X-Men Horoscopes

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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 incredible comics writer Stephanie Williams on the show. We dive into the history behind her creator-owned comic Roots of Madness as well as her very fun runs writing X-Men Unlimited Infinity comics.

We then tackle Uncanny X-Men 35 (Legacy 599) which came out the month and year her son was born and showcases a heartbreaking story of the meteoric rise and fall of everyone's favorite egg-hatching mutant, Goldballs.

Also on this episode:

Writing during the Krakoa Era while knowing your characters are about to get massacred

Cyclops won't touch Emma with Namor's trident

Goldballs has the best font

The Hellfire Club has tax issues

Klaw just wants to get groceries without being attacked

Nightcrawler should teleport with air fresheners

All this plus which X-Men is going to babysit Stephanie's kid. What does any of this mean for his future? Tune in to find out!

Stephanie Williams is a comic book writer and creative producer known for her vibrant, character-driven storytelling and commitment to expanding representation within the industry. She has written for major publishers including DC and Marvel Comics, contributing to titles such as Nubia & the Amazons and Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. A co-founder of the platform Black Women in Comics Collective, Williams has also been a leading voice in advocating for diversity and inclusion in comics. Her work often blends action, humor, and emotional depth while centering underrepresented heroes, helping shape a more inclusive future for the medium.

X-Men fans will know her for writing stories like X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic, where she explored character-driven arcs within the Krakoan era, Marvel’s Voices: Legacy and Marvel Voices: Pride, Spider-Verse Unlimited and Spider-Man Unlimited Infinity Comic.

She is currently writing the new Street Sharks revival for IDW Publishing and just wrapped the simply awesome Roots of Madness, inspired by the life of Madame CJ Walker. You can connect with her on Instagram, Bluesky and Threads.

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 on the show we have Adam Reck, co-host of the Battle of the Atom podcast and frequent contributor to Comics XF to talk about his birth month and year issue (Uncanny X-Men 136) which is none other than the Dark Phoenix Saga!

We discuss the founding of Battle of the Atom podcast and what it means to review and critique our current comic era...while also regularly interacting with those comic's creators.

Also in this episode:

Jean is hungry

Transformers as a gateway drug

Lodro is trying out for a Jimmy Carter impersonator contest

Cyclops master plan is to tell a woman to calm down

The worst time to get engaged ever

Hot Bird once again appears after not contributing anything

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

Adam Reck is the co-host of the X-Men podcast Battle of the Atom and a regular contributor to ComicsXF. He's also the writer/artist behind Bish & Jubez.

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 comic writer Alex Paknadel to discuss his current Cyclops series! We dive into how Alex got into the industry initially through being killed off in comics, the most compelling Maggott story ever told, and the premise of the Cyclops mini-series that was left on the cutting room floor because it was simply...too much.

Also in this episode:

The allure of playing with the underutilized toys in the toy box

The banality of evil

How Cyclops isn’t a buttoned up boy-scout

What it means to Claremont a character’s powers

Colossus is the smartest he’s ever been

Cyclops cries punches

Hot Bird is in a birdcage doing his incredible flying power

Wolverine is on bad acid

Why you should NOT karate chop Cyclops in the neck

All this plus a special peek at the future of the Cyclops series. What does any of this mean for Alex's future? Tune in to find out!
Alex Paknadel is a British comic book writer whose work in the X-Men line has brought a sharp psychological and sociopolitical edge to mutant storytelling. Contributing during the Krakoan era, Paknadel has explored themes of identity, power, otherness, and belonging—core to the X-Men mythos—through nuanced character work and morally complex narratives. Known for his precise, thoughtful voice, Paknadel’s X-Men stories stand out for their intellectual ambition and emotional resonance within the evolving landscape of Marvel’s mutant world.

Outside of Marvel, Paknadel has built a reputation in the indie space with acclaimed projects such as Arcadia, Friendo, and All Against All, often exploring themes of class, identity, and systemic power.

 
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.

