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356 – The Michael Bay-eux Tapestry
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In which it’s hard to be Joseph; we do our best to explain the inexplicable; Miles is full of feelings; Hulk smashes; and Onslaught finally (mostly) ends.
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- Heroes Reborn Return
- Wild times with the Dreaming Celestial
- Onslaught so far
- X-Men #56
- Onslaught: Marvel Universe
- Jay’s definitive Bond
- Joseph (more)
- The physical evolution of Onslaught
- Sense of scale
- Hawkeye (TV series)
- Onslaught’s goals, to what extent they exist
- The three genders
- A really big fight
- A miracle of magnetism
- The (nominal) end of the Age of Heroes
- Beast’s scientific career
- Chamber’s voice
NEXT EPISODE: Several epilogues
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As Mentioned in Episode 355 – All Sentinels Are Bastards
HAWK TALK – What A Long, Strange Hawk It’s Been
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This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, Jay and Miles talked about Hawk Talk.
HAWK TALK – Bugs
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This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, Jay and Miles talked about bugs (and Tea Fougner taught us about bees)!
As mentioned in the episode: bee cute furry face
HAWK TALK – School
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This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about school.
HAWK TALK – The Big Stuff
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This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about large things.
342 – Angry Birds
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In which Miles does his best, birds are weird, some of the most dangerous villains are pink, and we are in the Onslaught Zone.
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- Malibu Comics and Marvel Comics, sitting in a (multiversal) tree, KILLING
- Archangel: Phantom Wings
- Unorthodox artistic decisions
- Archangel (Warren Kenneth Worthington III)
- Angst, renewed
- Bird ichor
- Tuesday Bird and her Mad Max outfit
- How (not?) to flirt
- Uncanny X-Men #333
- Various Roberts Kelly
- Graydon Creed, doin’ Mom proud
- Bastion, Nimrod, & Master Mold
- Operation Zero Tolerance
- X-Teams and their lanes
- A naked murder-uncle
- Pink villains
- Obscure callbacks
- Event synergy
- X-Men #53
- Day to-day challenges of telepathy
- Super-Saiyan Magneto
- Phoenix (Jean Grey), actual adult
- Onslaught
- That scene from 1964’s X-Men #3
- A surprisingly insightful look at Professor X’s dark side
- Logan’s assorted friendships with teen girls
- XMEN Disease
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NEXT EPISODE: X-Force gets, predictably, x-treme.
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HAWK TALK – What We Blew Up On Our Summer Vacation
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This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, Miles and guest hawk Anna Sheffey talked about playing too much Resident Evil during lockdown.
HAWK TALK – Pirates
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This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, Jay and guest hawk Tea Fougner talked about pirates.
You can find Tea at @teaberryblue on pretty much all of the social medias!