X-Men Horoscopes

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

This week on X-Men Horoscopes Justin Wilder, co-host of the X-Wife Podcast, joins our host for a massive fight against the Juggernaut! We have a cast of rookie X-Men against him and they get beat up good.

Also in this episode:

• how to get YOUR partner into X-Men comics

• how X-Men trading cards got Lodro in trouble with his mom

• Storm understands Doom’s interest in her and is very polite about it

• the Juggernaut comes out of the closet...as a Dazzler fan

• the term "much later" is Claremontian for people f*cking

All this plus why Justin likes the Draco. What does any of this mean for his future? Tune in to find out!

Justin Wilder is a digital content creator from Rhode Island. He’s a co-host of The X-Wife Podcast with his wife Alicia, an elaborate scheme to get her into X-Men comics disguised as a podcast. He’s a full time videographer, photographer and drone pilot who teaches and performs improv comedy in spare time. Outside of work you’ll find him playing disc golf, snowboarding, and exploring the great outdoors.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

With us this week is the hilarious Meg Boland aka PunkerDuckie on Instagram which is just fantastic X-Men memes. We look at her birth month and year issue - Uncanny X-Men 185 - where the government is hunting Rogue with a mutant depowering gun! It goes sideways! Gambit hates taxes!

Also in this episode:

• how so many of us imprinted on Rogue and Gambit like baby ducks as role models for romantic relationships

• Lodro wasn’t allowed to name his dog Wolverine

• in the future people don’t know how to use telephones

• Mystique really knows how to make a house a home...inside the Pentagon

• Twilight is just the next generation's version of the Rogue and Gambit yearning

• Rogues first joyful experience of her powers

Plus Meg gets her X-Men tarot reading! What does any of this mean for her future? Tune in to find out!

Meg Boland AKA PunkerDuckie, an elder millennial who has been obsessed with Gambit since she was 8 years old. She currently relentlessly posts memes on social media, as well as running the website gambitspotting.com where she publishes upcoming Gambit appearances, variant cover announcements, convention merch exclusives, actor meet & greets, signature opportunities, and of course links for the newest Gambit swag to buy! When not nerding out she spends time with her husband and 4 dogs on the Central Coast of California.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

This week we are joined by the charming and effervescent Anthony Oliveira, writer of Avengers Academy (Lodro's fav comic right now). We explore the massive question, "What does it mean to want to be good?" as we talk through everything Avengers Academy where Anthony proves that he is a wizard for making Lodro care about characters like Norman Osborn.

But enough about this incredible book, let's talk X-Men. Anthony was born in the month coinciding with Uncanny X-Men 183 where Colossus breaks up with 14 year-old Kitty Pryde and boy are the X-Men pissed about it. Then Colossus spills a beer on the Juggernaut who was about to go home with Selene and now he's pissed at Colossus too.

Also in this episode:

• Cyttorak is a drama queen

• Emplate is a gay S&M bondage vampire

• Anthony was obsessed with the X-Men villain pronounced A Poke Uh Lips

• Lodro thinks Angel is still dating Husk

• Dating Deathbird is gay

• Everyone's relationship is everyone's business

• Xavier cuts the Juggernaut out of all family photos

• Juggernaut knows his color blocking

...and Anthony gets his X-Men tarot reading! What does any of this mean for his future? Tune in to find out!

Anthony Oliveira is a multiple National Magazine and GLAAD award-winning writer, pop culture critic, and PhD based in Toronto. A frequent contributor to Marvel Comics, he has written for Young Avengers, X-Men, and Captain Marvel, earning a 2020 GLAAD Media Award and multiple nominations. His work spans comics, prose, and journalism, often exploring queer themes. Notable titles include Wiccan & Hulkling: Last Annihilation, Lords of Empyre: Emperor Hulkling, and Young Avengers: Paradox Lost. His debut novel, Dayspring, was released in 2024 to critical acclaim. He also hosts The Devil’s Party, a podcast examining Christian literature through a queer lens. You can find him on Instagram here.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

On this week's episode we are joined by the incredibly charming and kind cosplayer Kissi Frost to cover the PHALANX. We're getting techno-organic y'all!

First off, Uncanny X-Men 312 (their birth month and year issue) is entitled ROMP and the Phalanx are not a romp but we have a great time with it. In this episode:

• if you’re gonna date an X-Man you have to accept polyamory to a certain degree

• Lodro thought ninja sais would be more readily available as an adult (again)

• it's hard to understand comic injuries...but rain clouds make them prettier

• the Phalanx are truly scary as a villain

• Gambit loves to throw motorcycles at people

• an impassioned defense of the X-Men: Apocalypse movie

• Magneto has a good cape

What does any of this mean for Kissi's future? Tune in to find out!

