Episode 103 – House of X and Powers of X Part 1

<p>In this episode, after a brief delay, we tackle one of the biggest superhero comics events of 2019: the game-changing series House of X and Powers of X by Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz and R.B. Silva, published by Marvel Comics!</p> <p>The mutant telepath Charles Xavier shocks the world by announcing the formation of Krakoa, a nation of mutants. In return for recognizing its sovereignty, Krakoa will gift mankind with miracle drugs that drastically improve human life. Meanwhile, it's business as usual for the X-Men, who undertake a suicide mission to a sun-orbiting space station to prevent the eventual rise of one of mutantkind's greatest foes!</p> <p>What do these events have to do with a mutant war against the Man-Machine Ascendancy 100 years from now, or the plans of the mysterious Librarian 1,000 years hence? What surprising role does Xavier's former flame Moira MacTaggert have to play in all this? And can our not-so-merry mutants survive long enough to make it to that island sanctuary known as … The Comics Canon?</p> <p><strong>In This Episode!</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.comicscanon.com/episode-55-x-men-origins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Krakoa, the Island That Walks Like a Man!</a></li> <li>Is Charles Xavier doing <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM4Sdkfg7wQ" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">the Frug</a>?</li> <li>The Stepford Cuckoos</li> <li>The most evil of all mutants!</li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Voyager Golden Record</a></li> <li>The Betty and Veronica of the mutant world</li> <li><a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80221644" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">The October Faction</a> on Netflix</li> <li>The Black Monday Murders Vol. 1</li> <li>Manifest Destiny Vols. 3-4</li> <li>The <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday%27s_Enterprise" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Yesterday’s Enterprise</a> episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation</li> <li><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/