Today we talk about the Stepford Cuckoos, a group of psychically linked sisters, also known as The Five-In-One or The Three-In-One depending on if Sophie and Esme are alive or not!

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-The Stepford Wives
-The Midwich Cuckoos
-New X-Men (2001) #118
-New X-Men (2004)
-X-Men: Phoenix - Endsong (2005)
-X-Men: Phoenix - Warsong (2006)
-Nation X (2009) #4
-Chaos War: X-Men (2010)
-X-23 (2018)
-Hellfire Gala outfit from Marauders #21
-second Hellfire Gala outfit from Maurauders #22

-Something is Killing the Children and House of Slaughter
-A Thing Called Truth
-The Human Target (2021)
-Dark Knights of Steel (2021)

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Today we talk about the X-Men, which is a bit of a daunting task because you could have an entire podcast dedicated to talking about the X-Men because there's so much that happens, but! Here is an overview, if you will.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-X-Men/Uncanny X-Men (1963)
-Giant-Size X-Men (1975) #1
-Dark Phoenix Saga (1980) event
-Days of Future Past (1981) event
-God Loves, Man Kills (extended cut)
-New Mutants (1982)
-X-Factor (1986)
-Excalibur (1988)
-Alpha Flight (1983)
-X-Force (1991)
-Age of Apocalypse (1995) event
-X-Cutioner's Song (1992) event
-X-Tinction Agenda (1991) event
-Generation X (1994)
-X-Men (1991)
-New X-Men (2001)
-Astonishing X-Men (2004)
-House of M (2005)
-Messiah CompleX (2007) event
-Messiah War (2009) event
-Second Coming (2010) event
-Schism (2011) event
-Avengers VS X-Men (2012) event
-All-New X-Men (2012)
-Death of Wolverine (2014)
-House of X/Powers of X (2019)
-X-Men (2019)
-X-Men (2021)
-Marauders (2019)
-Excalibur (2019)
-Hellfire Gala (2021) event
-Trial of Magneto (2021)

-Challenge of the Super Sons (2020) (print copies combine 2 digitals each issue)
-Blue and Gold (2021) #3
-Superman: Son of Kal-El (2021) #4

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Today we talk about Floyd Lawton—best known as Deadshot—a Batman villain and Suicide Squad member who is extremely good at two things: 1) shooting guns, and 2) lying to his therapist.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-Batman (1940) #59
-Detective Comics (1937) #474
-Detective Comics (1937) #518
-Crisis on Infinite Earths (1986) reading order
-Legends (1986)
-Suicide Squad (1987)
-Identity Crisis (2004) #5
-Deadshot (1988)
-Deadshot (2005)
-Villains United (2005)
-Salvation Run (2008)
-Underworld Unleashed (1995) reading order
-Secret Six (2008)
-Suicide Squad (2011)
-Justice League of America (2013) #7.1
-Suicide Squad (2019) #9

-Interim by Allissa Chan
-Cancelled Aquaman spinoff was really a Black Manta solo film
-Brendan Fraser cast as Firefly in Batgirl movie

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Today we talk about Brainiac, a villain who was once just a guy who shrunk and stole cities, and through comics evolution became a sapient supercomputer who also sometimes shrinks and steals cities.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-Holy Musical B@man "You ever hear of Mr. Mxyzptlk?"
-Showcase Presents: Superman
-Crisis on Infinite Earths (1986) reading order
-Adventures of Superman (1987) #438
-Superman: Panic in the Sky (1992)
-Superman: The Doomsday Wars (1998)
-Superman: The City of Tomorrow (2000)
-Superman: Brainiac (2008)
-Superman: Last Stand of New Krypton (2010)
-Superman: War of the Supermen (2010)
-R.E.B.E.L.S. (2009): Son of Brainiac
-Convergence (2015) reading order
-Justice League: No Justice (2018)

-Fangs by Sarah Andersen
-Hello Neighbor... zine
-Rodney R. Rodney webcomic (on webtoon)
-Briar's moderately popular tiktok
-Superman: Son of Kal-El (2021)
-Challenge of the Super Sons (2020)
-Fingerstripes are BACK
-Superman & Robin Special announcement
-The Batman trailer

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Today we talk about Max Lord, a businessman who pulled together the Justice League International, got mind-control powers, died, came back, and was apparently evil all along?

