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Some of My Friends Read Comics 258 – Magneto Visits the UN + Age of Apocalypse: Omega + Ultimates #5

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Woop woop! X-Men alert! It’s a double-sized grab bag of X-titles! First up, we’re taking a look at Uncanny X-Men #200 where Magneto is on trial in Paris in front of the UN. We get some weird twins and some space aliens.

Then we finally get into the Age of Apocalypse finale with X-Men Omega.

And then we gotta keep going with Ultimates #5, in which we get meet the Incredible Inappropriate Hulk.

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Next Time: Tim Drake fights the Joker for the first time, in “Robin 2: The Joker’s Wild!”

Some of My Friends Read Comics 193 – Age of Apocalyse: X-Calibre + Knightfall #0 (Vengeance of Bane)

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It’s been a while but we finally revisit the Age of Apocalypse with the next miniseries on our list, X-Calibre, which is basically the Nightcrawler and Mystique show.

It’s got pirates and senseless murder and piles and piles of dead bodies. Cool.

Then we start our longread of Batman: Knightfall with a special Vengeance of Bane one-shot that tells us about how Bane was sentenced to prison as a baby. Wait, that can’t be right…

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Next Time: We break format to remember Kevin Conroy with a pair of animated TV episodes

  • Batman: The Animated Series – “Perchance to Dream”
  • Justice League Unlimited – “This Little Piggy”

Plus we start Batman: Knightfall properly with Batman #492

Some of My Friends Read Comics 178 – Age of Apocalypse: Factor X #1-4 + The Korvac Saga #7 (Avengers #173)

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We’re back in the Age of Apocalypse! This time we’re reading the 4-issue Factor X miniseries that heavily focuses on Scott & Alex Summers, aka Cyclops and Havok.

Turns out Havok is a real jerk who wants to kill his brother. Rude!

We also get to know the evil mad scientist version of Beast who just wants to run genetic experiments on everything. Major creep.

Then we continued the Korvac Saga with Avengers #173. Michael Korvac actually makes an appearance in this one!

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Next Time: Spider-Man 2099 (1992) #1-6