The Young Ones

[Content warnings for vore, a pregnancy scare, and related topics in these issues.]

On Today's Episode: Charlie continues to be cursed at restaurants, we do a short recap, and talk about new mutants? AKA Jason Aaron, Chris Bachalo, and Nick Bradshaw's Wolverine and the X-men issues #5-8.

Topics Discussed: This is a weird-ass book to be reading in the year 2019. That's all I got.

Direct Link: https://youngonescast.pinecast.co/episode/fa0c0cdbba4c4539/not-those-new-mutants

Join Charlie (@geneticghost) and Reed (@armustdie) as they discuss HoX, PoX, DoX, and more!

Topics Discussed: Malevolent Geese as 2019 Icons, Comics Charcuterie, Emotions Make You Go Oof, Apocalypse: Not a Barometer for Success

Cover image courtesy @maliciousglee, drawn by @karen_xmenfan!

Direct Link: https://youngonescast.pinecast.co/episode/ab4437f0ff5045d9/hox-takes

Charlie and friends of the podcast Chris Eddleman (@strictlyworse), Adam Reck (@arthurstacy), Zack Jenkins (@xavierfiles), and Dan Grote (@danielpgrote) get together to talk about House of X, Dawn of X, and The World's Largest Orange AKA Orange World.

Direct Link: https://youngonescast.pinecast.co/episode/d397918e17584add/hoxdox-power-hour

The Young Ones celebrate the end of Pride Month as Charlie, Mikey, and Reed talk about characters who help us relate to our identities or give us gay feelings (geelings).

Topics Discussed: "Can you live with a curse?"; Reed's Chain of New Memories; Mikey's Extremely Bad Segue; Ryan Gosling, But He's Just a Baby Goose; Canon Playdough; When Ur Kingdom Hearts 3 is the Fanfic U Read Along the Way; The Nightmare Avengers; Teddy Altman: A Quick Primer; Why the MCU Films Mean Something, Dammit; Presumptions of Wall-E; Ruminations on Comics Press; Batman Doin the Stuff and Being Rich

Direct Link: https://youngonescast.pinecast.co/episode/ec7feda075384535/cut-to-the-geeling

On Today's Episode: We try to explain Deathlok, discuss X-Men Scout Cookies, and more as we cover issues #1-4 of Jason Aaron, Chris Bachalo, and Nick Bradshaw's Wolverine & the X-Men.

Topics Discussed: A Bit of Amusement; The Twilight Zone AKA the Bus Dimension; Please Donate to Our Offshore Mutant Nation; Quentin Quire Is Straight? And Other Mysteries; "When You're X-men, You're Family"; "Can I Talk to You About How Much I Hate the Kiddy Hellfire Club"; Throwing a Bad Alien Trope in the Garbage; Ranking Quentin Quire's Fashion; How to Befriend a Living Island; Doop Is a Mood; All's Fair in Love and Comics; Evan Has So Many Uncles; Raising Puppies From the Dead; How to Go From 0 to Pregnant in 30 Seconds

Direct Link: https://youngonescast.pinecast.co/episode/b2d8b0d164fb4d30/nobody-consulted-bruce-springsteen-on-this

On today's episode, we're gearing up to talk Jason Aaron's Wolverine & the X-Men, but in order to do that, we have to give you some context. So join us as Reed gives a potent summary of Scott & Logan's motivations for the Schism event, Charlie explains why a Death Seed is a watermelon seed but for Death, Mikey takes us into Uncle Fantomex's World, and we're all haunted by the ghost of Grant Morrison as we untangle the Xavier School's cast of characters.

