#xaminations — Public Fediverse posts

New for Patrons: Classic X-Men #27!

Wolverine and Jean are attacked by a penis monster in a story dripping in innuendo.

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#ClassicXMen #Wolverine #JeanGrey #XMen #Xaminations

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One of the X-Men of the future pulls a Thunderbird! It's sort of not who you expect, largely because all the characters are still ciphers! But by the end, we've got our core cast! #XMen #XMen2099 #Xaminations

https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2019/01/x-amining-x-men-2099-3.html

Am I saying this story involving Rachel Summers in her "future priestess" mode & a random Trask sibling singlehandedly led to The Authority, Ultimates, "widescreen" comics & the MCU? No.

But I'm not NOT saying that...

#XMen #Xaminations #FlashbackMonth

https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2026/02/x-amining-uncanny-x-men-1.html

X-Men 2099 is out of the Patreon vault!

Check out my review of issue #2 - in which one character undergoes a secondary mutation before it was the cool thing to do - below & read reviews of the rest of the series now on Patreon! #XMen #Xaminations

https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2019/01/x-amining-x-men-2099-2.html

Then, I reviewed X-Men Unlimited #15 which, despite coming from a different creative team, effectively serves as a "soft open" to Maverick's later solo series.

#Xmen #Maverick #Xaminations

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New X-aminations - X-Force and Cable '97 #1!

Dani reunites with X-Force to reminisce about the New Mutants' adventures in Asgard by...having an adventure in Asgard!

Am I an easy mark for this sort of thing? Yes. Is this still better than most issues of late? Also yes.

#XMen #XForce #Xaminations #Cable

https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2025/10/x-amining-x-force-and-cable-97-1.html

New X-aminations! Looking at Excalibur #110, in which Captain Britain quits again as the series continues to go through the motions of being a comic book which exists. #XMen #Excalibur #Xaminations #CaptainBritain

https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2025/08/x-amining-excalibur-110.html

We all remember Gamesmaster, right? Well, he's back in X-Men Annual '97, which is also maybe the best Joseph story yet?
#Xaminations #xmen #XMenV2

https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2025/08/x-amining-x-men-vol-2-annual-97-1.html

New X-amination! The Rob returns as Cable meets Shatterstar Captain America aka Prophet & Crypt aka Prophet's Stryfe! And a hard-nosed, gun-wielding Jack Kirby homage! Also, Kang is there!

It's Prophet/Cable #1-2! #XMen #Xaminations #Cable

https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2025/07/x-amining-prophetcable-1-2.html

Cable meets his (psychically-resurrected by his horny alternate reality counterpart) mom for the first time in Cable #44, in the pleasantly low-key beginning of James Robinson's run on the book. #Xmen #Cable #Xaminations

https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2025/05/x-amining-cable-44.html

Did you know: the Kree Supreme Intelligence returned after "Operation: Galactic Storm" in the Imperial Guard mini about the space bodyguards/Legion of Superhero-analogs trying to make it as superheroes on Earth?

Join me as the Miniseries Slog of 1997 continues! #Xmen #Xaminations

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Revisiting that time Lady Jaye showed up in Wolverine. 😉

#Xaminations #Xmen #Wolverine

https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2025/03/x-amining-wolverine-114.html

Pictured: how I felt reading the Sabretooth & Mystique limited series.

#XMen #XFactor #Sabretooth #Mystique #Xaminations

https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2025/03/x-amining-sabretooth-mystique-1-4.html

As plotlines plod along amidst another visually-exhausting issue, X-Factor #135 is the Platonic ideal of a Mackie/Matsuda issue of the series.

It's just not ideal by any other metric...
#XMen #XFactor #Xaminations

https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2025/03/x-amining-x-factor-135.html

Nate faces a difficult choice in X-Man #28, one made less captivating for readers because it involves Nate Grey and a D-list Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. #XMan #XMen #Xaminations

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We did it y'all.

We reached the first appearance of Maggott.

#XMen #Xaminations #UncannyXMen #JoeMadueira

https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2025/02/x-amining-uncanny-x-men-345.html

The '97 fire hose of X-book content brings us Juggernaut #1, a visually-exhausting one-shot I can't imagine anyone was asking for and has no reason to exist, but exist it does! #Xmen #Xaminations

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In a wild turn for what's been a Looney Tunes cartoon of a series, the central conflict in Deadpool #5 involves a quiet discussion of the morality of Deadpool's intended actions. Sadly, it's...not great. #Deadpool #Xaminations #XMen

https://buff.ly/4gFiWOX

New X-amination! Excalibur #109 is astonishing in the way it does everything it's supposed to do while actually doing so very little.
#Excalibur #XMen #Xaminations

https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2025/02/x-amining-excalibur-109.html

Domino's inaugural miniseries introduces her sorta husband and her sorta real name; grading it on the curve of superfluous post-Onslaught #XMen miniseries, it's actually not bad! #Xaminations #Domino #XForce

https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2025/01/x-amining-domino-1-3.html#more

Given the way this week's #UncannyXMen #9 is referencing it, it's worth a revisit of #NewMutants #2, an issue which, like the current one, is about introducing its young cast to the notion of anti-mutant sentiment in the form of fighting robots at the mall. #XMen #Xaminations

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X-Force chases Risque through Disney, uh, Wackyworld as Adam Pollina livens up a treading water story in X-Force #66! #XMen #XForce #Xaminations
https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2025/01/x-amining-x-force-66.html

In Generation X #27, Bastion tries to do a pseudo "Future Imperfect" on Jubilee and she tells him to shove it while Chris Bachalo draws some trips down memory lane. Featuring possibly the most egregiously incorrect footnote ever! #XMen #Xaminations

https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2025/01/x-amining-generation-x-27.html

Remember when Havok broke bad and formed his own Brotherhood of Evil Mutants? X-Man #27 really, really wants to convince you that he's absolutely a bad guy and will never, ever go back.😏
#XMen #Xaminations #NateGrey #Havok

https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2024/06/x-amining-x-man-27.html

Which is larger: the number of X-Men who manage to defeat the Phalanx in Uncanny X-Men #344, or the number of inkers who worked on it?😛
#XMen #UncannyXMen #Xaminations
https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2024/05/x-amining-uncanny-x-men-344.html

Excalibur #108: come for the realistic anatomy, stay for the discussion of Pete Wisdom's ass.
#XMen #Excalibur #Xaminations

https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2024/03/x-amining-excalibur-108.html

X-Force #65!

Warpath tries to get to the bottom of Risque, exposing her as an avatar of 90s storytelling in the process. Also, Adam Pollina returns, and he brings a delightfully grotesque Blob with him!

#XMen #Xaminations #XForce
https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2024/01/x-amining-x-force-65.html

Hey, X-aminations are back!

I'm picking up where I left off (far too long ago...) with Generation X #26, in which I dig into some reasons why Scotty Lobs keeps punting his cast off stage for the events of a crossover!

#Xmen #GenerationX #Xaminations

https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2024/01/x-amining-generation-x-26.html