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Mutant Studies 101
by Dean Coburn
In which Dean and Morgan answer the question "does the world really need another X-Men podcast?" Every other Tuesday, join your "professors" as they examine the themes, characters, and stories of the long-running Marvel Comics series through the lens of academic theories and scholarship.
Episodes
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Summer Sessions: Murder at the Mansion
We are back again students, and we decide when Summer is over! For this episode, your professors dig deep into Muder at the Mansion! Dean goes into full Emma Frost psychosis, Morgan projects onto Jean Grey, we (lovingly) make fun of Sage. It's a grand old time. You can follow the show...
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Summer Sessions: X-Men 97 Eps 3 & 4 w/Justin Jordan
Better late than never, students! We are finally getting our X-Men 97 coverage up on our feed for ya! Justin Jordan returns to discuss everything episodes 3 and 4!
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BONUS: No One Escapes The Dialectic w/ Spencer Ackerman
Alright, time to lock in and get organized students! For this special BONUS Episode, your hosts are joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning National Security reporter and comics writer Spencer Ackerman (Reign of Terror, Iron Man, Waller v. Wildstorm, Forever Wars) to talk about his new book from Boom!...
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BONUS: An Interview with the Hivemind
Welcome into the terrifying world of adulthood, students! For this week's BONUS episode, your professors are joined by returning guests Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, better known as the Hivemind, to talk about their upcoming creator-owned book YOU'LL NEVER LEAVE THIS PLACE ALIVE. Final order...
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Summer Sessions: RIOT AT XAVIERS w/X-Men True Friends
It's time to RIOT, Students! For this lecture, your professors are joined by the absolutely LOVELY hosts of the X-Men True Friends podcast Kyle Gibson and Joshua Catone to dive DEEP into Quentin Quire-related shenanigans Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of school shootings…
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Summer Sessions: New Worlds w/Chapman Blake
Be prepared to start our psychic affairs and absorb the sins of the father, students! For this week's lecture, your professors are diving REALLY deep into New X-Men 127-133, titled New Worlds. Joining us is comics scholar and host of the SubteXt-Men podcast Chapman Blake! Topics for this lecture...
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BONUS: NO GODS NO MASTERS
Be prepared to fight some kaiju, students! For this BONUS interview, your professors are joined by Julio Anta and Jacoby Salcedo, the creative team behind NO GODS NO MASTERS for an interview all about the book. They dig deep into the new book, their previous collaborations, talk all about big...
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X-Men '97 Season 2 Recap-Eps 1 and 2 feat. Justin Jordan
It's time, to go back... to the 90s, students! For the week's lecture your hosts are joined by the incomparable Justin Jordan (Freddiesroommate) to chat ALL about the first two episodes of X-Men '97 Season 2! Topics for this recap include: What is this show doing right vs wrong, how it functions…
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Summer Session: Imperial feat. Escape the Mojoverse
We are finally talking about the BEST characters in X-Men, the Shi'Ar Imperial Guard!!! For this week's summer session lecture, your hosts are joined by newly appointed best friends of the show Matt and Allison Parent of Escape the Mojoverse to talk about a pair of shorter arcs in the front half…
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Summer Session Field Trip: Supergirl
Well... Supergirl is a movie. It is out. It... doesn't work. Your professors want to know why it doesn't work. Topics for this lecture include: Why doesn't this movie work? How is it that every time it fixes a problem with the comic it creates 3 new ones? At least Milly Alcock is good but oh...
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Summer Session: Supergirl-Woman of Tomorrow
Time to go on a new adventure, students! For this week's lecture, your professors are doing some field trip prep for next week as they head into the stars with Tom King and Bisques Evelyn's Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow Topics for this lecture include: Blackout DC Comics, how this book really...
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Summer Session Episode 2: The Man From Room X feat. Lord Rinzler
Hope you're ready to get weird with it, students! For this summer session, your hosts dig deep into New X-Men Annual 1, The Man From Room X! Joining them is Lord Rinzler (X-Men Horoscopes, You Are Good, You Are Enough) to dig deep into the philosophy of both Xorn and John Sublime! Topics for this...
