Tag: Boom-Boom
482 – The Mutant Gene for Murder
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In which Pete Wisdom canonically smells weird; we are inordinately entertained by a villain; everyone levels up their superpowers; and you probably shouldn’t shave the logo of your secret super team into the side of your head.
X-PLAINED:
- Nasty Boys disambiguation
- X-Force #106-109
- Counter X (more) (again)
- Shockwave (more) (again)
- Turn-of-the-millennium cool
- X-Force (more) (again)
- How to dress for funerals, I guess?
- How Pete Wisdom smells
- Romany Wisdom (again)
- Marcus Tsung
- Mind bullets
- Nightman
- Our first audience challenge in a really long time
- A bad nickname
- X-Force’s new looks
- A thing growing out of Domino’s back
- Several enigmas shrouded in mystery
- The worst birthday party
- Abel, Baker, and Charlie
- Fish
- The Factory
- Telepathic “voices”
- The miracle of magnetism
NEXT EPISODE: The return of Chris Claremont!
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As Mentioned in Episode 478 – The Monologue Tube
478 – The Monologue Tube
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In which Alan Davis is Team Cyclops; everyone gets depowered; it’s hard to connect with kids your age when you’re a superhero; Sinister’s gotta sinister; everyone gets repowered; and the ‘90s were much more eclectic than they get credit for being.
X-PLAINED:
- Side effects of Decimation
- Uncanny X-Men #379-380
- X-Force #101
- X-Men #99
- Cadre K
- Summers family drama
- The High Evolutionary (more) (again)
- The (other) time all the mutants got depowered
- Kevin
- A very beautiful book
- The ongoing mess of Genoshan politics
- The Neo (slightly)
- To what extent Logan’s claws are a mutant power
- Sinister monologues
- Herbert Evolutionary
- The New New Men
- The ‘90s, in general
- What makes a Morlock
NEXT EPISODE: Magneto: Dark Seduction!
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As Mentioned in Episode 475 – Cross-Time Crisis
475 – Cross-Time Crisis
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In which we wrap up John Francis Moore’s run on X-Force; the Demon Bear returns (kinda); four Moonstars are not in fact better than one; the Queen of Star Swords is an extremely rad villain; and X-Force takes a very contained multiversal tour.
X-PLAINED:
- Multiversal canon
- X-Force #99-100
- The Demon Bear (more) (again)
- Arcadia DeVille (more) (again)
- Mary Weather
- Fenwick
- Meridian
- The Queen of Star Swords
- The Cathedral
- Cable (but not that Cable)
- The X-Forces of several universes
- Earth-3100
- Earth-10003
- Earth-130000
- Earth-8280
- Earth-23100
- Non-mutants on the X-Men
- The provenance of the Brood X-men
NEXT EPISODE: Mondo! (The real one, this time.)
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461 – Things to Do in Denver When You’re X-Force
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In which Magneto may be right but is also wildly impractical; X-Force goes on a sneaking mission; Magneto isn’t mad, he’s just disappointed; Rictor and Shatterstar return; Strong is not a common surname in the Marvel universe; and being a mutant on TV doesn’t mean you’re one in the comics.
X-PLAINED:
- How Jubilee became a vampire
- The most X-treme youth of them all
- X-Force 94-95
- X-Force Annual 1999
- Genosha
- Butler disambiguation
- Clown jobs
- A team-up predicated on an awkward breakup
- Hammer Town
- Delphi
- Memory boxes
- Several potential continuity error
- Names
- Genoshan robots
- Archie
- A hierarchy of potential fates
- Vershiagen Industries and/or Vershlagen Industries
- V2
- Hanrancha
- Stronghold
- Martin Strong
- Freddie
- Michelle Balters (Neurotap) (more) (again)
- Communication with X-teams
- A sudden and depressing resolution
- Continuity across media
- Why Gambit doesn’t (usually) throw tarot cards
NEXT EPISODE: The Return of the Hellions (kinda)
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As Mentioned in Episode 458 – Quantum Stuff
458 – Quantum Stuff
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In which Tommy Lee Edwards draws a damned fine everything; death gods get taken a lot less seriously when their avatars are seagulls; warm and cool colors get in a fight; Domino has no time for this bullshit; Cable and Domino wait ’til the kids are asleep; Sunspot’s alibi is too complicated; X-Force forges a pouches path; Engines are nothing but trouble; and Ry’lor the Destroyer puts himself in time out.
X-PLAINED:
- The Norse Pantheon of 2099
- X-Force #91-93
- One of the best X-covers ever
- Our favorite Siryn story
- Jesse Aaronson, penitent chef
- Sean Cassidy, penitent dad
- A realistically anticlimactic breakup
- Cassidy/Rourke history
- Bring Your Daughter to Crimes Day
- Napoleon Sanders
- An epistolary montage
- The dusty pink word balloons of Tom Waits
- A missed Manos-portunity
- The Chaos Engine
- Halloween Jack
- Domino’s varied musical tastes
- Ry’lor the Destroyer
- Kodo the Komodo
- Bedlam’s extremely situational powers
- Astarte and Electryon
- Horniness as a superpower
- The Temple of the Dying Sun
- Cable & Corsair’s (lack of) history
- Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, and Hope
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As Mentioned in Episode 448 – Skamageddon
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- The Judgment of Magneto by Asher Elbein