Metas & Mutants: Recent Episodes

Landon Taylor

Welcome to the mightiest podcast about comic books in the 9 realms. We cover everything here. Stories, animation, live-action movies. If it has anything to do with comic books, you can find it here.

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Super CyGuy and Hendrick discuss a handful of characters, who have had multiple people take up the mantle. From Robin to Ghost Rider and a few others

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In today's episode, Super CyGuy and Hendrick are talking about characters that a lot of their fans, really missed the point on them. From Punisher and Homelander, to the relationship of Joker and Harley Quinn.

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In this episode, Super CyGuy and Hendrick discuss the recent outrage over the X-Men franchise and how they've gone "woke". Or in other terms, talk about how people complaining about it, have never paid attention to the actual stories within the X-Men

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Joining Super CyGuy on this episode, is longtime co-host Tombstone da Deadman, and friends of the show SPJ, and Hendrik. And here we discuss our Mount Rushmore's of comic characters. All of us, for the most part, took less conventional characters, and at one point, 3 of us made the same choice for slightly different (but mostly overlapping) reasons.

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On todays episode, Super CyGuy and friend of the show, Hendrik (in his first guest host spot, and first time recording a podcast) go over and review two separate top ten lists. Top 10 Greatest Superheroes, and Top 10 Best Supervillains. And boy were there choices made by the people making these lists.

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On todays episode, Super CyGuy discusses his general thoughts on a variety of DC and Marvel comic book movies and shows that came out in 2022. This includes, the incredibly memeable, Morbius, which is 100% the best live action Morbius movie we have.

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On todays episode of Metas & Mutants, Super CyGuy and SPJ discuss their thoughts on Black Adam, the state of the DCEU, and how James Gunn has the difficult, but enviable job, of rebooting it into what he has called the DCU.

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On todays episode of Metas & Mutants, Super CyGuy reviews his experience 

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This episode is a little different from our usual format. As many of you may know, Deeper Dive is a video essay series hosted by friend of the show SPJ. We did a special mash-up where SPJ discusses Thor: Love and Thunder with Tombstone and Super CyGuy in two separate one on one interviews.

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It's been a while, but we got a special episode of Metas and Mutants today. Super CyGuy is with special guest co-host, and friend of the show, SPJ. And today, we discuss our thoughts on Marvel's Phase 4, both the Disney+ Shows and the new movies, our favourites, our least favourite, and what we hope for the upcoming phases. And in true fashion, there are plenty of off-topic tangents.

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No sugarcoating this one folks. Wasn't planning to do a quick episode about this, but well, the internet happened. So here we are. Ladies, Gentlemen, Nerds, Geeks, and everyone else I missed. Jane Foster was Thor in the comics, and looks like she's also Thor in the upcoming Thor: Love and Thunder movie. If you hate the idea of "Lady Thor" (or as she is properly known, The Mighty Thor, Goddess of Thunder) because "Thor is a MAN/It's Thor OdinSON, not OdinDaughter" or whatever other bullshit superficial reason, kindly go fuck yourself with a sideways pineapple.

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In this episode, Super CyGuy goes over 6 of the runs he is currently reading, and shouts out 2 other runs he fell off of, but means to get back to reading.

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In this episode of Meta's and Mutants, Super CyGuy does a character analysis of who Moon Knight is, in anticipation of the Disney+ series coming up

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This episode is heavily impromptu. Tombstone and Super CyGuy talk a bit about wrestling (tied into a news article), but heavily talk about how Wolverine has killed his kids, and how the Storm and Black Panther relationship seemed forced. We also talk about Wolverine vs Cyclops as tacticians, and how in another time, Storm and Thor had a daughter.

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Tombstone Da Deadman is BACK, and we're here to just catch up a little bit, and let you all know what's going on with us.

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Once again, we have Ryan from Salmon Industries YYC as a guest on our podcast. In todays episode, we talk about the Rise of the Midnight Sons story arc from the 90's, and other iterations of the Midnight Sons team since then.

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A different segment here, but Super CyGuy has a friend on the show, to talk a bit about his business, Salmon Industries YYC. While learning about the business, we also learn what the founder's favourite Superheroes are, his favourite Superhero Movies, and favourite 90's Superhero cartoon.

There will be an upcoming collaboration between Salmon Industries YYC, and Metas & Mutants coming out in the future.

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Are you interested in getting into comics? Were you interested in comics a long time ago, and wanting to get back in? Are you just looking for general advice on where to start a new series? You've come to the right place, and picked the right episode. Super CyGuy gives his best general advice for where or how to get into comics (or new runs). 

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Yes, yes, I know. Screen Rant. So you KNOW it's going to be bad. Which is exactly why I had to do it. We cover the top 10 greatest comic heroes and villains, and the lists... are certainly something. Let us know if you agree or disagree with these lists yourself.

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To me my X-Men! Super CyGuy here with some news about the future of Metas & Mutants. Once we cover that, and some news, it's time for a recap and review of Marvel's recent "Way of X" 5 issue series, culminating in the new "X-Men: Onslaught Revelations" one-shot.

