Author: Miles
As Mentioned in Episode 472 – Leave Room for Magneto (The Twelve, Part Two)
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LINKS & FURTHER FELINES:
- A metaphor that is also a very real space cat
- Jay is delighted to have been wrong! The Philharmonic Gets Dressed is totally still in print!
- Dave has been one of Jay’s comfort movies for longer than he entirely cares to admit.
As Mentioned in Episode 471 – Eyebrows and Powers (The Twelve, Part One)
471 – Eyebrows and Powers (The Twelve: Part One)
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In which we begin our coverage of The Twelve; Scott and Jean get sucked back in AGAIN; Apocalypse probably doesn’t tip; and we have become awfully fond of Cable.
X-PLAINED:
- A codename that deviates from common patterns
- The story so far
- Uncanny X-Men #376
- Cable #75
- X-Men #96
- Fiz the Skrull (again)
- The Twelve
- Foreshadowing, both accurate and otherwise
- The Living Monolith (more) (again)
- That one font
- Time-travel logic
- Cable vs. eyes
- Fabian Cortez (more) (again)
- A trap
- Why the Twelve are the Twelve
- The evolution of Cable
NEXT EPISODE: The Twelve continues!
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X-Discussion: December 2024
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As Mentioned in Episode 468 – Sasquatch Road Trip
468 – Sasquatch Road Trip
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X-PLAINED:
- Apocalypse’s influence
- The Big House (about which we are confused)
- Generation X #58
- Cartier and/or Louis St. Croix
- Our college’s Dean, naked jogger
- Things that are sharp in the woods
- HUMP
- Penance (Hollow)
- Emplate, spoiled teenager
- Generation X Annual 1999
- Epistolary fonts
- Jubilee’s pre-X past
- Round Wolverine
- Hunter Brawn (again, sigh)
- Recognizing random dudes from pictures
- Dad Things and Dad Pipes
- Juggernaut and Black Tom as a relationship model
- Jubilee, competent veteran
- A murder mystery
- Legault, cosplaying bodyguard
- Taking notes on comics
- Magneto’s telepathy-blocking (or not) helmet
NEXT EPISODE: Wolverine’s dead! And Wolverine’s back!
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As Mentioned in Episode 467 – Disorganizing Principle
X-Discussion: November 2024
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It turns out Lenore Zann was as cool as we’d hoped! - No AI-generated content.
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