WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:03.240 Hi, everybody. This is Chandler, and this is Chris, and this 2 00:00:03.359 --> 00:00:16.920 is Neil. And you're listening to X Read the podcast. Yay, we 3 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:20.920 are back with another episode, episode ninety eight, with author Neil Clyde. 4 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:24.519 Welcome, Neil. We're so happy to have you. Neil. Hello, 5 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:27.960 Hello Eddie. Thanks for having me. Oh my gosh, thank you so 6 00:00:28.039 --> 00:00:30.800 much for being here. We're excited to talk to you because you are the 7 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:36.320 author of the upcoming The Phoenix Chase. This kind of novelization of X Men 8 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:41.560 lore, which is not cannon but can be cannon to people, I guess, 9 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:45.000 but I still love all the novelizations. Yeah, no, it's it's 10 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:48.719 fun. It's it's so it's for a company called Aconide Books. They license 11 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:52.200 out from with Marvel. They do a bunch of Marvel books. They've done 12 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:57.479 Escardian themes, Heroine's Untold, a bunch of different and so one of their 13 00:00:57.560 --> 00:01:00.000 fanners is School of X and they do all these like X Men books, 14 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:07.879 but it's set during the Brian Bendus Penned era, so like twenty fifteen, 15 00:01:07.239 --> 00:01:12.040 like twenty third fourteen and a little earlier. And so it's cannon in the 16 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:17.319 sense that it sort of ties into that continuity, but it kind of it's 17 00:01:17.319 --> 00:01:19.719 sort of said in what they call it their own sort of parallel universe. 18 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:23.840 So it's like right next to six sixteen, it's six to eighteen or whatever, 19 00:01:25.159 --> 00:01:29.159 right close enough to be kissing cousins, but sort of far enough to 20 00:01:29.159 --> 00:01:32.280 be its own thing. Right, it's just basically an excuse so the editors 21 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:34.599 don't have to read all the books and be aware of that. It's like, 22 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:38.159 you know, we don't want to update all of our writers on all 23 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:41.840 the novels. Yeah. No, And for like a continuity guy like me, 24 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:44.120 it's great because I'm like, I want to tie it into all this 25 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:46.840 stuff, and they're like, you don't have to, like, but I 26 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:51.000 want to. I want to. Well I love that want and desire. 27 00:01:51.159 --> 00:01:55.400 Yeah. So your your Marvel School of X novel, The Phoenix Chase. 28 00:01:55.480 --> 00:02:00.000 It features kid Omega's coming out May second, twenty twenty three, swords literally 29 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:04.000 around the corner. It's available for pre order right now through anywhere you get 30 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:07.879 your books, comic shops. Actually it's in the Mark steamond previews, I 31 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:12.479 believe. So go and get your comic sort of get a bunch of copies 32 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:16.560 and yeah, and then it comes out May second, right before the Guardians 33 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:21.039 of the Galaxy movie and Free comic book Day. Oh really well timed. 34 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:24.639 Yeah, absolutely, But this is not your first Kid Omega story. It 35 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:30.919 is not. So Aconite did an anthology for the School of X Banner called 36 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:36.120 School of X and my first story, Kid Omega Faces. The music appeared 37 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:39.479 in that in that book, and it was a lot of fun. It's 38 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:46.360 kit Omega basically talking to a human and telling them about this crazy time travel 39 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:49.840 story that he and his pal Glob went on. And it's basically the two 40 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:53.240 of them bouncing around X Men history. But why Quentin, So you've done 41 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:58.120 this story and you've got Phoenix Chase what and you're wearing a Quinn Choir T 42 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:00.520 shirt. By the way, I'm a huge fan of the character. I 43 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:04.439 know there are people who are much larger fans than I am, Folks who 44 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:08.639 are Twitter accounts and Tumblers and you know Instagrams that are really devoted to Quentin 45 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:15.719 And I just think he's a fascinating character. I think he's got this really 46 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:22.960 great, like sarcastic trickster vibe that you see in Loki or you see in 47 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:25.599 a lot of those sort of characters, like anti hero type characters, and 48 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:30.039 like he's what it's great about him, especially in the era that I get 49 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:34.800 to write him, is that he is still kind of a jerk, but 50 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:38.039 starting to move into that phase where he's like wants to not be the character 51 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:43.000 how he first appeared. Right when he first appeared in the Grand Morriscen era, 52 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:46.199 he started off as you know, a regular mutant kid in the school, 53 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:49.560 and then you know, stuff happened to him and he became this real 54 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:52.280 sort of like I don't want to know vilan is the right word, but 55 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:55.120 rebel, I guess is the best is the best term. Anarchist, right, 56 00:03:55.599 --> 00:03:59.319 And you saw him a couple he did a couple of appearances where he 57 00:03:59.599 --> 00:04:01.159 like an in the beginning of Schism. He came out and he was a 58 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:06.240 guy that basically kicked off schism, and you saw a lot of that from 59 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:11.319 his earlier appearances where he was just kind of like Magneto was right, mutant 60 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:16.519 revolution, I don't really buy into everything that Charles Xavier's saying, and I'm 61 00:04:16.519 --> 00:04:23.079 gonna sort of up end the mutant patriarchy and matriarchy or whatever. Right, 62 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:29.399 And over time, as he appeared in the Vendus books, and also eventually 63 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:31.600 as the character got a little older and did at his stint in West Coast 64 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:36.240 of Venders and now obviously as you're seeing him in X Force right on the 65 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:43.319 correct area Krocoa era, he's definitely mature. Is maybe not the best word 66 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:46.920 for Quenton, because I don't know that Quentin will ever fully mature, but 67 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:50.959 he's come to terms with what it means to be responsible a little bit. 68 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:57.279 And so what's great about it for me in this sort of playground that I 69 00:04:57.360 --> 00:05:01.519 kind of get to monkey around with, he's definitely starting to figure out what 70 00:05:01.560 --> 00:05:06.920 it means to be responsible and what it means to not be selfish, and 71 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:12.680 what it means to really value other people. And so you saw a little 72 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:16.519 bit of that in the short story where he basically learned what it meant to 73 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:20.600 sacrifice, right, what sacrifice, personal sacrifice means. And that's what the 74 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:23.759 story was about, because, like I said, it was a time prowl 75 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:29.000 story. It was him following Magneto across time and looking at like the various 76 00:05:29.079 --> 00:05:32.800 iterations of Magneto you know, over X Men history, starting from like Brotherhood 77 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:39.000 of Evil Mutants, you know, him and Piro and Blob and the Toad 78 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:44.439 and all them, all the way up to Magneto and Cyclops creating the Exabered 79 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:47.319 Institute, right, So them being kind of the co headmasters, and you 80 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:49.759 know we you know, we tease different things, like you know, Secret 81 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:54.800 Wars was teased in their and BT's active vengeance and all the various touch points 82 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:59.199 that you really saw Magneto along the way, and it's Quinton basically seeing that, 83 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:01.319 like when you see mcgneto was right, The question really comes down to 84 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:05.839 it is which mcneto right? When was mcneto right? Was he right at 85 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:10.279 the beginning? Was he right when he started to become good? Was he 86 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:14.560 