Kissi Frost is an artist, actor, and a lifelong nerd. Having cosplayed since they were fourteen years old, and using Spiderman comics to help practice their English, they've been a comic fanatic for as long as they can remember. Currently, they work as a freelance concept artist, as well as an actor (mainly in the horror scene.) Their favorite comics and cosplays are, of course, the X-Men, with Mystique being their favorite character to portray. They only throw blue babies over waterfalls on weekends, pinky promise.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

With us today is the Daniel Kibblesmith, comics writer extraordinaire, fresh from penning a very fun X-Men Hanukkah story entitled "Festival of Fights."

We discuss potentially the horniest X-Men issue ever written - Romances (Uncanny X-Men 174) which matches with his birth month and year...what could this possibly mean about Daniel?

Also in this episode:

• Hot Bird likes candy

• Kitty Pryde eats latkes in a horrifying way and also reads Star Wars comics

• Cyclops and Daniel are both wife guys

• Lilandra is a space empress who rules an empire in space and wears a purple swimsuit with matching leg warmers

• only one throw punch is thrown in this entire issue, but it is an iconic punch

• more arguments about Cyclops' age

• Nightcrawler likes to play dress up as a doctor

• if you get engaged to someone, you should know whether they can cook or not

...and special guest star Jennifer Wright who weighs in on whether Daniel is a good husband!

Daniel Kibblesmith is an Emmy-nominated TV writer for Netflix Animation, HBO, and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, and comics writer for Marvel and D.C. comics and others. He is also the author of the children's book Princess Dinosaur and the all-ages humor book, Santa's Husband. He lives in Los Angeles with his beautiful and brilliant wife and daughter. You can follow Daniel on Instagram here.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Amazing comic artist Phillip Sevy joins us this week for a beautiful X-Men Go To Japan issue! That's right, Phillip's birth month and year issue coincides with Uncanny X-Men 173, where, right before he gets married, Wolverine and his sidekick Rogue take on the majority of Japan's underworld to save the X-Men and his bride.

Also in this episode:

• we delve into Philips artistic influences

• Wolverine is a badass

• Phillip’s Claremontian words vs art theory

• Lodro thought ninja sais would be more of a thing as an adult

• we review the range of comic book injuries from "looking tired" to "blast energy on your chest"

• Cyclops is bad at introducing his girlfriends

• Lilandra always carries a lightsaber

• Storm goes punk

• Lockheed isn’t a cat

• Wolverine is ready for love

• Mastermind is the worst

...and more! What does any of this mean for Phillip's future? Tune in to find out!

Phillip Sevy is an artist who has spent the last few years drawing for Marvel on titles like X-Men (Astonishing, Unlimited, and From the Ashes), Avengers, Venom, Deadpool, and others. They broke into the comics industry through the Top Cow Talent Hunt, where they drew The Tithe and The Freeze, before moving over to Dark Horse for a lengthy run on Tomb Raider. They wrote The House (with artist Drew Zucker), and wrote and drew Triage, Paradox, and Kepler (with David Duchovny). When they’re not feverishly working on comics, you can find them (literally) running around their neighborhood, hiking in the hills, or DMing endless sessions of DnD. You can find more of Phillip on Instagram and Bluesky.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

This week we go deep with Ariana Maher, letterer extraordinaire! Ariana offers beautiful advice on how to break into lettering and we cover her birth month and year issue - Uncanny X-Men 165 - where the X-Men all got those Brood eggs growing inside of them...and are gonna die!

Also fun and of note this episode:

- Arianna will never forget her first BAMF

• Colossus is the perfect plug for your spaceship

• Professor Xavier never learned about reverse psychology

• Nightcrawler loves God

• Colossus says the most profound thing he has ever said on panel

• things gets awkward between Kitty and Colossus

• Storm becomes a space whale

All this and Ariana's fanfic revealed. What does any of this mean for her future? Tune in to find out!

Ariana Maher is a Brazilian American currently residing in southern Brazil. A former translator in Japan, she shifted careers and has been a self-taught professional letterer since 2010 and then a member of Virtual Calligraphy since 2020. Notable titles she's worked on in the past include Detective Comics, Demon Days, X-Men Red, and Venom War. She's currently the letterer for Justice League Unlimited, Critical Role, Forged, Superman, One For Sorrow, and Scarlet Witch, among several others. You can connect with her on Bluesky here.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Long-time friend of our host Rodney Solomon is here to talk about everything BROOD. Yes, the weird Aliens rip-off that dominate the Marvel Universe has an origin and it happens to be right when Rodney was born!