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Summer Session: E is For Extinction feat. Sara Century
Welcome to Summer Class, students! For our inaugural Summer Session, we will be diving DEEP into Grant Morrison's seminal run on New X-Men from 2001-2004. Joining us for our first episode is Sara Century (Comics critic, zine maker, and co-creator of The Forgotten Five) to talk all about E is For...
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Guest Lecture: The New Adventures of the X-Men w/Chad Anderson
Hope you're ready to go back in time, students! For this guest lecture, Morgan has had to step out so we've brought in one of our absolute best people and a true pillar of the community, Chad Anderson of the Graymalkin Lane podcast! He's joined us to talk all about a very strange artifact from…
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Guest Lecture: I Have No Danger Room and Yet I Must Scream w/Escape the Mojoverse
Become the Ghost in the Machine with us today, students! For this week's lecture, your professors are talking the origins of one of the most bizarre and punchy characters in modern X-Men, the living Danger Room known as Danger! And joining them for this discussion is none other than the great…
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Annual Week BONUS: An Interview with Connor Goldsmith and Josh Cornillon
Check into Answers, Students! For this special BONUS episode of Mutant Studies 101, your professors are joined by the team behind the upcoming Dark Horse Horror Comic Did You Hear About Mimi Green?, writer Connor Goldsmith (CEREBRO, The Kibitz) and artist Josh Cornillon (Young Men in Love, Pool...
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Office Hours: A Chat with Dr Ramzi Fawaz
Welcome back to Office Hours, students! For this session, your professors are joined by someone truly qualified to teach the class Mutant Studies 101, Dr Ramzi Fawaz (The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics, Queer Forms). They discuss his work, the current…
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Lecture: A Study in Magik (1983)
Get ready to craft some bloodstones and summon your soulswords, students! For this lecture, your professors are deep diving into Ilyana Rasputina, aka Magik, specifically through her original 1983 miniseries. Topics of this lecture include: What does this miniseries do so well with Claremont's…
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Substitute Plans: Morgan and Eileen Talk About Fanfiction
That's right, it's the fanfic episode! Dean is away so the mice get to play. The mice, in this instance, meaning Morgan and returning guest Eileen, finally get to talk about fanfic. What is it? We'll find out! Topics include: Some of the origins of fanfic; false reports of Dean's death; a lot of...
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Guest Lecture: The RogueGambit Power Hour (w/Olivia DeFillipo and Nikhil Clayton)
EVERYTHING is Romantic, students! For this Valentines guest lecture, your hosts are joined by cosplayer Olivia DeFillipo (@thelibraliv) and content creator Nikhil Clayton (@NikhilClayton) to discuss one of the longest-lasting couples in X-Men: Rogue and Remy LeBeau, aka Gambit! Topics for this...
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Lecture: The Dark Phoenix and the Monstrous Feminine
Hear us, students! No longer are we the professors you knew, we are Academia and Unseriousness Incarnate! That's right, to kick off this new semester we are diving into arguably the most seminal text in the history of the X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga! Specifically, we will be taking a look at the...
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Guest Lecture: NYX, Star Trek, and Revolutionary Texts (w/Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing)
Get ready to boldly go, students! For this lecture, your hosts sit down with the writing collective known as "The Hivemind" Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing (NYX, Giant Size Ms. Marvel, Star Trek: The Last Starship, and more) to discuss not just their work on Star Trek and the X-Men, but their...
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Lecture: Psylocke (2024) w/Alyssa Wong
Time to focus our totality, students! for this lecture, your hosts dive deep into the themes of Psylocke (2024) before being joined for an interview with the writer of the series Alyssa Wong (Psylocke, Deadpool, Doctor Aphra). Topics for this episode include: How Kwannon has evolved over the…
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Guest Lecture: She-Hulk and Romance Comics (w/Dr. Anna Peppard)
Get ready to fall in love again and again, students! For this weeks lecture, your hosts are joined by Dr. Anna Peppard (Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero, Sequential Scholars, Oh Gosh Oh Golly Oh Wow) to discuss the ways in which romance and romance comics have changed and shaped...
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Guest Lecture: The IJC vs Magneto (w/OlliePhresh and StardustEm)
Time to lock in, students! For this episode, your hosts are joined by returning guests Ollie and Emily to discuss one of the trickiest topics we've ever delved into: The court case of the International Justice Court vs. Erik Lensherr, also known as Magneto! Topics for this lecture include: A...
