Chris And Reggie's Cosmic Treadmill

Wrapping up the latest Hellions arc to make sure we're done for the Hellfire Gala! Oh, by the way... did you know there's something called the Hellfire Gala headed our way?  Betcha didn't... they hardly ever mention it! Here, the Hellions fight their way from the Mindscape and we progress Sinister's story perhaps one step closer to the Chimeras!  All that, and I heap a creepy amount of praise on our Hellions creative team! Plus: Great Mailbag (including a "day and date" missive), and a report on the "Week in X" both on Marvel Unlimited and on store shelves! -- The ALL-NEW ALL-DIFFERENT X-Lapsed Voicemail! 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK)... as in "Professor Xavier is a..." and not anything off-color!  Shame on you for thinking it was! -- Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

The Chris's are back... and on time (!), to deliver this third helping of Questerdays! This time out, we pick up right where we left off with the Wolfriders' arrival at the little slice of paradise in the desert we'll soon find out is Sorrow's End.  We're going to meet some characters here that will loom large over the rest of this series... and be introduced to several very deep and interesting concepts - such as "Recognition" and "Soul Names"!  Definitely a seminal issue for the Questers! Also: The rest of our usual nonsense... including a discussion of the worst Tom Hanks movie not to actually feature Tom Hanks, The Sisterhood of Steel, Fig Newtons, and Rip-Off shoes!  We even try calling the Rip-Off Hotline to find out more... did we get through?  Well, you'll just have to tune in and see... err, hear! -- Leave us a Voicemail! 623-396-JERK @acecomics @Charlton_Hero weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com charltonhero.wordpress.com/ chrisisoninfiniteearths.com facebook.com/groups/90sxme

The X-Books are still on somewhat shaky ground here - they're all going their own way! X-Force does a thing, X-Men sees the movers and shakers of Krakoa take their seat at the Global Table, Rictor begins studying under Ayyyy in Excalibur, New Mutants takes aim at some scarily safe targets while at the farm (did YOU know that Big Pharma was bad?  Betcha didn't!), Marauders pays off the Taipei story from the first ish... and Fallen Angels continues being a collection of sheets bound together by two staples! -- TIMESTAMPS! (00:00:00) Marauders #4: "The Red Bishop" (00:33:13) Excalibur (vol.4) #4: "Verse IV: Fall Back and Think of England" (01:11:02) New Mutants (vol.4) #4: "Fast and Furious" (01:46:05) X-Force (vol.6) #4: "Blood Economics" (02:22:40) Fallen Angels (vol.2) #4: "Shikatsu" (02:51:39) X-Men (vol.5) #4: "Global Economics" -- The ALL-NEW ALL-DIFFERENT X-Lapsed Voicemail! 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK)... as in "Professor Xavier is a..." and not anything off-color!  Shame on you for thinking it

We're finally here... the star-studded 200th Episode of X-Lapsed!  Today we're making good on a discussion that was supposed to happen way back in Episode 112 of this program... but, became delayed over and over again due to me family's never-ending moving woes!   Well, the moving woes are still ongoing... but, I figured this special GIANT-SIZE episode would make a really fun milestone episode, and so - over the course of the past several weeks, I have had the pleasure of sitting down with a great group of pals to discuss each and every entry in the X of Swords Handbook!   I assured them all that these segments would take up "10-15 minutes tops"... well, nearly eleven hours later... here we be!   I want to thank everybody who took part in not only this episode, but the entire #XLapsed journey to this point.  It honestly means the world to me... more than I can adequately put into words!   TIMESTAMPS! (00:09:33) Apocalypse - Long Box Crusade @LongboxCrusade @Kristatos01 (00:27:36) Broo - with Evan Bevins @evan

On the eve of our landmark, star-studded TWO HUNDREDTH episode, we're taking a look at a recent Marvel Anthology... which, in the opinion of you humble, fumblin', stumblin' host... could have been much more than it was. It's a "Just the X, ma'am" look at the Women of Marvel one-shot, with a little bonus chatter about an X-Relevant scene that appeared in 2020's Immortal She-Hulk one-shot!  Man, what a missed opportunity for a "Variant X-Lapsed Cover", eh? Oh well... -- The ALL-NEW ALL-DIFFERENT X-Lapsed Voicemail! 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK)... as in "Professor Xavier is a..." and not anything off-color!  Shame on you for thinking it was! -- Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

