Tag: Cable
133 – Feisty Little Fellow from the Stars (Judgment War, Part 2)
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In which the plot thickens; Jay and Miles fix Avatar; Ship is a good bro; you are in space right now; the Beginagains go full This Island Earth; Cyclops weaponizes love; voting is really important; and you’re listening to ten straight hours of soft jazz and subversion on ZZ-105
X-PLAINED:
- The other Dazzler (Bertram Worthington)
- Our newest t-shirt
- X-Factor #48-50
- A metaphor within a metaphor, in space
- The first half of Judgment War (briefly) (again)
- A prisoner exchange
- Hairstyles of the possessed and famous
- Proper use of Cable
- A case for retcons
- Iceman vs. Archangel
- A feisty little fellow from the stars
- The secret origin of Ship
- The Celestials
- The core of Iceman’s personality
- Several kisses
- Beast and the Rejects
- Some terrible hats
- An unfair fight
- A nefarious plot
- Contagious heroism
- Arishem
- The power of love
- Why we use the word “queer”
- Several theoretical and unlikely crossovers
NEXT EPISODE: Live at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival, with musical guest Scott Koblish!
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85 – Secret Convergence on Infinite Podcasts, Part 9: Complex Continuity, with Paul O’Brien and Kieran Shiach
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In which Miles finally makes it to Battlepod; we delve into our favorite continuity snarls for the benefit of the Beyonder; Kang is everyone; we’re really grateful that the D.C. Multiverse is out of our usual scope; someone gets a new costume; and the Secret Convergence on Infinite Podcasts reaches its shocking conclusion!
Featuring Paul O’Brien of House to Astonish and Kieran Shiach of Journey Into Misery; with Greg Rucka as the voice of the Beyonder!
X-PLAINED:
- Kang
- The Third Summers Brother
- The D.C. Multiverse
- Cable
This is the final episode of the Secret Convergence on Infinite Podcasts, a nine-part crossover event featuring the bravest and boldest of comics podcasts. You can find a list of the previous #SCOIP episodes–and where to jump into participating podcasts–on our blog!
ART CHALLENGE: Miles apparently came home from Secret Convergence with a snazzy new costume that may or may not be a hostile alien symbiote! What does it look like?
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As Mentioned in Episode 81 – The Kids Are All Right, with Dennis Hopeless
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LINKS & FURTHER READING
- Dennis Hopeless is delightful. Go follow him on Twitter.
- We are seriously never gonna stop preaching the gospel of X-Men: Season One.
- Actually, all of Dennis’s X-books are great. Here are some of our particular favorites:
- X-Men: Season One (Yes, twice in one list. It’s that good.)
- Inferno
- Cable & X-Force
- You can preorder All-New X-Men #1 at your local comics shop or from Marvel.com.
- Come see us at Vegas Valley Comic Book Fest–and be part of our second live episode–on Saturday, November 7, at Clark County Library!
81 – The Kids Are All Right, with Dennis Hopeless
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In which we sit down with one of our favorite writers to talk about his upcoming series; the X-teens take to the road; Season One is kind of Friday Night Lights; good relationships make good stories; and we are really excited for All-New X-Men.
X-PLAINED:
- Genesis (Evan Sabahnur)
- Dennis Hopeless
- Secret origins of X-Men: Season One
- All-New X-Men, vol. 2
- How to write Jean Grey
- Building a team
- Why Quentin Quire isn’t in All-New X-Men
- All-New in the larger X-line, and the X-line in the larger Marvel Universe
- Definitive X-eras
- Cable & X-Force
- What makes Cable tick
- Boom Boom
- Colossus and Domino
- The narrative case for solid relationships
- Favorite villains
- Mark Bagley
- Character evolution across multiple creative teams
- X-teen hobbies
- Vegas Valley Comic Book Fest
NEXT WEEK: The New Mutants meet Bird Boy, with mixed results.
