinel over
into the power lines. No seems the action in this issue was really short
lived. It happens really quickly, and as the Sentinel falls, it basically
gives them an origin story that it had like an extra upgraded processor because it
was supposed to like study humans and sentinels. It was working for Onslaught,
but it was made sentient and it just like was looking for somebodies. It's
kind of like a mutant Sentinel, which is again I think we've seen a
whole bunch of times. There's a shocking number of mutant sentinels in the comic
books. Yes, yes, well yeah, he's telling this origin story and
we're getting all the details. But because of this fight and not because of
the X Men, because of the power lines, his receptors start failing,
so's he's dying and he's scared, and it makes all the X Men react
and his delights literally go out in his eyes, and it makes Jubilee start
crying. And as he as he's dying, he says and Telephontine, I
love her. Don't see when I oh, it's supposed because not Fontaine Devine
exactly. System crash, is this shut down. This unit is afraid.
Oh, I feel like, Okay, there's a Wolverine issue, is there?
There's issues and Jubilee are dealing with sentient sentinel. Oh, that's actually
referenced in this issue. And Larry Hammer wrote that one as well. Yeah,
and I feel like I read that one and I remember it also dying
in Jubilee being upset. So this is her set second sentinel sentient death.
So I told you there's the three stories second sentinal sentient Anyway, I told
you there's the three sentinel stories. The second one is where they become sentient?
Are they either good or evil? And this one was good and now
it's lost. The innocence is god. Get do you guys have a favorite
sentience sentinel that comes to mind? No? No, So I feel like
there was a girl named Tranary who could control sentinels or controlary. Trainary didn't
have a sentient sentinel, but she had a sentinel that she painted rainbows on
and like they they cleared out the middle of the sentinel and put seats in
it, and it was their transport for a while. She named it Sentinel
X. Yes, and it was like her pet or whatever. Yeah,
and then Forge Forge had Cerebra, who was a sentient sentinel that was like
fully part of the team for a while. That's right, Yeah, that's
right. Yeah, so you know there's a lot of a lot of you
know, sentient sentinels. Anyways, it's dead. Jubilee is sad and like
naked. Well, yes, I'm just like wow running into Wolverine's naked arms.
It's like huge. His arms are like so big. She's like,
please run your arm hair against my naked body while I cry. Yeah,
oh my gosh. I just have this, like I don't know, flashes
in my head of being married to Wolverine and having a Sunday morning where he
tickles your face to wake you up with his arm hair. Gross and it's
supposed to be cute but it's also gross. Yeah, you don't know how
to take it. And then you know there's another scene where you know,
I'll be chasing him around the house with some scissors, going like give it
here, and'll be like no, it'll just go back with my healing power.
Wolverine and Cable are so grumpy. Cable's like it was essentiel and Wolverine's
like yeah, but it had feelings and cables like, I see more people
die than you have. And yes, they're just going back and forth about
trauva stacking. Well they like teams form around and then it cracks me up.
Yes, yeah, well you know, so everybody's getting like questionable about
everybody. So they're all teaming up on each other. They're all picking on
each other, and Cyclops and Jeane are like, no, this is not
what the professor would want. Yclobs puts them in time out. He does,
I'm loving Jean's outfit, by the way. Oh the unnecessary red belt
that that's on her waist. Yeah, I don't know. I'm getting some
and Margaret vibes or something going there. My Roadue could have cut those cut
offs a little hig though. I know right right, they just started low,
but they just, you know, they just go up and up and
up as it threads out. Ridiculous. Looks like Johnny Cage all right,
next page, next page, you know, rogue. She basically says,
no, Xavier wants to stick together, not not pull apart, and Caliban
has the big moment. Calibrin gets his dumb Hulk moment where he stands up
and gives a little speech about like, Caliban is dumb, but also Caliban
thinks maybe Xavier still loves you, and they're like, oh, Calibin,
thank you for bringing us all back together again. God bless us everyone.
It's really good, you know. But you know, I just forget why
he's so huge. It's an Apocalypse thing, right, mm hmm. He
got evolved. Yeah, and this is the era where he's slowly turning dumb,
where he actually got a prominent place on the X Sports team for a
while before he got called back to Apocalypse. We basically haven't really seen it
much since, except that one time Forge put his face on the front of
his army. I was going to say what he made when he made clothes
out of him? Oh my god. Well, yes, because Caliban.
