Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

With us this week is Bob McLeod, legendary artist who co-created The New Mutants with Chris Claremont.

We discuss what the Marvel office was like back in the 1970s and the creation of the designs for The New Mutants before leaping into his horoscope issue - Uncanny X-Men 35 - where the X-Men square off against...Spider-Man?!

Also in this episode:

• The Sunspot Hulk that never was
• How Wolfsbane was going to be Indian
• An entire issue devoted to a misunderstanding-based fight
• Paralyzing rays take a while to work
• The old Parker luck
• Bring back the phrase “What’s new crew?”

What does any of this mean for Bob's future? Tune in to find out!

Bob McLeod is the legendary comic book artist, perhaps best known for co-creating The New Mutants with writer Chris Claremont and designing and illustrating the team’s original characters for Marvel. Beginning his career at Marvel in the 1970s, McLeod went on to pencil and ink an extraordinary range of characters for both Marvel and DC, including the X-Men, Spider-Man, Batman, Wonder Woman, G.I. Joe, and Star Wars. Among his most celebrated work is his inking of Mike Zeck’s artwork on the landmark Spider-Man story Kraven’s Last Hunt. Beyond superhero comics, McLeod wrote and illustrated the acclaimed children’s book Superhero ABC, edited Rough Stuff magazine, and taught art for many years at the Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. More than five decades into his career, he continues to create commissions, covers, and personal work.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. His BRAND NEW BOOK is now out: You Are Good, You are Enough. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

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Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.
This week we have co-creator of X-Men: The Animated Series Julia Lewald on the show to discuss not just the early days creating the original show but also how the return of X-Men '97 came to be.

We discuss the X-Men issue that came out the same time as the show (adjectiveless X-Men 13) where Professor X - and every other character - has to come to terms with their past through punching.

Also in this episode:

• The important role Pryde of the X-Men played in the creation of X-Men: The Animated Series
• Wolverine’s Australian accent (and how we got it)
• Why they killed Morph
• Why they brought Morph back from the dead
• Carter Ryking’s outfit is “perfectly appropriate” for the time
• Why Kitty Pryde was left on the cutting room floor for X-Men: TAS

All this plus the unrevealed story of how Julia wanted to wrap up the original series. What does any of this mean for her future? Tune in to find out!

Bonus: we get some Eric Lewald in this episode too!

Julia Lewald is a writer, story editor, developer and showrunner on a wide variety of animated and live-action series. She and her husband Eric met while working at Disney TV Animation on the Disney Afternoon shows. Over 30 years later, they continue to love what they do. While listeners of this show may know them for their part in the creation and production of X-Men: The Animated Series they have also helmed The Tick, Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers and many other classic shows. They serve as executive producers on X-Men ’97. You can find them on Instagram here.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. His BRAND NEW BOOK is now out: You Are Good, You are Enough. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

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Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

With us this week is Jim Zub, comic writer extraordinaire whose new series Omen-Bound was just announced.

We talk about his early years writing comics, what he's learned as the number of comics he has written moves past 300 and what it means to be a ten-year overnight success. He has worked for just about every major comic book publisher and also has a lot to share for anyone aspiring to get into the industry.

We discuss his birth month and year issue - Uncanny X-Men 99 - where Jean Grey, Wolverine, Banshee and Professor X are being held in space and the rest of the team attempt a daring rescue mission and yes - this is right before Jean becomes the Phoenix.

Also in this episode:

• Writing creator owned comics versus established intellectual property
• Jean and the gang decide to walk off into outer space
• People won’t shut up about solar radiation
• Atmos spheres
• Space stations have bad security
• Colossus probably shouldn’t go into space every other week
• Storm has space powers including space wind and space lightning

What does any of this mean for Jim's future? Tune in to find out!

Jim Zub is a Canadian writer and artist. Over the past twenty five years he’s worked for publishing, movie and video game clients including Marvel, DC Comics, Disney, Capcom, Hasbro, Cartoon Network, Bandai-Namco, and UDON Entertainment.

Before returning to full-time freelance writing, Jim was a professor teaching drawing and storytelling courses in Seneca Polytechnic’s award-winning Animation program. His current projects include acting as the flagship writer for Conan the Barbarian, the monthly comic book adventures of Robert E. Howard’s legendary sword & sorcery hero. He lives in downtown Toronto with his wife, writer Stacy King. You can find him on Substack and Instagram.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. His BRAND NEW BOOK is now out: You Are Good, You are Enough. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

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Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

This week we have the True Friends Joshua Catone and Kyle Gibson on the show to talk about their X-Men podcast which coincidentally is named True Friends Podcast!

We talk about their early months leading the show, how Kyle does accounting for turtles and why Joshua lives with a human skull. To celebrate their true friendship, we cover the X-Men issue that came out when they first became true friends - Uncanny X-Men 407 - where Nightcrawler and Chamber hang out on a mountain being moody.

Also in this episode:

• The comic with no punches thrown
• Kyle rides massive unicycles and breathes fire
• Nightcrawler happens to teleport to his friend's house in the middle of nowhere
• Who is actually named Jono?
• Kyle gets the honor of explaining Stacy X
• Joshua has to explain fascist Banshee’s European adventure
• Lodro gets to talk about Nightcrawler as pope
• "Gordon Bennett!"

Joshua Catone and Kyle Gibson are the hosts of the brand new X-Men podcast True Friends. They have been friends for over 20 years and X-Men fans for even longer. They met in college and quickly bonded over their love of Marvel’s merry mutants, and when they aren’t giggling over their favorite things from the X-universe, you might find them in mildly convincing cosplay at various cons across the country like the Uncanny Experience or FlameCon.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. His BRAND NEW BOOK is now out: You Are Good, You are Enough. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

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Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

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With us this week is screenwriter, television producer, comic book writer, and novelist Marc Guggenheim!