On the Eve of the Hellfire Gala... we're going to talk about a potential "class system" at play on Krakoa.  We're also going to spend a fair amount of time in Otherworld... but, the less said about that, the better! We're going to talk a lot about "conventional beauty" and the value placed on it.  It's going to be a good time, trust me!  Please... trust me! Also: The Ever X-Cellent Mailbag! -- The ALL-NEW ALL-DIFFERENT X-Lapsed Voicemail! 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK)... as in "Professor Xavier is a..." and not anything off-color!  Shame on you for thinking it was! -- Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Continuing the countdown to our final issue of Cable, our teen hero has a heart to heart with his father about brining the "Old Man" back... and worlds collide when we get a confusing look into the Old Man's journey through "another place and another time"! All that, plus we go through the X-Related Solicits for July, 2021 straight out of Marvel Previews! -- The ALL-NEW ALL-DIFFERENT X-Lapsed Voicemail! 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK)... as in "Professor Xavier is a..." and not anything off-color!  Shame on you for thinking it was! -- Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Wrapping up that pesky "Quentin Quire introspection arc", so we can make room for the HELLFIRE GALA! Today we're going to talk more about mutant dupes, the question of memory as it pertains to tinkering with Cerebro Backups... and much, much more! Great Mailbag, and - since it's Monday, our fairly brief "This Week in X-Stuffs" segment   -- Introducing the ALL-NEW ALL-DIFFERENT X-Lapsed Voicemail! 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK)... as in "Professor Xavier is a..." and not anything off-color!  Shame on you for thinking it was! -- Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

In our penultimate outing with the lovable Loser Squad, we finally get to the scene that caused us to look at this book in the first place - the de-vamping and re-mutifying of Jubilation Lee! We've got questions... -- Introducing the ALL-NEW ALL-DIFFERENT X-Lapsed Voicemail! 623-396-5375 (or, 623-396-JERK)... as in "Professor Xavier is a..." and not anything off-color!  Shame on you for thinking it was! -- Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

In Soviet Russia, trade wait for you! Hey everybody, we're back fo(u)r another compilation episode... covering the third issues of the Dawn of X, Wave One launch titles - and it feels like, for some of these, the bloom is coming off the ol' rose. Hordeculture?  The New Mutants Farm story?  Fallen Angels still being a thing? The tonal shift here into attempts at comedy, a weird fill-in arc, and poetic waxing might be too severe for your humble host to take! -- TIMESTAMPS: (00:00:00) X-Men (vol.5) #3: "Hordeculture" (00:37:44) Marauders #3: "The Bishop in Black" (01:13:45) Excalibur (vol.4) #3: "Verse III: Three Covenants" (01:41:31) New Mutants (vol.4) #3: "To the Grave" (02:16:01) X-Force (vol.6) #3: "The Skeleton Key" (02:37:55) Fallen Angels (vol.2) #3: "Seppuku" -- Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

If you only listen to one episode of X-Lapsed today... this should be it! Folks, we have finally arrived at Way of X... our first "shoe drop" issue in quite some time.  It reads like something straight out of our very own Mailbag, and I cannot wait for more! Nightcrawler is our POV character... and I can't think of anyone better to question the fact that... nobody else seems to question the goings on around Krakoa! Plus: X-Cellent Mailbag... including our first ever "Day and Date" missive covering the very issue we're discussing here today! -- Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