We've covered the first appearance of Caliban a long time ago. I'm just Larry.
I'm just looking at this picture of Storm and she's lost her little te
boz strings. She thought, I hate those strings. They're so weird interesting.
Oh yeah, then they forgot to color in between here. I always
yeah, I'm always taking anyway. Oh, you're seeing all those mistakes.
We get a cute gig where Cannonball, who I love, gets a camera
and starts recording everyone. Uh, there's that famous famous Cannonball and Iceman like
flirt with each other when they're on the grade and cat your creed campaign together.
So this image of like beast ticks the camera and the Iceman pours ice
directly down cannon shorts better than a wedgie. I call it a fridgie,
which causes Cannonball to jump into the sky like what the hell? Uh that's
very forward and maybe like borderline someone called hr right, oh right, exactly,
wow, hazing on the ex campus like down down the butt, like
it's well, I love this home video moment of these pages. So you've
cut the camera kind of moves around, so the artist is pretending like they're
drawing what the camera sees, and Cannonball gets the camera back and he turns
it on the girls and he's like, oh, the girls, they're sunning
themselves, including his sister. That's his the blonde is his sister. Yes,
yeah, that's kind of gross and yeah, and she's just like can
you not? Can you not? Because that's cross, like absolutely not.
And then Jubilee gets in his face and passs the whatever the camcorder out of
his hands. Cannon Ball gets knocked into the pool where Caliban and Shatterstar splash
him everywhere, playing water polo. It's the whole it's just silly, it's
just nonsense interactions with the teammates, which makes it kind of delightful. Oh
my gosh. But like Shatterstar and Iceman in the pol together, Yeah,
they're playing water polo. Oh my yeah, And this is real X Men
ninety seven vibe because Joseph, who's the clone of Magneto, is flirting with
Rogue and Magneto and Gambit is not having it. Oh yeah, he's like
in the shade, he's so shady. Okay, wait a minute, you
know, educate me a little bit. Joseph is the clone of Magneto.
Yes, Agnino is currently vegetable, so to speak. Yes, yes,
because the professor x so somebody I don't remember who created Joseph, but he's
straw. Oh yes. And then he showed up in Magneto's out and everybody
thought it was Magneto for a long time, but then it turned out he's
just the clone and he was last and then eventually Silock or Cannon or whoever
cut his head off, and then he showed up recently in the Scarlet Witch
comics by Seberlando. You know, the whole just a clone thing happens a
lot in this universe, it seems. Mm hm. So I'll buy it,
all right. I will say I'm going to be cosplaying Joseph soon,
so I'm excited about that. Absolutely. Yes. Is it going to be
this look with his purply rogue though, it's gonna be the X Men training
uniform, long white wig. It's gonna be great. I'm excited for this
anyways. Yes, a gambit Magneto slash Joseph Rogue triangle happening, and uh
yeah, and Rogue just you know, she just doesn't know when to quit.
I guess I don't know that pose she's doing on that chair, you
know what, No, I sit like this, you do, I do?
You've seen it like that? Yeah, so I met the pool,
so I can't say anything, Rogue, I believe you. There's a moment
where they have a toast. Here's to us and those like us and everyone
chanced together darn few left, which is a very odd toast. Yeah.
Well is this post House of m No, this is not. This is
post onslaught. Yeah, right after onslaught. House of them is like six
or seven years away, right, yeah, because there there hasn't been like
the loss of a bunch of mutants. But this might also be the era
where there's not too many of them. They haven't well. Rogue does say,
don't we have a ride to be a scooch tense after all we've been
through with onslaught, because Betsy senses the tension. Yeah, I'm a scooch
tense. Sometimes it's okay, we can all we all have room to be
tense. Cyclops is fully burning the burgers on the grill. Yes, bully
full one. Uh who wants their burgers well done? Oh my god?
