Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.

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With us this week is screenwriter, television producer, comic book writer, and novelist Marc Guggenheim!

We get into his storied career beginning with an internship at Marvel that went awry back in 1990, take an in-depth look at his X-Men Gold and Days of Future Past and then get into his birth month and year issue for the horoscope: Uncanny X-Men 12 a.k.a. the origin of the Juggernaut!

Also in this episode:

• Why it is easier to break into Hollywood then into comics as a writer
• Scott Lobdell's bad advice
• Behind the scenes of Spiderman: Brand New Day
• How Marc's run is actually one of the most cohesive X-runs of all time...despite being written out of order
• What led to Kitty and Peter NOT getting married
• How he feels about the codename "Prestige" 10 years later
• Also why did he break Nightcrawler and Rachel up?
• How his Days of Future Past miniseries is actually about us now

Marc Guggenheim is a screenwriter, television producer, comic book writer, and novelist. He is known as the creator of the television series Eli Stone, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow, as well as the executive producer of the animated series Tales of Arcadia for which he won an Emmy in the category of "Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program.” He is also the writer of the feature films Green Lantern and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. He is the author of several books including the novel Overwatch and In Any Lifetime. A life-long comic book fan, Marc has been writing comics professionally for over twenty years, working on titles for both Marvel (such as Blade, X-Men and Spider-Man), DC Comics (The Flash, Superman, Batman), and original creator-owned works (Resurrection, Halcyon, Nowhere Man, Jonas Quantum and Stringers). If you have trouble keeping track of Marc’s incredible work tune in regularly to his substack, Legal Dispatch.

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