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Rose City Comic Con was the COOLEST
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We are so ridiculously lucky: our hometown con is the coolest. It’s only a few years old, but Rose City Comic Con is one of the most fun, accessible, welcoming, and all-around celebratory comics shows we’ve ever been to. This was our first con as Rachel & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, and our first ever live episode; and we can’t imagine a better place to start.
Click through the gallery below for photos from the con, the panel, and the party! (We’ll toss the sketches up separately tomorrow!)
Special thanks to a LOT of people without whom the con and show wouldn’t have been possible:
- Panel Guests: Ann Nocenti, Jeff Parker, and Chris Yost
- Earth-811 Craft Department: Dave Proctor and Cameron Harris
- Everyone from Rose City Comic Con; but particularly Mikey Nielson, Ron Brister, and Paula Brister.
- Our amazing, amazing, amazing party hosts at The Steep & Thorny Way to Heaven: Megan Skye Hale and Myrrh Larsen
- Team X-Plain: Tina Abate, David Wynne, and Kyle Yount.
- The Absolute Goddamn Best: Katie Moody and Anna Sheffey.
- Last but not least: Max Carleton, Dusty Eppers, Jason Betournay, Scott Hazle, Fern, Kestrel, Jasper, and everyone who turned out to help, yell, party, and X-Plain with us at and after RCCC!
76 – Live at Rose City Comic Con, with Ann Nocenti, Jeff Parker, and Chris Yost
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In which we record our first live episode; Rose City Comic Con is AMAZING; Ann tells us how to torture the X-Men; Jean Grey needs more friends; Chris survives an encounter with an angry vampire; Squirrel Girl sets the high bar for questions; everyone has opinions about Longshot’s hair; Jeff gets meta; Cyclops is the best at fighting Sentinels; and Rachel ALMOST gets through an entire panel without swearing.
X-PLAINED:
- Cable (Nathan Summers)
- Stryfe (Also Nathan Summers)
- Rose City Comic Con
- Christopher Yost
- Jeff Parker
- Ann Nocenti
- The X-Men
- Superheroes vs. soap operas
- Continuity vs. evolution
- Updating the Silver Age
- What defines an X-book
- All of our iconic X-eras
- Close encounters of the fan kind
- The Continuiteens
- Marvel Girl and Squirrel Girl team-ups
- Narrative regrets
- How we’d end the X-Men
- X-Men best suited to professional wrestling
- Our personal mutant metaphors
- Which of the X-Men is best at fighting Sentinels
NEXT WEEK: Fallen Angels!
There’s no visual companion this week, but you can see photos from the panel, party, and more in our Rose City Comic Con roundup!
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As Mentioned in Episode 53 – Sometimes They Come Back
53 – Sometimes They Come Back
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In which Wolverine doesn’t care about your baby; Storm takes charge; duels are terrible bases for systems of government; editorial mandate is hell on a marriage; Magneto is a pretty cool teacher; Jean Grey comes back; and we have mixed feelings about the Phoenix retcon.
X-PLAINED:
- Kenji Uedo
- Uncanny X-Men #201
- New Mutants #35
- Avengers #263
- Fantastic Four #286
- Classic X-Men #8
- The post-Trial of Magneto status quo
- Nathan Christopher Charles Summers
- A small cross-section of Cyclops’s myriad issues
- The wrong means to the right end
- Magneto’s educational philosophy
- The politics of creative credits
- “You Know Who”
- The Phoenix retcon
- Several unrelated break-ins
- The return of Jean Grey
- Jean and the Phoenix Force
- Alternate-timeline Madelynes Pryor
- Jean Grey’s code names
NEXT WEEK: X-Factor begins! (for real, this time – sorry about that SNAFU!)
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As Mentioned in Episode 22 – Through Death and Through Life
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Links:
- Print of the week! You can find prints of David Wynne’s “Haters Gonna Hate” Scott & Jean illustration over at our shop until September 14–or drop David a line to buy the original!
- The real Cats Laughing
NEXT WEEK: Rachel and Miles are going on vacation. Read a book. WEEK AFTER NEXT: The New Mutants!