He such a like I love a such an old school guy. He's like
whatever happened to real charcoal and starter fluid? We we then get an intense
ping pong ball match between some of the characters. Money is so bored,
And look at how Husk is holding her paddle. Yeah, she's holding it
like yeah. I don't know if that's Japanese style or whatever. There's some
sort of special way praying mantis of some sort. But I do love how
I would never want to play ping pong against Domino like win. I want
to be on her team. Yes, I would be on her team for
sure. The ball goes bouncing away and lands in the middle of the potato
salad. Oh yes, oh, but he better not dare hand that ball
back to Money like that shatter start plucks it out. There's this disgusting image
of Cannonball shoving it in his mouth to suck all the potato, and then
he spits it over to Monet, who's like, a, yeah, I
guess we're kind of missing some precursor, like he likes her, kind of
like he's trying to flirt with her vibe. But yeah, he kind of
he kind of lost that that that Hasey life really came out in that moment.
Sunspot is a rolling on the floor laughing. Also, nothing says late
nineties like like cannon Ball's terrible goatee, like his little soul patch chin.
Oh yeah, and the in the haircut of course, yes, yes,
that that kind of Kurt Cobain haircut. Look middle part. Who wears a
middle part? Not me? No moment you used to. It was the
era I used to early nineties bowl cut, later nineties butt cut, right,
Yeah, yeah, it's all about that, Yes, well, I
guess now that they're at the barbecue, Wolverine has put on some clothes and
he has decided that he is ready to apologize to Cable, because you know,
they shared some words and they're going to just basically come to terms man
to man that they can disagree to agree. But apparently Wolverine killed Cable's son,
Tyler, who was running the Uh what the horse dark Dark writers Gables
flop son Tyler Dave Spring slash Tolliver slash Genesis. I fucking hate this guy.
Yeah, he's a forgettable character to me. I was like, oh,
yes, that's right, son clone what son? Son of Cable?
Who is the clone Joseph? Joseph's the clone, So this is Cable's sign.
Joseph's the clone of Magneto Stripe is the clone of Cable. Tyler is
the son of Cable's wife Jen Scott, who's named after his parents, who
lives in the future. Oh wait, god, co makes you guice?
All right, then what happened? And then we have X math. Yes,
well, so I guess they cheers each other some beers and then they're
everything's fine. Wolverine killed his son, cheers, It's all good. Uh,
they changed the costume so they can get one big group photo and surprise
Gateway shows up just cuz why not. He was hanging out with Generation X
at the time. What are your thoughts on this big double page spread of
the teams? They like all the people flying up in the background. Yes,
boom booms in best slap already is hanging out between cyclops his legs.
It's so cute it it looks like it looks like the cosplay photos, like
conventions that we participated. Hmmm. But let me tell you something this page.
When I was a kid, this is the kind of page I live
for. Yes, because I would stare at a page like this for hours
just looking at everybody. Mm hmmm, because it's like, you know,
everybody's there, remember everybody's name. It's amazing. If I'm counting right,
there's thirty one characters on this stubble. Oh I don't they count. I
forgot Wolverine wore that red bandana thing because with the no nose look hate it.
But it was blue I've about for a long time. Must have been
just red for this period. Oh my god, Jubilee, did they change
her hair again? Yes, they cut her hair rude. She just got
a quick, quick haired cut in between the bag. So this is I
think a different artist now, Like I feel like whoever started the issue now
it's flipped over to somebody else. The storm has her hair flips back.
It's fine. Why does Leech look like a chucky doll? He looks like
he's he looks like he's nine inches tall. Yes, him and Already were
always always the size set in the Generation X issues? Is the guy behind
Cyclops? Is that Mondo Mondo and Chamber? Yeah? Yeah, oh my
god, you guys, Okay, so Jean Gray's she kind of looks like
like she's the bad review of Creepy Toy Guy, you know. Yeah,
guys like Creepy Toy Guy is going to do an actually with her on her
rusted face, yes, her flat titties. Yeah, that's my best Creepy
Toy Guy. Yeah, everybody Instagram dot com at Creepy Toy Guy the genius.
And Emma is you know, flashing some leg you know. So it's
like she's kind of conservative but canon nat of course that's very her jacket and
panties, Yeah, jacket and panties very sensible for Emma, Like I'm called
today, I'm conservative. I love this. I love this mutant circuit.
