It’s Good, Except It Sucks: The New Mutants With Mic Wright

The New Mutants (2020) - Mic Wright joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Iliyana Rasputin more or less deciding that her homework is probably the more interesting option after all in It's Good, Except It Sucks - a movie by movie - and television series by television series - hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

It’s Good, Except It Sucks is a movie by movie – and television series by television series – hurtle through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, hosted by Tim Worthington with a series of superpowered guests.

This time we’re heading into the Multiverse for a look at The New Mutants, released in 2020, and joining Tim for a chat about Illyana Rasputin more or less deciding that her homework is probably the more interesting option after all is journalist Mic Wright. What will they find to say about Christmas Cracker Novelty superpowers, the Lee Cooper Jeans X-Men and Lockheed’s little remarked-on ink-changing abilities, and what does any of this have to do with The New Shmoo’s brazen lack of newness? Get listening and find out!

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Further Listening

Mic also joined us on It’s Good, Except It Sucks for a chat about Logan here, X-Men ’97 here, the X-Men animated series Christmas Special Have Yourself A Morlock Little X-Mas here, Thor: Ragnarok here, The Punisher here, Fant4stic here and Kraven The Hunter here. There’s also more from the X-Men with Garry Abbott on X-Men here, Gabby Hutchinson Crouch Deadpool And Wolverine here and X-Men: X2 here, David Smith on X-Men: First Class here, Emma Burnell on Deadpool here and Phil Catterall on Deadpool 2 here.

Mic has also appeared on Tim’s nostalgia podcast Looks Unfamiliar talking about The Adventures Of Pete And Pete, Army And Navy Sweets, Emergency by 999, Rock On by David Essex, Thunderbirds comic and the murky origins of a certain unsavoury playground rumour here, I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape by The Times, Clarissa Explains It All, 2000 AD strip Nikolai Dante, Sharky And George, Jeff Lint and The Game here and Cargo by Men At Work, Rocko’s Modern Life, Party Animals, Solitary Fitness by Charles Bronson and Tazos here. You can also find Mic on The Golden Age Of Children’s TV talking about Around The World With Willy Fog here.