Also in this episode:

• all the X-Men are baking Brood eggs

• Carol Danvers has the power of a white hole

• Professor X is over it

What does any of this mean for Rodney's future? Tune in to find out!

Rodney Solomon is the project director for the MassHire Greater New Bedford Career Center. After graduating Wesleyan University, he moved to New York City where he spent five years in management roles at prominent hospitality and restaurant groups. Pursuing his entrepreneurial spirit, Rodney spent the next eight years, leading operations at an innovative food service startup called Savory that developed and operated tailored programming for large companies and landlords. After moving to New Bedford in 2019, he took on the role as Director of Workforce Initiatives for the Rhode Island Food Policy Council, providing leadership for an emergent workforce program developed in partnership with the state’s Department of Labor and Training.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.
This week we have a treat for you: letterer extraordinaire Clayton Cowles joins the pod and you will never look at comics the same way again. We cover Uncanny X-Men 221 where the Marauders are after Madelyne Pryor but the X-Men can save her...right? Right?!

Also in this episode:

• Mr. Sinister's first appearance (I'm beginning to fear I'm not right)

• Mr. Sinister needs to see a dentist

• one of the Marauders is not like the other ones (it's Polaris)

• Dazzler spreads bad vibes

• the Adversary really shouldn't be hitting on Storm

• Harpoon's power is harpoons

• the redemption of Greycrow / Lodro's X-Men pitch

• Madelyne Pryor is a badass

...what does any of this mean for Clayton's future? Tune in to find out!

All this plus Clayton's advice to people looking to break into lettering! Why are you still reading this? Listen to the episode!

Clayton Cowles is an Eisner and Ringo-nominated comic book letterer. He currently letters X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, Astonishing X-Men, and much more. In the past, he has worked on House of X, Powers of X, Dark X-Men, Immortal X-Men, Weapon X-Men, two other runs of X-Men, and a host of other X-Men spinoffs. He lives in upstate New York in a house with two cats. You can find him on Instagram here.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

HEY it's our Season 4 premiere, a two hour ROMP with THE D'Manda Martini
We unpack D'Manda's birth month and year X-Men issue (Uncanny X-Men 156) where Chad from Space and the rest of the Starjammers join up with the X-Men to fight Deathbird and the Brood!

Also in this episode:

• D'Manda does NOT drink brown liquor

• Lodro's only con experience

• Betsy Braddock is confusing

• D'Manda is on a lot of podcasts

• Cats hate birds...in space

• Calico is the worst

• why the X-Men don't ride buses anymore

• let Anole live

• Charles Xavier is fine with X-Men dying so long as he gets to have space sex

• Cyclops is surprisingly nice to the Shiar

...and Lodro has a full on breakdown when D'Manda reveals her new weekly show title.

D’Manda Martini is the Chanteuse of Southern Maryland as well as a Washington DC area based drag artist, cosplayer, theater actor & costume designer. She has been the winner of drag and cosplay competitions, acting awards, and costume design nominations. You can follow her journey on social media across all platforms at @dmandamartini where you can find her linktree to her merch site, and several articles she’s been mentioned in, including two for the Washington Post.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

For the final episode of 2024 we have a very special guest...THE Steve Orlando! Writer of over 350 of your favorite comics, Steve comes on the show to talk about Uncanny X-Men 196 which features all the greats: crazy intolerance, Nimrod, the Beyonder ordering a sandwich, Professor X's students trying to kill him and Kitty smoking her first cigar! What more could you ever want in one episode?

How about...

• Steve unpacking the longest run of Scarlet Witch in Marvel history
• Why his Marauders run was divisive
• How faith works in the Marvel Universe...and is Jesus a mutant?
• How the Beyonder is basically an agitty outdoor cat that just wants to look at the X-Men's food

Steve Orlando has written for every major American comic book publisher. He’s received Eisner Award Nominations for OUTLAW TERRITORY (Image Comics) and RAINBOW BRIDGE (AfterShock Comics), as well as participating in the Eisner-Winning LOVE IS LOVE (IDW Publishing). He’s received a Ringo Award Nomination for RAINBOW BRIDGE (AfterShock Comics), and wrote for the Ringo-Winning DC PRIDE (DC Comics). As well, his MIDNIGHTER and MIDNIGHTER AND APOLLO were both nominated for GLAAD Media Awards. As a localizer, Orlando contributed to SWEET PAPRIKA, winner of a 2022 Harvey Award.