S.W.O.R.D. has done the impossible... made me feel sympathy for Fabian friggin' Cortez!  Today's episode features a Quiet Council pile-on on the poor former Acolyte... who is given the floor to make a plea, but is not even given a pair of boxers post bursting outta his goldball! There's also some Snarkwar stuff... but ain't nobody got time for that! Plus: Great Mailbag and chatting a bit about the INFERNO announcement! -- Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Logan and Licia's Merry Chase thru Madripoor continues... and every merc worth their salt is hot on their trail - well, Deadpool shows up, anyway. A fun issue that only makes me wish there were more hours in the day to devote to non-X comics! Plus: Great Mailbag! FA Comics History: The Life and Times of Tamara Blake!  It'll be the most exciting 18 seconds of your day! -- Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Anyone out there miss X-Men Unlimited?  No?  How 'bout I pretend you said 'Yes'? Well, have I got the book for you!  In this "Just the X, ma'am" look at another issue of the Marvel's Voices anthology, we've got some very X-Men stories you'll swear you've already read... at least twice! First, Domino talks about how lucky she is... then, Storm recruits a young troubled mutant. All that, plus great Mailbag, and the X-Sales Chart from February, 2021! -- Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Another day off the beaten X-Lapsed Path... and we're back in the Outlawed corner of the Marvel Universe taking a look at the last couple of issues of the recent Power Pack miniseries... which just so happens to feature Wolverine... and his super-secret supervillain twin brother we've never heard of before: Wolvermean! It's a fun couple of issues!  I hope you'll tune in! Also: Mailbag!  Sales Charts!  Marvel Unlimited!  On-Shelves!  Oh, my! -- Check out Unpacking the Power of Power Pack at: https://jeffandrickpresent.wordpress.com/ -- Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

They've been through the desert on a wolf with no name...   After a long layoff, the Chris's's's are finally back to begin the the Quest of the Wolfriders in earnest!  This time out, our tiny heroes try and strike a deal with some crafty Trolls... and find themselves in quite a mess... stranded in a desert wasteland with absolutely nothing on the horizon.  It's a good thing Skywise has that hunk of rock he won't stop talking about!   Will our Elves make it to safety?  Will they keep banded together even in these most trying times?  Will Redlance (somehow) prove even more useless?  The answers to all those questions, and many many more lay within this episode!   Also: In our grand Morituri Mondays style, we go through the Bullpen Bulletins, chat up some notable ads... and go (relatively) deep on everything EPIC for the cover-month of September, 1985!   We hope you'll join us on the Quest!   -- @acecomics @Charlton_Hero weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com charltonhero.wordpress.com/ chrisi

Welcome back, Trade-Waiters! For our third compilation/anthology episode - we're taking a look at the difficult second issues of each of our DoX launch books, in which they all sorta go their own way.  I gotta wonder, while incredibly convenient... was this a satisfying read if you were following along via the anthology trades? Anyways, in the wake of the apparent assassination last time out, Krakoa is... well, I would say "high alert", but nah, they're all still dancing around that bonfire like nothing even happened. The Summers's's's have an outing that introduces the Creepy Summoner, Betsy is Captain Britain, Call Me Kate gets coronated, the New Mutants annoy the Starjammers, Quentin Quire smells like Axe Bodyspray, and Fallen Angels... exists. If these compilation episodes are the first time you're diving into the X-Lapsed Universe - I'd love to hear from you! -- TIMESTAMPS: (00:00:00) X-Men (vol.5) #2: "Summoner" (00:34:40) Excalibur (vol.4) #2: "Verse II: A Tower of Flowers" (01:08:55) Marauders 

After many, many months... Wolverine has finally remembered that there's a Vampire Nation in the making -- and so, it's time for him to deal with it. Also: Omega Red's ego takes a hit when he realizes that the people of Krakoa don't like him all that much.  Go figure! -- Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Two issues in, and the CoTA kids are already in repeats! In this very similar to the first issue issue... the CoTAs face off against the Hell's Belles... are approached by some Krakoans about going "home"... and stand longingly in front of the Coney Island Krakoan Gateway! Hey, but the Avengers show up for two pages... so there's that! Plus: Great Mailbag, and a F.A. Comics History piece on the many, many, many appearances of The Hell's Belles!  -- Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen

Wrapping up our time with the Runaways!  Wolverine and Pixie get their gal... but, it isn't the one you might think it is.  After they head back to Krakoa, your humble host is left at quite the disadvantage due to his lack of Runawareness! Plus: Some great discussion from the Mailbag and More! -- Twitter: @acecomics / Instagram: @90sxmen weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com chrisandreggie.podbean.com chrisisoninfiniteearths.com xlapsed.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/ facebook.com/groups/90sxmen