right? Durning the gym lillierro Like, when what's Mgneto right? And what 87 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:18.000 was he right about? And so that's really what Quinton's arc in that story 88 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:21.439 is about really coming to Rips what it means to basically look at his hero 89 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:26.079 because he's really admires Mgneto and say, if he can grow, why can't 90 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:29.759 I. We really took that and used it as sort of a catalyst for 91 00:06:29.879 --> 00:06:32.360 the story that everyone's going to read in May, which in the Phoenix Chase, 92 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:39.519 it's about Quinton really kind of maturing even further Earth and coming into his 93 00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:44.959 own as as a hero and learning what it means to not just really like 94 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:47.720 fire off from the gut and kind of shoot first and ask questions later, 95 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:53.959 but understand what it means to marry chaos with diplomacy a little bit. And 96 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:56.560 the great thing is that we get the probably gets to partner him with Alex 97 00:06:56.600 --> 00:07:00.000 Summers Havoc, who's a fantastic character, because you've got two characters really with 98 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:04.360 a lot of daddy issues, yes, and two characters, you know, 99 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:10.680 one who's super confident to his detriment and one who is not so confident to 100 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:15.040 his detriment, and looking at that sort of like teacher student relationship, how 101 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:17.240 the two of them really learn together from each other over the course of the 102 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:21.040 book. I will say that one of the elements of the book that really 103 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:26.160 excites me is that it features the Star Jammers, one of my favorite teams. 104 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:29.160 I love Cosmic x Men, so I need to know who is your 105 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:32.560 favorite Star Jammer and why. So I'm a Courser fan. There's sort of 106 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:36.759 love or hate with this family, but I'm a Summers family like I'm a 107 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:43.399 fan, So this book really touches except for Adomax, who are not really 108 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:46.639 sure how people sort of land on Adomax. But the key Summers family members 109 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:51.519 all really appeared in this book, so you get Scott, Alex, Corsair, 110 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:55.360 and even Mom Catherine's in the book for a little bit. And then 111 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:58.480 because we're going to tee this up in a little bit, but Vulcan also 112 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:03.079 plays a large part of the book table. I love that MESSI Summer's drama, 113 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:07.600 and I like Coursair because he's got the visual flamebuoyance. He's like Air 114 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:13.160 Force Space Pirate Captain Dad that is really just out there, kind of doing 115 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:18.000 his Errol Flynn meets Ton Solo, and just something about the character has always 116 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:22.319 really drawn I've always been drawn to that character. All the other ones are 117 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:24.319 really great too. I mean, I'm a big fan of the entire team. 118 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:28.680 Of course, there's definitely the draw for me. I also love Coursera, 119 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:33.320 so totally agree. On your Instagram, you posted the Marvel Legends wave 120 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:39.440 that's coming out the Chode build a figure and it's a wave that features Corsair, 121 00:08:39.559 --> 00:08:43.679 Kit Omega, Emma Frost, Chamber, Money Fang and Chode and you 122 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:48.240 said five out of seven characters are in your book. So which characters of 123 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:52.200 those are going to appear in the novel? Well, let's see if you 124 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:54.799 can guess. I mean, there's some obvious ones obviously. Yeah, So 125 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:58.879 I'm gonna say Chode, Coursair and kit Omega are obvious. Kit Omega obviously. 126 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:01.799 Yeah. I want to say I am a Frost just because I love 127 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:05.440 her so much and I really wanted to be in the book. Yeah, 128 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:09.440 I'm hoping. And then I'm gonna say it's Fang. I was hoping it's 129 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:13.240 Monee because why not. It would be so amazing to have money in there. 130 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:16.840 But it's Faying because we're in R space, right. So Emma, 131 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:20.200 Emma appears at the beginning, Um, you know, like like like I 132 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:24.840 said, it's set during that sort of Zebo Institute Vendis era where they're up 133 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:28.679 in that you know, Weapon X facility. Um, and so Emma's part 134 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:31.440 of the team. And so at the beginning you see a lot of those 135 00:09:31.519 --> 00:09:39.519 characters Cyclops and Emma and some others. And Fang appears at the end of 136 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:41.480 the book, which I don't want to give away too much, but yeah, 137 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:46.039 he's in there. Two of those figures already, so I'm excited. 138 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:48.840 I've pre ordered them as well. I'm so excited. Something I'm excited about 139 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:54.279 is video games. Because when you fired up the camera and I saw what 140 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:56.919 was behind you, I was filled with joy. You have an X Man 141 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:03.159 arcade cabinet, just like Handler dies. Me and him are obsessed with this. 142 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:05.799 We go head to head and battle it out every time I come over. 143 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:11.080 So is your X Men cabinet your social hub? Is this something that 144 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:15.399 you play a lot? And what is your character of choice in the game? 145 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:16.720 Yeah, so I'd be play it a lot. I play it a 146 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:20.519 couple times a week if I can social hub. I mean, like, 147 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:22.720 I have a family, so it's if my kids are playing, I'll play 148 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:26.039 with them. Sorry about this. I didn't actually get it for the X 149 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:30.399 Men. It comes with two other games, and I got it for the 150 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:33.600 Captain America game that it comes with, which I played in high school like 151 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:39.960 religiously, like every day, and I haven't played it in years. And 152 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:43.200 when our kid went up and makes the games came out and said, oh, 153 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:45.440 it's gonna be packaged with this other game, I'm like, that's the 154 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:48.039 game I want. I spent I want to say wow, about four or 155 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:54.399 five months in high school trying to beat that game just Sunday after Sunday, 156 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:56.679 just with a bag of quarters. And then we got the game and my 157 00:10:56.720 --> 00:11:01.000 son and I put it together together. I'm beat it in like Mets because 158 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:03.559 because it's free to play, it's fantastic. But I do love the X 159 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:07.720 Men game. And when we play, I'm Cyclops. It's the force beams. 160 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:11.840 He moves quick. It's a Summers person. You love Summers brothers. 161 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:16.360 I actually I'm I'm a big Colossus fan too, so sometimes I like I'll 162 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:20.039 juggle between the two of them. Um, I just don't love Colossus as 163 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:24.080 a character in the game. He doesn't move as fast. It's a little 164 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:28.639 bit more cumbersome. If I can't get to Cyclops, I'll take Peter very 165 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:31.399 well, very well. Well, I'm a nightcrawler, stand I love. 166 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:33.120 I love being Nightcrawler in that game. He's my favorite. In fact that 167 00:11:33.240 --> 00:11:35.480 I play other characters, I just don't under I don't even know what to 168 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:39.679 do. He's got a cool power like the like the criss cross teleport. 