Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | RSS
X-PLAINED:
- Several potential origins of Havok’s stupid hat
- Generation X #67-70
- Revolution (more) (again)
- Shockwave (more) (again)
- Adrienne Frost (more) (again)
- The New Xavier School and/or Massachusetts Academy (more) (again)
- Possible necrophilia
- Dorm life
- How not to draw clothing
- Rules of entry to Jubilee’s dorm room
- The Rich Person Store
- How to say the word “consigliere”
- The ‘90s
- Blackmail
- Limits of telepathy
- Arson
- Ninja Boogie
- Panic
- How to keep Synch safe
- Adultification
- Failure to keep Synch safe
- Where to pick up to follow along with us
- Plot threads we’d like to see picked back up
NEXT EPISODE: X-Force goes Counter-X!
Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog.
Find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!
Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!
Buy rad swag at our Dashery shop!
So, I’m not 100% on this, but I think the Fighting game may have been inspired by Tekken 3. Cause the character shown in the Visual Companion does look similar to the character Yoshimitsu as he appears around Tekken 3.
As someone who played that game to death, that is 100% Yoshimitsu from Tekken 3
Related to this, while the PS2 would have been out by the time this issue went to press in Japan, it would not have come out elsewhere. This isn’t to say one of the members of Generation X (or the artist) couldn’t have gotten an import system, but it’s more likely it’d still be a PS1.
To counteract the inevitable person who says the’ll stop listening to your show because of the Reagan comments, I’m going to listen to your show EVEN HARDER because of the Reagan comments!
SAME!
My only disagreement is that Reagan doesn’t even deserve Mephisto’s attention. He deserves the further indignity of Satannish being his tormentor.
(But seriously, there was a point in 2020 when Biden said that Republican presidents of the past could’ve handled a pandemic and I was like “NO. WE KNOW FOR A FACT THEY COULDN’T.” And then the Slotkin response….oy. Reagan may not be rolling in his grave, but tons of ACT UP members are….)
Something about how parents were pulling their kids out in a frenzy also had me realize they entered them too. Which was likely quick to suddenly fill up the school. Which, I’m like, “HOW DID THAT WORK?” Like how many rich kids who want to go to elite private schools are waiting for a new one to open up like it’s a new restaurant. The only way I could think it working would be a lot of kids expelled from tons of other places, which that seems like EITHER a powder keg OR the most socially progressive group of kids.
Um Actually time! At least in Sicilian pronunciation (which likely would be the one used in organized crime), consigliere would have a silent g.
@Devin: The private-school-for-troublemakers angle is a great idea. From the characters point of view, it’s a terrific bit of differentiation for the school — the advertising writes itself, really — and it would give cover for any crazy superhero fights. Quite disappointed they didn’t take this route, actually.
The route they DID choose, I don’t think hangs together well. It’s a good story, but it’s not a good Generation X story, as it relies too much on poor characterizations and illogical choices to get where it’s going.
Lord knows Warren Ellis isn’t shy about ignoring continuity or established character voices/personalities, but a hand-wringing Emma Frost letting her students be threatened? Unsure of what to do? Even before Morrison’s run, I don’t see it at all. After what happened to the Hellions, she’d START with the gun.
I really don’t buy fragility of Jubilee, either. This girl started out as a lone wolf; she’s fought ninjas; she’s watched Wolverine bleed out more than once. A snowball thrown by asshats she doesn’t like anyway isn’t going to faze her. (I get that it’s a different kind of story, but when you’re working with established characters, you’ve got to color within their lines.)
And as you mentioned, Banshee’s actions at the end are inexplicable — unless the writer simply wants to kill off a kid and isn’t really concerned with how the killing gets done. It comes off as phony.
I LOVE the art, though.
BTW, Michael Corleone has some helpful tips on consigliere pronounciation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f7ln_al3qo