Uncanny Book Club
Fifty years ago, Chris Claremont kicked off one of the most influential storytelling sagas in comics—turning characters like Wolverine, Storm, and Nightcrawler into icons. Uncanny Book Club is your bi weekly read-along through the most iconic X-Men stories—starting with Giant-Size X-Men, through The Phoenix Saga, Days of Future Past, and beyond. Whether you’re revisiting these stories, are reading it for the first time like us, or just want to ride along for the discussion — we hope you’ll join us every other Wednesday.
Episodes
Join us for another episode of Uncanny Book Club and explore one of the most influential storytelling sagas in comic book history.
In episode 7 we discuss issues #112 - 114. We see the X-Men battle Magneto inside a volcano base, Magneto gets his ultimate revenge and reduces their capabilities to that of a baby, and the X-Men eventually escape — but accidentally cause the eruption of the volcano. Jean and Beast get split from the re...
Join us for another episode of Uncanny Book Club and explore one of the most influential storytelling sagas in comic book history.
In episode 6 we take a break from the action and enjoy a bit of downtime with our favorite mutants in issues #109 - 111. But even on their off days, the X-Men get into plenty of trouble as we see with James Hudson’s attempt to kidnap Wolverine and Warhawk’s infiltration of the X-Mansion. Jean Grey offic...
Join us for another episode of Uncanny Book Club and explore one of the most influential storytelling sagas in comic book history.
In episode 5 we discuss X-Men #105 - 108, where we see Lilandra arrive to Earth to seek help from Professor Xavier, a fight with ex-herald of Galactus Firelord, and an epic struggle against the Shi’ar Imperial Guard and Emperor D’ken as he attempts to use the M’Kraan crystal’s power.
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Join us for another episode of Uncanny Book Club and explore one of the most influential storytelling sagas in comic book history.
In episode 4 we discuss X-Men #102 - 104, where we see the X-Men's not-so-restful vacation at Cassidy Keep, Leprechauns for reasons, their fight with Black Tom Cassidy and Juggernaut, and a battle against the Master of Magnetism himself — Magneto!
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Join us for another episode of Uncanny Book Club and explore one of the most influential storytelling sagas in comic book history.
In episode 3 we discuss X-Men #99 - 101, which takes the X-Men into space in search of their captured teammates, the downfall of Lang and his sentinels, the death — and rebirth — of Jean Grey as the Phoenix, and the X-Men being ambushed by Black Tom Cassidy and the Juggernaut while on vacation at Cassid...
Join us for another episode of Uncanny Book Club and explore one of the most influential storytelling sagas in comic book history.
In episode 2 we discuss X-Men #96 - 98, which starts immediately after Thunderbird’s death. Moire McTaggert joins the story, the X-Men battle a demon, Eric the Red has a mind controlled Havok and Polaris fight the X-Men, and the team is ambushed by sentinels while celebrating Christmas.
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Join us for the inaugural episode of Uncanny Book Club and explore one of the most influential storytelling sagas in comic book history.
Please note — due to some minor audio issues we decided to upload episode 1 and 2 at the same time. If episode 1’s issues are too bothersome, we hope you’ll give a future episode a go.
In episode 1 of the show we’ll be covering Giant Size X-Men #1 through X-Men #95. In this episode we discuss the f...
Listen in Wednesday, April 30 to the first episode of Uncanny Book Club and explore one of the most influential storytelling sagas in comic history.
Uncanny Book Club is a biweekly read-along through Chris Claremont’s 16-year long X-Men run, which includes some of the most iconic X-Men stories.
Whether you’re revisiting these stories, are reading it for the first time like us, or just want to ride along for the discussion — we hope...
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