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In this episode, Tombstone is back and we discuss the things about certain characters that don't make sense to us.

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For this episode, Tombstone was unfortunately away doing work for the Big G (Galactus). So we have Super CyGuy discussing his early thoughts on the Marvel's Avengers games newest expansion, the War for Wakanda.

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The final episode in this series where we explore the fact that there has always been politics in comic books.

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Part Two of our mini series about politics in comic books

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The title speaks for itself. So many obviously new comic book readers have been online asserting that comic books aren't the place for politics and political agendas.  Metas & Mutants suggest that they read more older comics.  They either missed it or never read it in the first place.  But we are here to help so in this mini series we discuss all the ways politics have been used in comics over the years.  From the motivation of the creators of the characters, to the story arcs themselves.

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Now where else are you gonna go to get this thorough of a review about the Loki series season one? Of course you're going to come to your friendly neighborhood Metas & Mutants!

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The bottom line is that each comic book company clone each other's characters at times. In this episode we discuss some of the more popular clones and a few obscure ones.

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Finally, in a short time, Kevin Feige is running  us our Widow. So of course we are going to talk about the Black Widow in comics and film.  #RespectBlackWidow

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So let me make this clear. So far, Loki is my favorite series from this MCU Disney+ era.  In this episode Super Cyguy and I discuss the first two episodes as well as give a few predictions about where we think the show is going from a narrative standpoint. 

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We have somehow managed to reach 52 episodes!  And without running from the show screaming!  Quite an accomplishment. In this anniversary episode we talk about our favorite topics as well as the future of the show!

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There is a bunch of news buzzing around the comic book/movie/tv show genre and in this episode we navigate through a lot of it.

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We all love comic book superheroes. They hare the face of nobility and honor. However, they aren't without flaws. In this episode we discuss certain characters that, at times, betray the things he stands for.  Also we discuss the fluctuating power levels of certain heroes. And not just over the years. In some cases, from issue to issue.  Spoiler alert...Tombstone thinks it sucks

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Comic book lore is full of legendary weapons.  We did a show on this before but could hardly cover them all.  So we will do these sort of shows every so often.

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The title speaks for itself. Today Super Cyguy and Tombstone talk about superhero sidekicks, their origins and some really obscure ones.

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Yup. Felt so nice we had to do it twice.  In this episode we stretch our 12th Level comic book intellects again and mine Quora for questions that only we can answer.  Well, that's cap...but still!!  Enjoy

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On this episode, SuperCyguy and Tombstone use their vast 12th level intellects to answer random comic book questions from Quora 

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Warning!!!  There will be spoilers in this episode as we review the entire season of Falcon and The Winter Soldier. So if you decided to binge it all after all the episodes dropped, you may want to finish watching it and then come back to this episode.

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In this episode we talk about our favorite comic book mini-series and why you should be reading them.

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The comic book multiverse has no shortage of geniuses and technopaths.  So in this episode Super CyGuy and Tombstone talk about a few of them and some of their greatest feats

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We love comic book movies on the Metas & Mutants show.  But just like everything else, they are not perfect. In this episode, we talk about the things we think were poor creative choices made by some moviemakers.

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We did one for Marvel.  So now it's DC Comics turn.  In this episode, we discuss characters that aren't as popular as the more mainstream characters.  But some of them are just as interesting.

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In this episode, we talk about some of our favorite comic book fan films.  Go support the ones we bring up in the show.  And if you know of some we haven't heard of, drop us a message on our official Meta And Mutants Facebook page.

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Sadly, Wandavision is over. But we aren't done with it yet.  In this episode we talk about the impact of the show and how it sets up the MCU for the future.  Spoiler alert...it was Agatha all along.

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The story arc "X-Men: Schism" was one of the most monumental periods in X-Men history. So much so that the events of that time still have an effect on the current lore.  In this episode, we reflect on the events of that story and how it impacts the X-Men titles today.


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In this episode, we talk about our favorite obscure characters.  You know.  The characters that aren't often used by the writers but are actually awesome.


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How did Tombstone and Super CyGuy get into comic books?  The answers lie within


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Now that Marvel has announced plans to expand on the Wakandan lore and produce Disney+ shows with Ryan Coogler's production company, we decided to give some feedback about other legendary Marvel regions that could make for a great series.


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You read the title.  We are about to go in about the comic book writers we feel are the greatest right now


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On this episode we give our thoughts on the Disney+ series, Wandavision


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It is a rare thing to get Super Cyguy to say anything good about the Batman.  And we still didn't get it.  But he did have some really cool words about some of those in his Rogues Gallery.


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In this episode, we examine several comic book characters that made their way to film.  To compare the movie version to the comic book version and see how close they are to the source material.


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We really need to do episodes like this more often.  Today we talk about the legendary weapons in comics. We did a similar episode a while ago and meant to revisit it again.  


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So we had the idea for this episode.  Little did we realize that many of the ones on our list were either turned into a comic later or had a comic as their source material. Pretty sure a lot of you would be surprised.


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Recently, Marvel Studios announced a bunch of new shows and content.  They are revving up again and we are here for it.  In this episode, we go through all of the news and discuss the future of the MCU.