169 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:43.120 Asian and Wolverine's kind of got almost the same thing, but it's his arms, 170 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:46.600 right, So it's the criss cross, but instead of the teleporting, 171 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:50.200 it's his slash. So I'm all about Storm in this game, doesn't she 172 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:52.960 have that like knife? If I recall the ice pick? Come on, 173 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:56.720 you know I'm talking about it's the wand. Yes, a wand which never 174 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:01.440 had one, but in the video game she hasn't want Yes. I thought 175 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:05.840 it was a Mandela effect for half a second where everybody thought that that was 176 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:07.480 real, but it never existed and I just found out. Thank you for 177 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:13.240 confirming that it was a wand. Yes. Nobody likes Dazzler. Oh. 178 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:16.080 I know a lot of people that play with Dazzler that would refuse to touch 179 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:22.919 another character except for Dazzler. So I will say there's a lot of Dazzler 180 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:26.399 fans with that game that bought this cabinet specifically for this game. I think, 181 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:30.559 all right, I don't know that, but I'm glad. I'm glad 182 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:35.080 that they're Dazzler fans out in the world. We love that, So Dazzler 183 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:41.360 Army of fans. You can go at Neil on Twitter and stuff. I'm 184 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:45.519 not coming down on Dazzl. I like the character of Davil. I just 185 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:48.919 don't know people who use her in the game. Yes, well they will 186 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:56.759 make themselves now and I'm sure Dazzler, yes, absolutely. All right, 187 00:12:56.759 --> 00:12:58.200 well let's get into this issue. Well, first of all, I'm really 188 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:01.679 curious, so we're by the way, audience, we're going to be recapping 189 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:07.279 X Men Emperor Vulcan number one. Now, why did you choose this issue 190 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:11.039 for our show? As I may have mentioned, there's a lot of Marvel 191 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:15.679 and X Men continuity. In the Phoenix case, Quinton and Alex with the 192 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:18.919 star Jammers, they're out on a scavenger hunt to find an aspect of the 193 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:24.519 Phoenix, and so it's a big grand space adventure and it ties into a 194 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:28.559 couple parts of X Men continuity, and one of the larger parts is Vulcan's 195 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:31.559 reign as emperor. When you've got, you know, a book that really 196 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:37.279 is focusing on a Summer's father and son and talking about one letting the other 197 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:41.799 one down and self esteem issues across the family, you can't not talk about 198 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:46.879 Gabriel Summers, right, and how he really affected that family. And to 199 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:50.159 be honest, just to sort of spoil something, sorry, this book from 200 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:54.159 my perspective, or for these characters perspective, it's actually the first time that 201 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:58.639 Courser and Alex see each other after Corsett Courser comes back from the dead. 202 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:05.840 For those folks who don't know if a larger spoiler in the comics, Vulcan 203 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:11.279 killed his father. At one point, he kills Corsair and Alex then became 204 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:15.679 the captain of the Star Jambers. Havoc became the captain of the Star Jamdlers. 205 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:18.080 And so in the book you get kind of that first moment of the 206 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:22.639 two of them seeing each other after Corsair's resurrected, and they have a lot 207 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:24.000 to unpack, and there's a lot of that as part of the book. 208 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:28.120 And so one of the things they have to unpack is clearly Vulcan. And 209 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:31.399 without giving too much more away, a lot of what you see from a 210 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:37.120 like dynastic saga that is Emperor Vulcan. A lot of what you see really 211 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:41.120 ties in to some key parts of the Phoenix Chase. Well, let's set 212 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:45.960 the era this book. It came out in November of two thousand and seven. 213 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:52.039 The top film was American Gangster starring Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington. Have 214 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:54.600 either of you seen this film? Nope? No, this is a prime 215 00:14:54.639 --> 00:15:00.679 Oscar season. So I'm surprised that if the number one film of nove is 216 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:05.799 not registering at all, We're all also talking about how long ago is this? 217 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:11.120 Now we're sixteen years ago or something. It's crazy to think that two 218 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:13.720 thousand and seven was so long ago. Yeah, that's oh my lord, 219 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:18.200 it's quite a bit. Yeah, this is probably maybe a good field Lope, 220 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:22.559 Russell Crowe, Denzel Washington, good actors. Well, these songs you 221 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:26.200 may have heard of. The top song of November of two thousand and seven 222 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:31.159 is a tie. It is kiss Kiss by Chris Brown and t Pain and 223 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:37.279 Apologized by Timberland and one Republic. How's it going? She wants that love 224 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:41.320 e Devey lovey dovey kiss kiss kiss kiss something that I don't remember all the 225 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:46.759 words that I got. The other one? Is it too late to apologiz 226 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:52.799 You's it too late? Yea, yeah, that's it. That's it one, 227 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:56.840 that one I know, the first one not so much. Yeah, 228 00:15:56.879 --> 00:16:00.159 all right, well either way, songs of the era. All right, 229 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:06.279 let's let's dive into this. X Men Emperor Vulcan number one published November two 230 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:11.120 thousand and seven, written by Christopher Yost, art by Paco Diaz, titled 231 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:15.679 Gabriel Summers also known as Emperor Vulcan, and on the cover, it's a 232 00:16:15.679 --> 00:16:18.639 pretty dynamic cover. It's actually really caught my eye, so I love it. 233 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:22.960 Well. First of all, of course, we get this amazing giant 234 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:30.600 image of Vulcan and his missing eye, because I guess Deathbird took out one 235 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:33.320 of his eyes. I can't remember now. I read that Vulcan saga that 236 00:16:33.440 --> 00:16:37.559 the fall of Shear so long ago. We do you get to mention of 237 00:16:37.639 --> 00:16:41.159 the eye. I have to go sort of look again, and I don't 238 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:45.879 remember whether it was death Bird or Diken. Mm. Well, we'll get 239 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:48.200 to it. We'll get to it. I know who it is. I 240 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:49.960 totally remember now. Oh, but I don't want to spoil it because it's 241 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:55.240 kind of like a good artistic moment, you know, a power dynamic thing. 