In a couple of pages where we get Cannonball flying boom boom, Jubilee and
sun Spot up into the sky for a giant fireworks display, it feels very
crikola to me. It's super super cute. Yeah, I don't understand what
so is Cannonball holding one, no, sun Spots holding both and cannonballs just
there for support. I mean, Sunspot's the only one that can fly besides
Cannonball. Maybe Cannibal's just helping lift them up there, or like, I
don't know, he's got he's got a he's not not vulnerable when he's blasting.
I know. I just felt he's a little unnecessary. He was like,
I want to I'm not gonna get hurt, so I'm going to go
up there too, where sun Spot, the actual strong one I think,
is carrying the girls up there. But I just was like, what's his
purpose exactly? I feel like Sunspot just barely learned how to fly to right,
That's true, it's it's it's it's new. Well, so we've had
the baseball, we've had the pool party, we've had the bar we've had
the fireworks, and now it's time to meditate. Yes, you know what
this is. This issue is a hell fire gala issue. It's just a
little more private. They're doing a mine beld now, like it's a whole
gala. Oh my god, you know what. You're right, Yes,
you're right. They all hold hands and all the mutants in Whovill gather together
and sing dahou dore and like make a little uni mind. It's cute.
It is cute. I love how they're like, don't go too deep in
my mind, don't scroll left and don't scroll right. But this is I
mean, this is how they defeated the dominion at the end of Krakoa,
right, like all the mutants merged and made the Phoenix sports. Here they
are like projecting their minds together. It's it's cute. I love this.
Yes, I like it too. And then then you know, it's the
end of the day. After all that activity, they decide that they're going
back into the mansion, which is surprisingly in one piece. It's not blown
not y'all played baseball, murdered a sentinel and then had a barbecue and like
a little party. Yeah, it's a mindful meditation. That's great. I
loved it. This is a cute palette cleanser, like lovely little issue.
I'm actually very fond of it, despite some of the art inconsistencies. Yeah,
no, it was really fun. Thank you so much for bringing that
over to us, and it was a joy to recap. Yes, indeed,
did you guys have a single favorite moment? Oh gosh, I would
have to say anytime it's Gambit playing sports shirtless I'm in so I was just
like, oh, we get to see this again. I love it.
I love the creativity of the camquarder of the home video. I thought that
was really well done and fun, and the way that the focus moved wherever
the camera was moving and what character was holding it and stuff just was I
almost wish there was more of that than just like the two or three pages.
I like that everybody got like a little moment. I love the Mutants
circuit, but the weirdest is just Bobby dumping ice down Sam's pants like I
can't get fast It awesome. Well, that was a blast. We really
appreciate you taking the time talking sentinels, and so if people want to listen
to all of your recent Sentinel stuff. They can just go to Gray malka
Lane and is it Are you done with your Sentinel era? I mean yeah,
Sentinels was back in April, so as we are approaching July, you
can go back. We have a big Maxi episode called Sentinels one oh one,
which is incredible. If you want to just listen to one from that
month, look for it. In July, we are celebrating women of color
on my show, so we're talking all about the way female black characters are
portrayed in the early seventies. As we get ready for Storm, we're covering
all the appearances of Nekra and Nightshade and a bunch of classic kind of exploitation
era villains. Working on recording those now and it's a delightful time. So
yeah, you can follow graymalk and Lang grimalkin underscore Land on Instagram or look
for me on any of your podcast platforms. Okay, everybody, we are
here with the Uncanny New New. No, we don't need that much chamber
now. No, this is a slow, slow news day, so we're
all I'm killing time, no, because we've got tons of updates always for
you guys, But for today, we are going to talk about the uncanny
experience, the four houses of Exevier Institute, and we're going to take the
which house assignment are you quiz so we can see which house Chris and I
will be sorted into. So starting with the houses, we have four houses
at our event. Yeah. The first one on his House Morlock. You
know, they are located with their common room in the tunnels of Xavier Institute,
but by Callisto. Mm hmmm, yes. The primary color is being
orange and gray, and they are our counterculture house, you know, people
that don't quite fit into normal society and they want to live in the tunnels
with their Morlocked friends. Yeah. And their merchandise item, which you can
buy in the school store, is a punk looking vest that's stud it,
yes, and it's got a cool embroidered logo of House Morlock on the back.
