Jul 29, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 14 segments
This week, we're tapping into some 1980s gold with Ex-Mutants, one of the wildest post-apocalyptic stories we've ever read. This book's got it all: A nuclear apocalypse, mutants turned into humans…
Mike ThompsonHostToday we're going to be talking about the '80s series X-Mutants, its creation, and the legal drama surrounding it, and of course, talk about the comic itself.
And let's be real, there were a ton of publications at that time trying to ride the coattails of that success, creating their own versions of that, like, black and white radioactive vibe.
So wanting to create a satirical response to the influx of subpar Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle knockoffs flooding the comic market, the key players in the creation of this comic were writer David Lawrence, comics-
... packager and writer David Campiti, and Ron Lim, who went on to pencil Marvel comics such as The Silver Surfer, Infinity War, Gauntlet-
Today we're going to be talking about the '80s series X-Mutants, its creation, and the legal drama surrounding it, and of course, talk about the comic itself.
And let's be real, there were a ton of publications at that time trying to ride the coattails of that success, creating their own versions of that, like, black and white radioactive vibe.
So wanting to create a satirical response to the influx of subpar Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle knockoffs flooding the comic market, the key players in the creation of this comic were writer David Lawrence, comics-
... packager and writer David Campiti, and Ron Lim, who went on to pencil Marvel comics such as The Silver Surfer, Infinity War, Gauntlet-
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