Comic Books, Drag Race, & Life in New Zealand
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This week the HiX-Men Report has a very special midterm evaluation for Jonathan Hickman’s House of X and Powers of X.
We’ve been going through this run with a fine-toothed comb every week, but now that we’re at the halfway point are we really loving it? And, what are our most wild predictions for the second half.
(Zach has one word for you: PLANTINELS.)
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In our third session of playing X-Men 20 Questions, Fangirl and I tackle some big topics.
Do the X-Men have a moral responsibility to use their powers to better the world? Should Iceman be donating ice to charity or saving our melting ice caps? Does he really have any time for baseball games?
Plus, Fangirl tries to stump me by asking why Gambit carries around so many playing cards (and I go off about the mechanics of Gambit’s powers in response).
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The HiX-Men Report returns to the present day with this week’s issue of House of X, which finally brings a particularly sassy mutant into the story and sets up a major confrontation that might decide the future of the mutant race!
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Fangirl and I are back with the second part of our 20 Questions session! This time we tackle what makes a great X-Men story, if the Jean Grey love triangle is really a thing, Magneto’s history as a survivor of the Holocaust, and more!
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As a complement to our weekly HiX-Men Report, Fangirl and I assembled on our own to tackle 20 big questions about the X-Men.
Part of what makes the Report so unique is that Fangirl is a relatively new X-Men reader, despite being a voracious consumer of thousands of comics each year. She comes to every issue of Hickman’s X-Men with fresh eyes, but we don’t get to tackle every one of her X-questions in our panel format. Also, as someone who has been making guides aimed at new X-Men fans for almost a decade, I also had some questions for Fangirl’s fresh eyes!
In this first of four episodes, we talk Magneto’s helmet, the Phoenix Force, the best leader of mutantkind, and more!