At DC Comics, he’s written for titles including BATMAN, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, DOOM PATROL: MILK WARS, SUPERGIRL, MARVIN THE MARTIAN/MARTIAN MANHUNTER, WONDER WOMAN, DETECTIVE COMICS, NIGHTWING, BATMAN/THE SHADOW, and MARTIAN MANHUNTER, its first issue named one of Tor’s Best Single Issues of 2018.

At Marvel Comics, he’s written for STAR WARS: LIFE DAY, X-MEN GREEN, MARVEL VOICES: PRIDE, MAGNETO AND THE MUTANT FORCE, MARAUDERS, EXTREME CARNAGE, CURSE OF THE MAN-THING, and SCARLET WITCH. You can follow more of Steve's work here.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Long time friend of our host Matthew Bonaccorso joins us to talk DRACULA!

The X-Men have fought aliens, had friends turn into giant space birds and live in a world where telepaths are on every block but balk at the possibility that Storm could possibly be hanging out with a vampire. But guess what? She got turnt!

Yes, Matt's birthday corresponds to Storm falling under the sway of Dracula himself.

Also in this issue:

• most of our listeners have probably imagined Wolverine in their bedroom

• if you were going to send one trade paperback to convince someone to like the X-Men, what it would it be?

• Kitty has to go run some errands

• Kitty buys a hat to kill Dracula

• Dracula is wearing the puffy shirt from Seinfeld

• Matt doesn’t know how to pronounce jaunt

• Nightcrawler almost beats Dracula by holding up two sticks

• Dracula has a party bus coffin

At the end of the day, the best way to defeat Dracula is, apparently, to gain his respect. What does any of this mean for Matt's future? Tune in to find out!

Matt Bonaccorso is a seasoned product innovator. He’s spent nearly two decades blending creativity and technology. He’s worked on everything from smart toys to digital products for the world's largest entertainment companies like Nickelodeon and Discovery Channel, and he’s the mind behind Corbit the Robot—a smart, AI-powered companion that entertained kids and parents alike. These days, he’s the co-founder and CEO of Wowables Inc., an up-and-coming startup focused on the future of AI and robotics. Basically, if it’s cutting-edge tech that sparks the imagination, Matt’s got his fingerprints all over it.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Returning guest Cassie Lilly comes home to X-Men Horoscopes for an episode where we map X-Men 57 onto its historical counterpart in 1969...we're covering the Stonewall Riots!

Yes - this is another "What does X-Men say about US?" episode, or at least the queer and queer-adjacent us. With that in mind, we also cover:

• why Iceman is Cleopatra

• the Sentinels...LIVE (for Polaris' outfit)

• Havok is a walking talking disaster and Lorna Dane, half a world away, falls in love

• Havok has to come out as a mutant and wonders if anyone has ever felt so alone

• Lodro manages the X-Men's finances

• "Men believe what they want to believe Bobby"

Tune in because this episode...is going to be a riot!

Jokes aside, this is when mutants in the Marvel Universe are starting to be persecuted and hunted simply for being mutants. We're witnessing the birth of mutant as metaphor in today's issue and it's message is a powerful one about how, when we stand together, we prevail. When we isolate, well, that's when the Sentinels will get ya.

Bonus: we have a back up story called "The Female of the Species" which...is not great for feminism. "Cleaning the house is a breeze when you have telekinesis!" - Jean Grey ten years before becoming a cosmic entity

Cassie Lilly is a truly creative person, having trained as an actress, most notably at the celebrated National Youth Theatre of London, who has also successfully dabbled in modeling and voiceover work before settling into her skills as a writer, with her first article published in 2021 detailing her perspective as a transgender girl in the modern world.

She is an activist at heart, a champion for LGBTQ rights and the fight against racism, lending her voice as an educational public speaker, shedding light on the history and facts surrounding the culture war on trans people. As an avid comic book reader from an early age, Cassie is considered a “go-to” girl when it comes to comics. This lends perfectly to her super fun content coverage as a bubbly Tiktoker and across social media, diving into nerd culture, comic book characters, history and lore! You can join the discussion with @who.cassie across all social media!

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.
On this week's episode we are joined by Chad Anderson of the x-cellent x-podcast Graymalkin Lane.

