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Mutant Menace
Comedians Matt Aukamp (Save Your Game, The Very Worst) and Pat Reber (The Very Worst) read the X-Men in chronological order and talk about all the weird, funny, ridiculous, insightful, and interesting things within.
Episodes
Mutant Menace28 - The Dark Phoenix Saga: Uncanny X-Men #129-137 w/ Quinton Alexander
GIANT-SIZED SPECTACULAR This is a big one folks. An epic episode for an epic story. The Dark Phoenix Saga is one of the most transformative and dramatic…
Mutant Menace27 - The Champions #11-17
Issues Covered: The Champions #11-17, Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #17-18, Incredible Hulk Annual #7 We’re losing our goddamn minds. In the second…
Mutant Menace26 - The Champions #1-10
Matt and Pat are depriving themselves of sleep so that they can bring you a marathon episode of TEN ISSUES of THE CHAMPIONS in a row! It's gonna be a wild…
Mutant Menace25 - Uncanny X-Men #125-128, Annual #3 - Proteus
Not much of an intro this week. We've really gotta start doing more X-Men related stuff, I guess. But then we get into a rip-roaring, intense few issues where…
Mutant Menace24 - Uncanny X-Men #120-124 - Alpha Flight/Arcade
PLUS: Power Man & Iron Fist #56-57 After an unbelievably long journey, the X-Men FINALLY MAKE it home! But first, they have to stop in Calgary, Alberta and…
Mutant Menace23 - Uncanny X-Men #114-119 - The Savage Land
The last we saw the X-Men, they were in dire straits! Most of the team was about to be buried under a flood of lava in an underground laboratory in the middle…
Mutant Menace22 - Havok & Polaris
Issues: Marvel Team-Up #69-70, Defenders #62-65 Last we saw Alex Summers, Havok, and Lorna Dane, Polaris, they were being blasted point-blank by the…
Mutant Menace21 - X-Men #109-113 - The Return of Magneto
Issues: X-Men #109-113 Pat won’t stop getting horned-up for the X-Men, but it’s hard to blame him when we’re reading comics as hot as these ones! With John…
Mutant Menace20 - X-Men #106-108 - To Space and Back
Issues: X-Men #106-108, Marvel Team-Up Annual #1, Marvel Team-Up #53, Iron Fist #15 It's a stunning conclusion to the X-Men's first galactic adventure AND Dave…
Mutant Menace19 - X-Men #101-105 - The Phoenix
WELCOME NEW LISTENERS! You're just in time for the return (?) of a beloved character who we were POSITIVE died last issue! Matt watched New Mutants (2020), Pat…
Mutant Menace18 - X-Men #94-100 - The Chris Claremont Era
Matt and Pat cover the entire first year of the legendary CHRIS CLAREMONT run on the X-Men. From Moira MacTaggert to the fate of Thunderbird to Steven Lang to…
Mutant Menace17 - Giant Size X-Men #1 w/ Alex Goldman
Before Matt and Pat took on one of the most important X-Men issues of ALL TIME, we needed to bring in a heavy hitter. Alex Goldman, from the podcast…
Mutant MenaceBONUS - The Story So Far (1-16) w/ Sine Wave Seán
In this SPECIAL BONUS RECAP EPISODE, lucky listener Sine Wave Seán joins Matt and Pat (who are actually the lucky ones!) to bring listeners up to speed on all…
Mutant Menace16 - The Dark Era: Enter, the Wolverine!
Issues: Defenders #15-16, Hulk #180-182, Giant-Size Fantastic Four #4 What’s that we see? Some light shining in the distance of this dark, dark void? Well…
Mutant Menace15 - The Dark Era: Secret Empire
Issues: Marvel Team-Up #4, Avengers #103-104 & #110-111, Captain America #172-175 The X-Men are STILL CANCELLED so Matt and Pat continue to scrape the bottom…
Mutant Menace14 - The Dark Era: Beast Transformed
Issues: Hulk #150, Amazing Adventures #11-17, Hulk #161, Hulk #172 The X-Men are cancelled and we're swimming in a dark, tideless sea of 1970's Marvel comics…
Mutant Menace13 - X-Men #63-66 - The X-Men Are Cancelled!
