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Completely agree about Gambit. I've never understood the popularity, he's always felt very one note to me. Plus this 'cool' guy with mop hair in a long coat, throwing playing cards (meh!), weirdly just doesn't fit with the rest of the misfits, nor works with a superhero suit. With Sinister, I often thought he fit the shift that happened with what I group as the 90's villains (Apocalypse, Omega Red etc) where it looks like they've tried create the epitome of evil as appose to the more corrupt or misguided souls of 80's villains. Claremont's explanation was great though, thanks for that - made me think of Sinister in a new light.

Interesting note you make about Silvestri and the accessories he draws (like Logan's hat). It makes me think of Sean Phillips drawing his characters smoking to add a bit of motion/dynamism. It's cool to learn about common attributes of artists and whether there is a reason why they add/include specific accessories. Or maybe there is no profound reason! I get that it sometimes can just come down to design and wanting to make characters look cool!

Is Uncanny Xmen #158 worth buying for my PC?

Happy new year Guys.....thanks for this 😀

happy new year guys :)

Do you know what the name of the channel that reads through the New Mutants?

Is issue of Uncanny Xmen #145 worth buying for a PC ?

Sorry I missed your read through; saw the x babies the other day in the thread and thought, I’ll sit this issue out. although I love the new mutants and featured in those new seemingly random costumes is cool. The x babies story is a fun annual idea but they stretch the idea a lot out before they go with Spiral and whatnot.

I read this issue so many times. The art was amazing 😅

Do y'all know how much is it worth?? Please and thank you

This was my first X-Men comic. This was a great listen, thanks for posting it.

❤ this issue has the best WOLVERINE VS SABERTOOTH.

Love the new intro! Great episode too. It's interesting to read (or re-visit) this issue and see the ramifications of its tone across pretty much the rest of X-Men comics (up into the present day with Krakoa)

Glad you guys got to this point it’s the best although I have always had a soft spot for the mutant liberation front and inferno. Love the oddness and creatures/goblins; so cool.

I have this issue!😊

Paul Smith my favorite Xmen artist

It would be great if you could zoom in closer on each panel as you guys are reading them.

Thanks again for having me, fellas! Always fun to do this with you.

I love how Arcade basically has a sound effect associated with him. Wolverine has SNIKT and Arcade has SFLANNG 😂

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Very cool watching you work on that cover, Jason! I've been scared to try a sketch cover myself. Looking forward to seeing the final result.

Classic. Among some of the first comics I collected. Started an interesting time with Magneto trying to fill Xavier's role. The long Absence of Professor X and the growth of the New Mutants.

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The poster of the 1950s film The Astounding She Monster served as the basis for Phoenix on the cover.

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I think cyborg has had a difficult time bc the better part of two decades contemporary culture has been highlighting the character as a Teen Titan. So I think that notoriety works against the character’s public perception.

I always felt power pack was better suited to the Pixar treatment idk why we as an audience got BIG HERO 6;instead

As I recall, they were playing a long game of “what will my brother think if he ever discovers my powers” with Ilyanna. It was more prominent in the New Mutants if memory serves. With several members gone (Cyclops, Kitty and Wolverine), it made some amount of sense to have a story that would require that they call in some reserve help. By being a magic-based enemy, it let the Amanda/Kurt relationship get some attention and finally broke the tension of Ilyanna revealing herself to Peter. The wraiths weren’t a perfect enemy, but they used this to tie together two concepts that had been separate. From the beginning of his comic, Rom’s weaponry didn’t kill the wraiths; it banished them to a “Limbo” dimension via technology. The “Limbo” where Belasco kept Ilyana was an unrelated place when introduced. Combining those two Limbos into one became an interesting expansion of her dominion and made the marvel universe seem more richly interwoven. I enjoyed it at the time, but “being there” probably helped.

Chris's Banshee is my cognac 🙌 Great episode gentlemen!

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The thing I love is that she basically realizes that she loves gambit more than Magneto but by the time she figures that out, it's too late. Gambit is my favorite X-Men and he finally lived up to his full potential and they actually knew what to do with him to make an impact.v

For who ever chooses Logan… I dare you to actually watch the old cartoon x-men. Wolverine is a punching bag throughout the show.

Swear; “FORGE” was never drawn better!

I am surprised that 2 Canadians didn’t accuse Wendigo of “High Sticking”.

I wish one of the X-men would have taken a detour to England. Since it is Halloween 1980, Tom Riddle is about to do something awful that night.

On Professor X's description of Doug being "Really good at languages: Having read a lot of Marvel around this time, there's this weird thing where you get side stories in less main line books where it really feels like they don't quite know what a mutant is. I remember reading one where a guy who's good at the violin is a mutant because he's just so good at it, but never like inhumanly good.

Nice review my dudes! Vegetative state?

I disagree with the take regarding issue one. When I first read it, that issue sucked me in. I was there with Kitty every step - I felt tired, lost and overwhelmed and it really built up to the anticipation and pay-off of Wolverine's arrival. And yes, Kitty had experienced so much by that point BUT she was the normal one of the team, the everyman. It's right that being stranded in a foreign city should still prove a trying circumstance for her - like it would for anyone of us (especially in the 80s). Anyway, love your book discussions guys!

Such a big book back in the day. The lead up to 137 (back then) kind of reminds me of the feeling leading up to End Game. That double issue climax was something. Byrne and Shooter were at a convention in June '81 and I had them sign several of my books and Shooter wrote in my 137 "and she shall stay dead -Shooter". Back then, you could have as man books signed as you wanted (within reason).

I feel like most X-fans have a before-and-after moment of realization after reading Lifedeath for the first time. Barry Windsor-Smith is so special, and it's on full display here. Great episode! I hope you have an absolute blast at Angouleme :)

I always thought that the cover and it's other takes were loosely based on the sculpture of Pietà by Michelangelo. Great video.

Fun episode! I'm glad you're not covering Secret Wars in any form because I read it in full for the first time recently...what a slog!

Sorry I missed the live guys! That's what you get for skipping a week. "With quarter neither asked nor given" is said here for (I think?) the first time. 44:45. It becomes a biiiig Claremontism.

A rare epic comic book that really was an Event! I think I still have like 10 copies of that one shot!

Was the big wavy hair on women in comics a fashion trend of that era?

Those accents are impressive

This was the very first issue of Uncanny X-Men I ever bought, right off the newsstand at a market near my house in Streetsville, Mississauga. Chris Claremont's writing is perfect, and Paul Smith's lines are elegant, sublime and obviously informed by his work in animation. If aliens descended upon us and asked me to provide them with the best example of comic books as a medium, I'd hand them this issue without a second's hesitation.