Chad offers up his encyclopedic knowledge as we dive into the 1960s, looking at when the mutant metaphor began and when Beast started really hating humans. We dive into Chad's birth month and year issue - Uncanny X-Men 115 - where we get his full breakdown of Sauron (and a great voice for him too).

Also in this issue:

• Banshee has never looked hotter

• Also, no one knows who you are Banshee stop asking

• Lodro is going to hatch a rom com situation to make Ann Nocenti his cool aunt

• Wolverines can run really fast

• There sure is a lot of Cyclops blasting all over Wolverine's face in this issue

• Also, Cyclops and Banshee tag team Sauron

• Colossus has a son we will never speak of

- Sauron is bad at break ups

• Zaladane dresses like a chicken drag queen

• Ka Zar keeps butting in to tell people he also has adventures

All this plus why Boom Boom would be a great president! Boom Boom 2028! She has my vote. What does any of this mean for Chad's future (and - BONUS - our society's)? Tune in to find out!

Chad Anderson is the host of the wonderful x-podcast Graymalkin Lane where he and his queer friends review the X-Men comics of the 1960s.

Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, Chad is a father of two, works as a trauma therapist and a writer. He's written the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, the Mushroom Murders graphic novel, the documentary Dog Valley, and his memoir Gay Mormon Dad is currently being adapted into a graphic novel!

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Magician and long-time friend of our host Jeff Grow joins us for a very special episode where we discuss YOUR horoscope. Yes, you!

We look at the X-Men issue for March, 2020 which, in case you didn't know, was when COVID hit our planet...hard.

In it, Professor X, Magneto and Apocalypse go to Davos, Switzerland to meet with foreign leaders about how to build a better planet and wow this could not have synched up better. What does Magneto have to say about the COVID pandemic?

Also in this episode:

• Apocalypse will not let you call him by his first name

• Magneto will not let you go to war

• Xavier will not let nuclear threats exist

...and a controversial take...Xavier is right? Hey, right now anything is possible.

What does this incredible issue mean for YOU and the rest of us post-pandemic? Tune in to find out!

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Comics legend Marjorie Liu joins our host Lodro Rinzler to discuss an incredibly fun and disturbing issue of X-Men!

Before we sell you on all the hilarity, let's get real for a moment: Marjorie Liu is not just an extraordinary comic writer, she's also just a lovely, grounded, kind human being. It was an honor to have her on the show. Okay, now on to the silliness.

In this episode we discuss how Marjorie writes from the gut and, in her words, her gut is really weird. Also, how she went through a cathartic experience writing X-23 (now Wolverine).

Topics include:

• teenage Marjorie wrote X-Men fanfic

• in the Marvel Universe, a hat and trenchcoat is more than sufficient to disguise a six foot, blue, furry man

• Charles Xavier sends postcards from space

• Mesmero is a bag of dicks

• Also Mesmero read a Playboy once and thinks that's how people should always pose

• the Phoenix force has limits on how badly you can mess up Jean Grey

At the end we answer questions from YOU! Yes, you! Then Marjorie Liu spits wisdom on how to be yourself even and especially when others are trying to tell you who you should become and how to transmute hatred and negativity into gold. This episode is not to be missed!

Marjorie Liu is an attorney and New York Times bestselling novelist and comic book writer. Her work at Marvel includes X-23, Black Widow, Han Solo, Dark Wolverine and Astonishing X-Men. She is also the co-creator of Monstress from Image Comics, which has won multiple Hugo Awards, British Fantasy Awards, the Harvey Award, and five Eisner Awards, making Liu the first-ever woman (and woman of color) to win an Eisner in the Best Writer category. She teaches comic book writing at MIT.

Marjorie’s extensive work with Marvel includes the Dark Wolverine series, NYX:  No Way Home, X-23, and Black Widow: The Name of the Rose. She received national media attention for Astonishing X-Men, which featured the gay wedding of X-Man Northstar and was subsequently nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for outstanding media images of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. You can find more of Marjorie over at her website.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.
On this week's very special episode of X-Men Horoscopes, our host unpacks a listener request for their horoscope but I'm sorry Brandon...you were born during the Draco.

The world is on fire and there is political unrest so let's talk about Nightcrawler's daddy being Satan and how he's not really Satan he's just a mutant from Biblical times and oh yeah Angel is a literal angel and Mystique is there but she's not telling anyone she's actually Nightcrawler's dad and YEAH. It's a LOT OF FUN.