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-Justice League International (1987)
-Invasion! reading order
-Formerly Known as the Justice League (2003)
-JLA Classified (2004): I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League
-Countdown to Infinite Crisis (2005) #1
-Superman: Sacrifice (2005)
-Booster Gold (2007)
-Blackest Night (2009)
-Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #1 & #3
-Brightest Day (2010) #0
-Justice League: Generation Lost (2010)
-Justice League vs. Suicide Squad (2016)
-Wonder Woman (2016) #764

-Saga to return January 2022
-Long Exposure vol1 Kickstarter

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Today we talk about Black Manta, whose quest to kill Aquaman is his main character trait, and in trying to determine why that is, he has gotten some truly weird backstories, until they came upon a very normal one.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-Aquaman (1962) #35
-Aquaman (1991) #6
-Aquaman (2002) #8
-Black Manta (2021) #1
-Superboy (1993) #20
-Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis (2006) #52
-Brightest Day (2010) #1
-Aquaman (2011) #9

-Batman webtoon
-Don't Go Without Me
-Love Condemns Her
-Control Option Shift
-DC Fandome
-Tom King's Human Target announcement

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Today we talk about Nathaniel Richards, probably best known as Kang the Conqueror, Iron Lad, or Immortus, though through time travel (his whole Thing) and alternate universe versions, he's been a lot of different guys.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-Avengers (1963) #8
-Fantastic Four (1961) #19
-Avengers Annual (1967) #2
-Avengers (1963) #10
-Giant-Size Avengers (1974) #3
-Young Avengers (2005)
-Avengers: The Children's Crusade (2010)
-FF (2012) #8
-Avengers (2012) #34
-Exiles (2018)
-Avengers (1963) #23
-The Avengers (1963) #69
-Avengers (1963) #267
-Citizen Kang (1992)
-Avengers (1963) #129
-Avengers (1998) #38
-Avengers (1963) #292
-Edge of Spider-Geddon (2018) #1
-Avengers (2016) #1-6
-Loki on Disney+

-The Department of Truth
-ShortBox comics fair twitter

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Today we talk about The Eternals, who are a group of people who were experimented on by Celestials and now they have powers. Some of them are on Uranus, some on Titan, and some on Earth. The ones on Earth do some superhero team stuff sometimes!

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-Eternals (1976)
-Thor Annual (1966) #7
-The Eternals (1985)
-The New Eternals: Apocalypse Now (2000)
-The Eternal (2003)
-Eternals (2006) by Neil Gaiman
-Eternals (2008)
-Avengers (2018) #1
-Eternals (2021)

-Blue & Gold (2021) #2
-X-Factor (2005)
-Hawkeye trailer

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Today we talk about the various Heralds of Galactus, because he's had so many more than just the Silver Surfer! Some of them get fired, some of them die, some of them quit, and some of them turn into androids.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-Fantastic Four (1961) #120
-Thor (1966) #305
-Thor (1966) #225
-Silver Surfer (1987) #81
-Thanos (2003) #11
-Fantastic Four (1961) #211
-Fantastic Four (1961) #258
-New Warriors (1990) #1
-Fantastic Four (1961) #164
-Fantastic Four (1961) #244
-Heralds (2010) #1
-Silver Surfer (1987) #69
-Silver Surfer (1987) #109
-Stormbreaker: The Saga of Beta Ray Bill (2005) #1
-Annihilation: Silver Surfer (2006) & Annihilation: Heralds of Galactus (2007)
-The Mighty Thor (2011) #1

-Batman: Wayne Family Adventures Webtoon
-Goodbye, Battle Princess Peony & related tweet
-Hawkeye trailer

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Today we talk about Norrid Radd, best known as the Silver Surfer, a sad space man from a flawed utopian planet who became the herald of Galactus to save his planet, betrayed him with the Fantastic Four, and still kicks it around the universe.

Today's mentioned & relevant media:
-Fantastic Four (1961) #48
-Silver Surfer (1968)
-Sub-Mariner (1968) #34
-Silver Surfer (1987)
-Skaar: Son of Hulk (2008) #8
-King in Black (2020) #3

-Invincible (Amazon Prime Original)

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