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In which Genosha gets better and/or worse; Fabian Cortez is the Secretary of Betrayal; having an action figure of yourself is the path to immortality; and Hammer Bay sounds like a sex toy company.
X-PLAINED:
- Triathlon
- The Revolution relaunch and the six-month gap
- Magneto: Dark Seduction #1-4
- Erotic skyscrapers
- Magneto (again) (forever)
- X-Men Tijuana Bibles
- The Genoshan Cabinet
- Dark friendship with benefits
- Polaris’s newfound interest in heavy metal
- Magneto’s on-again, off-again children
- Carrion Cove
- Coloring symbolism and/or errors
- Spat and Grovel (kind of)
- Magneto’s ancestral f**k-ghost
- Socialism!
- Magneto’s mysterious mind-voice
- Neal Conan
- The Avengers of 2000
- Kirby Krackle
- Magneto’s smooth arc into villainy
- Bonking
- Human nature
- Rachel Summers in the Body Shoppe
- Our (lack of) coverage of solo comics
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Thank goodness for those emails, I would never have known an episode dropped. My podcast app only goes up to episode 478.
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Sometimes it can take a little time for episodes to show up in apps after we upload them. The episode is now appearing everywhere for me – do you see it in Podcast Addict yet?
I laughed so hard when you talked about that cooking show! I had to stop the podcast and recover before continuing. But what was it called?
There’s a link to all that madness at the bottom of the visual companion!
I should have noticed that before. Thanks and wow!
If Fabian Cortez were part of the current administration, his inevitable betrayal might be a net positive.
Yeah, hi: Masada is not “Zionist”, it’s Jewish. I realize Westerners like to use the former as a socially acceptable slur for the latter, but I would hope the two of you are a *little* better than that.
Zionist and Jewish aren’t the same thing. The Zionist movement is a specific movement that led to the creation of the state of Israel. It would be closer to conflate Israeli and Zionist than Jewish and Zionist.
Masada is an ancient Jewish fort that resisted the Roman military before killing everyone to avoid capture. However, there is what’s referred to as the “Masada myth,” which is a retelling of the story of Masada and incorporating it into a heroic story as inspiration for the modern Zionist movement.
I wonder whether Nicieza had any particular parallel in mind with the historical Masada. There are a couple of options: The obvious one — defiance in the face of certain defeat and death — really isn’t followed through on, because the actual defeat and death is a really important part of the Masada story, nor is the use of a battlefield defeat as a foundation for national identity. It’s like calling a story “The Alamo Exercise” where everybody goes home safe.
There is still the more generic siege angle, of course, and also the idea of various groups of revolutionary groups working at cross-purposes. Or maybe he just liked the alliterative element.
I’m wondering when Magneto went back to permanently being an anti-hero rather than a villain. My gut says the start of the pivot back was during Claremont’s Excalibur mini-series on Genosha post-Morrison that says that Morrison’s Magneto was fake. He’s back to a more morally ambiguous character, which is the character we see today.
I agree with your thoughts of the Magneto as leader of Genosha storyline. It had potential, but it’s far more interesting if Magneto wasn’t an unapologestic supervillain during this era. If he was the Magneto of the second half of Claremont’s X-Men, struggling to do the right thing despite his own beliefs and prejudices, I think that would have made for a more fun story. But he’s not and the stories are repetitive.