Episode 238: X-Men – The Sentinels Live! and In the Shadow of … Sauron!

In this episode, we kick off All My Xs, a decade-by-decade look at everyone’s favorite Marvel mutants, the X-Men! First up, it’s the swingin’ 60s – 1969, to be exact, and X-Men #57-61, by Roy Thomas and Neal Adams, published by Marvel Comics!

Adams’s creative and energetic artwork enlivens these issues, in which Scott Summers’ brother, Alex, gets a cool costume to go with his new codename, Havok, and Larry Trask revives his late father’s mutant-hunting robots, the Sentinels! And before they can catch their breath, the X-Men find themselves facing off against the energy-draining half-man, half-Pteranodon known as … Sauron!

Did Larry Trask program these Sentinels with extra snark? Was Karl Lykos bitten by a radioactive Pteranodon? And can our young mutant heroes survive that Danger Room training session known as … The Comics Canon?

In This Episode:

·       Cyclops uses an unfortunate slur

·       A highly sketchy use of Cerebro

·       What if Karl Lykos had been reading Portnoy’s Complaint?

·       X-Men #62-63: Strangers … in a Savage Land! and War in the World Below!

·       The new Fantastic Four movie

·       Cow Tools Daily on Bluesky 

Join us in two weeks as we revisit the birth of the Phoenix with a look at X-Men #101, 104, 107 and 108!

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