We get into his storied career beginning with an internship at Marvel that went awry back in 1990, take an in-depth look at his X-Men Gold and Days of Future Past and then get into his birth month and year issue for the horoscope: Uncanny X-Men 12 a.k.a. the origin of the Juggernaut!

Also in this episode:

• Why it is easier to break into Hollywood then into comics as a writer
• Scott Lobdell's bad advice
• Behind the scenes of Spiderman: Brand New Day
• How Marc's run is actually one of the most cohesive X-runs of all time...despite being written out of order
• What led to Kitty and Peter NOT getting married
• How he feels about the codename "Prestige" 10 years later
• Also why did he break Nightcrawler and Rachel up?
• How his Days of Future Past miniseries is actually about us now

Marc Guggenheim is a screenwriter, television producer, comic book writer, and novelist. He is known as the creator of the television series Eli Stone, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow, as well as the executive producer of the animated series Tales of Arcadia for which he won an Emmy in the category of "Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program.” He is also the writer of the feature films Green Lantern and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. He is the author of several books including the novel Overwatch and In Any Lifetime. A life-long comic book fan, Marc has been writing comics professionally for over twenty years, working on titles for both Marvel (such as Blade, X-Men and Spider-Man), DC Comics (The Flash, Superman, Batman), and original creator-owned works (Resurrection, Halcyon, Nowhere Man, Jonas Quantum and Stringers). If you have trouble keeping track of Marc’s incredible work tune in regularly to his substack, Legal Dispatch.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. His BRAND NEW BOOK is now out: You Are Good, You are Enough. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

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Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

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With us this week is everyone's favorite Hudson-based drag queen who is also a city councilperson and cookie salesman: Rich Volo aka Trixie Starr!

We dive into his birth month and year issue - Uncanny X-Men 60 - where we are introduced to everyone's favorite were-pterodactyl Sauron!

Also in this episode:

• Corporate Drag
• X-Men: The Last Airbender
• Sauron doesn’t want to cure cancer
• Cyclops forgets what a Danger Room is
• Cyclops loses his glasses and his virginity at the same time

Rich Volo aka Trixie Starr is Hudson NY’s most popular in this house drag queen, city council member, proprietor of the incredible Trixie’s List newsletter and cookie salesman. You can read his Substack here and you absolutely ought to check out his brand-new book, THE GAY BOAT: ITALY.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. His BRAND NEW BOOK is now out: You Are Good, You are Enough. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Want to listen to these episodes early/ad-free and get your own X-Men Horoscope read/an awesome t-shirt? Check out our patreon!

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Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

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With us this week is Gui Agustini, the voice of Sunspot in X-Men '97!

He joins us to discuss the mysterious process of getting cast as a superhero, what it means for him to play this role, memorable moments when recording and what we can look forward to next.

We cover his birth month and year issue - Uncanny X-Men 234 where we get some Outback X-Men fighting the Brood y'all!

Also in this episode:

• Wolverine's possession is always only skin deep
• SKUNGE
• Google focuses specifically on Claremontisms
• Whiphands has whip hands
• Colossus snaps a neck (again)
• Maddie’s transformation into the Goblin Queen
• Claremont forgets Havoc exists

Gui Agustini is Brazilian born of Argentinian mother and Peruvian father. He is trilingual, a former tennis pro and Latin fusion personified.

He is the voice of Brazilian mutant Sunspot in X-Men ’97 and also appears as the professional tennis player Yoyo on CBS’ Elsbeth’ as well as Theo James “acting' double” in HBO’s The Time Traveler’s Wife. He has also voiced the Surfer Dude in Disney’s Spidey and His Amazing Friends and has done motion capture for Red Dead Redemption 2 and GTA5.

Gui is also a filmmaker with more than 10 short films created, including Roses are Blind and his latest West Texas Home. Finally, he’s a proud co-founder of the online apparel store impAKTo which donates 10% to The Midnight Mission, an incredible organization that cares for the homeless in Los Angeles. Follow him on Instagram or Facebook.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. His BRAND NEW BOOK is now out: You Are Good, You are Enough. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Want to listen to these episodes early/ad-free and get your own X-Men Horoscope read/an awesome t-shirt? Check out our brand-new patreon!

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Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

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With us this week is Adrian Hough, the voice of Nightcrawler on X-Men '92 and now X-Men '97! We dive into his long career of acting before exploring the X-Men issue that came out the very first time he voiced Nightcrawler...we're going to the Age of Apocalypse y'all!

Also in this episode:

• Who or what is Project X?
• How Nightcrawler pushes back against the suffering and pain he has experienced
• How spacecake broke reality
• Professor X died in the past and now Destiny adopted Doug Ramsey
• Juggernaut as pacifist monk
• Avalon is just sort of okay
• Nightcrawler teleports a guy’s head off

Adrian Hough is a Canadian actor, voice actor, writer, and acting coach whose career spans film, television, animation, and video games. A familiar presence in animation, he is especially known to X-Men fans as the voice of Nightcrawler in X-Men '97, bringing warmth, humor, and emotional depth to the beloved mutant. With decades of experience across virtually every corner of the entertainment industry, Hough has built a reputation as a versatile performer capable of moving seamlessly between heroic leads, nuanced dramatic roles, and memorable animated characters.

More of Lodro Rinzler's work can be found here and here and you can follow the podcast on Instagram at xmenpanelsdaily where we post X-Men comic panels...daily. His BRAND NEW BOOK is now out: You Are Good, You are Enough. Have a question or comment for a future episode? Reach out at xmenhoroscopes.com

Want to listen to these episodes early/ad-free and get your own X-Men Horoscope read/an awesome t-shirt? Check out our brand-new patreon!

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