Episode 036: Monet St. Croix (feat. Tini Howard & Kendra James)
CEREBRO
Connor Goldsmith
4.8 • 815 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 219 minutes
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Summary
In the PLANET-SIZE Episode 36 of CEREBRO, Connor and Marvel's Tini Howard praise the perfection of Monet St. Croix! The unlikely breakout of the Generation X class, marvelous mean girl Monet transcended her intended story function to become a leading lady, star of the new book X-Corp. Writer Kendra James also joins Connor to talk about Monet's historical importance as a unique character in the X-Men franchise.
The CEREBRO character file on Monet, Nicole, Claudette, and Penance begins at 1:26:35.
The interview with Kendra James begins at 2:09:04.
The interview with Tini Howard resumes at 3:02:49.
(Content Advisory: Monet's story includes torture, mind control, suicidal ideation, a suicide attempt by another character, Islamophobia, ableism, spooky bone marrow vampire stuff, and general body horror.)
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| 0:00.0 | editorial loved Monet and said we can't have that you need to fix it x-men x-men |
| 0:05.8 | in the 21st century evil mutants led by magneto aimed to destroy the world |
| 0:13.4 | the only hope is X-Men. |
| 0:23.1 | Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of Homo's superior. |
| 0:29.7 | I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith, and with me today is our first three-peat guest, Marvel's own, Tini Howard, currently the scribe of Excalibur, and launching today, as you're |
| 0:40.5 | listening to this, unless this episode is late, which is possible, because this is a real |
| 0:44.2 | humdinger of a character to deal with. Now the writer on X-Corp, the first issue of which came |
| 0:51.3 | out, let's say this week, in case it's not today. Hope you've read it. |
| 0:55.5 | I liked it a lot. Tini, how are you today? I'm great. I'm great. Thanks, Connor. I'm great. I'm |
| 1:01.8 | happy to be here. Monias, one of my favorite characters. And she's also one of the first X-Men |
| 1:07.1 | characters that I really fell in love with who made me feel like a real comics fan because |
| 1:11.9 | she was so weird and because she was so far removed from the cartoons and everything. |
| 1:16.3 | Yeah, it's like this is a comics character. |
| 1:17.9 | This isn't someone you know from pop culture stuff. |
| 1:20.6 | Right. |
| 1:21.6 | Right. |
| 1:21.7 | She's not Storm or Wolverine or Nightcrawler. |
| 1:23.9 | Like she's, you have to be in the comics to know who the fuck mona san croix is right which is |
| 1:29.2 | extra funny too because like uh i guess i'll just jump in but you know like i've always i've talked a lot |
| 1:34.3 | about how the first x-men i ever saw in loves and was like that character is the coolest was jubilee |
| 1:38.9 | when i watched the cartoon as a kid and then when i grew up and I fell in love with Monet, it was actually through the X Factor Investigations arc, which was hilarious when I went back and read Gen X and |
| 1:48.4 | saw my new favorite character bullying my old... Bullying Jubilee, right. |
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