HOU13: Cyclops is Krang

About this episode

The episode discusses various comic book storylines and characters while reflecting on nostalgia for the MCU.

What is the Ultimates network? How does it work? Why does this guy look an awful lot like Captain America? What’s the deal with Mr Negative? Who’s really dead? Where’s Sabretooth going? Can Wolverine make it without him? How cool is the new sword though? What has been going on with the X-Men? Will this issue spell things out for us? (mostly) Listen to more of our nostalgia for the MCU die in the middle of this one. We also complain about the X-Men and might finally be caught up on the news to be relevant again. We talk about Ultimates 16, Ultimate Spider-Man 21, and X-Men 20 and, Ultimate Wolverine 9 & 10 Next time we’ll talk about Ultimates 17, Ultimate Spider-Man 22, Ultimate Wolverine 11, Ultimate X-Men 21. Recommendations: Maggie The Mechanic (Love & Robots), Swamp Thing (Moore, Bisette, Totleben), Local Hero

Topics covered

• Ultimates network
• X-Men
• MCU nostalgia
• comic book discussion
• Wolverine
• Captain America

Keywords

• Ultimates
• X-Men
• Wolverine
• Captain America
• comic books
• MCU
• nostalgia

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Ultimates 16, Ultimate Spider-Man 21, X-Men 20, Ultimate Wolverine 9 & 10, Ultimates 17, Ultimate Spider-Man 22, Ultimate Wolverine 11, Ultimate X-Men 21, Maggie The Mechanic (Love & Robots), Swamp Thing (Moore, Bisette, Totleben)

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