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402 – What the Damn?!
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In which Marvel UK was a wild ride; everyone has a definitive Kitty Pryde; Sari St. Hubbins studies her X-Men; Moira MacTaggert discovers contagion theory; ideas do not stories make; Meggan is the heart of the team; and Excalibur inches towards its finale.
- Marvel UK
- Digitek
- Excalibur #114-117
- What Excalibur’s been up to
- Tunnels vs. sewers
- An unexpected callback
- Slang
- The mutability of Kitty Pryde
- Friendship
- Sari St. Hubbins
- Fashion
- One way to get around a power inhibitor
- A frosted tips outline
- Viruses
- Phalanx love
- Greebling
- A substantial retcon
- Excalibur vs. the Sidri
- Marvel characters’ musical associations
- Whether there have been more X-Men or Avengers
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As Mentioned in Episode 401 – True Tales of Double-Entry Bookkeeping
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401 – True Tales of Double-Entry Bookkeeping
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In which Santa Claus makes problematic choices; we make good on a promise; Sebastian is the new Deadpool; Skrulls get stuck as animals more than you’d think; Nanny and Orphan-Maker celebrate; and Jubilee stops worrying and learns to love Christmas.
X-PLAINED
- Santa Claus’s flirtations with villainy
- A new direction for Generation X
- Larry Hama
- Al vs. U.S. geography
- Generation X #32-33
- Generation X Holiday Special
- New Mutants #92
- Thing One & Thing Two St. Croix
- The Circus of Crime
- The Pirates of Dark Water (somewhat)
- Hacker T. Dog
- Why Wolfsbane is scared of clowns
- Skrull Kill Crew
- Carnie Voltron
- Chief Authier
- Phat beats
- A reality biscuit
- Emplate’s pocket dimension
- Chimera and Dirtnap
- Variant interiors
- Nanny & Orphan-Maker (more) (again)
- Santa Claus (in general)
- Benefits of inconsistent characterization
NEXT WEEK: Break week
NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur!
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As Mentioned in Episode 400 – Loud Noises
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- All that remains of Gambit Cyber Comic: The Hunt for the Tomorrow Stone
400 – Loud Noises
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In which legacy numbering is best left alone; all roads lead to the Antarctic; we finally learn Gambit’s big secret; Erik the Red gets yet a third identity; no one soils the Juggernaut; Maggott saves the day; and we have somehow made (technically more than) 400 of these things.
X-PLAINED
- Spat
- The tragic loss of the Cyber Comics
- How not to back up your work
- Uncanny X-Men #350
- X-Men #70
- A shambles
- What’s been happening since Operation Zero Tolerance
- A very fancy cover
- Insufficient outerwear
- Senses
- Justice as a decorating theme
- Baffling statuary
- The return of Erik the Red
- Erik the Red (again)
- Ferris
- Gambit’s big secret
- A large number of continuity errors
- A total dick move
- De-icing
- Untitled Marrow Game
- A big fight
- Living room surgery
- Legal documents
- Favorite anniversary issues
- Dangling plot threads
NEXT EPISODE: Generation X vs. Christmas
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As Mentioned in Episode 399 – The Cybertronic Spree
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399 – The Cybertronic Spree
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In which the X-Force road trip era begins; Team X takes on a new dimension; Dani Moonstar gets her subtext back; pointing out a stereotype doesn’t excuse using it; Tabitha Smith generally deserves better; platypuses are underrepresented in the superhero genre; Hell becomes Stryfe; and Domino gets back in the game.
X-PLAINED
- A dastardly plot
- X-Men 2099
- Road trips
- X-Force #71-74
- Team X
- A Love & Rockets reference
- Stan and Ollie
- The Triplets of Belleville
- How not to fund your film
- Michael Whitecloud
- Project Stepladder
- Colossal Man
- Several references to X-Force -1
- Platypuses
- Edwin Martynec
- Weaponized humming
- The death of Warpath
- Hell
- Blackheart
- Friendship
- A mysterious villain
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NEXT WEEK: The return of Erik the Red!
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As Mentioned in Episode 398 – Shanna the Wee Devil
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398 – Shanna the Wee Devil
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- Motormouth (Harley Davis)
- Motormouth and Killpower
- Uncanny X-Men #347-349
- Grovel and Spat
- A horse guy who is actually a cat-frog-lizard guy
- An extraordinarily half-assed action figure
- Load-bearing backstory
- Landscape
- The other Nanny
- Elegant foreshadowing
- Beast’s appearance as a mutant power
- Gambit’s chest hair
- The end of playtime
- CCA-compliant foliage
- Deathbird and Bishop
- A vanity plate
- Eany and Meany
- One-off psychometry
- Psylocke vs. Maggott
- Decompression
- Havok’s enduring lack of a Ph.D.
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