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CEREBRO Appendix: Astra (feat. Holly Raymond)

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

Science Fiction, Arts, Books, Visual Arts, Fiction

4.8815 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

Hey there, Zalagang!

Some scheduling issues have delayed the next episode of CEREBRO, but it should be in your ears for the holidays. Since it's been a minute — and a mysterious shadow early in the current run of Jed McKay's X-Men certainly looked like this beautiful weirdo — I've decided to release a CEREBRO Appendix episode publicly.

This episode was originally released as a Patreon exclusive on August 9th, 2023. It's a fun sample of the joy awaiting you for just $5 dollars a month in the House of Z — especially as Holly will soon be my co-host for Krakoa Revisited, a Patreon series analyzing the five-year Krakoan arcs of every character already covered on CEREBRO.

Thanks for your patience! More soon.

In the latest installment of the CEREBRO Appendix, Dr. Holly Raymond of Temple University returns to the pod to talk about Astra, an extremely strange character. Created by Alan Davis, Fabian Nicieza, and Leinil Francis Yu, Astra is a retconned-in founding member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. 

She loves cloning Magneto, for reasons.

(Content Advisory: Astra's story includes torture, brainwashing, and Oedipal vibes.)

The CEREBRO Appendix is a bonus episode series spotlighting characters who do not have a full Zaladane of 12 appearances, or who never get the personal focus that would merit a full episode of CEREBRO.



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Joseph and Astra looming over Magneto who is crouching in agony and it says,

0:06.0

Unholy Trinity. But Joseph isn't their son.

0:12.0

Is he?

0:15.0

Yeah.

0:17.0

Like, what's the... What's the illusion?

0:23.3

I don't think anyone knows.

0:25.7

It doesn't quite work, but it's okay. X-Men, X-Men.

0:29.1

In the 21st century, evil mutants, led by Magneto, aimed to destroy the world.

0:38.1

Only hope is X-Men.

0:44.3

Welcome to the Cerebro Secret Files,

0:47.2

the bonus episodes of the X-Men podcast,

0:49.5

where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of Homo Superior.

0:53.5

I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith,

0:55.2

and with me today for a new installment of the Cerebro Appendix

0:59.7

is Dr. Holly Raymond.

1:03.4

Hi there.

1:04.1

Professor of English at Temple University.

1:06.6

Holly, how are you today?

1:08.5

I am good.

1:09.9

I am passionate about this character. I might good. I am passionate about this character.

1:11.9

I might be the only person passionate about this character.

1:15.9

We're here today to talk about Astra, a character who has come up occasionally on the show,

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