Topics Discussed: Sometimes the Solution Is Just Fanfic; “The Fuck Is Spider-Island?”; Hope’s Power Doesn’t Make Any Damn Sense; A Brief History of Quentin Quire and Also Punk; Why Kids Shouldn't Fight; Does Schism Even Make Sense?; Evan is Baby, Call 911; The Five Labors of Deadpool; Zen and the Art of Selective Comics Reading

Direct Link: https://youngonescast.pinecast.co/episode/467c0ee3c2d24c77/grant-morrison-is-haunting-this-podcast

Content Warning: Our discussion of Uncanny X-Men #11 includes content warnings for suicide, character death, and self harm. If you're sensitive to that, please take care!

Reed (@armustdie) joins us again to talk Age of X-Man, Uncanny X-Men #11, the Shatterstar mini, Mikey makes a case for The Wild Storm, and we discuss the mysteries of glitter, online harassment, depression & suicide in media, and the cat antics that started it all.

Topics discussed: Please Release the Glitter Data; Nate Grey Can't Read; The Sound of Silence, by Scott Summers; Don't Do a Tweet; It's a Boy Party!

Direct Link: https://youngonescast.pinecast.co/episode/13bce7ea07be4767/release-the-glitter-data

Things We Mentioned:

The Glitter Article

Supersons, a podcast where 2 brothers tackle the DC multiverse and their favorite characters

Reed, Charlie, and Sam's weekly pull list recommendations, The Pull

plot ARMOR, a solo journaling RPG about chronicling your hero's mecha anime season, and living until you die.

A new year, and a new episode of The Young Ones! We're back to comics and talking Mark Waid & Humberto Ramos' Champions with Reed (@armustdie). Join us as we talk that, queer representation in media, Scott Summers, LGBT Robots, Arctic Coke, and more!

Direct Link: https://youngonescast.pinecast.co/episode/ff5bc472-a8b0-4c6c-8cbc-b7071ce44922

A lot sure happened this year in X-Men. Join us, Chris Eddleman and Adam Reck as we talk about this year in X as well as our hopes and dreams for 2019. Spoiler: It's going to contain a lot of Nate Grey.

Direct Link: https://youngonescast.pinecast.co/episode/2b355436-e45e-4673-8c6c-17f3114d86b8

It's a very special episode of The Young Ones for our Acts of Friendship crossover today! Join us as we talk with our guests Christina Eddleman from @ChrisesPod and Luke Herr from @MultiversalQ as we talk about teen stories, comics, and why we love them.

Topics Discussed: What makes a good teen story?; Good or bad teen slang; The cycle of adults with teen problems and vice versa; Has there ever been a teen story you liked when you were younger that didn't stand up to your older self's tastes?

Direct Link: https://youngonescast.pinecast.co/episode/1267d8ae-f53c-4f4b-9106-e0595c06a937

On today's episode of The Young Ones, we learn the answers to some tough questions, such as: "Which version of Mountain Dew is the best?", "What is going on with Extinction and X-Men: Disassembled?" and, "Why is Charles Xavier the worst?"

We also answer some of your questions from Twitter.

Direct Link: https://youngonescast.pinecast.co/episode/29c830a3-8cab-4feb-8c33-c26c85ccaa5a

On today's episode: We do another X-Comics roundup! This time covering Multiple Man #1-3, Mr. & Mrs. X #1, X-Men Gold Annual #2, and Cable #159.

[CW: discussion of PTSD/panic attacks in Cable] 

Topics Discussed: Sprite Remix; Coca Cola Freestyle; Charlie's Subway Opinions; A Black Box Theatre Concept; What the Fuck, Jamie Madrox; Bringing Readers Up to Speed; The Best & Worst Ship Names; Cable Emotions; Suffering in Fiction

Direct Link: https://youngonescast.pinecast.co/episode/868c9cfc-ec9e-40a8-85ab-7e4269033ac6

On today's episode: Tim Seeley (@HackinTimSeeley) joins us for a Q&A to discuss his upcoming Shatterstar miniseries.

Cover art done by @PPitteArt.

