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The Amazing Nightcrawler, drawn by The Amazing Sienkiewicz! (New Mutants #22)
Nightcrawler is a pretty awesome teacher; it’d have been cool to see more of him in this capacity. (New Mutants #22)
Aw, Rahne. (New Mutants #22)
Well, that escalated quickly. (New Mutants #22)
AW, RAHNE. (New Mutants #22)
The villains of Rahne’s fairy tale look awfully familiar. (New Mutants #22)
Back to those guys shortly. First: Cats! (Marvel Team-Up Annual #6)
Ohhhh, hey, it’s Cloak and Dagger! (Marvel Team-Up Annual #6)
Spider-Man spends a lot of this issue lurking around and providing exposition. (Marvel Team-Up Annual #6)
“I mean, dude, the title of the book is Marvel Team-Up, not Marvel Let’s Fight in a Church.” (Marvel Team-Up Annual #6)
“How did you guess you were on a butcher block? I mean, aside from that it’s a big square table and you’re in a slaughterhouse and everything probably smells like blood and… NOPE! DEFINTELY SUPERPOWERS AT WORK!” (Marvel Team-Up Annual #6)
What?! Dude, it’s not even addictive. That’s the stupidest evil plan ever. (Marvel Team-Up Annual #6)
This isn’t really relevant to the episode; it’s just hilarious. (Marvel Team-Up Annual #6)
NONE MORE GOTH (Marvel Team-Up Annual #6)
Wait, what? (Marvel Team-Up Annual #6)
‘Kay. (Marvel Team-Up Annual #6)
Spider-Man’s “Yeah.” in that last panel, though. (Marvel Team-Up Annual #6)
THAT COVER. (New Mutants #23)
“On Wednesdays, we dress glam.” (New Mutants #23)
Harry’s Hideaway is basically the Heartbreak Hotel of Salem Center, but like a million times less awesome. Still awesome, mind, but the Heartbreak Hotel sets a high bar. (New Mutants #23)
It’s really easy to forget that the X-Men are also kind of officially students? Maybe? Sometimes? (New Mutants #23)
At this point, New Mutants is basically the Sam and Dani Show, and we are 100% down with that. (New Mutants #23)
Aw, Rahne. (New Mutants #23)
WELL, THAT CAN’T BE GOOD. (New Mutants #23)
That is… an awfully Demon Bear-looking Sunspot on that cover. Not that we’re complaining, mind. (New Mutants #24)
Now you don’t need to read Marvel Team-Up Annual #6! You’re welcome! (New Mutants #24)
Indulge us in a momentary digression to make note of Magneto’s fancy hair. (New Mutants #24)
Like Rogue, we are firmly on Sam’s team on this one. (New Mutants #24)
Oops. (New Mutants #24)
We’re not sure whose fault they are, but we’re really, really into the way some combination of Claremont, Orzechowski, and Sienkiewicz uses captions and arrows in this book in general, and this spread in particular. (New Mutants #25)
GIANT BLUE XAVIER HEAD! (With some paradoxically good advice, but still. GIANT BLUE XAVIER HEAD!) (New Mutants #25)
‘Kay. (New Mutants #25)
I really want them to just yell “NONE MORE GOTH” every time they teleport away. (New Mutants #25)
Illyana may be sleepy, but she’s not wrong. (New Mutants #25)
NONE MORE GOTH! (New Mutants #25)
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Here’s that redesigned version of Dagger’s costume from Runaways: http://i.imgur.com/0bJ6wc6.jpg It’s by Takeshi Miyazawa, currently drawing Ms. Marvel.
The Spider-Island mini they had mostly felt like a pilot for a series that never happened, but it’s worth reading for Emma Rios’s art, like everything Emma Rios draws.
Hi Rachel & Miles,
I’m a child/family therapist in Eugene and can answer the fairy tale therapy question: I’m not aware that specifically has ever been used, but there are a couple of common therapeutic techniques that are really similar.
1. The “magic wand” question – asking a client what they would change if they had a magic wand and how/why.
2. Having people write or think about how they would like their lives to look, what changes would come out of it. Especially with kids, this can be pretty fairy tale-like, or if you’re, say, a 13-year-old mutant with crazy-intense Catholic upbringing living in a world where mutants are a thing.
Neat! Thanks for commenting and explaining!
Weaponized bag of holding really made my day.
I will always think of Cloak & Dagger as Weaponized Bag of Holding & Boobcrotch Arrowindow from now on.
New, this fall from Marvel: HOLDING AND CROTCHARROW.
…hey, it has to be a shorter title than “Weaponized Bag of Holding and Boobcrotch Arrowindow.”
And yeah, I’m pretty much going to be thinking of them this way from now on as well. At least Cloak seems more badass now that he’s turned “bag of nothing” into a coolish power.
It’s possible that part of the reason for Rahne’s fairy tale therapy is the 1976 book The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettleheim, which basically argues that children use fairy tales to help come to terms with dilemmas/growing older/changing family situations/etc. It’s also exceedingly Freudian-no clue if Claremont’s ever read it, but it won some awards after it came out, so hey who knows.
While I adore the podcast and have listened since the begining, I need to point out an error. Rahne is NOT catholic, she is protestant, Scotish Free Church to be exact. This is a big difference because the Reverand who raised her is also her biological father. The Catholic Church does not have Reverands but they have Priests. It also explains why Nightcrawler freaks her out so much. Not only did her father teach her that mutants were evil, she was evil because she was born in sin as he never married her mother, but Catholics are damned because of their overly ornate ceremonies and indulgences.
Yeah, it’s a mistake the comics occasionally make too. I remember the first issue of PAD’s Madrox calling her Catholic in an online preview, and them getting it corrected in time for the print version after people pointed it out.
Yeah, we’re aware of that and have covered it previously, at length. In this episode we identified Nightcrawler as devoutly Catholic, not Rahne.
I actually did misspeak on this one at about 8:42 – I referred to her being upset at Catholic dogma potentially being disproved. Accursed tricksy words! Thanks for the heads-up, Betti.
We’ll definitely be covering the Reverend Craig parentage revelation as it comes up and will probably go into a lot more detail about the nature of her religious upbringing at that point.
Sunspot appears to be rocking some Shatterstar headgear on that page with Colossus.
I think with Sunspot, it’s the kind of headgear we see some boxers wearing for training.
http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/graphics/product_images/pDSP1-18876747dt.jpg
Although I wouldn’t be shocked if Shatterstar decided to make a fashion statement out of the silly things.
Ah, geez. And that picture with Sam trying to be a punk with his cut-off t-shirt. As a young teenager who wanted to be punk, but who was also deathly afraid of punk, I had so many feeling about that iteration of Sam’s character.
I was going to say much the same as Betti, re the Catholic/Protestant thing, but I’ll just confuse matters more by noting the protestant churches I know of declare themselves to be Catholic churches, in the sense of universal, as there’s no point to ultimate cosmic truth if it isn’t universally applicable, even if it’s just and your cousin Joe.
I got to thinking about why Rahne and Bobby were used in these stories, and I figure it’s because they’re the two youngest members of the team Thus, more identifiable to what I assume is the target audience for the “say no to heroin” message.
“See, kids, you don’t want to do drugs. It’ll turn you into a Demon Bear!”
Might have been this episode, but Rachel mentioned that she had some problems with Batman. I know it’s not Rachel Xplains Her Problems With Batman, but I’d be interested in hearing her thoughts about the character. (I wish I could have thought of a bat-pun to replace xplain!)