Chris And Reggie's Cosmic Treadmill

If you thought we were hitting rock-bottom with Plant Man and the Porcupine... wait'll ya get a load of - The Locust! Today, we've got the X-Men fighting giant bugs, and an idiot dressed like one!  All that, and Professor X pulls off some wicked hermit cosplay!  You won't wanna miss it! Also: Letters Pages, Bullpen Bulletins, our own Mailbag, Shout-Outs and more! -- X-Lapsed Voicemail: 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK) Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Wrapping up our two-part Count Nefaria caper, with an all-out action issue! You'll never see the twist ending coming!  Well, unless you've been following along from the start - then you'll see it coming from a mile away... All that, plus the 1966 Letters Page, Bullpen Bulletins, a future pro poppin' up among the ranks of the MMMS, and plenty more gestalty goodness! -- X-Lapsed Voicemail: 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK) Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Kicking off The Corridor of Cruddy Villains here at The Essentials - with Count Nefaria and his dread Maggia!  These are some winners, indeed!  We're still going to have more fun than should be humanly (mutantly?) possible with it, doncha worry none! Plus: The Original 1966 Letters Pages, Bullpen Bulletins, and much more! -- X-Lapsed Voicemail: 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK) Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

A surprise Sunday episode wherein we begin our look at the new Marvel Unlimited X-Clusive weekly title, X-Men Unlimited!  Now, listeners of X-Lapsed know that your humble host has been advocating for a new post-HoXPoX take on XMU for quite some time now -- so, is this a case of "Be careful what you wish for..."?  Listen in, and find out! Plus: A Bonus "Back-Up" story... featuring X-Lapsed favorite, Jeff the Land Shark!  It's Jeff! #1 features our little hero visiting the public pool! -- X-Lapsed Voicemail: 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK) Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

We have arrived at the FINAL volume of the Dawn of X Anthology Trade Collection.  Today we will witness the rest of our ongoings being rushed to a stopping point so that their casts can drop everything and search for swords they're not going to use!  Heck, one of these very issues is about a sword... which, even as deep into the Reign of X run as we are at the time of this upload, we STILL haven't seen again! -- TIMESTAMPS: (00:00:00) X-Force (vol.6) #11: "Red Dawn" (00:35:46) Excalibur (vol.4) #11: "Blood of the Changeling" (01:04:19) X-Force (vol.6) #12: "The Cerebro Sword" (01:36:36) Excalibur (vol.4) #12: "Verse XII: The Beginning" (02:01:54) Giant-Size X-Men: Storm #1: "Disintegration" (02:51:53) X-Men (vol.5) #12: "Amenth" -- X-Lapsed Voicemail: 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK) Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Wrapping up the mesmerizing Mentallo Trilogy!  Prepare your senses to be shocked... or, mildly amused, I suppose! Today the S.H.I.E.L.D.sters and Tony Stark team up to neutralize their mental (and hydrogen) threat!  Will they make it in time... or will Nick Fury get his patch blown off? -- X-Lapsed Voicemail: 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK) Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

The Middle chapter of the Monumental Mutant Menace of Mentallo Trilogy! Today we're talking x-tremely deep pockets, and reading the minds of inanimate objects... if nothing else, this story definitely isn't boring! I hope you're enjoying this trip off the beaten path as much as I am!  Lemme know! -- X-Lapsed Voicemail: 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK) Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Stepping off the beaten path to introduce current-year S.W.O.R.D. cast member, the Mutant Menace of Mentallo! We're broadening our horizons here at The Essential X-Lapsed... checking out series' that I never would have before!  Today's episode comes from the Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. portion of Strange Tales -- Hydra has fallen, ESPers are the new hotness, and Nick Fury tries to get TV from Tokyo!  It's a funner than x-pected time! Also: Great Mailbag! -- X-Lapsed Voicemail: 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK) Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Welcome back to the Essentials! Wrapping up Roy Thomas' first two-parter... featuring (hopefully) the last we see of Lucifer!  It's kind of a rough formulaic outing for our mutant heroes... Plus: Original 1966 Letters Pages, the Marvel Bullpen Bulletins, our own Mailbag, and much more! -- X-Lapsed Voicemail: 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK) Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

