Episode 122: Gatecrasher & Technet (feat. Jadzia Axelrod)

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

Science Fiction, Arts, Books, Visual Arts, Fiction

4.8 • 815 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 282 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 122 of CEREBRO, Connor and DC writer Jadzia Axelrod (Hawkgirl, Galaxy) traverse the multiverse with the gregarious Gatecrasher and her temperamental Technet! Created by Jamie Delano and Alan Davis, this interdimensional, time-traveling cadre of bounty hunters are best known as foes — and sometime friends — of Captain Britain and Excalibur. They are an iteration on a similar earlier team, the Special Executive, which was created by Alan Moore with a succession of artists: David Lloyd, Steve Dillon, and then Davis.

An oddball gang of alien misfits, Technet have become iconic despite their relatively scanty publication history because they're simply that memorable. If you grew up reading classic Excalibur, you're likely to throw Technet into a comic book at some point.

The CEREBRO character file on Technet begins at 43:38.

(Content Advisory: Gatecrasher and Technet are generally pretty lighthearted, but they are adjacent to stories involving sexual violence, substance abuse, and suicide.)

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0:00.0	It's sort of like the time traveler's wife, except that like instead of your husband, it's a bunch of alien bounty hunters who want to capture you and deliver you to Opaluna Saturnine. And they're going to try their damnedest, but they will be confusing because you don't know when the last time you spoke to them was. And they don't really clarify. And they don't care. No, not particularly. Your confusion is not their responsibility.
0:21.9	X-Men. In the 21st century, evil mutants led by Magneto aimed to destroy the world.
0:33.9	Only hope is X-Men.
0:40.3	Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast.
0:42.3	We're a Homo and his friends dig deep into the history of Homo Superior.
0:46.3	I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith.
0:48.3	And with me today is Jadzia Axelrod, best known for her work at DC Comics, first on her original graphic novel,
0:56.8	Galaxy, then on the miniseries Hawk Girl, in which Galaxy was a supporting character. Jadzia,
1:03.8	how are you today? I'm great. Very happy to be here. Happy to talk about comic books. Happy to talk
1:10.4	about Excalibur, one of my favorite comic books of all
1:13.7	time. And so this is all great for me. Excellent. I'm excited to have you here. We first talked about
1:19.6	this a long time ago, and I appreciate your patience. 2020. Yeah, I think it's been three years, which is not, you know, and I was like, I'll get to them
1:30.3	eventually.
1:31.3	I will, I will.
1:32.3	And then we'll talk about it.
1:33.3	But I do want to paint a picture of the first time we met.
1:36.3	Sure.
1:37.3	Just so the audience knows a little history.
1:39.3	And that was at FlameCon in 2022.
1:41.3	We are at a FlameCon party.
1:43.3	Anthony Olivier graciously introduced me to you.
1:47.6	And I mentioned that I would like to be on Cerebro and you always inquisitive, always curious,
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