The House of X Book Club

Welcome to the House of X Book Club.  Growing up as friends, we collected, read, and talked about comic books and more specifically, our favorite comics, the X-Men.  As adults, we decided to go back and visit the franchise from the very first issue in 1963, and move forward toward the present day.  Then someone said, "What if we make this a podcast?"  So here I am with my best friends Shane, Roger, and Rowan to bring you the Strangest Podcast of All! click here to listen to the House of X Book Club Episode #1 Reading List X-Men (1963) #1 X-Men (1963) #2 X-Men (1963) #3 You'd think reading comics wouldn't be a challenging thing, but we're talking the 1960s and reading the X-Men now, has us taking a hard look at what Stan and Jack might have been trying to say.  So, come along for the ride and maybe you too will better understand the man our modern Magneto has become. You can find the House of X Book Club socials on Facebook and Instagram, and listen to us whereve...

Of course, it started in 1989.  I was in high school and a huge fan of horror movies.  That was my thing.  But I met this other kid at school who was a fan of comics.  I'd read a few over the years.  I subscribed to DC's Star Trek and Hellblazer, but when it came to Marvel Comics, all I knew were the most obvious characters.  Spider-Man, Hulk, Captain America, and Fantastic Four.  They were characters I knew mostly through pop culture.  When that kid asked me who my favorite X-Man was, I said something about liking that blue guy with the tail and yellow eyes.  I didn't know his name (Nightcrawler) and I didn't know what his powers were, but I couldn't very well answer "Batman".  I'm pretty sure the kid didn't hear me.  He was too busy showing other kids at our school, a particular issue of the X-Men, with a pale toothy villain, clutching a group of heroes over a fiery inferno.  That cover caught my interest. Inferno was the nam...