Episode 266 – X-Men: Phalanx Covenant
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
We’re kicking off this year’s Flashback Summer with a trip back to the early 90s, when Kait and her brother Brendan were reading the big X-Men X-Over event: Phalanx Covenant. If you were wondering if Wolverine is in this one: oh yeah, bub! Make sure to check your device for techno-organic viruses before listening!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: During the episode recording we mentioned that comics writer Peter David had been in poor health recently and had a GoFundMe to help with medical bills. Sadly, since the time of the recording, Peter David has passed away. The GoFundMe is still active to help his widow with medical debt. (God bless America…)
Legendary Comic Book Creator Peter David Dies at 68
Phalanx Covenant Comic Reading Order
Coming up next: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers where we read about Banshee's Bad Day, so you don't have to. |
| 0:15.1 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:16.4 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:18.0 | And for this episode, we read X-Men, Falanks Covenant. |
| 0:21.5 | Joining us to discuss this 90s X-over extravaganza is Kate's brother Brendan. |
| 0:28.8 | Whoa, Kate, we got your brother. |
| 0:31.1 | That's a huge gift for us. |
| 0:34.5 | Hi, Brendan. |
| 0:36.0 | Hi, yeah. |
| 0:36.7 | My question is, have you run out of actual guests or? |
| 0:42.9 | It's great for the bottom of the barrel of year. |
| 0:44.7 | Did someone cancel last minute, I guess is what I'm asking. |
| 0:49.9 | Well, this is a great fit for our first flashback summer episode of the year. |
| 0:55.7 | Listeners, if you're new to the concept of flashback summer, it's when we take a little summer vacation and revisit books that we fondly remember from our childhood or sometimes that our guests fondly remembers and that we don't know. |
| 1:10.0 | And just sort of bathe in nostalgia and not worry so much about the terrible new |
| 1:18.2 | romanticcy of the day or whatever else we've been reading lately. |
| 1:22.8 | This one is a childhood remembrance of both me and our guest, who is my brother, as previously |
| 1:30.7 | stated, because we read these, we were X-Men comic readers in the 90s, thanks to our dad. |
| 1:39.1 | Yeah, I mean, I have, when you kind of asked me a while back, it wasn't last minute, if I wanted to be a guest and you were looking for suggestions, you gave me the concept of flashback summer. |
| 1:51.9 | I think I just floated like, hey, what about one of those X-Men things from the 90s? |
| 1:56.0 | And you're like, that isn't a bad idea. |
| 1:57.6 | And then I was trying to pare down which ones weren't like 70 issues long. |
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