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X-Factor (2020) #5 – Resurrection Drama and The Krakoan Community | This Week in X!

December 3, 2020 by krisis

It’s “This Week in X” for X-Factor (2020) #5, released 2 December 2020! This is a full-spoilers post and episode.X-Factor (2020) #5

The premise set up by this issue is that The Five want X-Factor’s oversight on more than just proof of death. They’re asking them for the go-ahead to continue with resurrections after Rockslide’s troubled return at the beginning of X of Swords (the details which it doesn’t seem like Lorna has shared with the rest of this group).

X-Factor (2020) #5 really needed this episode all to itself to spread out, because there are a STAGGERING amount of characters for us to cover in this issue – so many we don’t quite mention them all (sorry Mercury!).

We discuss many of those characters; the post-X of Swords resurrection drama as it relates to Wind Dancer, Rockslide, and Gorgon; Leah Williams’ masterful Emma Frost; terrific and heartbreaking data pages; and how well Leah Williams and David Baldeon weave a complex sense of community on Krakoa.

Join Peter, Tyler, and Fariha’s specially-nominated guest New Mutant, Harry, for this epic discussion on “This Week in X,” the show where we cover every in-continuity X-Men comic book released by Marvel, every week.

Now that X of Swords has ended, we’ll be posting an individual video for each X-Men issue every week, with our combined conversation (plus our intro discussions!) presented as a single podcast episode.


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Need help making sense of reading and collecting the X-Men? Crushing Comics can help!

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Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Age of Krakoa, David Baldeon, Leah Williams, Reign of X, This Week In X, Video, X-Factor, X-Men

Recapping X of Swords, Week 2: X-Factor (2020) #4 and the politics of resurrection on Krakoa | This Week in X

October 1, 2020 by krisis

Join the former HiX-Men Report as we dive into the second week of the 22-chapter X of Swords crossover as it hits Leah Williams’ X-Factor (2020) #4.

In this episode we discuss the philosophy & bureaucracy of resurrection, the dissent inherent in community, the value of internal monologues, root cause analysis, my love for a certain rocky mutant, and more!


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Want to relive the deepest dive into HOXPOX on the entire internet? In 2019 we recorded nearly 24hrs of content covering House of X and Powers of X (with me providing musical interludes for most of the episodes) on The HiX-Men Report.

Need help making sense of the X-Men? Visit my comprehensive guides to reading and collecting Marvel Comics or my definitive X-Men Reading Order.

Want to read more X-Factor? Visit my Definitive Guide to X-Factor!

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Age of Krakoa, Leah Williams, This Week In X, Video, X of Swords, X-Factor, X-Men

Sabretooth, Victor Creed – The Definitive Reading Order and Collecting Guide

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Crushing Comics S01E055 – Why I can’t meditate + X-Men: Fall of the Mutants

January 5, 2018 by krisis

As I unwrap today’s book, I talk about my inability to meditate in the traditional “relaxed mind” version of meditation. For me, meditation comes from engaging my brain in something. For some people that’s a zen koan, but for me it’s more like alphabetizing books or organizing files.

The book I unwrap after all that musing is X-Men: Fall of the Mutants, the “crossover that was not.” I explain how it began the unravelling of the main X-Men team and how it marked the highlight of Louise Simonson’s run on X-Factor.

Want to start from the beginning of this season of videos? Here’s the complete Season 1 playlist of Crushing Comics.

Episode 55 features X-Men: Fall of the Mutants, covered in the Guide to Uncanny X-Men by Chris Claremont.

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Chris Claremont, Collected Editions, Crushing Comics, Marvel Comics, Uncanny X-Men, X-Factor, X-Men

Crushing Comics S01E054 – X-Men Inferno & Operation: Zero Tolerance (+ the vicarious thrill of natural disasters)

January 4, 2018 by krisis

As I unwrap I talk about the combined thrill and terror of living through natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes. I always said that Philly was relatively immune to such apocalyptic events, but now I live right on a fault line (and right on the water).

Then, I open what might be the most sought-after X-Men hardcover today – Inferno! Is the story worth all of the hype and high prices? I walk you through how it came to be, including a brief history of Madelyne Pryor, and speculate if it was Chris Claremont’s way of “fixing” his master plan after the debut of X-Factor. (I have much less to say about Operation Zero Tolerance.)

Want to start from the beginning of this season of videos? Here’s the complete Season 1 playlist of Crushing Comics.

Episode 54 features X-Men: Inferno and X-Men: Operation Zero Tolerance, which are covered in the guides to Uncanny X-Men by Chris Claremont and X-Men (1991), respectively.

Filed Under: Crushing On Tagged With: Chris Claremont, Collected Editions, Crushing Comics, Inferno, Marc Silvestri, Marvel Comics, X-Factor, X-Men

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