X-Men '97 With Mic Wright

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 it’s X-Men '97 from 2024, and joining Tim for a chat about Jean Grey's battle to save a timeline where Blame It On The Weatherman by B*Witched hasn't happened yet is writer Mic Wright. What will they find to say about an absence of floppy discs, which would work better out of Apocalypse '97 and Apocalypse Better and whether that sort of Angel Delight X-Man has any actual 'superfans', and what does any of this have to do with that long forgotten time travel storyline from The Young And The Restless? Get listening and find out!

You can find more editions of It's Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Mic on the X-Men Christmas Special Have Yourself A Morlock Little Christmas here as well as Logan here, The Punisher here, Thor: Ragnarok here and Fant4stic here.

If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Just remember that Magneto doesn't take coffee orders. He GIVES coffee orders.

Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends With Garreth Hirons

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 Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends, first seen between 1981 and 1983, and joining Tim for a chat about Peter Parker, Angelica Jones and Bobby Drake very occasionally remembering to mention that they are also supposed to be at college is musician Garreth Hirons. What will they find to say about the practicality of 'Ice Pants', the canonical status of Kingpin's Special Neck Band and the appropriate etiquette when your ex comes back as a half-machine monster of some sort, and what does any of this have to do with a moral panic about 'Bytes'? Get listening and find out!

You can find more editions of It's Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Garreth talking about Venom here, Venom: Let There Be Carnage here, Avengers: Age Of Ultron here and Thor: Ragnarok here, and standing in as host to chat with Tim about The Defenders here and Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings here.

If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. Preferably not from a vending machine that Video Man has used to implement a dastardly plot that they will still somehow need the supercomputer to alert them to.

X-Men: X2 With Gabby Hutchinson Crouch

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 X-Men: X2, released in 2003, and joining Tim for a chat about a huge big academy of superpowered teenagers running away from the military instead of using their powers is writer and author Gabby Hutchinson Crouch. What will they find to say about Chekhov's Dam, Alan Cumming's acclaimed turn in I Am In A Thing On BBC Four and Mozart's latest TikTok banger, and what does any of this have to do with The Freeserve X-Men? Get listening and find out!

You can find more editions of It's Good, Except It Sucks at http://timworthington.org/. You can also find Gabby on It's Good, Except It Sucks chatting about Spider-Man: Far From Home here, Spider-Man: No Way Home here and Loki here

If you enjoy It's Good, Except It Sucks, you can help to support the show by buying us a coffee here. The Mutants never seem to come up with anyone actually useful like a really skilled barista though, do they?