S1E16 - Splash Pages - Inferno the Finale

This episode of Splash Pages The Comic Book Club, we discuss the remaining issues of Inferno. This episode is sponsored by Deadly Grounds Coffee "Its good to get a little Deadly" https://deadlygroundscoffee.com Retro Dorkening Shirts on Amazon! https://tinyurl.com/dorkshirts Pick up Marvel X-Men Milestones Inferno https://amzn.to/3mL1D4G Tonight we discuss X Factor issues 37, 38 and 39 along with Uncanny X-Men issues 242 and 243 completing the Inferno Storyline. Published in 1989, written by Chris Claremont Louise Simonson Art by Marc Silvestri, Walter Simonson Editor Bob Harris Editor in Chief Tom Defalco Cover Price $1.00 - $1.50 Channelling my inner Sofia... Picture it Sicily 1989 George Bush was president, the Oakland A's destroyed the San Fran Giants Virtual Reality is born, along with the first World Wide Web Server and Web Browser. Some of the top movies, Weekend at Bernies, Uncle Buck, Batman and we were asked to Be Excellent to each other with Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure We stayed home and said NORM! while we watched Cheers, also caught The Golden Girls, Who's the Boss, Coach, Growing Pains, Night Court and Murphy Brown Gas cost about 97 cents a gallon, the average movie ticket was $3.99, we said hello to Virtual Reality and the World Wide Web, and we said goodbye to the Berlin Wall Inferno is an X-teams' event that impacted every other comic whose hero was in or around New York City. There are two separate primary storylines: The New Mutants struggle against S'ym for the soul of Illyana Rasputin, now the Darkchilde, and the X-Men and X-Factor struggle against N'astirh and Madelyne Pryor to regain Nathan Christopher Summers. Inferno is the first X-book storyline to truly be a crossover, in that the story actually continued from one title to another from month to month (X-Men and X-Factor). Sinister and N'astirh independently manipulate Madelyne Pryor, both for their own ends. Madelyne makes a deal with N'astirh to get her son back from Sinister, and becomes the Goblin Queen. The transformation, combined with Sinister's revelations about her origins, and the events in her life (notably her abandonment by Scott Summers) all contrive to force her further into N'astirh's arms as she vows to sacrifice her son for the demon's plan. The X-Men and X-Factor clash over Madelyne - X-Factor mostly concerned for the child and the X-Men mostly concerned for Madelyne, whom they see as wronged by Scott. Into the confusion Sinister throws the Marauders. Everything comes to a head when Jean Grey fights and defeats Madelyne Pryor, rescuing Nathan. At the end, the combined teams fight Sinister and the mansion is destroyed. Follow our Hosts Rich Davis Former co-host of the clowns of cosplay podcast & Cesar Romero enthusiast https://www.facebook.com/bagelbar https://www.instagram.com/velvetjoker2021/ Leo Pond Owner and Producer of The Dorkening Podcast Network https://www.facebook.com/leopond https://www.instagram.com/leo.pond/ Drew Mollo https://www.facebook.com/drew.mollo/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/drew-mollo https://screenrant.com/author/drew-mollo https://www.instagram.com/ghostbusterman1984 Chris Denmead @radioofhorror Produced by: The Dorkening Podcast Network https://TheDorkening.com Facebook.com/TheDorkening Youtube.com/TheDorkening Twitter.com/TheDorkening Instagram.com/TheDorkening Notes go here Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/splash-pages-the-comic-book-cl/8b0a49a7-d3fc-467a-8ca3-e6f2c0c96d07 This podcast is powered by Pinecast.