The Great X-Pectations Podcast

We give you the who/what/when/where/why. More importantly, we talk about why we love the X-Men, and why you love the X-Men! You can  find our library of episodes at greatxpectations.libsyn.com, or through the Earth2 network at earth2.podbean.com, along with the rest of our Earth2Network pals. Click below to subscribe to our RSS feeds at: https://gxpod.podbean.com/feed/ You can also subscribe on iTunes and Stitcher. Every two weeks, Sean and Gerry sit down to discuss their favorite X-Men related tales. Each episode usually includes discussion of one or two storylines, and will sometimes include a guest host as well!

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Dani Moonstar and Brightwood by June Brigman and Roy Richardson, HeroesCon 2015

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I asked @stevemannionFD to do a recreation of one of my favorite covers, Bret Blevins and Tom Palmer’s Magik #4 (1984). From HeroesCon 2015 If anyone knows where the art for the original cover is hiding, let us know!

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The New Mutants #19, September 1984, cover by Bill Sienkiewicz

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The New Mutants by rileyrossmo @rileyrossmo1 You can hear us dicuss the New Mutants over on the Earth2 Network, beginning with our interview with Bob McLeod! http://earth2.podbean.com/e/great-x-pectations-ep-26-the-new-mutants-with-bob-mcleod/

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I dig @sinKEVitch 's homage to Dave Cockrum's island creation. This appeared in New Mutants #23 (1985). Cockrum first drew Magneto's secret island in the Bermuda Triangle way back in Uncanny X-Men #148.

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Never noticed the background characters in Ron Frenz's cover for Magik #2 (1983). Looks like Jabba the Hutt and a Dr. Seuss character on one side. But who's the bespectacled dude on the other side? Any guesses? steveraker?

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Honestly, Illyana did a pretty solid job keeping the demon thing on the down-low. Until the whole demon barfing thing. That was a bit of a giveaway. 

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Magik by David Aja

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I absolutely love this panel.

Uncanny X-Men #147, July 1981 Dave Cockrum, Josef Rubenstein, and Chris Claremont

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We loved it, too!

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Mystique strikes again! X-Men fans please read!

Most X-Men fans are familiar with the story told by Chris Claremont and John Romita Jr. in Uncanny X-Men #185, where Storm saves Rogue from Forge's Neutralizer, losing her own powers over the elements in the process. What many may have forgotten is that Storm knew where to find Rogue because Mystique told her. The interaction is mentioned in an Editor's Note as happening in a future issue of Marvel Fanfare.

What even fewer fans remember is that the conversation between Storm and Mystique took place in the backup story for Marvel Fanfare #40, a full 4 years after UXM 185 was published. In MF #40, Mystique and Destiny reveal that Destiny foresaw what would happen to Storm, and neither of them warned her.

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We disucss this in episode 35 of Great X-Pectations!

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We disucss this in episode 35 of Great X-Pectations!

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We disucss this in episode 35 of Great X-Pectations!

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Illyana and Dani awake in S'ym's care after escaping to Limbo here in New Mutants #17 pg. 9 by Claremont, Buscema, and Mandrake.

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Here’s Illyana, Magik!  This was a ton o fun!

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We disucss this in episode 35 of Great X-Pectations!

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Hellions by thegeneha

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