242 00:16:55.519 --> 00:17:00.240 So we'll get there. We will expose how his eye was slashed from 243 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:03.480 his face by the end of the day. Remember I remember who it is 244 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:07.599 now, Yep, yep, yep. We'll get there. And by the 245 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:10.960 way, that character who we will get to also was in the book. 246 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:15.880 Below we see Alex Summers leading the star Jammers minus Hepsiba. I noticed that 247 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:21.000 she was absent. I think she left the team after Coursier died for a 248 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:22.759 little while. Yes, she was living on Earth. That's right, she 249 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:26.000 was on the X Men. She lived in the X Mansion. Yep, 250 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:29.480 yep. I think post of Courser's death, she didn't want to be on 251 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:33.559 the Jammer and so they had a weird team at the time. Rachel Summers 252 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:37.200 was on the team. Who's in the book and this guy Corvis I don't 253 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:41.000 remember too much about. Yeah, Corbus, he is a she Are, 254 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:47.160 a member of the she Are who has the Phoenix Blade, which is a 255 00:17:47.559 --> 00:17:52.039 sword m du and dued with the power of Phoenix, or a portion of 256 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:53.640 the power of Phoenix, right, and they and they were dating at some 257 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:56.799 point, I remember, yes, and then and then Polaris is on the 258 00:17:56.799 --> 00:18:00.559 team and then chowed Raza and yes, that's the that's kind of like theah 259 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:04.160 the core team. A war Path was was in the story, but I 260 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:08.359 think he went back to Earth with Hepsiba and a couple other the characters of 261 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:11.839 the Fall of Sher Empire. But now we are guests in this core team 262 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:17.559 of the New Star Jammers. I actually loved all of their dynamic in this 263 00:18:17.599 --> 00:18:18.960 book. I can't wait to get into The only character we haven't mentioned is 264 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:25.440 Lelandra. She's also on the cover, correct, land I can't ever not 265 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:30.279 say it like that. All Right, we open and on the inside cover 266 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:37.400 we have our very first at blert. It says, ahoy, and there's 267 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:45.000 a picture of a girl fishing and it's for Old Spice. This was pre 268 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:48.920 the Old Spice guy, right, yeah, okay, pre the Old Spice 269 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:52.759 guy. It is a very sexy lady and she is fishing. There's a 270 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:57.480 bear behind her. It is I don't see her fishing in this outfit. 271 00:18:57.759 --> 00:19:04.880 I r l so definitely a fantasy here. She's wearing really high boots, 272 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:08.200 but they're not like waiters, you know, which are worn like pants with 273 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:14.039 overalls. They're kind of just buccaneer boot styles with Daisy Duke jeans. And 274 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:18.480 she's got a tied up shirt and a picnic basket. I guess for fish 275 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:22.000 to put in, is she supposed to be wearing the Old Spice? Or 276 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:26.240 B Is she supposed to be attractive by the Old Spice? Or c? 277 00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:30.319 Does the Old Spice have nothing to do with the ad? Is the bear 278 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:34.200 wearing the Old Spice? Right? Correct? The tagline says smell intriguing. 279 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:40.839 So maybe she's wearing it and it intrigues the bear and the fish around her. 280 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:44.079 Zoom into my bear face though, is that bear happy? Is he 281 00:19:44.160 --> 00:19:48.960 going? Oh? Is looking? Is not angry bear? No, it's 282 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:53.319 definitely looking like what's over there? Okay, she's wearing it. One month 283 00:19:53.400 --> 00:19:56.920 later, the old Spiceman was born, right exactly. It changed everything. 284 00:19:57.640 --> 00:20:00.640 Yeah, he's on a horse. On the first page, we have a 285 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:06.200 previously an X Man, which made me think immediately of the animated series. 286 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:11.680 Previously an x Men Vulcan, one of Charles Xavier's former students and brother to 287 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:15.200 the x Men, Havoc, was long thought dead, but recently he resurfaced. 288 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:21.000 Deeply traumatized by his childhood, he left Earth to revenge himself on the 289 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:23.920 Shear, the alien empire that killed his mother and enslaved him as a boy, 290 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:27.880 and along the way he fell in love with the princess turned criminal outcast 291 00:20:29.119 --> 00:20:33.440 Deathbird. Together they drove Lelandra, a Deathbird's sister and the Empress of the 292 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:37.720 Shear, from her throne. Havoc and the fellow x Men Polaris and Marvel 293 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:44.039 Girl fought alongside the star Jammers and Havoc's father Corsair to prevent this and avoid 294 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:48.200 a civil war, but ultimately Vulcan killed his father and wed Deathbird. In 295 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:52.160 so doing, he cemented his position as the leader of the Shear and ushered 296 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:56.519 in a new age of tyranny. Now the star Jammers, led by Havoc, 297 00:20:56.559 --> 00:21:00.480 have joined forces with Landra's rebels to put an end to the mad reign 298 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:07.440 of Emperor Vulcan and then pan down to the Star Destroyer exactly. I was 299 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:11.079 gonna say, it feels like that text, that that scrolling text of Star 300 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:15.599 Wars. That's why I'm paired my cabinets here, my X Men and my 301 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:19.599 Star Wars cabinet. I love it. I love it. Yes, So 302 00:21:19.720 --> 00:21:25.480 yeah, are we opened on a scene of war. We see this alien 303 00:21:25.559 --> 00:21:30.759 race and they're saying that there's a development with the sher and so they say 304 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:33.960 the time has come. These are characters who will become more important to the 305 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:37.839 rest of the series. They become the antagonists. Guy or Tall. I 306 00:21:37.880 --> 00:21:41.119 think, oh, yes, okay, yeah, so this is just the 307 00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:44.000 precursor to the end of the issue. Got it. This is sort of 308 00:21:44.039 --> 00:21:48.119 like the flashback to sort of what happened to them and kind of setting up 309 00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:51.160 their story a little bit. Yeah, and the name of the race is 310 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:55.079 something really interesting, which we will reveal at the end, because I was 311 00:21:55.160 --> 00:21:57.839 just like, what, that's what your name means, like for real, 312 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:03.160 So it's tay Tuned Centers for that excitement too. These creatures, they kind 313 00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:08.680 of look almost reptilian, amphibious, kind of like a starfish but kind of 314 00:22:08.759 --> 00:22:14.079 black. I don't know, what would you describe these aliens, like like 315 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:17.400 a bug vibe from them, like, oh yeah, like a beetle. 316 00:22:17.880 --> 00:22:21.319 Yeah, kind Yeah, they reminded me a lot of I don't know if 317 00:22:21.359 --> 00:22:25.680 y'all are Hulk fans, but from like World War Hulk, Like the character 318 00:22:25.799 --> 00:22:30.559 Meek is raised a little bit got that kind of like sort of tadpoleis sort 319 00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:33.880 of bug kind of feel to it. Well, they're not the only ones 320 00:22:33.920 --> 00:22:38.640 that are in space. We also have some she Are empirere soldiers in their 321 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:48.960 ship and they're detecting a strong electromagnetic field, but they can't detect the source. 322 00:22:48.839 --> 00:22:52.920 And then he realizes, you know, the captain who has fabulous feather 323 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:56.680 hair. By the way, I love the Shear Race for this feather hair. 324 00:22:56.799 --> 00:22:59.960 I want to grab it off their head. And say put it on 325 00:23:00.160 --> 00:23:03.440 my head, let me fly around with that. It's cool. But anyway, 326 00:23:03.559 --> 00:23:07.200 this she are guy, he's just like electromagnetic god preserve. It's a 327 00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:12.079 trap all warbirds to condition black, which I mean, I guess that's code 328 00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:17.039 red in Star Trek speak. Those star Jammers are here, and the star 329 00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:19.839 Jammers appear through a portal in space and guess who appears on their screen. 