With Bar Sinister and the literal layout of House of Summer, the X-titles are once again pushing the boundaries on romantic representation -- and ACC-tion heroes, we are here for it. In fact, we're here for it with two guests and a two-part show! Part one brings on our Senior X-Correspondent Kat Letho in to discuss X-men and romance in comics. In Part 2, we have Adam from Battle of the Atom joins us to discuss how the X-men have been fundamental to breaking heteronormative narratives!

Romantic Representation: From Love and Rockets to X-Men (25+)

• House of Summer: X-men
•  Kat
  • Storm and Yukio
  • Kitty and Rachel (and Illyana?)
• Nick
  • 1963 - Prof X likes Jean
  • Kara and Jimmy - CW Supergirl
• Marty
  • Destiny and Mystique
  • Logan and Hercules
  • Injection

Pullbox:

Tim

• Amazing Spider-Man Annual #15

Marty

• Excalibur
• Full Circle 

• Tim
  • Amazing Spider-Man Annual #15
    • W: Mark Gruenwald, A: Bob Layton
• Marty
  • Watchmen
  • Maraurders #1
    • W: Gerry Duggan, A: Matteo Lolli, A: Federic Blee

Patron Shout-out!

DANA!

First 12 issues  

• Nick’s Impressions
• Tim’s Theory of Horror
  • Dissolution of Identity and Body Horror
• Marty’s question: Who put this mysticism in my horror comic?
  • Kabbalah and mystical elements as it relates to the Hulk
• Nick’s most important panels
  • How can I be like you?

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The Episode Where We Talk about Mutants and Flowers 

Hello and welcome to All Comics Considered, the comic book podcast with a heart of gold.  Tonight, with special  returning guest  Kat Lehto, we’re jumping in on the Hox Pox!

Patron Shout Out

• Liaden Ryland!

Spoilers

• Spoiling House of X 1-5 
• Powers of X (4) 

Structure of the Books

• House of X 
  • Hickman, Larraz, Gracia, Cowles, Annalise Bissa and Jordan White
  • Primary focus on current/616
• Powers of X
  • Hickman,  RB Silva,Adriano Di Benedetto, Gracia, Cowles, Annalise Bissa, Jordan White
  • Focuses on secret events across all the era of X men
• Infographics and Essays
  • Infographic
• Intertwining stories
  • HoX then PoX
  • Books in Red are BIG REVELATIONS?
• Krakoan code

The Story

Favorite beats:

• Scott Moments
  • Franklin can come home
  • It will be done
• To Me My Pod People
• The Many Lives of Moira
• Nimrod the Lesser and Karmina
• Sinister Island
• Goldballs the Savior
• Kurt and Logan Buddy Moment
  • Wolverine #6

Future of the Line -- “Dawn of X”

• X-Men
  • Hickman, Yu
• Marauders
  • Duggan, Matteo Lolli
• Excalibur
  • Tini Howard, Marcus To
• Fallen Angels
  • Bryan Edward Hill, Szymon Kudranski
• X-Force
  • Percy, Cassara
• New Mutants
  • Hickman/Brisson, Rod Reis

Prediction

In this episode, Marty, Nick, and Tim talk about Banned Comics!

Patron Shout Out

• Christi Rigby!

What does it mean to ban a book?

• Being removed from schools and libraries
• Usually happens based on a single challenge
• Most bans fail
• Most bans are based around puritanism

What is the CBLDF 

• CBLDF

Banned Books

• Bone 
• Persepolis 
• Sandman 
• Fun Home 
• Blankets 
• Spider-Man 

Today on All Comics Considered we’re celebrating pride! We’re going to focus on three books featuring some of our LGBTQIA superstars!  

Pride-box!

• Tim: 
  • West Coast Avengers! 
  • Iceman 
• Marty: 
  • ABO Comix volume 1 and what is prison abolishment 

Superkid! Update: Girls Camp!

Bookclub Reminder:

C-List Upgrades by Tragic Backstory

Kite Man (Hell yeah)

• Source: Batman 27
• Writer: Tom King
• Artist: David Gianfelice /Clay Mann

Shocker

• Source: She-hulk (Blue arc)
• Writer: Soule

Tim

Pullbox

• Abo comix 2
• Daredevil 612

Today is the inaugural episode of our very first All Comics Considered Book Club! We’ll be covering issues 1 through 6 of John Cassidy's,  Warren Ellis’ , and Laura Martin’s Planetary, published by  Wildstorm/DC. 

Brief Summary

1. What is Planetary about?
2. Who are the main characters? 

Book Club Questions

1. What other books by this author have you read? 
2. How did they compare to this book? 
3. What did you like best about this book?
4. What did you like least about this book?
5. What do you think Ellis’s purpose was in writing this book? What ideas was he trying to get across?

Misc

• Art - what did we think of the art in the book?
• Homages/references - Planetary is a book about the superhero genre itself - what references and homages have we spotted?
• Book out of time - Yeltsin was still the Russian president when this book came out.  

Hey there ACC-tion heroes! This week, Marty and Nick do a quick pullbox episode. Nick does a review of the first episode of the new DC Universe TV Show Doom Patrol, and Marty discusses G Willow Wilson's run on Wonder Woman! So let's turn the page and talk about comics!

