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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
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As Mentioned in Episode 470 – Large Adult Men
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470 – Large Adult Men
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In which Cable may or may not have been a spokesperson for AT&T; it’s impossible to draw a CD dramatically; Wolverine gets his adamantium back; Apocalypse says the thing; and we probably can’t keep putting off The Twelve forever.
X-PLAINED:
- One way to dispose of a corpse
- Cable #73-74
- Wolverine #145
- Cable (more) (again)
- Poor font choice
- Sarcophagus nipples
- Caliban (more) (again)
- Impromptu tailoring
- A cliched vignette
- People talking on couches
- A compact disc
- Unpleasant reunions
- An impressive outfit
- Prior generations of horsemen of Apocalypse
- Wolverine (more) (again)
- How Wolverine ended up a horseman of Apocalypse
- Apocalypse’s aesthetic
- Wolverine vs. Hulk (yet again)
- Which version of Magik was on Krakoa
- An X-Men pitch in the style of Spidey and his Amazing Friends
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As Mentioned in Episode 469 – Killed by Death
469 – Killed by Death
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In which the Shattering officially concludes; you can’t swoop over the phone; toddlers are engines of pure chaos; the X-Men do some processing; and we are mildly scandalized by the absence of footnotes.
X-PLAINED:
- Rama-Tut
- Evan Sabahnur
- Uncanny X-Men #375
- X-Men #95
- X-Men Unlimited #25
- Skrull problems
- One very upsetting way to identify a traitor
- Skrullverine
- Fiz and Jaq
- The Ally
- A ruse
- Death’s mask
- A dramatic revelation
- Processing
- The unrealized potential of Spirit Halloween
- Wolverine memories
- Rogue’s temporary tattoos
- Yet another time loop
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As Mentioned in Episode 464 – The Cigarettes of Damocles
464 – The Cigarettes of Damocles
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In which X-Force is kind of silly; that really isn’t what “quantum” means; polite and lawful are two entirely different things, and Sam Guthrie is only one of them; Selene vogues; and the Hellfire Club plays the dead girlfriend card.
X-PLAINED:
- Blackheart
- The Damocles Foundation (more) (again)
- Lucas Bartholomew Guthrie
- The difference between prisons and jails
- X-Force #98-98
- Whether Dr. Octopus enjoys the literary stylings of Elmore Leonard
- One way to get out of prison
- The Glitterbox
- An unsuccessful heist
- Celestial cigarettes and/or golems
- Thomas and/or Tyler Zebulon and/or Zeke Guthrie
- Demon Bears as urban pests
- Selene, Always Voguing
- Gatherers
- Various evil scientists
- The Sword
- Junkyard life
- Lenny Delmonico
- Psychic rodeos
- Nightmare chambers
- Bat sex
- An offer Sunspot can’t refuse
- Hank McCoy’s villain arc
- New Mutant superlatives
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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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