335 – Bone Town
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In which we cover somewhat peculiar content under somewhat peculiar circumstances; nobody does it like Alan Davis; in this house, we appreciate Gracie Gamble; Bernard the Poet makes a comeback; nominal errors are not what they appear; and you should probably not leave your children with most of the X-Men.
X-PLAINED:
- Ravencroft vs. Ravenscroft
- Unusual recording circumstances
- ClanDestine #1-8
- X-Men/ClanDestine #1-2
- Destines including but not limited to:
- Rory (Crimson Crusader)
- Pandora (Imp)
- Adam
- Walter
- Kay (Cuckoo)
- Dominic (Hex)
- Samantha (Argent)
- Newton
- Gracie Gamble
- Elalyth
- The Relative Stranger Protocol
- Lenz
- Dr. Hywel Griffin
- GRYPHON
- Earth-95710
- Synraith
- How normal people unwind
- A dimensional rift and affiliated tentacles
- How to draw sexy ladies without wrecking your comic
- A big fight
- X-sitters
- The evolution of Hank McCoy’s personality
NEXT EPISODE: The Way of Si Spurrier
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HAWK TALK – Wizards
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This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about wizards.
Topics, roughly:
- Fantasy wizards
- Space wizards
- Beards and wizards and gender
- Vancian spellcasting
- Wizard taxonomy
- The Baal Shem
- Book learnin’
- Towers and Discworld wizards
- Dragonlance wizards
- Tolkien wizards
- Iceman with a wizard beard
- Which animals make the best wizards
- Magic: the Gathering
- Our wizardy D&D characters
As Mentioned in Episode 334 – Genetic Nonsense
334 – Genetic Nonsense
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In which William Stryker is exceptionally difficult to kill; the terminology around Emplate’s powers is absolute nonsense even by comic-book standards; inkers deserve more credit; we would totally read comics about Murmur the Softpoken Mummy; Bishop comes to the rescue; and nothing really resolves.
X-PLAINED:
- What happened to William Stryker
- Gratuitous use of the adjective “genetic”
- Emplate (again)
- Generation X #12-14
- Inks
- Penance’s original backstory
- Pining
- A really unpleasant reunion
- Accent problems
- Gayle Edgerton
- Vincente
- Bulwark
- D.O.A.
- A somewhat chaotic victory
- Mutant teams from non-anglophone countries
- X-characters Miles would like to write
NEXT WEEK: HAWK TALK
NEXT EPISODE: ClanDestine!
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As Mentioned in Episode 333 – Fight Train
333 – Fight Train
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In which Miles discovers owl legs; Iceman dwells in subtext; Dark Beast overperforms; Daredevil is a delightful trash fire of a person; Graydon Creed’s presidential run is somewhat less shocking in 2021; Rogue does not enjoy playing ‘Got your nose’; and Mister Sinister is not a friend to public transportation.
X-PLAINED:
- Post-Decimation resurrections
- Owl legs
- Uncanny X-Men #331
- X-Men #51-52
- Iceman’s complicated personal life
- Casual crossovers
- The facial hair of Warren Kenneth Worthington III
- The terrible decisions of Matt Murdock
- How to subtly test your in-laws for mutant powers
- What Mister Sinister sounds like
- A bad plan
- The debut of Bastion
- DNA
- Foreshadowing
NEXT EPISODE: Emplate Sucks
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As Mentioned in Episode 332 – Gideon Falls
332 – Gideon Falls
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In which Swimsuit Catalog is not an actual style of martial arts; Onslaught dabbles in vandalism; Crule is a special guy; we identify briefly with X-Force; and Charles Xavier is the Keyser Soze of Onslaught.
X-PLAINED:
- Externals on Krakoa
- Relative levels of violence in X-books
- X-Force #52-54
- Camp Hayden, KY
- Onslaught-facilitated power-ups
- Gideon (again)
- At least one apparent death
- How it feels to be us
- Businesswear
- Whether Cannonball is an external
- Nazis in the Captain Britain Corps
- Doop
NEXT EPISODE: Sinister vs. Public Transit
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HAWK TALK – Hack the Planet
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This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, in honor of the 1995 film’s 1337-week anniversary, we talked about the finest movie about technology ever made, Hackers.
Topics, roughly:
- Hackers
- Mister The Plague
- What David Bowie and Angelina Jolie have in common
- Razor & Blade
- The glory of Matthew Lillard
- Counterculture
- Queer (sub)text
- Focal characters
- Jay’s sequel pitch
In retrospect, we should have talked way more about Phreak, played amazingly by Renoly Santiago. Sorry, Renoly! That’s what we get for doing Hawk Talk without our usual outlines.