Today we talk about Whitney Frost, who is a crime nepo baby, has a complicated relationship with Tony Stark, and wears a pretty cool gold mask when she's doing her crimes.

What we were up to this week:

• Briar finally read Marvel United: A Pride Special (2025) #1
• Olivia has some Doug updates from the current X-Men run

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Today we talk about Parker Robbins, who was a normal man doing normal crimes for normal reasons until he shot a demon and took his magical cloak and boots, so then he could do increasingly elaborate crimes as the Hood.

What we were up to this week:

• Briar is still working on that crochet cardigan and reading the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb
• Olivia read X-Men: Hellfire Vigil (2025) #1 and X-Men (2024) #19

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Today we talk about Arnie Roth, who was Steve Roger's childhood friend and protector before they lost touch after the war, but they rekindled their friendship after Arnie needed help saving his good pal Michael.

What we were up to this week:

• Briar has been dealing with Ants
• Olivia hasn't read anything... yet. Stay tuned for Hellfire Vigil (2025) thoughts, probably.

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Today we talk about Paladin, who never really gets a secret identity but DOES love to do jobs for money.

What we were up to this week:

• Briar was recovering from illness so didn't really do much
• Olivia DID catch up on comics, including DC Pride (2025) #1, Marvel United: A Pride Special (2025) #1, Imperial (2025) #1, Avengers Academy: Assemble (2025) #1, and Runaways (2025) #1

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Today we talk about Amora, best known as Enchantress, who really wants to date Thor but in, like, an evil way.

What we were up to this week:

• Briar and Olivia didn't read any comics but are excited to read the Pride specials when they get their hands on them
• Briar worked on some crochet
• Olivia watched the Tony's

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Today we talk about Ghost, who was never really given a civilian identity and might be lying about his backstory, but just suuuuuper hates really rich tech companies. And he's right to do it.

What we were up to this week:

• Briar went to Dimension 20 Live and it was very fun
• Olivia read Giant-size X-Men (2025) #1, bonded with a coworker over comics, and was subsequently lent Something Is Killing The Children
• We're looking forward to reading DC Pride (2025) #1 and Jonathan Hickman's Imperial (2025) #1 that came out recently, and the Deadpool/Batman crossover coming this fall

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Today we talk about Tom Tresser, best known as Nemesis, who doesn't have any powers but he is a cool spy.

What we were up to this week:

• Briar finished Translation State by Ann Leckie, and has been working on various crafts
• Olivia caught up on some comics, including Supergirl (2025) #1 and (kinda) Thunderbolts: Doomstrike (2025) #4 and had a good time at Anime Boston!
• also Runaways (2025) #1 comes out June 11! Very excited.

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Today we talk about Eve Eden, best known as Nightshade, on account of her mom is from the Nightshade dimension and she has cool shadow magic.

What we were up to this week:

• Briar saw Thunderbolts, but otherwise is still just reading Ann Leckie books and getting ready to go see Dimension 20 live
• Olivia went to a reunion and had a great time

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Today we talk about June Moone, who initially got magic powers to fight an evil ghost, turned evil because of Supergirl, and eventually ended up separating and re-combining with her Evil Enchantress Persona several times.

What we were up to this week:

• Briar is reading more of Ann Leckie's novels (big surprise)
• Olivia really enjoyed the Amadeus Cho 20th Anniversary Special

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Today we talk about Rory Regan, who for a while simply had the powers of his dad's coolest friends, until his backstory got wrapped up in ancient lore.

What we were up to this week:

• Neither one of us read anything, but we had a good time picking up our Free Comic Book Day comics!

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