With us this week are the co-hosts of The Kibitz, Jordan Blok and Connor Goldsmith. We get into the fall of Krakoa, the birth of The Kibitz, the future of CEREBRO and why you should buy Did You Hear About Mimi Green?

We cover Jordan's birth month and year issue which is a massive Uncanny X-Men 275 that has space stuff and Savage Land stuff so yeah it's basically the crossover you always wanted but never knew was possible.

Also in this episode:

Lilandra the space empress who rules an empire in space loses her space throne every other week

ZALADANE!

Give us a Savage Land fashion show

Connor absolutely corrects Lodro's pronunciation of Shiar gods

Psylocke is black for a minute

The bad guys fell down, just trust us

Magneto’s to-do list has no time for the Savage Land mutates

Zaladane as (potential) daughter of Magneto who also has plotting feathers

There’s no point in wearing clothes in the Savage Land

All this plus ten minutes just on Psylocke meditating naked on a spaceship. What does any of this mean for Jordan's future? Tune in to find out!

Jordan Blok is a science journalist who runs the substack The Uptake where you’ll get science stories and news covering everything from biology to linguistics, from man-eating deer to outbreak reporting to what’s in your dry shampoo.

Connor Goldsmith is a podcaster, and writer. In 2020, Connor launched the independent podcast CEREBRO, a character-by-character exploration of Marvel’s X-Men comic book franchise. CEREBRO was named one of Entertainment Weekly’s 10 best podcasts of 2021, and hailed that year by Ezra Klein as one of his favorite podcasts. In 2022, Connor and his work on CEREBRO were profiled in The New York Times. By 2024, the podcast had achieved over 3 million downloads. His comics debut Did You Hear About Mimi Green? — a horror collaboration with artist Josh Cornillon and letterer Ariana Maher — is forthcoming from Dark Horse in May 2026.

Together the two run The Kibitz, the show where a pedantic yapper and a bimbo genius chitchat about whatever the hell they want, often digging into the latest happenings in culture, dissect the news, and simply queen out.

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 returning guest, author and comic writer Alex Segura, for a special BOOK LAUNCH EPISODE! That's right! Both Alex Segura and Lodro Rinzler's new books came out two days ago on March 24th and you get the full scoop here.

Alex discusses Enemy of My Enemy, a soon-to-be-bestselling Daredevil novel and breaks down what makes up Daredevil's DNA. Lodro relates our comic of the day to his book You Are Good, You Are Enough, which is about coming home to a sense of goodness and wholeness inside of ourselves.

We also unpack Alex's comic co-written with previous guest of the show Sara Century, The Forgotten Five, how we all get lost in the trap of doubt at times, and a bonkers Uncanny X-Men issue where Mutina wants to join the X-Men but they don’t let anime kids onto the team.

Also in this episode:

Tom Breevort

Nightcrawler has a first date

McKenzie gets BAMFed

The X-Animals

Chekhov's barn

What does any of this have to do with the future of these brand-new books entering the world? We try and figure it out and heck maybe you can help us with that. Tune in for more!
Alex Segura is the bestselling and award-winning author of Secret Identity, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and an NPR Best Mystery of the Year. He’s also the author of the acclaimed Pete Fernandez series, as well as the Star Wars novel, Poe Dameron: Free Fall, and the YA Spider-Verse adventure, Araña/Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow. In 2024, he published a sci-fi/espionage novel, Dark Space, co-written with Rob Hart; the graphic novel The Legendary Lynx; Encanto: Nightmares and Sueños; and Alter Ego, a standalone sequel to Secret Identity. Alter Ego was an instant USA Today bestseller, featured in Cosmpolitan, Parade, The Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, and described as “thrilling” by the Wall Street Journal and by Lodro Rinzler. In addition to his prose writing he has written a number of comics for Marvel and DC, including Star Wars: Battle of Jakku, Spider-Society, and The Question: All Along the Watchtower. With Michael Moreci he is the writer behind the noir re-launch of Dick Tracy. He lives in New York City with his family.

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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