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Guest Lecture: X-Terminators and Visual Pleasure (w/ Priya Saxena)
Welcome back to class students! For this lecture, your professors are joined by special guest Priya Saxena (comics editor and critic) to discuss Leah Williams and Carols Gomez's X-Terminators (2022)! Topics for this lecture include: A discussion of Laura Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure and Narrative...
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Lecture: Ultimates, The Ship of Theseus, and Transformative Works
Put on your philosophy hats, students! For this lecture, your hosts are examining the current line of Ultimates comics through the lens of the ship of Theseus: what remains, what has changed, and what does this mean for the medium as a whole. Topics for this episode include: How is Jonathan…
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Lecture: Dazzler Studies 301-Dazzler is Over Party
Hope you're ready to reckon, students! For this lecture, your hosts dive back into the deep mine that is Alison Blaire, the Dazzler. It's Dazzler Studies 301! This time, we're trying ton answer the question: Is Dazzler bad, actually? Topics for this episode include:Dean's adventures at Flame Con,...
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Lecture/Everything is X-Men: Black Tom Cassidy and Irish Post-Modernism
Dia duit, Students! On this episode, Dean gets to take a student role as Morgan flexes their knowledge of Irish post-modernism as we look at the X-Men villain Black Tom Cassidy through the lens of James Joyce's Dubliners! Topics for today's episode include: What distinguishes Joyce's writing from...
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Field Trip: Fantastic Four: First Steps
Strap in, Students! For today's field trip, professors Dean and Morgan discuss a highly anticipated release for both of them: Fantastic Four: First Steps!! Topics for this lecture include: Morgan loving this movie and Dean... liking it! Your hosts getting a divorce, what works and what doesn't, a...
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Lecture: Peach Momoko's Demon Days
Sharpen your swords, students! For this lecture, your hosts dig deep into one of the most fascinating X-Men series over the last few years: Peach Momoko's Demon Days and Demon Wars! Topics for this episode include: The X-Men as fairy tales. The Ship of Theseus in these comics. How do we handle...
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Guest Lecture: The X-Men as Queer Theory (With Dr. Anthony Oliveira)
Once again wishing you a Happy Pride, Students! For this lecture, your hosts examine queer theory as it relates to the body and the mutant metaphor with an extremely exciting special guest: PhD in Literature and current writer for Marvel Comics Anthony Oliveira! Topics include: How do you…
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Lecture: Mystique World Domination
Happy Pride Month, Students! For this session, your hosts uhhhhhhhh queen out about our favorite lesbian terrorists Mystique and Destiny! Topics include: How old are these ladies? Was Mystique John Hinckley, Jr.?, Were they in Gertrude Stein's salon? and radical queer activism through X-Men...
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Guest Lecture: How to Fall Back in Love With Fandom w/Fern of Star Wars English Class
We're falling back in love students! On this sort of Episode 1.5 of season 2, your professors sit down with one of the smartest people they know to discuss how we should approach art going forward. That person? Fern of Star Wars English Class! Topics for this episode include: A lot of talk about...
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Lecture: What's Going on In From The Ashes
Welcome back students! For the new semester, your professors wanted to examine an important subject: What is happening in the From the Ashes era? Topics of this episode include: Why aren't these books working? What does it mean when they DO start working? How come we can't connect with these new...
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MARCH MUTANT MOVIE MADNESS: Logan
"There's no use living with it. The killing. There’s no going back from it. Right or wrong is a brand. A brand sticks. There’s no going back. Now, you run on home to your mother and tell her … tell her everything’s alright. There aren’t any more guns in the valley." Topics for this episode…
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MARCH MUTANT MOVIE MADNESS: The New Mutants
Hello again, students! For the penultimate lecture of MARCH MUTANT MOVIE MADNESS, your hosts explore the creepy boarding school of The New Mutants with special guest Justin Jordan (@freddiesroommate). Topics of this episode include: The crazy-ass production timeline of this movie! We recorded…
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MARCH MUTANT MOVIE MADNESS: The Deadpool's
Get ready to break the fourth wall, students! For this episode, your professors are joined by Morgan's friend and writer Jason (@simplewrites_2.0) to discuss their very complicated feelings on the Deadpool movies! Topics in this episode include: Ryan Reynolds as an auteur, the crazy journey to…
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MARCH MUTANT MOVIE MADNESS: Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix
Hello again, students! This week, your professors are joined by a special guest who you for sure know the work of: Ollie! (@olliephresh) They join us to discuss two much maligned movies in the franchise: Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix. Topics include: What happened to these movies, why are there so...
