Episode 079: Abigail Brand (feat. Al Ewing)

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

Science Fiction, Arts, Books, Visual Arts, Fiction

4.8 • 815 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 248 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 79 of CEREBRO, Connor and contemporary comics legend Al Ewing (X-Men Red, S.W.O.R.D., Immortal Hulk) survey the schemes of Abigail Brand! The mysterious director of S.W.O.R.D., charged with protecting Earth from extraterrestrial threats, half-alien and half-mutant Brand has always been a prickly ally to the X-Men at best. Now she has secretly betrayed mutantkind entirely, becoming one of the leaders of Orchis.

The CEREBRO character file on Brand begins at 1:31:00.

(Content Advisory: Abigail's story includes war crimes, torture, and war crimes involving torture.)

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0:00.0	But, you know, I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to come down.
0:03.8	I do, especially with the eye socket thing.
0:07.5	Get your fingers out of the eye socket.
0:10.0	Taking it to a new level, taking it to an exciting new level, as detailed in this month's
0:14.6	cosmopolitan.
0:15.6	I, have you explored your boyfriend?
0:17.8	Was.
0:18.8	Have you socketed?
0:20.2	That.
0:24.3	Have you not socketed? That... Have you not socketed?
0:25.7	It's what the kids are interested.
0:27.1	Socketing is what all the hottest war criminals
0:28.9	are up to these days.
0:33.6	In the 21st century,
0:35.7	people mutants led by Magneto
0:37.4	aimed to destroy the world.
0:42.6	Only hope is X-Men.
0:48.7	Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast, where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of Homo superior.
0:55.1	I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith.
0:56.9	And with me today is Al Ewing, celebrated comics writer.
1:02.2	Currently, the writer on X-Men Red, which spun out of his series Sword, more recently
1:08.0	known for his critically acclaimed 50-issue run on Immortal Hulk,
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