ABOUT THIS EPISODE
In which we walk down X-Plain Memory Lane; everyone needs Bitch Planet; HoX/PoX wouldn’t stay on shelves; we learn how to make sure a comic doesn’t get canceled; Marvel should have kept publishing those Krakoa-era anthology TPBs; X-Men is indeed a soap opera; and you can jump in here ’cause we’re all confused.
X-PLAINED:
- The most crowded X-year
- Books With Pictures, official best comics shop in the world
- Our upcoming 10th birthday party
- Katie Pryde’s X-history
- Prioritizing marginalized nerd identities
- Lapsed X-readers
- X-sprawl
- The Dawn of X books that worked (and the one that didn’t)
- The frustration of discontinued collection formats
- The perfect number of X-books (again)
- Drama and kissing
- What we want after Fall of X
- Readers’ single issue vs collection preferences
- The power of the preorder
- Katie’s (naming) origin story
- Readers versus speculators
- How to organize a comic book store
- Non-X recommendations for X-fans
- The glory of Judge Dredd
- X-Men who can be trusted to watch a comic book store
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- The Books With Pictures Podcast
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