330 00:23:19.920 --> 00:23:26.359 It's Choed. She are warbirds. You should be wise to surrender now never 331 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:32.039 Chode shall put you into the not wise category. Then yeah, and then 332 00:23:32.079 --> 00:23:34.440 on the next page we have this and dynamic team shot. Oh it looks 333 00:23:34.440 --> 00:23:38.279 so good. It says star Jammers take them down. Neil, what do 334 00:23:38.279 --> 00:23:41.839 you think about this page? There's not much really I can say. But 335 00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:45.640 then there's the team. They're They're fantastic. And it's weird because I spent 336 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:52.440 so much time really diving into like Alex Summers as a character, and he's 337 00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:53.920 got all these self esteem issues, and I just that's one of the things 338 00:23:53.960 --> 00:23:56.720 I love about this issue is that he keeps saying that he does, but 339 00:23:56.880 --> 00:24:00.960 you see him here and it's like he's like natural born leader. He's taken 340 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:04.079 over. He's ready he's ready to go, and I just don't get it. 341 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:07.680 I don't get it, and I think most of the characters around him 342 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:11.440 don't. And you see a lot of that kind of discussed in not just 343 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:15.440 this issue, but the series itself. I will say that Corvus, who 344 00:24:15.559 --> 00:24:18.839 is the sheer guy with a big sword, he has definitely inspired me for 345 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:22.039 some cosplay looks because I was like, ooh, I would I love a 346 00:24:22.039 --> 00:24:26.119 big anime sword. So I was really excited to see Corvus in this team. 347 00:24:26.759 --> 00:24:30.359 And of course we got to talk about Polaris in that classic look. 348 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:36.400 I love this look. She steals the entire issue. I'm sorry, but 349 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:41.559 to me, this whole issue stars Polaris Is. Look look at that braid 350 00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:47.240 in her hair, that headpieces on point. As far as costume construction, 351 00:24:47.279 --> 00:24:49.400 I can't see how anybody in real life would be able to fight or do 352 00:24:49.480 --> 00:24:53.799 any battle in this. But she's looking fierce, bab before strategy. I 353 00:24:53.799 --> 00:25:00.559 don't know, Yore practicality all right, you just you just coined a new 354 00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:03.160 slogan. I'm going to see you on a T shirt in a week. 355 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:08.119 I love Havocs look because it's like Tron. It reminds me of a Tron 356 00:25:08.440 --> 00:25:14.400 light cycle suit. It does I was just about to say that, yes, 357 00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:18.480 and he is serving us Tron totally. I'm I'm always kind of torn 358 00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:22.599 about this, this era of Havoc with this costume. I'm a big fan 359 00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:26.119 of the classic right. I like the giant rings on his head, the 360 00:25:26.279 --> 00:25:30.720 simple black suit with the you know, with the concentric circles. I'm a 361 00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:36.799 big fan of classic Havoc costume. But there's something about Tron Havoc that is 362 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:41.559 kind of compelling. I don't know what it is. So I like the 363 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:45.400 costume, but I still kind of wish he was just always wearing that simple 364 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:49.559 black with the just huge rings. I love this next kind of area of 365 00:25:49.599 --> 00:25:55.480 banter with the team. So Havoc says, remember we need the captain alive, 366 00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:59.480 to which Lorna replies, I'm pretty sure he was talking to you, 367 00:25:59.599 --> 00:26:04.279 Rachel I stopping crazy months ago, which of course is a play on the 368 00:26:04.319 --> 00:26:10.200 fact that Polaris has always dealt with, you know, mental health issues, 369 00:26:10.279 --> 00:26:14.039 and she's just she gets too powerful, So you know, that was a 370 00:26:14.039 --> 00:26:18.200 trope always. You know, once women characters get too powerful, they just 371 00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:22.039 turned crazy. And I'm so glad they stepped away from that, and they're 372 00:26:22.079 --> 00:26:25.200 just allowing her to be a badass in current comics. But then it goes 373 00:26:25.240 --> 00:26:27.359 to Rachel, and Rachel says, I'll do my best, no promises. 374 00:26:27.400 --> 00:26:30.920 But Corvus's line is my favorite. You X men talk far too much in 375 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:38.319 battle. I love it. I want them to talk even more more banter. 376 00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:44.640 Oh, he looks so cool. I'm so inspired to make that outfit. 377 00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:48.559 Something about a giant sword. It's just something about Final Fantasy character. 378 00:26:48.799 --> 00:26:52.240 I just and I love Final Fantasy. So I'm going to disagree with you 379 00:26:52.319 --> 00:26:55.599 here, Chandler. I have a strong opinion. I just feel as if 380 00:26:55.759 --> 00:27:00.960 this guy looks like he is Wolverine escaped from the Kingdom Heart. Yes, 381 00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:06.359 he's definitely, Yes, a Kingdom Hearts Wolverine. Accurate assessment. Well, 382 00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:07.880 I was kind of going through the list of star jammers to bring into the 383 00:27:07.880 --> 00:27:11.519 book. He was one I didn't dig in too much. Something I just 384 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:15.160 don't like the character. I don't know what it is. It's just me. 385 00:27:15.319 --> 00:27:18.599 Maybe he is a little shallow I find in the in the in the 386 00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:22.759 books, you don't really get deep with him. He just is a powerful 387 00:27:22.920 --> 00:27:26.359 sword. Wheelder who was dating Rachel. Yeah, I'm also a big fan 388 00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:32.079 of Star Star Jammers Classic, so I focus a little bit more on on 389 00:27:32.119 --> 00:27:34.519 those those characters. And I brought Hips of A back so oh good. 390 00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:38.400 I was gonna say that she's missing in this because you know she's such a 391 00:27:38.440 --> 00:27:41.559 core team member. Well, my book has corsairs, so she came back. 392 00:27:42.039 --> 00:27:48.720 They overcome the team. They turn on the TV and Lelandra and the 393 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:55.680 General Cardom. They convinced the Armada that they need to turn themselves over to 394 00:27:55.720 --> 00:28:00.359 the resistance and fight Emperor Vulcan. Now on the next page, we have 395 00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:03.759 our next it's got milk. Oh, this is a fun one. Oh 396 00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:08.880 got milk. So classic, so two thousand and seven. It has massi 397 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:14.920 Oka. I'll read what it says. It says Massioka from Heroes, right, 398 00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:18.680 correct, he played Hero on Heroes. It says mined by massi body 399 00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:23.559 by milk, my hero think hard. It's milk. Some studies suggest teens 400 00:28:23.559 --> 00:28:27.079 who choose it instead of sugary drinks tend to be leaner. Plus, the 401 00:28:27.079 --> 00:28:30.480 protein helps build muscle, So grab a glass. Then you can change the 402 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:33.440 future too. Got milk, And that's how old this book is. Hero's 403 00:28:33.559 --> 00:28:38.079 was still on and popular at the time, Save the Cheerleader and Save the 404 00:28:38.119 --> 00:28:44.680 World. This is super timely that he's in this book because this book came 405 00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:48.400 out right around the time I went to San Diego Comic Con for the first 406 00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:53.119 time. I went to San Diego Comic Con that summer after this issue dropped, 407 00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:59.240 and I met Massioka. I happened to be at some San Diego Comic 408 00:28:59.240 --> 00:29:03.000 Con party and was sort of standing with all the comics folks and feeling like 409 00:29:03.359 --> 00:29:07.400 a little like impository. But I had a few in me and said, 410 00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:12.079 I'm gonna go talk to some people. And at the time, my wife 411 00:29:12.119 --> 00:29:17.079 was pregnant with our first child, and she was here in New York, 412 00:29:17.599 --> 00:29:22.119 and it's got to be late at night, Friday night or Saturday night, 413 00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:25.640 one of them, you know whatever. And I decide I'm gonna go talk 414 00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:29.640 to Massioca because if we watch Heroes and I'm going to have him call my 415 00:29:29.680 --> 00:29:33.839 wife. And so I kind of sidle up to Massioca with that like drunk 416 00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:37.400 courage, and I'm like, hey, Massie, you don't know me. 417 00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:41.759 I don't really know you. I love your show. My wife we watched 418 00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:45.039 it together. She's back home in New York. Would you do me a 419 00:29:45.079 --> 00:29:47.079 favorite and just call it? And she's pregnant with our kid, would you 420 00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:51.319 mind calling her and saying hi? And he was like sure. So I 421 00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:52.359 call my wife up on the phone. It's got to be two in the 422 00:29:52.359 --> 00:29:56.119 morning here in New York. I wake her up and I'm like, hey, 423 00:29:56.119 --> 00:29:57.240 listen, I have someone who wants to talk to you. And he's 424 00:29:57.319 --> 00:29:59.960 very nice. Area he talks to her. If minute, you know, 425 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:02.400 a couple of minutes, I hope everything goes well. You know, you're 426 00:30:02.440 --> 00:30:04.960 grabbing a kid, your husband's a nice guy, blah blah blah blah blah. 427 00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:08.559 And that's it. The conversation ends. I said, talk to you 428 00:30:08.599 --> 00:30:11.680 tomorrow, go back, go back to sleep. I say thanks to him, 429 00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:15.559 and I walk away. That's it. And then later on my way 430 00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:18.680 back to the hotel, I actually had a text for my wife saying who 431 00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:22.759 the hell was that? And I'm like, that was Massioka from Heroes and 432 00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:25.920 She's like, why don't you just say that. I would have said more 433 00:30:25.920 --> 00:30:29.279 to him, but it was it was like a fun thing that happens. 