Also in this episode:

• Iceman likes getting kissed by girls, he swears

• poor Nils has a portal stomach and everyone makes fun of him for it

• Havok has a creative idea about how to reform Bobby's ice body...and a thousand fan fics are launched

What does any of this mean for the future of Brandon from Woodbridge, Virginia? Tune in to find out! It's THE DRACO y'all!

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Novelist and comic book writer Alex Segura joins our host for a romp where the original five X-Men from the past time travel to the present from the past and the future X-Men from the future are also in the present and they want the past X-Men to go back to the past. Confused yet? Well strap in friend do we take you for a ride this week as we study X-Men 12 (from September, 2013).

Also in this episode:

• what if it's a fireman calendar but it's just Magneto for each month

• Cyclops always puts Magik on his teams because he HATES getting his jets shot out of the sky and it happens ALL THE TIME

• Eva Bell is NOT an X-Man from the future

• the Zen koan of Xorn is Magneto is Xorn

• one of the best twists in comic history

• Angel exists in this comic but literally everyone forgot he was there

What does any of this mean for Alex's marriage? Tune in to find out!

Alex Segura is the bestselling and award-winning author of Secret Identity, which The New York Times called “wittily original” and named an Editor’s Choice. NPR described the novel as “masterful,” and it received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist. Secret Identity was also listed as one of the Best Mysteries of the Year by NPR, Kirkus, Booklist, the South Florida Sun Sentinel and more, and was nominated for the Anthony Award for Best Hardcover, the Lefty and Barry Awards for Best Novel, the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel, and won the LA Times Book Prize in the Mystery/Thriller category. His next novel, the YA Spider-Verse adventure Araña/Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow is out now from Disney Books/Marvel Press. Marvel fans will know his voluminous work on Star Wars comics and the wildly acclaimed by me Spider Society series.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Right in time for Halloween Homo Superior co-host Adam Kousarri-Amin joins our host for The Most Depressing After School Special EVER! The Power Pack kids get abducted by the Morlocks and the X-Men have to remember the Morlocks exist and save them.

That's right! How to top last week's episode where the Morlocks kidnap an adult? With another episode where they kidnap children! Everyone needs a hobby and this is the Morlocks' so please stop judging them.

We review Uncanny X-Men 195 and other important topics covered include:

• How watching X-Men 97 was like watching Drag Race...but for X-Men

• Why mourning X-Men 97 is like losing a foreign lover

• Lodro has a Star Wars name

• Wolverine loves to smoke cigars and stab little girls...and he’s all out of cigars

• Power Pack loves to hang out in sewers

• We all know why Manson removed one of his own ribs right?

• Kitty can be in charge and if Wolverine has to kill a couple Morlocks as a result of her bad leadership it's not the end of the world

• The many teams of baby soldiers Xavier made us forget

• If you live in a sewer why are you going to dress your kid in a tube top?

Cro Magnons are going to HATE this episode but everyone should give it a listen anyway.

Adam Koussari-Amin is co-host of the weekly podcast, Homo Superior, which provides smart analysis and dumb jokes about the latest and greatest of X-Men and MCU content. When he’s not running his mouth, you can catch him DJing around Washington, DC, or cuddling on the couch with his partner and his dog watching horror movies and playing video games. The excellent meme-game discussed in this episode can be found here.

Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

Joining us this week is long-time friend of our host/medical professional/voodoo practitioner and guide Marina Acosta to discuss a very BDSM Morlock wedding.

Angel has been kidnapped and is destined to marry Callisto, leader of the Morlocks...unless the X-Men can come in at that point where an officiant goes "Does anyone object?" and save the day that way.

Also in this issue:

• American voodoo traditions

- Marina is kinda on the Morlocks' side and also sort of confused by how comics work

• Cyclops is upset about Madelyne Pryor looking exactly like his dead ex girlfriend...but gets over it in one minute flat

• the X-Men consistently forget that the Morlocks exist the moment they are out of sight

• Nightcrawler has a beautifully symmetrical face

• What do Cyclops and Caliban have in common (they both have been worn as sweaters except for Cyclops - bad joke sorry)?

• a truly beautiful knife fight

• Cyclops loves wearing sunglasses at night

And we answer the question our guest asks: "Are the X-Men good guys?"

Marina Acosta is a full scope primary care nurse practitioner, specializing in polycystic ovarian syndrome and ADHD.  Separately, she is a New Orleans Voodoo practitioner, focused on honoring traditional rituals, ingredients, and recipes.  She is a mom, a wife and a collector of stationary. Here's her Instagram!