Direct Link: https://youngonescast.pinecast.co/episode/9e8cd1e8-863c-4730-b250-2a8e951cd322

On today's episode: We talk with our friend Chris (@strictlyworse) about nostalgia, childhood toys & stuffed animals, and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

Topics Discussed: SDCC Breakdown; DC Says "Hold My Beer"; The Raddest Theme Song; A Brief Summary of All the Power Rangers Iterations; Bulk & Skull; "Looks Like a Space Dumpster to Me!"; We're at the Combination Gym & Juice Bar; TFW You Leave the Power Rangers to Train for the Olympics; Weird + Bad Power Rangers Behind-the-Scenes; Chris' Extremely Good Sound Effects; Jason & Tommy: the OTP; Green Eye Powers; Darkness Sword Phylactery; Scorpina: Kinda Hot; Kansas City BBQ Feuds; The Phantom Zone, but for Power Rangers; Bryan Cransdon's Deep Love of Power Rangers; Prodigious, Morphenomenal, & Other Lingo; Galvanax: The Mojo of Rangers; Attempting to Explain The Morphin Grid; What's Making Us Happy? Games, Adorable Babies, & Bittersweet Endings

Direct Link: https://youngonescast.pinecast.co/episode/b43250f4-cda4-49b7-afa5-36449038dd97

It's a very timely episode of The Young Ones this week, as we talk about the 2003 cartoon Teen Titans (and not any of those other ones, we don't talk about those).

Topics Discussed: Number Problems; Shatterstar News We Never Thought We'd Get; Comics We've Read; X-Men: Days of Future Stay In the Past; The Geography of Comic Book Universes; Toxic Waste Buffets & Cement Transformers; Why You Shouldn't Put a Prequel at the End of a Series; Kiss to Learn English; Heroes for Hire Don't Always Get Paid; Every Beast Boy Has His Day; She's Rocks; Isolation Dragons & Magical Soft Bois; Give Us the Starfire and Wash Away the Debt; What's Making Us Happy: Nostalgia Games & Intertwined Hearts

Direct Link: https://youngonescast.pinecast.co/episode/529e369d-70ed-4cc7-8277-9cfb1c791dcf

On today's episode, Charlie espouses the virtues of restaurants with free salad and bread, Mikey admits to his leftovers problem, and we talk about some of the teen-adjacent comics we've been enjoying recently.

Topics Discussed: The Chaotic Neutral of Podcasts; Charlie's Pinboard Theories; How to Not Interact with Creators; New Mutants: Dead Souls #4; The Mechanics of a Nightmare Realm; The Most Relieved Hug in all of Comics; Trauma & "Strong Female Characters"; What Does "Abrasive" Mean, Anyway?; Cable #157-158; Future Soldier Smoulder; Trust No One, Not Even Your Clone; Nate Grey's Bad Ideas; Domino's Powerful 90s Look; A Beautifully-Illustrated Shatterstar; When the 90's X-Force Writing is 😘👌; X-Men Gold #30; A Missed Opportunity; "Gal Pals"; Why Colossus is the Worst; How X-Men Cliches Distract From a Good Story; What's Making Us Happy This Week

Direct Link: https://youngonescast.pinecast.co/episode/2c93627a-e89d-4c3c-890e-0bf40b8b7727

On today's episode, Charlie emerges from an internet-less void, Mikey sings (badly), and we take a spoiler-filled deep-dive into Steven Universe.

Topics Discussed: Podcast Birthdays; Becoming a Under-40 Shatterstar Luminary; Aqua, the Verve, and More 90s One-Hit-Wonders; Lestat the Vampire Prince vs Weird Twitter; The World of Steven Universe; A Silly Shatterstar Reference; Who Are the Crystal Gems?; Why Lars is the Best; The Visual Theming of Rose Quartz; What Happens When Space Rocks and Tectonic Plates Meet; Our Favorite Steven Universe Moments

Direct Link: https://youngonescast.pinecast.co/episode/db8a7aa8-bf77-4a24-a068-53c50c8c355b