So we just go check out the store via the homepage you can see
what that looks like. And all the other merchant that we're going to talk
about. Next, we have House Pride. House Pride is of course headed
by Kitty Pride. It is colors purple, silver and white. The common
room is the lecture hall where we learn everything of course. And yeah,
this is our intellectual smartypants house yep. And their merchandise item is a purple
hoodie, so go check out House Pride, y'all. Yeah, absolutely,
And then we also have House Xavier. They're founder obviously Charles Xavier. Their
colors are green and white, their common room is a student hall, and
they value leadership, unity and inclusivity. Goes Xavier. And our last house
is House hell Fire, our ambitious house ready to take on the world,
headed by Emma Frost. Common room, of course is the Hellfire Club and
colors are red, black and white. So if you guys are feeling the
fire of hell Fire, make sure to join that house. You can learn
all about these houses and all sorts of details on the website at the UNCA
Experience dot com. So you can just go there, scroll to the house
button under what to expect, and you can learn all about it. So
let's take the quiz. Let's take it all, right, So, if
you want to take this quiz, go to our Instagram, click on the
links in our bio and you will see a link for type form. Click
that link. You can also get it if you were joined in our email
newsletter. So You'll also have to be sure to sign up for that because
we may be posting the link again. Yes, and we've shared the link
also on Facebook and x as well, so you can swell so you can
end it. Yes, discover your mutant destiny. Which house is Savior Institute?
Do you belong to? Whether you embody the resilience of House Morlock,
the ambition of House how Fire, the leadership of Hou Savior, or the
ingenuity of House Pride. This quiz will reveal your true mutant family. Take
the quiz now and join your fellow mutants in the house that's destined to be
your new home. All right, we are both going to be taking this
quiz on separate devices and see which houses that we get sorted into. Okay,
first question up, who will be your dorm mate at Xavier Institute.
Choosing your dorm roommate is crucial. Think about the unique personalities of your peers
and pick the one who will lead your confidant. Who will be your confidant
and ally This choice will shape your daily life and adventures, forging strong bonds
as you grow into your mutant potential. Okay, our options are cheerleader,
outcast, gamer, nerd, rebel, academic, fashionista, class clown,
and goth. So if I'm going to pick somebody to be my roommate that
I think is going to help me at Xavier's, is I'm going to go
with somebody who is not exactly like me, but you know, somebody that
might help me out. So I'm going to go with fashionista, so she
appress me. My god. If I was going to go with the gamer
nerd, but if you're going to go with that logic, which I kind
of like, I'm going to switch it up a little bit. I'm going
to say the academic. Oh yeah, so you know, because your roommate's
gonna be your palth, They're gonna, you know, and I'm gonna I
want to, you know, copy off of our reports and exams. Indeed,
all right, next, which pet will accompany you at the institute At
Xavier's, your mutabilities enhance your connection with animals. These loyal companions will be
vital to your journey, offering support and friendship every step of the way.
Options are unicorn ponies, scorpion, alien, dragon, ai, robodog,
shark, peacock, golden retriever, and carnivorous plant I am going to too
an Ai robodog. I know that's not a real pet, but I feel
like I would love a robot familiar like they have in Star Wars, So
I'm gonna go with that. How could I not go with the unicorn pony?
That's true? True? You know, all like how cute? All
right? Next up? How would you make new friends at Xavier Institute?
Select your favorite technique to connect with your fellow mutants. All right. You
can either show off your new car, watch, or cell phone. You
can organize a thrilling sports event and invite everyone to join. You use emotional
and logical manipulation to force a bond. You bond with others by exploring the
hidden areas of the school. You impress others with your knowledge and innovative ideas.
You share your journey of overcoming adversity, inspire others. You start a
long, thought provoking conversation about mutant philosophy. Lastly, you volunteer to help
others with their studies and projects. So how are we going to make friends?
Hmm? Because there's a lot of things that I like to do.
I'm actually quite good at making friends, so I'm not a no at all.
