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LINKS & FURTHER READING:
- Follow Connor on Twitter
- Cerebro
- The essay Connor referenced, which introduces the idea of reading like a prosecutor.
Category: As Mentioned
As Mentioned in Episode 366 – Nine-Tenths of the Law
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The first issue of a cleverly disguised Karma series. (Beast #1)
Arms! (Beast #1)
Sam Guthrie as played by Sean Cassidy. (Beast #1)
The twins, post-Body Shop. (Beast #2)
I love their weird creepy powers. (Beast #2)
Seriously what the hell. (Beast #2)
SERIOUSLY WHAT THE HELL. (Beast #2)
Big Silver Age energy. (Beast #3)
NEXT EPISODE: Jay and Conner X-Plain X-Casting!
As Mentioned in Episode 365 – A Whole Year of This Nonsense
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It sure is 1996. (X-Force/Cable Annual 1996)
Hi, Pulse! (X-Force/Cable Annual 1996)
I mean, wouldn’t you? (X-Force/Cable Annual 1996)
THAT’S NOT HOW TORSOS WORK. (X-Force/Cable Annual 1996)
Seriously, what is Cyclops attached to? (X-Men Unlimited #13)
Where’s an editorial footnote when you need one? (X-Men Unlimited #13)
The cover of our new metal album! (X-Men Unlimited #13)
No real episode context; I just think this explosion looks really cool. (X-Men Unlimited #13)
How they celebrate in Junction, NY. (X-Men Unlimited #13)
NEXT EPISODE: Beast and/or Karma!
As Mentioned in Episode 364 – Department of Pareidolia
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Meet Department F.66. (Pryde and Wisdom #1)
There are probably simpler ways to leave a note. (Pryde and Wisdom #1)
I legit love this cover. (Pryde and Wisdom #2)
Meet Harold Wisdom. (Pryde and Wisdom #2)
AND THEN THEY JUST STAY IN THE ROOM (Pryde and Wisdom #2)
Meet Romany Wisdom. (Pryde and Wisdom #2)
BEHOLD: A MAN STONE.
Just as well that it’s not important, as we’ll never learn what it is. (Pryde and Wisdom #3)
NOPE. (Pryde and Wisdom #3)
NEXT EPISODE: Space Adventures!
As Mentioned in Episode 363 – Licked by a Shadow
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It’s hard to be Warren Kenneth Worthington III. (Uncanny X-Men #338)
Hey, feathers! (Uncanny X-Men #338)
Peep those teeny peepers! (Uncanny X-Men #338)
YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN? SHE’S TOTALLY POUNCING ON PSYLOCKE! (Uncanny X-Men #338)
That’s our J. Jonah Jameson! (Uncanny X-Men #338)
Guys. GUYS. (Uncanny X-Men #338)
Ouch. (X-Men #58)
In which William Drake has a rare moment of conscience. (X-Men #58)
Rogue can’t sleep without dramatic irony. (X-Men #58)
“What do kids like these days? Dirtbikes, right?) (X-Men Annual 1996)
Well, that’ll ruin a baseball game. (X-Men Annual 1996)
Aw, man. (X-Men Annual 1996)
Can we discuss the apparent existence of X-Beer? (X-Men Annual 1996)
ALLL RIIIGHT indeed. (X-Men Annual 1996)
LOOK AT ALL THOSE X-MANS! (X-Men Annual 1996)
NEXT EPISODE: Pryde & Wisdom
As Mentioned in Episode 362 – Lazy Summer Day
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The turtle! (Generation X #20)
These cuties. (Generation X #20)
That’s… not how salads are supposed to work. (Generation X #20)
Behold: Banshee’s enormous arms. (Generation X #20)
Aw, this kid. (Generation X #20)
Aw, THESE kids. (Generation X #20)
Jubilee, no. (Generation X #21)
If I ever die, I hope Chris Bachalo draws a bunch of unsavory bikers in my memory. (Generation X #21)
Torres. (Generation X #21)
Seriously, how did she make that whole mansion out of a fairly brief exam paper? (Generation X #21)
Trevor Chase and his assailants. (X-Factor #127)
Maybe it’s a Ron Swanson thing and she gets his name wrong on purpose to keep him from getting too attached. (X-Factor #127)
Is it… a wabbit? (X-Factor #127)
NEXT EPISODE: Baseball!