It's the August finale of X-Lapsed, and we are checking back in with the flagship book... which actually features the flagship team!  And guess what -- they're fighting something from outer space!  Whodathunkit? Thankfully there's much more to this issue than that - great characterization and forward momentum in our overarching story!  This is a book that feels like an EVENT every time out... in a good way! Plus: Mailbag, Voice Mail, Shout-Outs and Sales Charts! -- X-Lapsed Voicemail: 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK) Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Welcome, friends - to the collection of Cosmic Treadmill episodes wherein Reggie and I commemorated the 25th Anniversary of the landmark Doomsday storyline that shook the comics industry back in the Fall/Winter of 1992-93!  In these shows, we broke down what was going on in the world of Superman leading up to his final battle with Doomsday, the story itself... and all of the fallout in Funeral For A Friend and Reign of the Supermen.  If you weren't in the fandom (or perhaps even on the planet back then... you might enjoy hearing about what was going on in the biz and the world.  If you were, well - I hope this scratches a nostalgia itch!   Then, as a special bonus, I've decided to include events even more tragic for Superman than death itself... J. Michael Straczynski's opus Grounded from 2010-2011.  Sending the post-Crisis Superman shuffling outta continuity (at least for awhile) with a... thud. -- TIMESTAMPS: (00:00:00) Cosmic Treadmill, Episode 63: Doomsday! (01:45:08) Cosmic Treadmill, Episode 64: Funera

With the Empyre-sploitation firmly in the rear-view, it's time to rush our stories to a halt... or at least to a semi-organic point where #EcksofTens can effectively put them on hold for a couple'a months. This compilation also includes the "milestone" One-Hundredth episode of X-Lapsed!  It's chock-full of my regular nonsense - couldn't have done it without you all.  Thanks you! -- TIMESTAMPS: (00:00:00) Giant-Size X-Men: Fantomex #1: "The World" (00:43:00) Marauders #11: "To Live and Die on Krakoa" (01:26:24) New Mutants (vol.4) #12: "Monster Machine" (01:52:13) Wolverine (vol.7) #5: "Bloodclocks" (02:36:12) Marauders #12: "The New Phase" (03:20:20) X-Factor (vol.4) #3: "Suite No. 3: Mojoverse Sonata the 2nd, a Celestial Rondo" -- X-Lapsed Voicemail: 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK) Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

It's Episode 2 in the #XLapsedCrownSaga... wherein your humble host is still stammering and struggling through some dental work!  Thankfully, we've got a wonderful book to chat about today in Hellions! The Sinister Story that's been building since HoXPoX is starting to take shape... and secrets are shared!  It's a goodie - you don't wanna miss this one!  As I always say... if you're not reading Hellions -- READ HELLIONS! Plus: An abbreviated Mailbag... due to lockjaw (again, not that Lockjaw)! -- X-Lapsed Voicemail: 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK) Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Through gritted teeth we head off the beaten path and take a look at a Wolverine guest-spot in Shang-Chi!  Now, the "gritted teeth" ain't an indictment on the quality of the story... it's due to some dental work I had done earlier in the day!  So, not even lockjaw (not that Lockjaw) will keep us from our (self)appointed task!  Apologies in advance if I sound rough(er than usual) today! -- X-Lapsed Voicemail: 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK) Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

