Double bonus release today with two Patreon episodes all about Wolfsbane! First, novelist Bethany Pope joins Chad in talking all about the evil Reverend Craig, a Scottish minister who loves the Bible and flaming torches and who hates his own daughter, Rahne, most of all. Then Eric and Rey from Rage Gear join Chad to talk all about Gosamyr, who is both the sexy baby and the monster on the hill, the bizarre alien who messed with the New Mutants! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands ...
Jan 18, 2024•3 hr 54 min•Transcript available on Metacast First up, it's an interview with the incredible Fabian Nicieza, by Chad and Phillip Sevy, all about the new Cable series coming out this week! Then, our review of Beast's weird adventures continues with Amazing Adventures #13! Mastermind is in charge of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (featuring Blob and Onus the Untouchable), and they want the Beast on their side! Plus, Patsy Walker makes her Marvel Universe debut! Featuring the wonderful combination of Jordan Blum! Jordan Olsen! And Mi...
Jan 15, 2024•3 hr 33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kimura is a sadistic, super powerful arch-enemy of Laura Kinney, X-23, and Chad gets to delve into her intense evil history with the most recent writer to chart her journey, Erica Schultz, writer of X-23: Deadly Regenesis! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Jan 11, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Beast's misadventures continue when Iron Man (and his telepathic girlfriend Marianne Rogers) arrive at the Brand Corporation, and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants are waiting in the wings. Chad is joined by Isaac Goodhart and Tate Brombal (The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos) and Taylor Vessel! Then, in the latter half, Steve Englehart joins to talk about the Beast comics he wrote and we are reviewing! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://r...
Jan 08, 2024•3 hr 34 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's starts with Cyclops, then Havok, then Corsair... then Rachel and Madeline and Nathan... then Stryfe and Nate Grey and Vulcan and Adam-X and Hope and Ruby and... Come here Chad and artist Phillip Sevy talk all about the soap opera/time travel/evil clone insanity that is the Summers family! With a special focus on covering Kate Summers, and Phillip and Deborah, the least explored members of this insane comic book empire. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Ou...
Jan 04, 2024•2 hr 7 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's a whole new year and a whole new era on Graymalkin Lane! It's 1973, and Beast gets a feature in Amazing Adventures. He's hired by the Brand Corporation to create a mutation chemical and ends up becoming a monster! Come listen to the incredible and talented guests of Spencer Ackerman and Jordan White, as we discuss Waller vs. Wildstorm and the end of the Krakoan era! Then, just for fun, the smut crew comes back to read the script of X-Men Unlimited #1! Advertising Inquiries: http...
Jan 01, 2024•3 hr 37 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's the public release of my wonderful episode on Sally Floyd with her creator, Paul Jenkins! In this interview, we primarily discuss the great series, Generation M, discussing Paul's writing style, complicated and fully realized characters, and what makes Sally Floyd unforgettable. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Dec 28, 2023•2 hr 35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Happy Holidays and Merry Xmas from Graymalkin Lane! We have a light and fun episode for you to enjoy during your holiday season. First, it's the hilarious and irreverent ROAST OF SCOTT SUMMERS! With favorite podcast guests including Justin and Alicia Wilder, Andre Mason, Bradley Clayton, Anya Prosser, Isabel Dieppa, and Hussein Rashid! And then a tone change as my handsome husband and adorable children join me for some silly holiday fun and a review of an X-Men parody story in Not Brand Echh...
Dec 24, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's the final trial of 2023, all about the men who would be gods: the Living Pharaoh and Count Nefaria! Two men who have never met, but who have similar narratives journeys, and some deadly fights with super heroes! Featuring the hilarious and insightful combination of Hussein Rashid, Steve Duda, Rob Salerno, Mike Moon, and Daryl Lawrence! (show art by Seth Martel!) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Dec 21, 2023•2 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Christos Gage is here to talk about his extensive X-Men writing history and his upcoming work on Original X-Men #1, out this week! Then, Livi Hastings, Josh Trujillo, and Erica Schultz join me to talk all about Washington's Gay General, and then a look into an odd Wolverine adventure along with Spider-Man's parents? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Dec 18, 2023•2 hr 50 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's the ultimate PFLAG mom: Lucinda Guthrie! Chad and friends Dayspring and Scott Free delve deep into the history of the mother bear of the Guthrie Clan, Lucinda, who has TEN children, and so many of them are mutants. Get insight into Cannonball, Husk, Icarus, and the shifting narrative of mutant storytelling over the years with this wonderful episode, and be prepared to fall in love with this character... Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redci...