434 00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:33.799 One year later, I'm back at San Diego Comic Con and I'm at a 435 00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:38.039 completely different party and I'm online for the bar and three people ahead of me 436 00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:41.720 as Massioka, and I'm like, what the hell, and I kind of 437 00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:44.880 lean over. I'm like, listen, you probably don't remember this, but 438 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:47.599 last year, and I told him the whole story. I just wanted to 439 00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:51.839 let you know we had a boy. He's great, thank you so much. 440 00:30:51.880 --> 00:30:55.000 And he kind of looked at me like this, like very frightened person. 441 00:30:55.119 --> 00:30:57.480 And I'm glad to hear that and kind of quickly left the bar of 442 00:30:57.559 --> 00:31:03.599 mine. And that is my massi Oka story. I love it. I 443 00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:07.960 love it. Yeah, I've met massi I've worked on the show Heroes actually, 444 00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:14.480 so it's really crazy to see an ad with a hero star because it 445 00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:18.440 brings back so many memories. It was my first big job moving to Los 446 00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:22.319 Angeles. I worked on season one, two, and three of the show. 447 00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:27.640 And I love your story because I did that to a friend once with 448 00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:33.319 Jerry O'Connell and I was on a set that I was working on and he 449 00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:36.640 was one of the actors and I had him call my friend and she to 450 00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:38.359 this days, she's just like that was one of the best moments ever because 451 00:31:38.440 --> 00:31:41.880 I unlike you. I said, hey, I've got Jerry O'Connell here that 452 00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:45.240 wants to talk to you, and he goes, hey, it's Jerry O'Connell 453 00:31:45.799 --> 00:31:48.960 anyways, right, So I think I think the fact that I had a 454 00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:52.880 couple of drinks in me I forgot to tell her who it was. And 455 00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:55.160 I was just like, oh, Chilo, it is by his voice, 456 00:31:55.680 --> 00:32:00.720 ran that literally didn't happen. It's so confused. She's like, oh, 457 00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:04.720 it's nice to night, thank you. Yes, I'm pregnant. Think really 458 00:32:04.720 --> 00:32:08.519 exactly, it's just a random person at comic con. I'm what a fun 459 00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:14.960 little trip down memory lane. Oh my gosh. We open this new scene 460 00:32:15.319 --> 00:32:20.079 with this she Are warrior. He is trying to hold up it looks like 461 00:32:20.119 --> 00:32:22.960 a spear of some sort and he says death to the False Emperor, Death 462 00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:29.440 to the WHOA. Okay, this is not good because this soldier is being 463 00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:35.000 blasted at full force and he's disintegrating into a skeleton, and Vulcan is standing 464 00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:37.720 there when we fist full of power and he says, I'll have to start 465 00:32:37.799 --> 00:32:42.079 over. I couldn't hear over the screaming. Oh my gosh, look at 466 00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:45.400 that skull on the bottom of the floor. Just the smoke coming out of 467 00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:49.759 its eye. This guy he means business. This guy's like, no joke, 468 00:32:50.200 --> 00:32:52.279 no joke. Brothers. They are they are a laugh riot, those 469 00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:57.039 Summers brothers. Well, yes, So he is in the throne room, 470 00:32:57.119 --> 00:33:00.200 he's holding court, and he wants to know whether they're his people like him 471 00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:04.920 or not. He said, did you just say that I wasn't loved by 472 00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:08.559 the r people Iraqi? My lord folk, and I would not dishonor you 473 00:33:08.599 --> 00:33:12.359 by attempted to steve you, even if it meant my life. This year 474 00:33:12.440 --> 00:33:16.039 empire is tearing itself apart. And then he goes on to explain that there's 475 00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:22.400 some people that are still supporting him because he's married to a death Bird and 476 00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:25.400 she's kind of in the faan, so they're kind of like art right, 477 00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:30.279 But most everybody else is just like, no, this guy is a pretender. 478 00:33:30.480 --> 00:33:32.359 This guy is not even fit to be on the throne. This guy 479 00:33:32.519 --> 00:33:36.759 is not cool. What are you doing? This is one of the things 480 00:33:36.759 --> 00:33:38.279 that really kind of drew me to the Shire, or that drew me to 481 00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:43.160 this series, is that it's Game of Throne's X Men style. I mean, 482 00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:45.559 it's definitely family stabbing each other in the back. I mean, you've 483 00:33:45.599 --> 00:33:50.160 got a guy who took over to the throne by killing the former emperor and 484 00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:52.400 then marrying a sister, and then his and the other sister is trying to 485 00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:55.160 get the throne back from If you're a fan of like Game of Throne in 486 00:33:55.200 --> 00:34:00.079 Succession, in any of those shows where you've got like family battles, you 487 00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:01.759 know when in Fighting Ember of Vulcan is for you. Yeah, I know, 488 00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:05.640 it's it's great, and the whole fall if she are leading up to 489 00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:08.320 it's so good. So yeah, listeners, if you have not gone back 490 00:34:08.360 --> 00:34:12.159 to listen to that or read that era, you definitely should. It's a 491 00:34:12.199 --> 00:34:15.920 lot of fun. Can we talk about the ferose fashion on Deathbird? This 492 00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:20.920 outfit she is wearing is this should be at the how fire Gala? This 493 00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:23.360 is how fire Galla worthy to me. Starting from the bottom, it looks 494 00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:28.920 like she's got these kind of feathered knee high boots, and then she's got 495 00:34:28.960 --> 00:34:34.440 this body suit that comes up to her waist with a deep V. And 496 00:34:34.480 --> 00:34:43.559 then she has basically a metal looking braw boostier thing but with her abdomen showing. 497 00:34:43.679 --> 00:34:50.519 And then she has a shoulder shrug thing that turns into these feathery sleeves 498 00:34:50.519 --> 00:34:53.400 that droop down, and then of course her epic headgear. Oh, those 499 00:34:53.400 --> 00:34:57.079 sleeves are the best. Though. This is one of my top looks. 500 00:34:57.119 --> 00:35:00.880 I think I love the look. I can tell the artists really loves to 501 00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:05.199 draw women, Like all the women look fantastic, the men look okay. 502 00:35:05.400 --> 00:35:08.960 It's like I can tell that this artist, Paco Diaz, he loves to 503 00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:13.480 draw himself a lady. Speaking of men, guess who's in the in the 504 00:35:13.559 --> 00:35:16.199 room? Gladiator. First time I ever saw a Gladiator, I'll never forget 505 00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:22.639 X in the animated series just seared into my memory totally. Anytime I see 506 00:35:22.679 --> 00:35:28.440 him just throwing backs across the ocean, like, You're like, how is 507 00:35:28.440 --> 00:35:30.440 that possible? You've been a character of this. He's been around for a 508 00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:34.480 long time. I mean, this is a guy. He was in Contest, 509 00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:37.239 the Champions, he was in everything. And when you think about just 510 00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:45.000 like that whole X Men cosmic like scene, you can't talk about it without 511 00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:49.039 Gladiator, without the Imperial Guard. Well, they don't like what they hear 512 00:35:49.199 --> 00:35:54.960 from this rocky guy. They don't want to hear this slander, that this 513 00:35:55.079 --> 00:36:00.960 blasphemy that the people don't love vulcan, so death Bird takes a claw to 514 00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:07.679 his face and scripts him across the mouth. How he I know, she 515 00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:10.599 says, I think the Chancellor is a politician who likes to play mind games, 516 00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:15.119 but he would do well to remember that you are emperor now, whether 517 00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:19.119 the Secret Order likes it or not. And then he wants to hear about 518 00:36:19.159 --> 00:36:22.480 why his brother and the star Jammers are not dead yet, and we cut 519 00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:30.719 to another spot in R space where the star Jammer and Armada of Rebel. 520 00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:35.760 You know, this is all the Star Wars kind of reference. They're talking 521 00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:39.159 about cutting off supply lines, crippling the empire, all the strategy, and 522 00:36:39.199 --> 00:36:43.960 everybody's like, hey, Alex is kind of like really into this. He's 523 00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:46.840 really good at leading. Employers is like, just give him a minute. 524 00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:54.239 He's going he's going to going to ruin it. At some point, m 525 00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:58.480 they say that, wow, you're really good at strategy, and he's like, 526 00:36:58.519 --> 00:37:01.000 no, that's my brother and then my father. They're born leaders, 527 00:37:01.039 --> 00:37:08.639 not me. And Polaris has like told you, Joe and Rachel totally denounces 528 00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:15.360 Kingdom. Hearts Wolverine escape. She's all like no, no, no, 529 00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:17.440 no, yeah, no longer dating. But then they end up landing on 530 00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:24.199 a planet and Havoc and Corvus are having a chat and he Corvius wants to 531 00:37:24.239 --> 00:37:30.519 know how to get back with Rachel and Havoc's advices. She likes cheeseburgers m 532 00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:35.719 and we cut to the bar where Rachel is using her psychic powers to stack 533 00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:38.840 up some shot classes because she's kind of bored, and she says, man, 534 00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:44.519 I could go for a cheeseburger and my sweatpants. I missed my sweatpants. 535 00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:51.280 I love her. That's like all the time, I want sweatpants. 536 00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:57.159 Back in two thousand and seven, alien bar like this that was super stylized. 537 00:37:57.599 --> 00:38:00.920 That's like a dream, that's like something that you would never see. 538 00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:02.920 It was so fantastical. But now it's like, all right, well, 539 00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:07.840 we have one of these in Disneyland, and there's another one on Hollywood Boulevard 540 00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:10.920 called scumm and Villany Cantina, which is really cool. I highly recommended if 541 00:38:10.920 --> 00:38:14.960 you're in the Hollywood area. We've got a couple of cool bar scenes in 542 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:19.719 the book, and one of the most fun parts of kind of writing those 543 00:38:19.719 --> 00:38:23.239 scenes was getting to spend a lot of time like looking up species of Marvel 544 00:38:23.320 --> 00:38:29.159 aliens and populating the bars with like old school aliens from like the seventies and 545 00:38:29.199 --> 00:38:32.400 the eighties and even a couple from the nineties, and just kind of naming 546 00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:37.679 as many alien races as I could. And I actually thought a lot of 547 00:38:37.719 --> 00:38:39.960 them were not going to fly because you know, it's two esoteric ords. 548 00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:43.840 You know, people won't know, but they're all in there. I love 549 00:38:43.880 --> 00:38:47.119 it. What was your favorite alien race that you just discover that you're like, 550 00:38:47.159 --> 00:38:51.480 whoa, this is like really funny and or weird. This is awesome. 551 00:38:51.519 --> 00:38:53.320 I'm putting it in. I wasn't as weird as I could be, 552 00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:58.920 I'll be honest with you. A lot of it was recognizable aliens like xan 553 00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:02.239 Darians and pop up the ends, like the bar owner is like a pop 554 00:39:02.320 --> 00:39:05.360 up the end, which was actually kind of fun. It was like the 555 00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:08.719 Impossible Man, that character from The Fantastic Four. It's like a shape shifter. 556 00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:14.199 My favorite reference though, is there's a lot of like planets and stuff 557 00:39:14.199 --> 00:39:16.519 that kind of get thrown around, and at one point of Corsair references the 558 00:39:16.559 --> 00:39:22.960 planet Seagroom seven, which is a planet. There's a Hercules mini series that 559 00:39:23.039 --> 00:39:28.039 Bob Layton did way back in the early eighties. I want to say where 560 00:39:28.159 --> 00:39:30.679 the last issue, he goes to this planet Seagroom seven, where it's like 561 00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:35.679 the best distillers in the universe. They make the best drinks in the universe, 562 00:39:35.679 --> 00:39:39.760 and basically they give him like this really powerful drink that he uses to 563 00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:44.960 like get blacktus somewhat drunk. And so I've always loved that issue and I've 564 00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:49.320 loved that planet, and they actually referenced it in an episode of modoc on 565 00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:53.280 Hulu, one of the episodes actually using those characters in it, which is 566 00:39:53.320 --> 00:39:57.360 really a lot of fun. So I got to like reference that planet, 567 00:39:57.400 --> 00:40:00.719 which was fantastic. I was really happy to kind throw that in there. 568 00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:05.199 Back with Polaris and Rachel, Rachel is on the hunt for information to find 569 00:40:05.239 --> 00:40:10.599 out what part of the Shier Empire murdered her family, and she found out 570 00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:15.320 that there is a secret Order within the Shire Empire and she is going to 571 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:20.039 find them after they take down Vulcan, and she is going to kill them. 572 00:40:20.760 --> 00:40:22.239 I'm really hungry because you said secret order, and I thought in and 573 00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:25.920 out secret Order menu, Rachel Summers would be very happy to go have on 574 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:30.079 with you as long as you bring out Oh yeah, I'm into it. 575 00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:32.079 Me and Rachel, we need to go on a date. So back at 576 00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:38.679 Chandelar. What a beautiful city with you know, these towers that are huge, 577 00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:43.280 many moons are in the sky as well, and lots of ships. 578 00:40:43.679 --> 00:40:47.519 There's all sorts of citizens walking around talking about how they do not like the 579 00:40:47.559 --> 00:40:53.239 current emperor. This is the gossip moment, when he gets to hear what's 580 00:40:53.280 --> 00:40:58.480 being said about him around town. And this one like older she are dude, 581 00:40:58.480 --> 00:41:01.840 He's like I heard he was a slave that de Ken took him in 582 00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:09.360 and was betrayed, murdered, all that piping tea another Arthur mutant like Lelandra's 583 00:41:09.400 --> 00:41:15.320 shame Xavier. And then he continues on they should take him out and shoot 584 00:41:15.400 --> 00:41:19.559 him in the head before he destroys the empire. There must be a true 585 00:41:19.639 --> 00:41:23.840 Sheer on the throne. This hooded figure looks up and sees a giant screen, 586 00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:30.639 a big JumboTron, and it's vulcan looking on majestic. It says kill 587 00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:36.440 the false emperor in the Shire language. Yes, he's pulling a princess jasmine. 588 00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:37.719 You know, he has escaped the palace. He doesn't want to be 589 00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:42.559 a princess anymore, and he puts up his hood and just so she could 590 00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:45.239 be amongst the street urchins and learn how to how to be out of the 591 00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:51.840 palace. So how do you say death Birds name cal c Kelies? I 592 00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:54.519 always say Kelisi, which is not it? This is like Kelsey, Like 593 00:41:54.719 --> 00:42:02.719 oh, it's just like totally like like generic Kelsey Kelsey and just spelled so 594 00:42:02.840 --> 00:42:08.079 special. Yeah. And she's in her in her robe too because she doesn't 595 00:42:08.079 --> 00:42:12.079 want to be recognized. And she's all like, the Emperor should not travel 596 00:42:12.079 --> 00:42:15.920 without an imperial guard escort. And he's all like, they are just as 597 00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:19.639 likely to try and kill me as anyone else. You're the true king. 598 00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:23.679 You got this, you came, you conquered, you married me. You 599 00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:27.400 know, I believe in you. And she goes, now, let's go 600 00:42:27.480 --> 00:42:30.320 kill some star chambers. Yeah, they get to make out too. It's 601 00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:36.440 very romantic. It's like super villainy romantic. You know, you asked why 602 00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:39.239 I picked this issue. A lot of this like byplay between Vulcan and Death 603 00:42:39.239 --> 00:42:45.119 Bird. A lot of the political drama definitely comes into play in the novel. 604 00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:51.559 There's a lot of what has been set here that gets kind of called 605 00:42:51.559 --> 00:42:54.920 back to, you know, Bulcans sort of self esteem issues, Alex's self 606 00:42:55.000 --> 00:43:00.559 esteem issues, their relationship Bulkan and Deathbird relationship. A lot of that is 607 00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:04.920 really what helps power, especially in the back half of the novel. Well, 608 00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:08.599 now we're back in space in a place that might tickle. Why because 609 00:43:08.599 --> 00:43:17.960 it's called feathers Edge. Eh eh okay. Just see, Polaris is cloaking 610 00:43:19.199 --> 00:43:23.960 the ship with her amazing powers. She is giving all her might and effort 611 00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:30.440 and flair aboard the ship and covering everybody in some sort of electro magnetic field. 612 00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:37.559 The approach the feathers Edge space station and there's a bree bree, bree, 613 00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:44.280 and there is a huge explosion. There's incoming captain the energy signature. 614 00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:47.079 The she are are here, lots of them, and they find out that 615 00:43:47.119 --> 00:43:52.960 Emperor Vulcan has arrived with his armada. They knew Darjammers were going to attack 616 00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:58.559 the station. Vulcan says, my empire spies are good. Kill the X 617 00:43:58.599 --> 00:44:02.440 men, kill Kardoom and Lelandra, the others will fall in line. And 618 00:44:02.519 --> 00:44:07.800 we have Gladiator with his arms folded in the foreground and we get a close 619 00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:14.360 up on Vulcan's lips and he says now and then all of a sudden explosions. 