It's the first Anniversary of X-Lapsed... and somehow Wolverine has weaseled his way into yet another X-Lapsed Milestone! Today, friends... the comic is basically secondary, thankfully it's just Wolverine doing Wolverine things in Madripoor anyway, so, it's not like there's much to say anyway! The real "meat" of this episode is the discussion of the genesis of X-Lapsed, and a celebration of the community we've built together over the past year. Thank you all for helping me to get here... trust me when I say, I couldn't have done it without you! -- X-Lapsed Voicemail: 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK) Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Or, [X]Lapsed Annihilation, Episode 003! Welcome friends, to the episode that marks one-year of daily podcasts here at the Chris and Reggie Channel!  That, and a couple'a bucks ought to get me a cuppa cheap coffee - but, hey - it's still something I can say I did! Today we're keeping with the Last Annihilation gimmick, and getting our S.W.O.R.D. cast on the board... and boy are they snarky.  Well, Abigail Brand is, anyway. All this, plus some great Mailbag, wherein we talk a bit about the S.W.O.R.D. title getting too tangled with crossovers, as well as some deep philosophical chatter regarding Nightcrawler's faith and depiction over in Way of X! It's a fun time as always... thank you all so much for allowing me to keep you company this past year! -- X-Lapsed Voicemail: 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK) Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Or, [X]Lapsed Annihilation, Episode 002 if you prefer! Today we're kicking off the actual Last Annihilation coverage with a look at Guardians #16.  There isn't much of a mutie presence here... but, they do get mentioned a bunch and we even get a scene on MarsArakko!  We're laying the foundation for what's to come before Abigail Brand and S.W.O.R.D. show up to deliver the sass and snark! Also: Mailbag, This Week in X, and Shout-Outs! -- X-Lapsed Voicemail: 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK) Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Today I am sharing a compilation of the last deep-dive Reggie and I did together, wherein we focused on another "tent-pole" series of Weird Comics History.  From the very start, we knew this was a topic we really wanted to sink our teeth into... and we were very fortunate to get that opportunity! We cover it all... from newsies shillin' papers, to the origins of the "organized" comics fandom, and how that fandom kicked off an aftermarket for comics, thereby creating the "back issue".  We'll meet Phil Seuling, for better or worse, the "Father" of the Direct Market. From there, we'll get into the nitty gritty of what it meant for comics to be "direct marketed" in comparison to "newsstanded"... how this affected retailers... and how, ultimately we wound up with a monopoly over the entire thing (well, at the time of these recordings, anyway...). It's a couple hours of fun chatter, from comics, to speculation, to aftermarkets, to seemingly phasing comics out altogether!  I promise, it's not as glum as it sounds

Today's is a pretty interesting compilation... as, if you're a listener of the more recent episodes of X-Lapsed, you'll be familiar with my gushing over X-Factor... and lamenting its cancellation.  Well, wouldja believe that there was a point in time where I was actually HOPING it would be canned with the quickness?  It was with the second issue of the volume where I was officially "done" with this book.  Boy, how things change! Also, despite the fact that we're wrapping up the Empyre-sploitation miniseries here, we're also including the only Empyre chapter worth a damn in X-Men #11!  You WILL believe a man can drop a satellite on a veg-alien! All that, and my usual nonsense... all here waitin' for ya! -- TIMESTAMPS: (00:00:00) Wolverine (vol.7) #4: "The Red Tavern" (00:38:36) X-Factor (vol.4) #2: "Mojoverse Sonata XF.3 Op: 45, Danse Macabre" (01:27:18) X-Men (vol.5) #11: "One War, One Mutant" (02:05:14) Empyre: X-Men #3: "Staff Infection" (02:43:23) Empyre: X-Men #4: "Un-Ring" -- X-Lapsed Voicemail: 

Today we wrap up the fourth volume of Cable!  When the dust settles... are we going to be left with Old Man Cable... or will Kid Cable remain?  Well, I'm sure it was spoiled for you at 12:01am the day it came out... but, please play along anyway! We'll talk all about the issue, as well as the second-half of this funner-than-it-had-any-right-to-be series! Also: Mailbag and Shout-Outs! -- X-Lapsed Voicemail: 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK) Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen