Episode 089: Tabitha Smith (feat. Leah Williams)

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

Science Fiction, Arts, Books, Visual Arts, Fiction

4.8 • 815 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 236 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 89 of CEREBRO, Connor and Marvel writer Leah Williams (X-Factor, X-Men: The Trial of Magneto, X-Terminators) toast to Tabitha Smith, the bodacious Boom-Boom! Created by Jim Shooter and Al Milgrom, explosive street kid Tabby quickly became a mainstay of the X-Men franchise, most notably with a long run on X-Force in the 90s.

The CEREBRO character file on Boom-Boom begins at 1:32:45.

(Content Advisory: Tabitha's story includes child abuse, domestic violence, survival sex work, suicidal ideation, threats of sexual violence, and substance abuse.)

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0:00.0	It's going to be a great year for Leah Williams comics about blondes with huge knockers.
0:05.4	Yeah.
0:05.9	If that's what you're in the market for, well, boy, howdy.
0:10.2	X-Men, X-Men.
0:13.1	In the 21st century, people mutants led by Magneto aimed to destroy the world.
0:22.1	The only hope is X-Men.
0:28.3	Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast, where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of homo-superior.
0:34.9	I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith, and with me today is returning guest,
0:39.4	Leah Williams, currently the writer of Exterminators with artist Carlos Gomez. Leah, how are you today?
0:47.1	I'm great. Thank you for having me. Thank you for coming back on. This is a character I have wanted to
0:53.1	do for some time, and a couple different people
0:55.7	have asked me about her, but I knew Exterminators was coming, and I wanted to wait until the
1:02.5	right time for the bomb to go off. We are here to talk about Tabitha Smith, aka Tabby,
1:10.7	a.k.a. Boom. A.k.a. Time Bomb. A.k.a.a. Timebom. A.k.a.a. A.k.a.a. A.k.a. A.k.m. It's been a longerner. It's a longer. It's a longer meltdown, not the era, but I think the idea of Tabith
1:28.7	Smith calling herself meltdown is really funny. It's got layers. Yeah, because like you think
1:34.0	about it for saying, you're like, a nuclear meltdown. She's like, I'm cool now. It's the 90s. But
1:37.9	also you're constantly having an emotional meltdown. So that's fun. Yeah. Yeah. But the era was not
1:43.7	enormously well loved. So I'm not shocked that she went back to. So that's fun. Yeah, yeah. But the era was not enormously well loved. So I'm not
1:45.7	shocked that she went back to. But we'll get there when we get there first. It has been almost
1:51.0	exactly a year since your first visit to the show to talk about Lejana Rasputina. That is one of the
1:57.1	most popular episodes of this show, just FYI. Oh, nice. I didn't know that. Yeah, it's consistently
2:03.3	in like the top, but Celine is far in a way the breakout hit of Cerebro. That episode went viral
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