Tini Howard: Jubilee Was My Euphoria - Uncanny X-Men 198

Listen to this episode from X-Men Horoscopes on Spotify. 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. This week Lodro climbs inside the brain of the incredible comic writer Tini Howard to explore how something so fantastic and unique as Marian Heretic (her new creator owned comic out THIS WEEK - go buy it) came to be. We explore everything Catholicism before moving into what it was like to write X-Men during the pandemic with the intense writers room of the Krakoa Era and then look at her birth month/year issue: it's mofo LIFEDEATH II y'all. Also in this episode: XI of Swords A childhood of trying to defend Jubilee's rep Morrisonian Cuntocracy Wolverine and Storm: complicated friends? Friends with benes? All of it? Storm fights a snake (twice. two times. same snake) Storm does not have the training for childbirth, but will absolutely do it anyway Mjnari will die instead of doing the dishes Gambit can help you get a Pop-Tart What does any of this mean for Tini's future? Tune in to find out!   Tini Howard is an incredible comics writer. Her work includes critically-acclaimed runs on Catwoman and Harley Quinn for DC Comics, building Marvel’s Krakoan Age of X-Men with a focus on building out Otherworld, writing books like Excalibur, X-Corp, and Betsy Braddock, Captain Britain, as well as her own creator-owned work such as Assassinistas and Euthanauts. Her brand new book Marian Heretic, at the time of this recording, is about to drop from Boom Studios so you should pause, go buy that, and then come back. You can connect with her on Instagram and Substack.   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. 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.