In which Alan Davis’s Excalibur is a spiritual sibling to The Muppet Show; Captain Britain gets a Captain Britain lesson; Opal Luna Saturnyne has no time for your nonsense; Meggan and Rachel take a brief detour into a Hammer film; Earth-148 is extra heroic; no member of Excalibur will ever use a bathroom in peace; Cerise joins the team; Technet embraces the future; and the end of the world is nigh.
X-PLAINED:
Pixie’s powers and parentage
Several eccentricities of Jay’s apartment
Excalibur #45-47
Earth-148 (Ee’rath)
Comics pacing vs. podcast pacing
Technet (more) (again)
Amelia Witherspoon and several references related thereto
The N-Men
How to Captain Britain
The multiversal significance of the lighthouse
A portentous chess game
A particularly aggressive retcon
The return of the Neuri
The real Meggan
Necrom
A heroic death
The true curse of Excalibur
Some very specific citations
A reunion
Kylun (Colin McKay)
A blessed event
Cerise
Whether Rogue can control Cyclops’s powers
Laura Kinney’s upcoming reversion to X-23
NEXT EPISODE: Bishop joins the X-Men!
ENTIRELY IRRELEVANT UPDATE: The wall on which Jay was attempting to mount a desk turned out to be plaster over sheetrock. Office plans are being revised accordingly.
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In which All-New Wolverine and X-Men Red writer Tom Taylor joins us to talk friendship, heroism, pelican statues, and how to build on legacy without being bogged down by it.
X-PLAINED
The epic awesomeness of Gabrielle Kinney
All-New Wolverine
The evolution of Best Wolverine
Character-first story
Family
X-Men Red
Finding Jean Grey’s voice
Gentle (Nezhno Abidemi)
Transcending the Silver Age
Laura Kinney in Logan
Wolverine-style brain surgery
Editing down to the bones
Tom’s comfort reads
Secret origins of Tom Taylor
Writing like a street performer
Koalas vs. reavers
NEXT EPISODE: The Boringest Rasputin
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Week of 3/8/2017 (Thanks for your patience! It’s been… quite a month.)
In which we have a whole, whole lot of feelings about Emma Frost; Old Man Logan goes back to the beginning; our hearts now and forever belong to All-New Wolverine; and we finally remember to do another mailbag segment!
REVIEWED:
Inhumans vs. X-Men #6 (00:54; spoilers begin at 03:10)
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In which we have a whole lot of Emerald City Comic Con plans; Javier Garrón flexes his range; and All-New Wolverine resolves a very long dangling thread.
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In which Jay & Miles get snowed in; Old Man Logan embraces genre; Inhumans vs. X-Men suffers from a distressing lack of Emma Frost; All-New Wolverine suffers from a distressing lack of Jonathan; and Uncanny X-Men undersells Limbo.
REVIEWED:
*Old Man Logan #16 (00:55)
Inhumans vs. X-Men #2 (04:49)
All-New Wolverine #16 (10:49)
Uncanny X-Men #17 (17:08)
*Pick of the Fortnight (23:52)
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In which we are somewhat snowed in; All-New Wolverine perseveres; David Curiel is the MVP of Inhumans vs. X-Men; Madelyne Pryor is a font of endless delights; Dracula was the secret ingredient all along; and we introduce a new feature!
REVIEWED:
All-New Wolverine #15 (01:03)
*Inhumans vs. X-Men #1 (03:53)
All-New X-Men #16 (09:29)
Old Man Logan #15 (15:06)
*Pick of the Fortnight (17:28)
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