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MARCH MUTANT MOVIE MADNESS: THE LOGANS
Get ready to go to the Great North, Students! For today's episode of MARCH MUTANT MOVIE MADNESS, your professors are joined by their friend Eileen to discuss X-Men: Origins-Wolverine, and The Wolverine! Topics for this episode include: These movies are bad, Hugh Jackman getting nominated for an...
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MARCH MUTANT MOVIE MADNESS: First Class and Days of Future Past
Round 2, Students! For this episode, the professors are joined by returning guest Emily (@stardustem) for a new discussion on the first two films of the "reboot" series, First Class and Days of Future Past! Topics include: These movies being good but having no politics, why Kevin Bacon isn't...
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MARCH MUTANT MOVIE MADNESS: The First Trilogy
Round One, Students! On this, the first proper episode of March Mutant Movie Madness, your professors are joined by friend Des (@movieswithdes) to discuss the first three X-Men movies! Topics for this episode include: How these movies came to be, our love affair with Scott Summers, how the Mutant...
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MARCH MUTANT MOVIE MADNESS: Prelude
Welcome back, students! We're back with season 2 of Mutant Studies 101, with the beginning of our miniseries MARCH MUTANT MOVIE MADNESS! That's right, we're talking about the movies. But before we talk about that, we wanted to have a bit of coverage around some of the difficult topics we will…
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Finals Week: The DeanMorganXMCU
Happy Finals Week, Mutants! On this SEASON 1 FINALE Episode, your professors are here to talk about their single greatest passion as well as usher in the next semesters topic with a discussion of how they would bring Marvel's Merry Mutants to the big and small screen. Topics of this lecture...
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Recitation: Hellions feat. Stardustem
Welcome Back Students! On this episode, your hosts are back and not only are they back but they have a special guest: Our good friend Emily aka StardustEm! Topics for today's episode include: A deep Dive of Zen Wells' Hellions (2020), the nature vs nurture debate, Alex Summers' terrible horrible…
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Lecture: A Study in Storm
Hello again students! This week, your professors are talking all about THE mother of mutantkind, Ororo Munroe, the hero known as Storm! Topics for this lecture include: Storm (2023), Storm (2024), How Ororo has evolved as a character over the last 50 years, her relevance to the culture at large,...
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Lecture: Days of Future Xanadu
Hope you're ready to face the music, students! On this episode, your professors dig deep once again into Dazzler, but this time with a more cultural lens. Topics of this lecture include: Chappell Roan and rapid rises to fame, how the mutant metaphor works (and doesn't work) in the context of…
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Supplemental Reading: Kitty Pryde's DJO Moment
Happy Reading, Students! This week, your professors dive into the August releases for the new X-Line, including: Exceptional X-Men 1, X-Men 2 and 3, Uncanny X-Men 1, X-Force 1, Phoenix 2, and NYX 2. Topics of this episode include: Kitty Pryde being back in Chicago and feeling it, protecting Black...
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Lecture: How to Succeed In Mutantdom Without Really Trying
Welcome Back To Class, Students! For todays lecture, your professors are kicking off the semester with a close reading of one of our favorite under appreciated gems of the Krakoa era: Vita Ayala, Bernard Chang, and Paco Medina's Children of the Atom! Topics in this episode include: Who are the...
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Supplemental Reading: A New Beginning
Welcome to a new semester, students! Your professors are gearing up for this new era with a read-along of X-Men, Phoenix, and NYX #1! Highlights of this lecture include: Mourning the era that was while celebrating the new one, things we are excited about for this era, how we're feeling about the...
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In which Dean and Morgan answer the question "does the world really need another X-Men podcast?" Every other Tuesday, join your "professors" as they examine the themes, characters, and stories of the long-running Marvel Comics series through the lens of academic theories and scholarship.
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