Episode 49 – X-Men: X-Cutioner’s Song
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Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2016
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Kait, Renata, and their guest Megan (of Academic Inquiry Into Popular Culture) read X-Men: X-Cutioner’s Song by Scott Lobdell, Peter David & Fabian Nicieza, with art by Brandon Peterson, Jae Lee, Andy Kubert, & Greg Capullo. It’s an X-citing Peak 90s comics crossover event, featuring an overload of X-Men, X-Factor, X-Force, and X-tra tight Spandex. Come for the incomprehensible Apocolypse-tic time travel space clone adventures, stay because Renata’s Gambit voice has awakened something inside of you, cherie.
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Footnotes: X-Cutioner’s Song story arc
Setting Up Your First Pull List
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Candy pairing: Kait says Pizza Hut Personal Pan Pizza, Megan says Fruit by the Foot, Renata says French Toast Crunch.
Coming up next: X-Men 3: The Last Stand movie novelization by Chris Claremont.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about ungrateful, superpowered time-traveling children so you don't have to. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:22.0 | And for this episode, we read X-Men Executioner song by various authors and artists. |
| 0:28.9 | Joining us to discuss this Marvel crossover comics event is Megan, professional pop culture |
| 0:34.5 | ruiner. |
| 0:35.4 | Hello, Megan. |
| 0:36.7 | Hey, how are you guys doing? Pretty excellent. |
| 0:41.4 | Yeah, I nailed it. Kate, how are you? I'm pretty excited to, uh, to dive into this. |
| 0:51.9 | Excellent. I actually, so, so I started reading X-Men comics in the 90s. |
| 0:57.9 | That was when the 90s cartoon was on. |
| 1:01.7 | My dad was reading them. |
| 1:03.4 | So I would take his comics and read them. |
| 1:06.0 | So this was really kind of like coming home for me. |
| 1:12.1 | This was strange for me to read because, obviously if you've listened to the podcast before, |
| 1:18.7 | you've probably gathered that Kate and I both love X-Men. |
| 1:21.8 | And when I was a kid, I did love the 90s, X-Men comic, or I mean cartoon. |
| 1:26.3 | But that was really my introduction to X-Men |
| 1:28.8 | was just the cartoon. |
| 1:30.9 | And I'm not totally sure if I understood that there were X-Men comics. |
| 1:35.0 | Like, I think for a long time to me, it was just kind of another Saturday morning cartoon |
| 1:38.8 | that was on, like, you know, with Eek the Cat and whatever. |
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