THIS JUST IN: The X-Men love This American Life, too!
First Justin Timberlake, now Wolverine and Nightcrawler are going public as listeners of WBEZ’s This American Life. Here’s the scan to prove it from a sub-story in Nation X #1 called RoadTrip by James Asmus.
I’m guessing Nightcrawler was the one who turned the dial to hear the latest from Ira Glass. (Wolverine seems more of a Mastodon fan.)
This reminds me of a nightmare I had a couple of months back. I was in the WBEZ City Room and working on story about the X-Men, but Professor X kept wiping my memory with his mutant mind powers. He didn’t want me to portray the X-Men negatively. It was—hands down—the hardest piece I’ve ever worked on, all thanks to the professor’s pulsing bald head. And that’s coming from a reporter who once had to talk about 7 percent property assessment caps in under a minute.
UPDATE: Author confirms Nightcrawler turned Wolverine on to This American Life
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Wolverine’s Canadian. He probably a Wiretap fan.
A very fitting way for the children of the atom to stay in touch with the rest of humanity..!
Actually, this is part of a long-standing tradition of the X-Men taking part in NPR. During the 80’s, Neal Conan had a significant guest appearance with the mutants. It’s even in Neal’s wikipedia page.
You are correct! It’s also in the post immediately after this one.
Its very possible, and I think this might even prove, that comics and TAL are our nation’s only SANE voice these days. Kudos to Ira and the team as well as to pre-Disney Marvel for being able to shake us out of apathy and point us in an honest and common-sense directed path.
Oh, and as a follow-up, Wolverine IS Canadian, Nightcrawler (aka Kurt Wagner) is German by birth. Still fitting.