Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

As Mentioned in Episode 362 – Lazy Summer Day

February 13, 2022 Jay Leave a comment

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That's... not how salads are supposed to work. (Generation X #20)

Behold: Banshee's enormous arms. (Generation X #20)

If I ever die, I hope Chris Bachalo draws a bunch of unsavory bikers in my memory. (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)

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.

362 – Lazy Summer Day

February 13, 2022 Jay 4 comments

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In which Chris Bachalo draws excellent critters; Bastion is a terrible boss; everyone fucks in the Danger Room; Jubilee fails a midterm; and humans were the real monsters all along.

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The worst mutant power
Generation X #20-21
X-Factor #127
Bachalo critters
Bastion (more) (again)
Daria (but not the one you’re thinking of)
Chevy the janitor (again)
Mean Cuisine
Harker the cat
A threatening salad
Yet another time-traveling Nate
Flirting
A movie reference
U.S.1 and Baron von Blimp
Several ways to fail a midterm
“Autism”
Miguela Torres
Trevor Chase
A series of interviews
Richard Starkings and Comicraft
Destiny’s absence from film

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As Mentioned in Episode 361 – The World’s Densest Eagle

February 13, 2022 Jay Leave a comment

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This, weirdly, was the panel that sold Jay on the art. (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)

361 – The World’s Densest Eagle

January 31, 2022 Jay 10 comments

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In which the 1990s were full of miniseries; Mystique and Sabretooth take a sabbatical from X-Factor; Mystique’s powers are wildly inconsistent; we meet a second Cypher; most secret agents are Mystique; and you should never tell Sabretooth about your girlfriend.

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Sabretooth’s ambitions
Sabretooth and Mystique #1-4
A Helicarrier heist
Hydra
AIM
The sounds of autopsies
How Mystique’s powers work, sometimes, kind of
Commander Cypher
Technosassins vs. Cyburai
Catalyst
Complimentary types of awful
Caption colors
Access
Gender dimorphism of monsters
The Comics Code Collar
Dismember and Corrosion
The time Cyclops offered to help Cable steal a spaceship
The Black Womb Project

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As Mentioned in Episode 360 – Charging Forward

January 23, 2022 Jay Leave a comment

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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)

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)

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)

CHARGING BOLDLY TOWARD THE VIEWER! (X-Force #60)

Meanwhile in an entirely different art style... (X-Force #61)

360 – Charging Forward

January 23, 2022 Jay 11 comments

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In which history gets rewritten (again); Shatterstar definitely knows how to dance; and everyone gets extremely grumpy about Loeb’s final X-Force arc.

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What happened to Reverend Craig
X-Force (again)
The Mojoverse (again)
X-Force #59-61
Shatterstar vs. Benjamin Russell
The Weisman Institute for the Criminally Insane (again)
Subtext
Help, sort of
The dick ship
Darth Vader’s penis or lack thereof
The difference between Jay and Miles
Violently decompressed storytelling
Gog and Gog’n’Magog (again)
Prior (or possibly future) events in the rebellion
Longshot outside his miniseries
Longshot and Shatterstar
TV Guide
Ineffective brainwashing
A large number of continuity errors
Mojo V
Genre hopping
A stylistic shift
A body swap
Benjamin Russell vs. the Leprechauns
Personally resonant comics
Wolverine’s sense of smell

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As Mentioned in Episode 359 – Meanwhile in Britain

January 16, 2022 Jay 4 comments

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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)

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)

LINKS & FURTHER BACKSTORY

We covered the preceding events in Excalibur in Episode 337 – Wild Genes and Old Magic!

359 – Meanwhile in Britain

January 16, 2022 Jay 16 comments

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In which Excalibur has a lot going on; Margali Szardos is never up to any good; Nightcrawler grows into leadership; we delve into the politics of superheroism; Pete Wisdom earns his keep; Miles catches a Prisoner reference; and we reach the end of Warren Ellis’ Excalibur.

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John the Skrull
Excalibur #100-103
The current state of Excalibur
Black Air (again)
The Hellfire Club (London Branch)
Australia
Margali Szardos (more)
Demonic ethernet
Captain Britain’s new-old suit
Emma Steed
Dune
Several fights
Combat IT
Boolean definitions of madness
The Department
Laserdisks
Patriotism
Many doppelgangers
Nightcreeper
Another reference to Dante’s Inferno

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X-TRA: Jay, Miles, and Jonathan Hickman Spoil the Hell out of Inferno

January 5, 2022 Jay 22 comments

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Inferno #4 is out; and, as promised, we’ve got a bonus interview with Jonathan Hickman–unedited this time, so please forgive the audio–going into the gory details of the miniseries and its finale! (Again, spoiler warning–we can’t emphasize this enough–we spoil Inferno, including its ending, real hard. Listen at your own risk.)