Dec 14, 2023•3 hr 38 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week, Chad is joined by Grace Freud (noted writer, recently from X-Men Unlimited) and Michael Dialynas (artist on Wynd and creator of Zara and the Belly of the Beast), with co-host Michael Smith! After some great conversation about queer storytelling, we open the pages of Marvel Team-Up #4! The X-Men are out of costume and end up helping Spider-Man against the threat of new foe, Morbius the Living Vampire! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcir...
Dec 11, 2023•2 hr 34 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's the 1980s, and boy can you tell by the super-villains battling X-Factor! Chad and award-winning novelist and writer Alex Segura do a deep dive on the Alliance of Evil! Frenzy, Stinger, Tower, and Timeshadow started out as addicts working for Apocalypse, went on to become protestors, and ended up as assassins for hire before splitting up. Learn all about them here! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Dec 07, 2023•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast Magneto and his Groovy Ghoulies are ready to turn Black Bolt into a powerful weapon, but not if the Inhumans can help it! Chad has returning guests to the show Gregory Wright (of Silver Sable fame) and Daryl Lawrence (of the X-Factor Files Podcast) along with featured guest DG Chichester, writer of Daredevil Black Armor, both in the 90s and now! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Dec 04, 2023•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Peeper has a unique mutant story... a close ally of Magneto and part of the second Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, he went on to join the mutant Resistants... and then things got bad, and then worse. Chad and Alicia Wilder review the sordid history of this lesser known mutant, and you'll learn why Peeper in the Krakoa era is so important. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Nov 30, 2023•2 hr 43 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's Magneto vs. the Inhumans! Magneto gives us early 70s cartoon energy as he creates a race of goblin-men to serve him in his latest plot for world domination! Chad, Scotty, and Michael Solis (author of Deficient) interview CF Villa, one of Marvel's Stormbreaker artists, from recent X-Men and Avengers fame! And then, it's the final reading from the Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix, as Chad, Justin and Alicia Wilder, Arturo Rojas, Steve Duda, DManda Martini, and Sara Centur...
Nov 27, 2023•3 hr 30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Just in time for Thanksgiving, it's the trial of Shiro Yoshida: SUNFIRE! Created near the end of X-Men volume 1, Sunfire has intrinsic ties to Hiroshima, to the Japanese Imperial flag, and to many racist tropes and portrayals over the years. With a new hero's journey in the Krakoan age, Sunfire is ready for an incredible trial! Featuring the talents and insights of Trung Nguyen! Jason Loo! Andrew Drilon! Justin Park! And Steve deG! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Priv...
Nov 22, 2023•3 hr 34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Fantastic Four 104 concludes the Magneto/Namor adventure with the Fantastic Four, and boy do we have a fun time reviewing it. Chad is joined by three talented creators: J. Holtham and Sean Damien Hill (of Bishop: War College) and Stephanie Williams (of X-Men Unlimited) to talk all about it! Then, in the latter half, it's the third script-reading from Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix, featuring Justin and Alicia Wilder, DManda Martini, Steve Duda, Arturo Rojas, and Sara Century! Adve...
Nov 20, 2023•2 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Charles Xavier had a crazy childhood. The story begins with an atomic explosion, then goes on to an evil stepbrother, an evil twin, an evil scientist, and some crazy time travel Chad and Justin Wilder (of the X-Wife podcast) delve deep into the sordid history of Brian and Sharon Xavier... Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Nov 16, 2023•2 hr 52 min•Transcript available on Metacast It's megalomaniacal Magneto manipulating the Atlanteans to go to war with the surface world... and he has Invisible Girl and Norma as captives! But first, Chad and Justin Kosmachuk interview Jeremy Whitley (the Unstoppable Wasp! Gwenpool! Dog Knight!) and Alex Segura returns to the show! And in the second half, Chad is joined by D''Manda Martini, Steve Duda, Arturo Rojas, Justin and Alicia Wilder, and Sara Century to do a live reading of Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix 2! A...
