The Gifted deserved a better finale for season 2 than "oMens," and it definitely deserved a better series conclusion than this, but "oMens" is nonetheless the final episode of this show before its cancellation. Unfortunately, it's anticlimactic and clunky. We get to see all the plot points you would expect, such as the Mutant Underground finally coming together to face off against the Hellfire Club and Esmee Cuckoo betraying her sisters to join with Lorna, but it all happens so fast and with so little reflection on the part of the characters involved that it's pretty disappointing to watch. There's just one good scene in which John Proudstar uses his super-strength to beat up a shitload of Purifiers, and it's extremely satisfying. 

Next episode: The Gifted wrap-up/reflections

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"oMens," The Gifted

Battleworld takes its pulse from Marvel’s fractured multiverse, a realm where worlds collide, merge, and fight for survival. Earth-616 channels this chaos into dark minimal techno: metallic rhythms, echoing kicks, and hypnotic grooves that feel like stepping into a cosmic arena, where every beat is a battle and every drop a decisive strike.



Billionaire Code

Having finished both seasons of The Gifted, Maddy and Ryan get together for a big reminisce about what worked, what didn't work, and the larger legacy of this show as an X-Men adaptation. The disappointing series finale cast a shadow over this recording and our feelings about the show as a whole, but we nonetheless had plenty to choose from when it came to deciding on our favorite episodes and our favorite characters. Also, of course, what song should Andy have beatboxed but didn't?

Next episode: Listener mail!

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Looking back on The Gifted (2017-2019)

Storm (Climate Beat)

Cyclops (Climate Beat)

Gambit (Climate Beat)

Professor x vs Magneto (First Encounter) (Climate Beat)

Maddy, Ryan, and Todd convene to answer listeners' questions, including ones about which five X-Men should go on a cross-country RV trip together, which X-Men would be able to stand eating ten hot wings in 5 minutes (without using their powers), various X-Men novelizations, and even some more discussion of what Magneto was doing in X-Men '97. In our defense, one of you wrote us an email about it, so we had to talk about it again, okay? The episode ends with a rousing game of Two Truths and a Lie, but sadly no episode of The Mutant Ages: The Comic Book. We'll be back with that sometime soon, but we haven't recorded that yet. Instead, what's coming up is...

Next episode: Deadpool 2 (Part 1)!!!

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Listener Mail, September 2025

The boys review Flamecon! Spoilers: we had a gay old time. We chat about everyone’s favorite Demon Twink: Wiccan. We talk about X-Men’s ability to read hieroglyphics. All that plus this week’s comics, news, and those flaming plugs. 

Issue 389 - X-Men Discover New Volcano

Cyclops from the X-Men is an emotionally stunted fuckboi who controls his dick about as well as he controls the concussive blasts that shoot from his eyes without the aid of his ruby quartz glasses.

Every Girl Is An Apple

I am the weatherman, dj climate. 

Mixtapes
Edits 
Mash ups

Earth-616 is a New York-based collective of three: DJs Peter Stark and D. Princess, and vocalist Nana Wayne, whose stage presence fuses club energy with performance art. Lifelong fans of the Marvel universe, they weave its mythology into their music and visuals and proudly stand by the belief that Marvel beats DC. Their dark underground techno blends minimal grooves, metallic percussion, and deep warehouse reverbs, building sonic worlds as intense as any superhero showdown.

Album release date:
9 August 2025

Maddy Myers and Ryan Pagella review and break down the queer subtext of every X-Men cartoon/tv show/movie/game/book EVER. And maybe date Wolverine.

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Five obsessive queers unapologetically dishing about the #xmen and #mcu. Smart analysis and dumb jokes weekly.

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When The Roland High Life first started playing together in Boston in the mid-00s, the band had bonded over their scrappy emo/punk upbringings. As working class New England kids, they'd all played in bands from ska to folk-punk to hardcore. As a brand new indie rock band, they aspired to marry those sounds with the mature literary songwriting of artists like Warren Zevon, Elvis Costello, and Jeff Tweedy. 

That mix of high- and low-culture drove the DIY sound behind the band's debut EP, If You Really Want to Hear About It... . It also lead to the ten-year gap before the band released their next album, Another Other Dorset. The band still played together in those intervening years, honing their songwriting craft and Springsteenian pop-punk sound. But the chaos of adulthood had scattered them across the country, forcing the band to take a backseat.

With their newest album, "Songs About Comic Books & Mid-30s Malaise" (out Sept. 8), The Roland High Life has finally come full circle. The songwriting is sharper, using pop poetry to navigate the struggles of adulthood, while also looking backwards towards that nostalgic hope of comic books and youth. The production is more polished, too, with bigger sounds and more harmonies; yet it was all recorded in the their mothers' basements and childhood bedrooms, keeping with the theme of the album. 

Forwards and backwards. High- and low-brow. Welcome to The Roland High Life

New tracks tagged #X-men