Doom Patrol

• Trailer!
• Grant Morrison run

Wonder Woman

• Writer: G Willow Wilson
• Artist: Cary Nord
• The Just War

PART TWO

• Supporting Cast
• Good use of screentime
• Who got short-changed? Goose the Flerkin, Vision???

Overall High Points

1. Brief overview of arc
2. High points
3. How it ties everything together

When Tim and Hannah go to the movies--Endgame--without out us, Nick and Marty express their feelings by making up a hot mess of a "leaked" preview of Spider-Man: Far From Home.

Featuring: Bad Ideas! Attempts at Riverdale explanations! Jokes! Marty and Nick riffing off of each other!  

Today on All Comics Considered we have a special guest - an old friend of Marty and Nick, Theresa Griffin of Industrial Athena Cosplay.  We’ll be chatting with her today a bit about her experiences as a cosplayer, and getting her fashion opinions on the Avenger’s Endgame costumes.

Support Project Superkid here! 

Win a SECRET PRIZE for naming our new Book Club!

Theresa Interview

• When was your first cosplay?
• What was your favorite cosplay? 
• How long do you typically spend on a cosplay?
• What have your experiences been as a cosplayer of color, online and in person at cons?
• How long have you been in cosplay?
• How expensive is it usually?
• Who are your favorite cosplayers? 
• What’s a cosplay you’ve been dying to do but haven’t yet?

Avengers: End Game trailer Costume Review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcMBFSGVi1c

Today on All Comics Considered we talk about how to prepare for an ending, and then a little bit about our current and upcoming work, Project Superkid and the ACC Book Club!

Project Superkid!

Bookclub

• Why?
• Expectations
• Contest! Give our Bookclub a better name!

How do we prepare for The End? 

This week, Marty and Hannah are your conductors on the hype train to talk about Endgame, House of X and Power of X (ten). 

House of X, Powers of X

Notes from the Marvel Panels at C2E2

X-men: Asgardian Wars 

• Part 1 – X-Men & Alpha Flight (1st series) #1
• Part 2 – X-Men & Alpha Flight (1st series) #2
• Part 3 – New Mutants Special Edition #1
• Part 4 – Uncanny X-Men Annual #9

Images from the series:

Check out Pepe Larraz's art!

Endgame

https://twitter.com/Ethan_Anderton/status/1110592345567883269

And Today on All Comics Considered we’ll talk about superheroes as a medium, and do a short Pullbox.  Let’s turn the page!

Superheroes as a Medium - What’s your favorite genre that’s also a superhero movie?

• Nick - Buddy comedy “Captain Marvel”
• Marty - Logan “Western-Horror”
• Tim - Coming of Age, “Into the Spider-Verse” and probably “Shazam”.

Pull Box

• Nick -Umbrella Academy
• Tim - MODOK: Marvel Adventures the Avengers
• Marty - Thor: God of Thunder
  • Jason Aaron 
  • Esad Ribic (et al), Russel Daughterman, 
  • Matt Wilson 
  • Dean White 

C2E2 Preview

• Surviving Cons in general
• General feelings about C2E2
• Panel recommendations/activities
• • Thursday: Adler After Dark
  • Friday
  • • 11 am: Sorting Fair Play Through the Universe (Doctor Who & Inclusion)
    • 12:30: Real life justice league
    • 1:30: This week in Marvel: Spider-man, The Hunted
    • TKO Live!
    • Podcaster Meetup
    • War of the realms: 230
    • Lion Forge
    • 4pm Super Heroes of DC
    • 5:30 Costume Design (hosted by Oliver)
  • Saturday
  • • 11: From Sulu to Rose Tico: Celebrating & Fighting for Asian-Americans in Geek Culture
    • 11:15 Comics Code at 65
    • Nerd Boss
    • 12:15 Batman turns 80
    • 12:45 Miss Spoken @ CAH
    • 1:30 Business of Comics/Budgeting
    • Eve Ewing Chats Ironheart
    • Afrofuturism
    • 2:30 Iron Circus Comics
    • Marvel: Next Big Thing
    • 14 years of supernatural
    • Marvel Fanfare with CB Cebulski
    • Ming na wen and Clark Gregg talk SHIELD
    • 5:30 Comic Colorists (hosted by Oliver)
  • Sunday
  • • Dark Fantasy Panel (zenescope)
    • True Believers Panel
    • Life stage: Wakanda Discussion
    • Cosplaying while Black
    • Women of Marvel
    • Representation in the Spider-verse and why it matters
    • George Perez and Marv Wolfman in conversation

PullBox

• Marty - Naomi and Bitter Root and LaGuardia
• Nick - Some thoughts on ethno-futurism - Spec-lit that imagines worlds that exist by different cultural values - what we think of as science-fiction is really just western-futurism - it celebrates and promotes western ideas, and often western(white) people
• Roots - Archetypes, Story Archetype modes
• Iconography - Representation, different symbol set
• Pallette - cultural expressions of color

Hey their ACC-tion heroes! Today, in addition to some house keeping about episodes and teasing future projects, I go give a Kirby Rating™ and a recommendation for Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetoo,Sunny Gho, and Clayton Cowles'DDrun which began in February of this year.

Kirby Rating: .85-.9

Recommendation: Buy it

Bonus: Marco's going to be at C2E2 WHAT?