Author: Miles
X-Discussion: July 2024
- Keep your posts at least tangentially comics-related, please!
- If you want to share a link, talk about why you’re sharing it and what you think – this post should be about what you have to say, not just links!
- Spoilers are okay, but please mark anything from the last three months like:
***SPOILER***
Miles is really a clone of Stilt-Man! - No AI-generated content.
- Be respectful! We don’t have to agree about everything, but don’t be a jerk!
454 – X-Men ’97, Part 2
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SPOILER WARNING: ALL OF THEM, NONSTOP
In which Barry Windsor-Smith is too sexy for television; we know what happens when unstable molecules get struck by lightning; X-Men gets political and does it spectacularly; this Captain America would not sew the cape; Magneto continues to throw things into space; and they kissed and we missed it.
X-PLAINED:
- Fabian Cortez’s name
- X-Men ’97 episodes 6-10
- Lifedeath I & II: a surprising adaptation
- Varying levels of going in blind
- A somewhat different and possibly better Forge
- The Adversary vs. the Owl Queen
- Stormiest and least-Stormy costumes
- Professor Charles Xavier, Official Space Boyfriend
- Colonialism vs. Identity
- Delayed catharsis
- The narrative power of altered opening credits
- What makes allyship effective (and not)
- Justified mutant anger
- The worst version of Nina DaCosta
- What makes Prime Sentinels scary
- Summers family feels
- The best damned fight scenes out there
- Bastion, robo-avatar of conservative white patriarchy
- Simultaneous crossovers
- A psychic gay bar
- A last boss arena
- Acolyte equivalencies
- Phoenix Ex Machina
- Crying
- Whether Magneto was right
- Apoca-futures and Apoca-pasts
- A bulletin board and our hopes for its contents
- Soft Serve
- Kitty Pryde’s coffee shop AU
- X-Men ’97 as the perfect gateway
NEXT EPISODE: Skrulls!
LINKS AND FURTHER READING:
- The Judgment of Magneto by Asher Elbein
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X-Discussion: June 2024
Episode posts are great for comments and discussion about our episodes themselves, but we want to try something new – a place to discuss episode-unrelated X-topics each month! Want to enthuse/complain about the latest issue of X-whatever? Want to talk about an old comic you love? An X-related event you attended? A cool comics article you found? This is the place!
But first, some ground rules:
- Keep your posts at least tangentially comics-related, please!
- If you want to share a link, talk about why you’re sharing it and what you think – this post should be about what you have to say, not just links!
- Spoilers are okay, but please mark anything from the last three months like:
***SPOILER***
Miles is really a clone of Paste-Pot Pete! - No AI-generated content.
- Be respectful! We don’t have to agree about everything, but don’t be a jerk!
As Mentioned in Episode 449 – Dressing the X-Men, with Russell Dauterman
Listen to the episode here!
LINKS AND FURTHER READING
- You still have a few days to be part of The Marvel Art of Russell Dauterman Kickstarter campaign!
- Hear Russell and Kris Anka talk Adam X and more on Episode 27 – NYCC 2014 Special!
- Russell’s website!
- Russell on Instagram!
As Mentioned in Episode 448 – Skamageddon
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING:
- Want one of our 10th Anniversary prints? Contact Books With Pictures!
- The Judgment of Magneto by Asher Elbein
448 – Skamageddon
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In which timeline math is almost never worth it; Tarot comes back from the dead (kind of) (maybe); Magma makes a heel turn; “King Bedlam” would be a great name for a ska band; not every nude man can turn into a bear; and you don’t have to talk to your supervillain relatives.
X-PLAINED:
- The Triune Understanding
- Birthday party follow-up
- X-Force #87-90
- Legacy and continuity
- Bedlam (Jesse Aaronson)
- Tarot (Marie-Ange Colbert)
- Goat Simulator
- King Bedlam (Christopher Aaronson)
- The New Hellions
- Perils of body-swapping
- Linear time
- Science
- Armageddon Man
- Paradigm
- Senator Owen Danville
- Family
- A fancy hat
- Madame Web
- Many natural disasters
- Early Genoshan history
- Longshot as a villain
NEXT EPISODE: Dressing the X-Men with Russell Dauterman!
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As Mentioned in Episode 446 – Live at the Magnetosphere
446 – Live at the Magnetosphere
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In which the Magneto War comes to a close.
X-PLAINED:
- X-Men #86-87
- Uncanny X-Men #367
- Quite a few other things, which we’ll add to this post tomorrow!
NEXT EPISODE: Nate Grey meets Generation X!
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