It’s the end of an era. The X-Men go out like a… well, you’ll hear the metaphor. Neal Adams and Roy Thomas both say goodbye, but not together as the X-Men get…
Mutant Menace12 - X-Men #58-62 - Havok and Sauron
FULL SWING into the legendary NEAL ADAMS/ROY THOMAS run and Matt and Pat are finally absolutely loving the X-Men. We finally meet Havok in earnest and a…
Mutant MenaceBONUS – The Origins of Beast & Angel w/ Escape the Mojoverse!
Hosts of Escape the Mojoverse, Allison and Matt Parent, join Matt and Pat to tackle the Butt Pages (#buttissues) of the last several issues of the X-Men. We…
Mutant Menace11 - X-Men #54-57 - The Roy Thomas/Neil Adams Run Begins!
We're coming now to the end of the long, epic, generational Arnold Drake run and things start getting good!? Legendary artist Neal Adams joins the book with…
Mutant Menace10 - X-Men #48-53 - Arnold Drake and Polaris
Matt and Pat get bold this episode and cover SIX WHOLE ISSUES of the very short but very interesting Arnold Drake run on The X-Men. Sandwiched between two of…
Mutant Menace9 - X-Men #43-47 - Gary Friedrich and the End of the X-Men
PLUS, Issue #53 of The Avengers! A brand new writer, Gary Friedrich, joins the X-Men creative team and PROMPTLY DESTROYS THEM. Also, Matt went to a comic book…
Mutant Menace8 - X-Men #38-42 - The Death of Professor X and Cyclops' Origin
It’s a wrap on Factor Three, folks, as the X-Men’s final confrontation with the MUTANT MASTER wraps up. You know, the MUTANT MASTER, the biggest villain ever…
Mutant Menace7 – X-Men #33–37 - Spider-Man and Factor Three
This episode starts with a conversation about trash hoarding and ends with a conversation about the etymology of the term “69”… So…. Buckle up? Werner Roth’s…
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6 - X-Men #28-32 - Banshee and More Obscure Villains
Mimic is now a full-fledged member of the team as Factor Three begins to close in! Roy Thomas and Werner Roth continue their parade of weirdo villains, and…
Mutant Menace5 - X-Men #23-27 - Roy Thomas's Obscure Villain Parade
Matt and Pat bring you another stunning episode of Mutant Menace, as the Roy Thomas era continues, bringing you a parade of obscure villains that will…
Mutant Menace4 - X-Men #18-22 - The Mimic and the End of the Stan Lee Era
Okay, I lied in last episode's show notes. We left you on a cliff-hanger again. But I PROMISE we won't do it again here. Werner Roth is off and running as Stan…
Mutant Menace3 - X-Men #13-17 - Juggernaut and the Sentinels
Welcome to another episode of Mutant Menace ...! Sorry we left you on a cliff-hanger last time! we certainly won't do it again here... ! Matt and Pat say…
Mutant Menace2 - X-Men #7-12 - Magneto and Lucifer
This episode, Matt and Pat encounter a veritable parade of long-time X-Men villains limping their way into and out of fights with our mutant heroes! The Blob…
Mutant Menace1 - X-Men #1-6 - The Original X-Men and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
In our INAUGURAL EPISODE, Matt Aukamp and Pat Reber (former hosts of The Very Worst) talk about the first six issues of the X-Men, from 1966. Written by Stan…
Mutant MenaceMutant Menace - Trailer
Mutant Menace is a BRAND NEW podcast where Matt Aukamp (Save Your Game, The Very Worst) and Pat Reber (The Very Worst) talk about every issue of the X-Men…