Graymalkin Lane the podcast

In 1970, Jerry Siegel wrote a 3-part Angel story that was reprinted in a few issues of Ka-Zar and then Marvel Tales! This episode, we review the first part of this story, which features Angel, Candy …

It's the trial of Chad's favorite villain, Sauron! Karl Lykos is a psychiatrist, but also a psychic vampire pterodactyl man who has all kinds of super-powers! One of the X-Men's most longstanding foe…

Graymalkin Lane briefly enters the Age of Apocalypse as we continue our coverage of flashback month stories! On another world, a goateed Mr. Sinister has created the genetic offspring of Cyclops and …

It's the public release of my focused episode on Ebenezer Laughton, the Scarecrow, with the hilarious horror writer, Clay McLeod Chapman! Initially a circus contortionist with some bank-robbing crows…

Emma Frost arrives on Graymalkin Lane! This week we review Generation X -1, a flashback into the lives of a teenage Emma Frost interfacing with the Hellfire Club for the first time, but first she cro…

To finish out our week of celebration this week, where we wrap up volume 1 of the X-Men, Chad hosts a Silver Age Jeopardy game! All of the questions come from content covered on this show thus far. W…

A year ago, Chad had the chance to interview Roy Thomas all about his early work on the X-Men. And I had the amazing fortune to interview him again for this episode! We cover the latter half of Silve…

It's the end of an era! The first volume of the X-Men comes to a close with number 66! Professor X is alive again and he's so tired and he needs the Hulk to save him! Chad is joined by the hilarious …

Chad and his charming friend Bradley Clayton discuss Tommy and Cybelle, two small players in the mutant world, casualties from he Morlock Massacre, and both characters queer icons in their own right.…

X-Men 65! Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams bring us an amazing issue of the X-Men. Professor X is alive! Turns out it was the Changeling who died in his place. And Xavier is just in time to unite the mind…

It's the trial of Kevin Reginald Plunder... Ka-Zar! The Lord of the Savage Land, the Son of the Tiger himself! Ka-Zar, over 60 years of publication history, has been redefined multiple times as he fa…

Nightcrawler arrives on Graymalkin Lane! Working in the flashback issues from 1997 to the show's line-up means we get to meet Kurt Wagner, the swashbuckling, teleporting, blue furry elf himself, who …

Chuck Austen returns to the show for a Patreon episode all about one of his most beloved creations, Sammy Pare, Squid Boy! Sammy comes from a home full of abuse, and it gets worse when his mutant pow…

It's the first appearance of Sunfire! And Fabian Nicieza! Fabian (who is hilarious and wrote the first Marvel comic book I ever read) talks all about his historic run on the Thunderbolts, which has a…

it's the public release of episode all about Wallflower with author Tristan Palmgren! Wallflower, Laurie Collins, is part of the most tragic class of students at Xavier's school. With the power to ma…

Angel Revelations! Chad is joined by an incredible panel of guests, including Shelby Criswell (Queer as All Get Out!), Steenz, Andrew Drilon, and Rohan Zhou-Lee, and we review the Marvel Knights seri…

Chad and Jean-Grey-superfan Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos delve deep into the family of Jean Grey! John and Elaine Grey were loving parents of two daughters, Sara and Jean, and everything changed when th…

All-star episode! Tom Brevoort is back! Along with Steve Foxe! And Ariana Maher! We talk all about crazy retroactive continuity (ranging from the Invaders to the Illuminati) and then delve deep on an…

It's the Trial of Sean Cassidy, the beloved Banshee (now calling himself Vox Ignis). This character has been a villain, a hero, an ancillary X-Man, an Interpol agent, a hot zaddy teacher, a zombie, a…

In the mid-90s, Gregory Wright wrote Silver Sable and the Wild Pack, a series featuring an incredible feminist character and her hand-selected team of mercenaries (which included a lesbian assassin, …