Episode 032: Mojo (feat. Ann Nocenti)
CEREBRO
Connor Goldsmith
4.8 • 815 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2021
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 32 of CEREBRO, Connor and legendary Marvel writer and editor Ann Nocenti chase a ratings spike with her creation Mojo, ruler of the Wildways! Created for the 1985 miniseries Longshot, Mojo became one of the X-Men's strangest recurring foes: the alien despot of a world built on television. As biting meta-commentary on fandom itself, he has become an engine for social satire in X-Men comics.
The CEREBRO character file on Mojo begins at 48:43.
(Content Advisory: Mojo's story includes slavery, brainwashing, torture, suicide, and metaphors for addiction.)
The episode cover features art of Mojo by Art Adams.
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| 0:00.0 | How many empowered females did we have at Marvel Comics at the time? |
| 0:04.5 | Well, this is why I don't like what happened to Maddie Pryor, Annie. |
| 0:08.0 | Yes. |
| 0:08.6 | X-Men, X-Men. |
| 0:11.8 | In the 21st century, people mutants led by Magneto aimed to destroy the world. |
| 0:20.6 | The only hope is X-Men. |
| 0:26.7 | Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast, |
| 0:29.6 | where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of Homo Superior. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith. |
| 0:35.7 | And with me today is legendary Marvel editor and writer Anne Nassenti. |
| 0:40.7 | Annie Nisenti, if you're nasty. |
| 0:43.0 | She is here with me today to talk about her work with the X-Men. |
| 0:49.1 | If you are not that familiar because you're not an 80s X-Men head like myself, |
| 0:53.7 | the listeners, Annie, will know that my dad is a collector. |
| 0:56.9 | So I was born in the late 80s, but I grew up reading those stories because he had them all. |
| 1:03.9 | And that was the stuff I really loved. |
| 1:05.4 | So the majority of it was, honestly, stuff you edited. |
| 1:10.6 | So for those not aware, Anasenti is known for writing that's |
| 1:15.3 | very impressive, creating the characters of Longshot, Spiral, and Mojo, who we're here to talk about |
| 1:20.0 | today in the Longshot mini series with Art Adams. Also doing a really critically acclaimed and |
| 1:26.1 | absolutely fabulous run on Daredevil after Frank |
| 1:29.1 | Miller. If you are a Daredevil fan in the modern age who has not gone back and read that, |
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