So I'm not going to impress with my knowledge. I'm not a provoking
conversationalist, I'm not a manipulator. I'm going to volunteer to help people with
their studies because I feel like that's the person that's how I would make friends.
You know, It's so funny for me, I like think about like,
oh, what would you do? But then what do I actually do?
And it's like every time I leave the house, it's because I'm organizing
the event that we're going to. So the parallel answer for me would be
you organize serlingk sports events and invite everyone to join you. Done? Done?
Which school team sport would you join? Well, there is a range
of exciting team sports to channel your mutant abilities and build camaraderie. Choose the
sport that resonates with you and envision yourself showcasing your skills in the arena.
Hmmm. Our options are show choir, bol, varsity football, esports,
cyber defense, lacrosse, hockey, and debate. Oh this is a tough
one. No it's not show choir. I'm going esports. What's your ideal
sanctuary? Your ideal environment plays a significant role in shaping your abilities and overall
well being. Deeply contemplate each setting and choose the location that resonates with your
soul. Options are cave, concert hall, gym, penthouse, park,
laboratory, library, and city. I'm gonna go with the penthouse. I
want to see the view. Oh that's a good joy. You know.
If I can open the window just to get like some breeze, that'd be
hot. I'm gonna choose the park. The park, the park with people.
Yes, being outside in nature, that's gonna be my epicenter of whatever
feeling up for the challenges of skew Okay, how do you respond to a
school bullied eeskew bully? Yes? Imagine you're walking down the hallway at Xavier
Institute when you come across a fellow student being bullied. What do you do?
You confront the bully head on with a commanding presence, making them back
down immediately. You utilize psychological tactics, subtly manipulating the bully to leave the
victim alone. You reveal your own struggles and show empathy, creating an emotional
connection that diffuses the situation. You engage the bully in a logical debate,
making them realize the futility of their action. You use your agility in street
smarts to outmaneuver the bully, protecting the victim. You use your social influence
and charm to publicly shame the bully, deterring future incidents. You approach calmly,
diffusing the tension and mediating a peaceful resolution. Devise a clever plan that
outsmarts the bully, leaving them no choice but to retreat. All right,
already know what I'm choosing. I Am going to use my social influence and
charm to embarrass the bully. Oh my god, you what you're so what?
Because I realized in my role of publicity is that I'll know all the
deeds on this person, yeah, and their family and everything, and I'll
be like, talk about that time, bully, And you'll be like,
no, I'm just integrated. What's yours? Minus you reveal your own struggles
and show empathy, greeting and emotional connection. That diffuses the choice. I
got it until they punch. You. See, We're all human, okay,
we all have our own like struggles and stuff. And if we can
connect and real life both okay, Which school club will unleash your unique potential
by joining a club at the Xavier Institute, you'll develop your talents and find
us supportive community of like minded mutants. Select the club that aligns with your
interest and abilities. Options are Student Council, GSA, book Club, Horticulture
Club, your book committee, drama club, chess club, Art club.
So develop your talents and find a supportive community. I'm going horticulture. Oh
my god, you are a Polan. I'm a dad. I have a
plant daddy, and I want to connect with my plant people. Seriously,
Yes for me. I picked drama club because, like you know, I
did drama in high school and that's where I belonged. So did I?
Okay? How will you find the missing Mutant? A fellow mutant student has
mysteriously gone missing, and it's up to you to solve the mystery and ensure
their safe return. How will you use your skills and resources to track them
down and bring them back to safety. You analyze and patterns, creating a
detailed map to predict where the student might be. You collaborate with the school
staff and students to gather information in piece together clues. You explore the hidden
areas of the school, believing the student might be in a secluded spot.
