Episode 113: Hope Summers (feat. Kieron Gillen)

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

Science Fiction, Arts, Books, Visual Arts, Fiction

4.8 • 815 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 252 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 113 of CEREBRO, Connor and returning guest Kieron Gillen meet their maker with the mutant messiah, Hope Summers! Created as an infant by Mike Carey and Chris Bachalo, then developed extensively by writer Duane Swierczynski, baby Hope was the first mutant somehow born after the Decimation eradicated the future potential of the x-gene, and her prophesied birth made her a target from her first breaths. Quickly orphaned in a massacre and spirited away to the future by her adoptive father Cable, Hope had a number of false starts on her long messianic journey, but finally achieved her cosmic purpose on Krakoa.

This is also the afterparty for Kieron's remarkable second tenure on X-Men, and a salute to the First Krakoan Age.

Kieron's new creator-owned book The Power Fantasy is coming soon from Image Comics, and the final order cutoff date for issue #1 is today, July 15th! Call your local comic shop and ask for it by name.

The CEREBRO character file on Hope begins at 43:19.

(Content Advisory: Hope's story includes genocide, suicide, and the mass murder of infants. You know. Messiah stuff.)

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0:00.0	But the image I had of hers with like sort of a hailer effect,
0:04.0	Phoenix fire.
0:05.1	Two pistols were to constantly on fire, sending firing, burning bullets through people,
0:08.9	saying, I forgive you as she shoots people.
0:12.2	That's the image I had for home.
0:14.6	Oh, man.
0:15.2	And you can see what they said, no.
0:16.5	X-Men, X-Men.
0:19.7	In the 21st century, people mutants led by Magneto aimed to destroy the world.
0:28.5	The only hope is X-Men.
0:34.9	Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast, where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of Homo Superior.
0:41.3	I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith.
0:43.8	And with me today is my friend and yours, returning guest, Kieran Gillen.
0:49.7	Kieran, how are you today?
0:51.4	I'm very glad to be here.
0:52.5	I was generally just thinking as you started. I don't think my time in the ex-office really ends until I'm on Cerebro, which is the
0:59.0	after-party debrief.
1:00.0	We just sit down and we can talk about stuff.
1:02.0	Well, we love an after-party, don't we?
1:04.0	So, you know, you are coming off, for anyone listening who's not aware, a barnstormer
1:10.0	of a second run on the X-Men.
1:13.5	How are you feeling? Do you feel good? Do you feel like you landed the plane?
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