X-Men Horoscopes

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.

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With us this week is Adrian Hough, the voice of Nightcrawler on X-Men '92 and now X-Men '97! We dive into his long career of acting before exploring the X-Men issue that came out the very first time he voiced Nightcrawler...we're going to the Age of Apocalypse y'all!

Also in this episode:

Who or what is Project X?

How Nightcrawler pushes back against the suffering and pain he has experienced

How spacecake broke reality

Professor X died in the past and now Destiny adopted Doug Ramsey

Juggernaut as pacifist monk

Avalon is just sort of okay

Nightcrawler teleports a guy’s head off

All this plus an incredible conversation about hope itself. Which feels very timely considering yesterday's X-Men '97 episode! What does any of this mean for Adrian's future? Tune in to find out!
Adrian Hough is a Canadian actor, voice actor, writer, and acting coach whose career spans film, television, animation, and video games. A familiar presence in animation, he is especially known to X-Men fans as the voice of Nightcrawler in X-Men '97, bringing warmth, humor, and emotional depth to the beloved mutant. With decades of experience across virtually every corner of the entertainment industry, Hough has built a reputation as a versatile performer capable of moving seamlessly between heroic leads, nuanced dramatic roles, and memorable animated characters.

 

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.

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With us this week is the voice of Bishop on X-Men '97, Isaac Robinson Smith! We follow him from an early love of sound to an amazing trajectory as a voice actor, including a lot of wonderful and memorable stories of his time as Bishop.

We cover his birth month and year issue which...is actually that one where blonde British Betsy Braddock is remade into an Asian assassin, so trigger warning there.

Also in this episode: 

Shaking off the Bishop-as-cop persona of the 90s comics

How to deal with riddle-loving asses

A bad way to prove your worth as a ninja

Storm is Psylocke's BFF and Jean is Storm's

Psylocke collects rings like Pokemon including a ring for breath freshening, a ring for hotel stains and a ring for dissolving Summers’

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

Isaac Robinson-Smith is a voice actor who is able to voice everything from zany characters to earnest announcers. His vocal versatility has turned him into one of LA’s rising voiceover stars. Whether he’s recording in a vocal booth, singing at Disneyland, or just practicing his much-requested Morgan Freeman impression, Isaac Robinson-Smith’s voice is always entertaining someone. He has been Adam in Voltron, Mushu in Dreamlight Valley, Dark Choco Cookie in CRK and Black Panther for Disney Parks. Fans of this show might know him from Eyes of Wakanda but also very likely as Bishop in X-Men ’97.

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.

Want to listen to this episode ad-free? Visit our Patreon!

With us this week is Miles and Anna Stokes! Full disclosure: this lil podcast would not exist if Jay and Miles Xplain the X-Men didn’t pave the way for it. We are interrupting X-Men ‘97 Month for a week because Jay and Miles Xplain the X-Men JUST ENDED and this is a good communal way to process that news.

 

So if you’re heartbroken, come on in for this victory lap/debrief and meet Anna, who is a kick-ass human being with stories to share.

 

We cover the X-Men issue that came out during their wedding anniversary - X-Men 2 (it’s Krakoa, baby) - and they play the X-Newlywed Game.

 

Also in this episode:

What’s Miles’ next big project?

the X-Men as Captain Planet

That time Sunfire didn’t quit

A bizarre poker game

The likely origin story of Cordecyps Jones

How telepathy actually works

The mutant MRI machine

The definitive Xorn explanation

What does this mean for Anna and Miles' future together as a couple? Tune in to find out!

For the last 12 years, Miles Stokes has been enthusiastically attempting to make sense of comics' most complicated superhero soap opera as half of the podcast Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men. By day, he fixes computers for a non-mutant-related comic book publisher, and by night, he tries and fails to catch up on his gigantic media backlog.

Anna Stokes is an enigma wrapped in shadows, or possibly just an endearing dork with an excellent fashion sense. She loves horror, British comedy, the visual arts, and spends most of each week listening to people's life stories while she expertly rips hair out of their bodies in her role as an esthetician.

Anna and Miles live in Portland, Oregon in a spooky house full of nerdy things, or possibly a nerdy house full of spooky things, in the middle of a pretty great community of creators and weirdos.

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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Want to listen to this episode ad-free? Visit our Patreon!

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 the voice of Rogue in the X-Men animated series, Lenore Zann! You are in for a treat as we look at the trajectory of her career starting as a teenage actor, moving into voice acting and her iconic run as Rogue in the '90s and moving into an incredible career in politics.

We briefly touch on the X-Men issue that came out right when she broke into voice acting (Uncanny X-Men 122) and of course spend a lot of time answering questions from listeners like you.

Also in this episode:

the Zannslide

the time Disney had to track her down for a mysterious project that they wouldn’t tell her anything about

the intersectionality of the character of Rogue and politics

Lenore’s two pieces of advice for anyone who wants to make a positive difference in today’s world

Cyclops is stuffier than King Tut’s tomb

Storm does NOT have a good time in Harlem

Cyclops gets a key from his gf and assumes she wants him to water her plants

a shout out to all the men getting calf implants

Lenore's villain turn (to watch the Stormhawks video click here!)

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

To listen to the episode with Kelly Thompson - one of my favorite comic writers who also has written Rogue extensively - click here. We unpack Uncanny X-Men 122 in depth.

Lenore Zann is an Australian-born Canadian actress and politician who began her acting career at age 19 in the rock opera Hey Marilyn!, going on to build hundreds of credits across stage, screen, and voice acting. She is universally recognized as the iconic voice of Rogue in X-Men: The Animated Series and the Disney+ revival X-Men '97. Additionally, Lenore has had a distinguished career in Canadian politics, serving in the Nova Scotia legislature and the Canadian House of Commons.

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!

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Want to listen to this episode ad-free? Visit our Patreon!

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 the voice of Morph on X-Men '97, JP Karliak! We get into the importance of nerds voting, his work creating opportunities for queer voices and, of course, the inner life of Morph.

Also in this episode:

Who should Morph date?

Jean is a crystal ball and is unhappy

Havok and Polaris get horny when given X-Men missions

College Iceman is NOT doing well

Of course Cyclops’ walk about leads to him f-ing a sea captain on a deserted island

Dr. Doom is camp af and pines for Storm

Hot Bird’s contribution is dat ass

All this plus is Morph naked all the time? What does any of this mean for JP's future? Tune in to find out!

JP Karliak is a voiceover actor, activist, and snappy dresser. JP is the founder and president of Queer Vox, a non-profit training academy and community for LGBTQIA+ voice talent that advocates for authentic and equitable casting opportunities. Also a political junkie, JP and voiceover pal Courtenay Taylor are co-founders of the nonpartisan organization NerdsVote, linking gamers, cos-players, con-goers, and pop culture fans of all kinds to voter registration opportunities. Fans of this show may immediately recognize his voice because he is Morph, from X-Men ’97.

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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