LINKS & FURTHER MISCREANTS
- Waiting for the Trade re: the Danger Room and what’s been done there.
- For more about Tana Nile, Howard the Duck, and Franklin Richards, check out Giant-Size Special #10!
- X-Factor, summarized.
As Mentioned in Episode 361 – The World’s Densest Eagle
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This, weirdly, was the panel that sold Jay on the art. (Sabretooth and Mystique #1)
Crime! (Sabretooth and Mystique #1)
Mystique in a monstrous form is always awesome. (Sabretooth and Mystique #1)
The other Cypher. (Sabretooth and Mystique #1)
What if the whole gallery were just monstrous Mystiques? (Sabretooth and Mystique #1)
Some very sharp visual storytelling… (Sabretooth and Mystique #2)
…and use of color. (Sabretooth and Mystique #2)
TFW the moat is full of piranhas. (Sabretooth and Mystique #3)
Less voluntarily monstrous, but no less awesome. (Sabretooth and Mystique #3)
WHY DOESN’T SHE JUST GROW THOSE WINGS INSTEAD OF TURNING INTO ANGEL? (Sabretooth and Mystique #4)
One more monster Mystique for the road. (Sabretooth and Mystique #4)
Poetic justice, aided by Chekhov’s piranhas. (Sabretooth and Mystique #4)
NEXT EPISODE: This ‘n’ that.
As Mentioned in Episode 360 – Charging Forward
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Such a promising cover. SIGH. (X-Force #59)
Cable, this is not a great way to deal with youth in crisis. (X-Force #59)
YOU SEE IT, TOO, RIGHT? (X-Force #59)
And again: That is NOT what the bottom of this ship would look like. (X-Force #59)
Oh, hey, these guys. It’s been a minute. (X-Force #59)
SPEAKING OF WHICH! (X-Force #59)
If you get it, you get it. (X-Force #60)
That this is happening in the Mojoverse somehow makes it marginally less weird. (X-Force #60)
That’s what he always sleeps in. (X-Force #60)
Dazzler!
CHARGING BOLDLY TOWARD THE VIEWER! (X-Force #60)
Meanwhile in an entirely different art style… (X-Force #61)
Sure, why not? (X-Force #61)
NEXT EPISODE: These miscreants.
As Mentioned in Episode 359 – Meanwhile in Britain
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Wraparound cover! (Excalibur #100)
Her eyes really did look cooler before. (Excalibur #100)
Do not try this at home. (Excalibur #100)
I’d read an odd-couple comic about these two. (Excalibur #100)
The media X-Plains Onslaught. (Excalibur #101)
He bullshits so well! (Excalibur #101)
Aw, Cap. (Excalibur #102)
Well, that’s foreboding. (Excalibur #102)
You almost–almost–feel sorry for the bad guys. (Excalibur #102)
That’s a lot of Nightcrawlers! (Excalibur #103)
Also some Shadowcats and Colossuses! (Excalibur #103)
Meanwhile in Limbo… (Excalibur #103)
NEXT EPISODE: This nonsense.
LINKS & FURTHER BACKSTORY
- We covered the preceding events in Excalibur in Episode 337 – Wild Genes and Old Magic!
As Mentioned in Episode 358 – Giant-Size Special #10
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I’d have picked this off the rack for its title treatment alone. (Daydreamers #1)
Skrull or Green Goblin? You be the judge! (Daydreamers #1)
(No fingernails were used in the construction of this possibly-imaginary boat.) (Daydreamers #1)
Damnit. (Daydreamers #1)
The first sign (heh) of the direction this universe is headed… (Daydreamers #2)
A passel of unlicensed guest stars. (Daydreamers #2)
WHAT THE DUCK?! (Daydreamers #2)
Howard’s idyllic not-actually family. (Daydreamers #3)
It’s weird, right? (Daydreamers #3)
Ouch. (Daydreamers #3)
This whole sequence is both very creepy and very sad. (Daydreamers #3)
Franklin deals with grief. (Daydreamers #3)
LINKS & FURTHER DUCKERY