Nov 13, 2023•2 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Emma Frost has a complicated family. And the worst of them is her sister Adrienne. A mutant with psychometric abilities, she hates her sister Emma and wants to destroy everything she has built. This episode, Chad is joined by Adrienne's creator, writer Jay Faerber! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Nov 09, 2023•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Magneto teams with the Sub-Mariner to declare war on the surface world, with only the Fantastic Four there to stop them! But first, an interview with Murewa Ayodele and Dotun Akande about their impressive series 'I Am Iron Man', and Torunn Gronbekk about her work on Realm of X and Carnage! Then, at the end, Chad is joined by Sara Century, D'Manda Martini, Justin and Alicia Wilder, Steve Duda, and Arturo Rojas to do a live reading of the first issue of Further Adventures of Cyclops an...
Nov 06, 2023•2 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chad is joined by Chuck Austen to talk all about Maximus Lobo, the mutant werewolf from the Dominant Species arc. He's got a pack of feral wolves at his back, some strange Spider-Man connections, ties to the Worthington family business, and he once got his ass kicked by Wolf Cub... Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Nov 02, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Transcript available on Metacast Magneto month closes with one short story from a Marvel Pride anthology in 2021... Anthony Oliveira wrote a story about a teenage Iceman coming out to an attacking Magneto. Chad is joined by Eric and Rey of Rage Gear Studios to talk all about this great story, and about being coming out and finding community. A nice feel-good episode to end this incredible month. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Just in time for Halloween, it's the Trials of Puppet Master and Brainchild! Although wildly different characters, these two check the same boxes as far as why they freak us out, and both fought the X-Men in the 60s. Featuring the talents of Steve Duda, Justin Wilder, Daryl Lawrence, Susan Kirtley, and Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Oct 26, 2023•2 hr 23 min•Transcript available on Metacast In a story by Fabian Nicieza, Magneto forms the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, getting to Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver just after they turn down Professor X! But first an incredible interview with Natalie Norris (Dear Mini!), Sarah Gailey (White Widow!), and Ruthanne Price! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Oct 23, 2023•1 hr 28 min•Transcript available on Metacast New Patreon episode publicly released! Chad is joined by the talented Neil Kleid (author of the Phoenix Chase and more!) to put together an episode on one of Marvel's most obscure characters, Starhammer! With ties to the resurrection of Captain America, to the feud between Claremont and Byrne, and to the Dark Phoenix Saga, you just know there is a lot to learn. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Oct 19, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 2011, Howard Chaykin released Magneto #1, telling us the story of Magneto's first visit to America, where he found a mutant community and got his costume from designer Cassandra Michaels! But first, Chad is joined by three fellow ex-Mormons, Philip Sevy, Terry Blas, and D'Manda Martini, as we talk about the process of leaving behind Mormonism, relating it to X-Men fandom along the way. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Oct 16, 2023•2 hr 33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Heather Cameron, Lifeguard, is the Pamela Anderson of the X-Men. A golden-skinned character, the daughter of a warlord, with untapped potential to save the lives of others. And then there is that Shi'ar thing... Here Chad and super-fan Jamie Fay explore the character of this fringe X-character. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy...
Oct 12, 2023•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Double episode day, two Magneto stories from Classic X-Men by Chris Claremont! First, the tragic story of Magda and Anya from Classic X-Men 12, featuring Sabir Pirzada (of Ms. Marvel: New Mutant and Cult of Carnage: Misery) and Connor Goldsmith! Then it's Magneto, Nazi hunter from Classic X-Men 19, featuring Maureen Burdock (of Queen of Snails), Seth Martel (the Mare), and Kendra Boileau (of Graphic Mundi!) Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcir...
Oct 09, 2023•3 hr 46 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
