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397 – Mürdr at IKEA
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In which Al Kennedy and Miles enter a somewhat post-OZT world, the art of Frank Teran (whose uncle built a jetpack) elevates an otherwise merely decent story, Puck is played by Bob Hoskins, Wild Child gets a chance to shine, Mystique and Forge are sitting in a tree, and Swamp Thing is amazing.
X-PLAINED:
- Spider-Man’s head cold
- Sabretooth: Back to Nature #1
- Sabretooth (Victor Creed)
- Wild Child (Kyle Gibney)
- Horrible violence, expertly implied
- The ubiquity of sewers
- Saturday morning cartoons of R-rated movies
- Serial killers with G.I. Joe names
- Improbable tracking
- Bilingual crime
- Chekhov’s waterfall
- DRUGS
- X-Factor #136-137
- The Hound program
- Skeumorphism
- Doctor Valerie Cooper and Major Edmond Atkinson, excellent exes
- Questionable wound-dressing
- Holograms
- Government jobs
- The sad fate of the Chase family
- Nimrod disambiguation
- The Marvel Universe According to Doctor Seuss
NEXT EPISODE: The X-Men return from space!
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As Mentioned in Episode 396 – Giant-Size Special #11
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING:
- Behold the glory that is the Hardee’s kids meal comic X-Men: Time Gliders
- Subscribe to Al Ewing’s email newsletter!
396 – Giant-Size Special #11
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In which we spend too long trying to place a time-travel miniseries in continuity, Al Kennedy does us a solid, Bernard Chang draws some excellent New Mutants young and old, Al Ewing x-plains X-Men: Red, Forearm and Random play Nintendo, and we reveal the winners of The Ninth Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence!
X-PLAINED:
- Jay’s spatial and temporal whereabouts
- Cannonball, Mirage, Magik, Sunspot, Wolfsbane, Karma, Magma, Cypher, Warlock, and Douglock
- New Mutants: Truth or Death
- Kitty Pryde and Illyana Rasputin, gal pals
- Triple-dog dares
- Nova Roma, or not
- Mikhail F**king Rasputin
- The arrogance of reality warpers
- How to write Magma
- The Technarchy and the Phalanx
- Hardee’s X-Men: Time Gliders
- Farmboy chic
- Bernard Chang’s 21 Panels
- Branching vs. overwriting timelines
- The effects of de-aging and history rewriting on immunology
- Found family
- She Who Swam With The Acanti
- Sleep-Eeze Mattresses Starring The Hulk
- Arrako
- Continuity synchronicity
- S.W.O.R.D. as a workplace drama
- The moral downfall of Abigail Brand
- The leadership styles of Storm, Magneto, and Sunspot
- Himbo disambiguation
- The fates of Armor, Risque, and Peeper
- Mysterium Clicker
- Santa Claus
- The Ninth Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
(Note: Our interview with Al Ewing contains spoilers for X-Men: Red!)
NEXT EPISODE: Sabretooth betrays an X-team! Again!
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As Mentioned in Episode 395 – Boxer Briefs of Humanity
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LINKS & FURTHER READING:
- The Marvel Universe of Superheroes Exhibition (currently at OMSI in Portland, Oregon).
- You can check out Jay’s article Beyond the Mutant Metaphor in the exhibit’s catalogue!
395 – Boxer Briefs of Humanity
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In which Jay has exciting news, Rick Leonardo draws an impressively creepy mad scientist’s lair, the clouds are purple and so is the prose, Powers of X gets a subtle prequel 21 years early, Cable’s own tolerance has finally reached zero, and we summarize Bastion’s backstory way, way faster than Bastion does.
X-PLAINED:
- Machine Man (X-51) (Aaron Stack)
- Operation Zero Tolerance (more) (again)
- Jay’s upcoming parental leave
- Bastion (Sebastion Gilberti)
- M-Tech
- Powerman 5000
- Cable & Machine Man Annual 1998
- Hobgits and their sound effects
- Street Fighter: the Roleplaying Game
- Batroc ze Lepair
- Jack Kirby’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
- X-51 / X-23 overlaps
- Classic Summers Family Bullshit
- Psionic soapboxes
- What makes Bastion a compelling villain
- The necessity of companions
- Master Mold 3.0 & Nimrod 2.0
- Machine Man & Bastion Annual 1998
- Terrible font choices
- ZORCH
- Cable vs. floors
- The carbon footprint of robotic fascism
- Marvel Comics Presents #17-24 (just a little)
- Incredible Hulk Annual #7 (just a tad)
- The Siege Perilous
- The future of Machine Man
- The hypothetical 2022 version of Bastion
- Historical events in which we’d love to see long-lived mutants take part
NEXT WEEK: We take a break for the holidays!
IN TWO WEEKS: The Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men 2022 Giant-Size Winter Special!
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HAWK TALK – Keeper
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This would usually be a skip week, but thanks to some generous donors to Equality Florida, Hawk Talk is back! This week: Dave Tomaine and Rho Sovia’s graphic novel, Keeper!
LINKS AND FURTHER READING
- You can buy Keeper digitally at BigCartel or physically at Studio Two Boys!
- Check out Dave’s band Cave People!
- Find Dave on Twitter (twice)!
As Mentioned in Episode 394 – We All Have to Go Sometime
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LINKS & FURTHER LIFE LESSONS:
- Nearly 40 years after Secret Wars II, Spider-Man is still teaching people to poop.
394 – We All Have to Go Sometime
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In which there’s always room for another X-cast; Cecilia Reyes wasn’t even supposed to be here today; Sabra has indestructible underwear; prime sentinels are probably even worse pets than quail; Marrow probably swears more than superhero comics allow for; and Operation Zero Tolerance comes to an end.
X-PLAINED:
- The original proposed ending of Operation Zero Tolerance
- The actual ending of Operation Zero Tolerance
- X-Men #66-69
- Operation Zero Tolerance (so far)
- Prime Sentinels (again)
- Bastion (more) (again)
- Spidey and His Amazing Friends
- Cecilia Reyes
- The most reluctant X-Men
- Nanomachines
- Trust
- Miles’s least favorite X-Men story
- Sabra
- Superheroes who wear white
- Wizard dogs
- Indestructible undergarments
- Angie Quail
- Candy Southern (again)
- Actual quail
- Bones
- Metal Gear Solid
- Officers Aguinal and Cleaveland
- The sound of a soul losing its shape
- One of many problems with the carceral system
- What men do in bathrooms
- A showdown
- Operation Zero Tolerance in retrospect
- Silly superhero names
- Non-mutant characters who pair well with X-Men
NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk
NEXT EPISODE: Bastion’s secret origin!
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