You use technology and gadgets to scan any unusual activity and track the student's last
known location. You conduct a thorough investigation, using your connections and resources to
uncover hidden information. You interrogate potential witnesses using your charm and influence to get
the truth. You use your keen sense and intuition and to track down any
signs of the missing student. You organize a coordinated search party that and lead
the effort to cover every part of the campus. Okay, I am going
to well, I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I Am going
to organizeer coordinated search party and lead the effort to uncover every part of the
campus. Why Because I like organizing people and getting people together. Yes,
I'm I'm between. I explore the hidden areas of the school because I'm a
I'm a doer, So I feel like I would just jut out on myself
and do it. But I also could see myself using my connections and resources
to uncover hidden information. So I'm going to go with that one. Okay,
which lunch do you choose? At the Xavier Institute Cafeteria In the vibrant
and diverse cafeteria of Xavier Institute. Your choice of lunch says a lot about
your personality and preferences, from gourmet dishes to comforting classics. There's something for
every mutant palette. Which mil will you choose to fuel your day and reflect
to your true self? Asterisks? None of this food will be served at
the end? Campis none of it? Maybe a burger? Right? Maybe?
Okay? Options are never ending, ram and noodle, woo, caviar
on toasted points with crime fresh a space astronaut rations with freeze, dried treats,
gross fruit smoothie with a protein bar, loaded nachos with the pinos and
sour cream, charcuterie board with gourmet cheeses and meats, hardy beef stew with
rustic bread, and a classic cheeseburger with fries and a milkshake. Okay,
what am I ordering at the cafecoria? I mean, I'm kind of hungry.
Milksho I want it all? I thought that smoothie was a milkshake.
The photo of the smoothie and I said smoothie, No, I want the
milkshake. So I'm getting a burger, I'm getting loaded nachos. Okay,
which movie will you choose for a movie night. You have the honor of
selecting the film that will set the tone for the evening. Your choice will
reflect your personality and make a lasting impression on your new friends at Xavier Institute.
Choose the film that best showcases who you are and creates a memorable experience
for everyone. Okay. The options are Bring It On, The Devil Wears
Praduct, Goodwill, Hunting, The Breakfast Club, Cruel Intentions, The Goonies,
Fight Club, and the Social Network. Okay, so I need to
pick a movie. Yeah, this has got to be, like, you
know, a movie that represents you. Yeah, and then a bunch of
people will enjoy it. Yes, I'm going Goonies for sure, because that
is like one of my top favorite movies. Because it really it is for
me too. I'm gonna say, like, I want to go a little
more adult and say not too adult, not like not like Cruel Intentions.
Oh you know, right, although I do love that movie, I'm gonna
go bring it on. Oh I love Bringing On Adult like adult movie.
Well you know it was a little naughty, all right, all right,
saman what are we getting? Oh my god, Oh my god. I
did not expect that I got House Hell Fight or Unleash your ambition. Congratulations,
you've been sorted into House health Fire. Like the influential Health Fire Club
members, you possess ambition, power and drive for success. House Health Fire
values cunning, strategy and relentless excellence. Here you'll refine your abilities and master
achieving your goals. Welcome to your new family, where your ambition fuels are
rise of too greatness. Wow, that's a hot one. That's how Fired.
Who I got? How Xavier? Embrace your leadership Like the visionary professor
x you possess leadership, wisdom and a strong sense of justice. How Xavier
values compassion, guidance in the drive to create a better world. And here
you'll develop your unique abilities and inspire others. Welcome to your new family,
where your leadership pays a way to a brighter future. Well, No,
I always fancied myself a House Pride person, but I feel like I am.
You know, if I I'm going to be a hybrid, I'm going
to be a pride Healfire. So are you really yes? Okay, that
was a lot of fun taking the quiz together. Chandler. Yeah, if
you want to take the quiz, be sure to head over to our Instagram
sign up for email newsletter. It'll probably be on the website as well.
And that is going to be the Uncanny Experience dot Com. Yeah, and
we'll see you all in September. Make sure to get your tickets before they
sell out. Yeah, and make sure to write it let us know which
house you belong to. Allison Cely Smith here, the voice of Storm from
X Men, the animated series and X Men ninety seven. I'm summoning you
to a monumental gathering, the Uncanny Experience, the Immersive X Men Fandom Convention.
This September twenty eighth and twenty ninth. We are transforming the Minneapolis Club
in Minnesota into the hollowed halls of the Xavier Institute. Prepare for an electrifying
array of panels, a mutant marketplace, celebrity meet and greets, a cosplay
contest, the enigmatic Hellfire Club, and an unforgettable after party in the mansion.
Embrace your powers and let the Storm guide you. Visit the Uncanny Experience
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