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The rise of the MCU Netflix shows was an interesting moment in the development of their brand.  In this episode, we discuss the good, the bad, and the controversial of this collection of shows.  We even delve into the possible future of the characters as Marvel Studies moves forward.


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Part 3 of our 4 part series where we look into each of the MCU phases and examine the good, the bad, and the ugly.


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In this episode, we continue with our reexamination of the Marvel movies and their phases.  This time it's phase 2


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This is part one of our 4-part series where we reexamine all of the Marvel Movie phases.  We talk about what worked, what didn't work, and the controversies. 


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Aliens.  Little green men.  That unidentified light in the sky and makes you go "hmm."   Well in comic book universes, Aliens aren't a mystery at all.  They exist and have at times been the saviors of humanity.  At other times they have been the biggest threat to humanity.  In this episode, we discuss a few of the Alien civilizations in comic books.  


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In this episode, we talk very greasily about Batman.  We also expose Mr. Fantastic as a rotten hubby. 


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Pulling rabbits out of your hat is cool and all but nothing beats being able to summon demons, forcefields, and shoot eldritch lightning out of your fingertips.  Magic users in comic books are usually awesome.  But the rules of magic tend to vary from comic universe to universe.  In this episode we talk about our favorite magic users in comics, how they acquire their powers and how they are allowed to use them.


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Comic book writers draw from a bunch of different sources to come up with ideas for characters and stories.  There is nothing more full of creative jewels more than the myths and legends humanity has developed over the centuries. In this episode, we explore comic book characters that were inspired by early myths of man. 


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We are still a few years out from Marvel Studios reintroducing the X-men to us.  But we want to get a headstart by giving out picks for the roles of some of the characters


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Sure.  We all know DC Comics and Marvel.  But there are a bunch of indie companies that have made significant contributions to the genre.  In this episode, SuperCyGuy and Tombstone discuss their favorites.


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We got such a great reaction from the first show we did about common comic book tropes, we decided to follow up.  There are so many to explore.  Digging into them really opens up the mind about why these stories and characters work.  As well as why they sometimes fail. 


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In this episode of Metas & Mutants, Tombstone and SuperCyGuy discuss common comic book tropes.  The good ones and the bad ones.  Examples of the ones used great and the ones used poorly.


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We aren't sure how it got to this point but what we do know is that it needs to be addressed. There is something broken in geekdom. Inside the multiverse of Fandoms, there is a bunch of toxic attitudes that need to be exposed and discarded.   In this episode,  Tombstone and SuperCyguy are not the heroes you want.  They're the anti-heroes you need. 


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Today we review the animated Marvel movie, Planet Hulk.  DC has been known for having great animation.  In the last few years, Marvel hasn't.  But this movie dropped during that short window of time when Marvel used to put out some respectable animated content.  In this episode we see if it still holds up.


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This week, we give our thoughts on the passing of Chadwick Boseman as well as review the DC Comics Animated movie, Justice League: War.


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DC Comics recently held its virtual Fandome event!  In this episode Super Cyguy and I give you our impressions of the event as well as our expectations for the industry going forward!


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First, let me start off by apologizing for the audio quality.  We had a bunch of tech issues while recording this episode.  But we at Metas and Mutants pride ourselves on our ability to persevere.  In this episode, we talk about the different elements of a good superhero team.  We even create our official podcast super team!! 


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WE DON'T PLAY GAMES WITH COMICS!! Well, actually we kinda do.  On this episode, we talk about the myriad of comic book based video games over the years.  The good, the bad, and the downright face in the mud ugly.


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The title says it all.  In this episode, Super Cyguy and Tombstone dive into the brilliance of Hickman's X-Men vision.


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In this episode, we compare and contrast different geniuses in comic book universes.  Their strengths as well as what we perceive to be their weaknesses.


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Okay...not really.  But we do discuss what might happen if certain characters were to fight other characters. Including Galactus vs Dr. Manhattan!


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Hello, my fellow Metas & Mutants!  In this episode, Super Cyguy and Tombstone continue their discussion on Victor Von Doom.  This time they analyze Doom's invasion of Wakanda from the legendary "DoomWar" series!


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In this episode, Tombstone and Super CyGuy discuss the Infamous Ironman series.  For those that haven't read it, it's one of the best arcs that center on Victor Von Doom.  More than a despot. More than a super-villain.  Doom is a complicated character.


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The main topic this week?   The DC animated movie, Crisis On Two Earths!   Super Cyguy had never even seen it before.  But now that he has, he definitely has some opinions on it.


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This week on Metas & Mutants we give our completely unsolicited opinion on what actors and actresses should play some of our favorite DC Comics characters.


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Okay folks, it's time to give our picks of the actors and actresses we would like to see play some of the new characters in the MCU's next phases!


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In this episode of Metas & Mutants, we discuss and describe some of the most powerful weapons in comic books.  Weapons of the Gods, Science, and Magic.


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Our first episode!  We've been wanting to start this podcast for a while now.  We start off with some comic book news and then explore a lot of the common superhero origin tropes!


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