Today we talk about Leslie Willis, best known as Livewire, who hates superman, has electric powers, looks really cool, and sometimes does crime.

What we were up to this week:

• Briar watched The People's Joker and a lot of Dimension 20: Unsleeping City
• Olivia hasn't read any comics this week but is excited for Moonstar (2026) #1 and has also been rewatching Hannibal

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Today we talk about three women who have gone by Killer Frost: Crystal Frost, Louise Lincoln, and Caitlin Snow, who have had... varying degrees of misandrist and criminal intents.

What we were up to this week:

• Briar continued working on cosplay
• Olivia didn't read any comics this week but saw some news about new Absolute titles and other new series over at DC including a new Teen Titans lineup!

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Today we talk about Victor Creed, best known as Sabretooth, a mutant whose main goals are to do a bunch of murders and to make Wolverine have a very very bad day, every day he can.

What we were up to this week:

• Briar continues to work on cosplay
• Olivia read some comics, including catching up on Batman (2025), Cyclops (2026) #1, and Superman: Chains of Love (2026)!

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Today we talk about David North (born Christoph Nord) who is mostly known as Maverick or Agent Zero. He's teamed up with Wolverine many times, fought Omega Red many times, and one time he even died and was resurrected by telepathy (somehow).

What we were up to this week:

• Briar found out that Robin Hobb is going to be at Wondercon this year, so has been working on a cosplay for a Realm of the Elderings group
• Olivia drove cross-country

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Today we talk about Pete Wisdom, who is mostly a spy for the British Government except then, because he's a mutant, he gets caught up in X-Men related shenanigans.

What we were up to this week:

• Since we're recording a week early we haven't done anything, so we talk about the possibility (probability?) of Sebastian Stan as Harvey Dent in Batman 2!

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Today we talk about Fantomex, who is an experimental mutant with three brains, an external nervous system, nanobots in his blood, nebulous illusion powers, and several guns.

What we were up to this week:

• Briar wasn't able to work on cosplay but did manage to put some trinkets and prints on their wall and read some more Les Miserables
• Olivia read some comics, including Wiccan: Witches' Road (2025) #2 and DC K.O. Green Lantern Galactic Slam (2026) #1

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Today we talk about Brian Braddock, the original Captain Britain, who keeps getting manipulated by powerful women and getting pulled into Otherworld politics.

What we were up to this week:

• Briar is still recovering from Anime Los Angeles and trying to finish a costume in time for Wondercon in March
• Olivia had a weird week but managed to read a couple comics and pick up even more comics!

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Today we talk about Dr. Will Magnus and his team of Metal Men, which are literally just robots he made out of a single metal and given thoughts, feelings, and personalities through a device he created.

What we were up to this week:
-Nothing!

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Today we talk about Sasha Bordeaux, who was hired to be Bruce Wayne's bodyguard, figured out he was Batman, and then ended up joining Checkmate and becoming a cyborg.

What we were up to this week:

• Briar was mostly just reading more Robin Hobb and getting ready to go to ALA
• Olivia received Spectators for Christmas but hasn't had time to read it yet!

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Today we talk about the women (and very very briefly one man) who have been the villain The Cheetah over the years, and how they came across the mantle and mostly just fight Wonder Woman.

What we were up to this week:

• Briar started watching Dimension 20 Unsleeping City while hand-sewing these Christmas presents
• Olivia checked out Several books from the library to read over break and has managed to read one so far!

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