620 00:44:14.599 --> 00:44:17.639 Boom boom, ka ka boom. The star Jammers spaceship is trying to 621 00:44:17.639 --> 00:44:23.199 fly through all of these explosions in space, and Havoc is shouting evasive maneuvers. 622 00:44:23.239 --> 00:44:28.800 This is definitely like one of those epic Star Wars Star Trek final battles 623 00:44:28.920 --> 00:44:31.280 in the air, throwing a little bit of Starship troopers in there. This 624 00:44:31.400 --> 00:44:35.840 is an epic space battle. Yes, at the end of issue one, 625 00:44:36.119 --> 00:44:38.679 right m I know, they really brought it. And just when you think 626 00:44:38.719 --> 00:44:40.480 like, there's what, how are they going to get out of this? 627 00:44:40.519 --> 00:44:49.559 How's Lelandra and the star Jammer is going to escape, when suddenly rooom kaboom, 628 00:44:49.599 --> 00:44:55.039 there's a massive explosion on Vulcan ship and everything explodes and we see that 629 00:44:55.079 --> 00:45:01.280 it is surrounded by a giant army of bug looking ships. Oh my gosh, 630 00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:05.760 look at all those ships in there. And some of those ships look 631 00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:12.320 like beetle bugs, they look like zwords, they look like these anthropomorphic ships. 632 00:45:12.519 --> 00:45:15.079 Oh. I love how the sheer ships are the shaped like their hair. 633 00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:17.880 They look like the feathers. They look like the feathers, feather shape 634 00:45:17.920 --> 00:45:22.960 of their head and their hair. That's funny and Vulcan isn't a ship talking 635 00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:25.440 to glad Eaters, and he says, or should we kill them all? 636 00:45:25.920 --> 00:45:30.679 Tell me, glad Eater, you said before that the sire who defected had 637 00:45:30.679 --> 00:45:35.719 no honor? Would you kill them all? I serve Emperor. It is 638 00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:38.840 not my place to decide. And when you took my eye, was that 639 00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:46.519 service or was that your decision? Oh there's the tea right there, everybody, 640 00:45:46.599 --> 00:45:52.199 Gladiator, Gladiator himself is the one that took Vulcan's eye. Throw Yeah, 641 00:45:52.360 --> 00:46:00.000 totally, his own bodyguard. So much, so much political craziness, 642 00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:05.239 but yeah, it's it's our pal glad to eat. So Lelandra and Akari 643 00:46:05.519 --> 00:46:07.960 and Polaris everybody. They are in shock. They're like, what what, 644 00:46:07.960 --> 00:46:13.599 what does happened? Dear God? And they said that they are getting this 645 00:46:13.679 --> 00:46:19.079 message in and they are finding out that they appeared to be calling themselves the 646 00:46:19.159 --> 00:46:23.280 sky are tall. So Choate says, hmm, they appear to be calling 647 00:46:23.320 --> 00:46:29.719 themselves that she are tall, bold Choice and Wolverine kingdom. Hearts escape. 648 00:46:29.559 --> 00:46:34.360 He says, she are tall, but that means Rachel's comes in. She 649 00:46:34.400 --> 00:46:38.360 says death to the she are the name of their race means death to the 650 00:46:38.519 --> 00:46:50.000 she are close up on Havoc's eyeballs. Mmmm to be can continue their whole 651 00:46:50.519 --> 00:46:55.039 race? You guys is named after killing the she are people. Yes, 652 00:46:55.400 --> 00:47:00.960 wow, that's that's some dedication there. But she are a kind of bastards, 653 00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:05.519 I will say. I agree. They are jerks. They're horrible, 654 00:47:05.559 --> 00:47:09.239 They are the Lanisters. One of the things that I thought was super fascinating 655 00:47:09.239 --> 00:47:12.800 when I was doing a lot of the research is that one of the stories 656 00:47:12.840 --> 00:47:16.880 before this was the Sheer basically coming to Earth and killing all of Jean Brady's 657 00:47:16.920 --> 00:47:22.960 family, right, like eliminating that bloodline except for Rachel, yes, her 658 00:47:23.039 --> 00:47:28.599 parents everything. Yeah, yeah, And like how can you make these guys 659 00:47:28.719 --> 00:47:32.239 allies after that? Right? They came and killed an entire lineage like of 660 00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:36.480 humans, mutants and you know what have you. What I love about the 661 00:47:36.519 --> 00:47:38.639 fact is that Rachel is the one to say that at the end, because 662 00:47:39.239 --> 00:47:43.880 you end this issue on are these guys allies? Are the enemies? Do 663 00:47:43.960 --> 00:47:46.880 I work with them and kill you know, death to the Sher? Or 664 00:47:47.039 --> 00:47:52.440 do my partner with the Sher to fight this new threat? And so that's 665 00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:57.719 what I think the series sets up. Yeah, Flelandra and Xavier never got 666 00:47:57.760 --> 00:48:01.079 cozy. The X Men would totally be enemies with the she Are easily. 667 00:48:01.599 --> 00:48:07.679 Oh yeah, it's all because of that two households both alike in dignity and 668 00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:12.840 fair Verona, that made it it's possible for them to even consider being, 669 00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:15.960 you know, in league with she Are. What's interesting is that if you 670 00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:21.039 look at the two teams, you know, teams like the X Men and 671 00:48:21.079 --> 00:48:25.719 then she Are Slash Imperial Guard, that whole military monarchy, whatever you want 672 00:48:25.719 --> 00:48:30.199 to call it. Over to the years, there's like a love hate really 673 00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:34.719 like their enemies, the friends, their friends, their enemies. You know, 674 00:48:34.760 --> 00:48:39.320 there's a crossover around the time of where my book is set, called 675 00:48:39.440 --> 00:48:44.559 The Trial of Jean Gray, where if you've read it, it's it's great. 676 00:48:44.599 --> 00:48:47.920 It's it's a crossover with the Guardians of the Galaxy where they basically that 677 00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:54.199 she are put a time displaced Geen Gray on trial for of her what she 678 00:48:54.639 --> 00:48:58.599 will do, what you will do? Right, And it's it's a it's 679 00:48:58.599 --> 00:49:04.199 a great for us over but like again, enemies but kind of allies, 680 00:49:04.360 --> 00:49:07.000 but kind of enemies. And so really, when I said Game of Rooms, 681 00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:13.239 you know, it's such a great comparison because you just have these political 682 00:49:13.280 --> 00:49:16.719 machinations between the various factions, and then when you look at the larger universe 683 00:49:16.760 --> 00:49:19.719 and you look at, you know, the rest of the Galactic Council, 684 00:49:19.719 --> 00:49:24.360 it becomes this wonderful, messy thing that I was really happy that I got 685 00:49:24.360 --> 00:49:27.880 to play in a little bit. I'm excited for this book to come out. 686 00:49:27.960 --> 00:49:30.320 Just to reminder everybody, it comes out May second. You can pre 687 00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:34.639 order it now, but if they want to learn more about you, where 688 00:49:34.639 --> 00:49:38.800 do they find you online? I am on Twitter and Instagram Neil Clyde all 689 00:49:38.800 --> 00:49:43.679 one word for both of them. I post a lot of about the book, 690 00:49:43.719 --> 00:49:46.159 but I also post a lot about comics and Disney and food and my 691 00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:51.760 writing which is sporadic. But you can follow me on both those and the 692 00:49:51.800 --> 00:49:54.400 book comes out, Like you said, May second, School of X the 693 00:49:54.400 --> 00:50:00.400 Phoenix Chase from Aconite Books slash Marvel. Really really really excited for it to 694 00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:05.440 come out. I hope everybody enjoys it. I hope everybody has as much 695 00:50:05.440 --> 00:50:07.960 fun with it as I had writing it. And we spent most of the 696 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:12.800 time talking about Havoc and the star Jammers and the Sheer, but the start 697 00:50:12.800 --> 00:50:17.320 of the show is our pal Quentin choir kit Omega and he will never let 698 00:50:17.320 --> 00:50:22.039 you forget that. Definitely read it because writing him is always a joy, 699 00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:30.880 just his sarcastic, chaotic nature. Just it's a gift for almost any writer. 700 00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:34.599 So thank you Grant Morrison for creating him. I really hope you all 701 00:50:34.599 --> 00:50:36.599 like the book. Thank you so much for being on the show. We 702 00:50:36.639 --> 00:50:39.639 really appreciate you coming on and bringing us a book that I've never read before. 703 00:50:39.800 --> 00:50:43.320 I never even knew that there was an X Men Ember of Vulcan mini 704 00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:45.880 series, So thank you so much. Yeah, I'm glad I could bring 705 00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:51.440 you into the cause of it insanity that was Emperor Vulcan and that time period 706 00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:55.840 because all the books around then, you know, yos Ember Vulcan, Brue 707 00:50:55.840 --> 00:51:01.480 Bakers, X Men, Brian bendesss x Men, and they're just fantastic And 708 00:51:01.559 --> 00:51:05.360 if you have chance, you know, those of you who are listening, 709 00:51:05.480 --> 00:51:08.440 go back and read them or reread them or what have you, because they're 710 00:51:08.480 --> 00:51:10.920 just so much fun. And thanks for definitely thanks for having me. I 711 00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:17.039 appreciate you giving me a chance to come on and chat about star Jammers and 712 00:51:17.199 --> 00:51:22.519 of course Aaron is Glorious Mustache. X Reads is recorded in the United States. 713 00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:25.039 Our theme music is written by Austin Wintry. 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