Tag: Emma Frost
484 – Hell Tuba
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In which the 2000 Magik miniseries is not a good comics series but is an excellent heavy metal concept album; Nightmare has a nightmare; and tubas work differently in Hell.
X-PLAINED:
- Belasco: the early years
- Magik (2000 series) #1-4
- Magik (Amanda Sefton) (Jimaine Szardos) (more) (again)
- Some art stuff
- The realm of Nightmare
- The Splinter Realms
- The Soul Sword (Amanda Sefton version)
- An Archfiend of the Pit
- Nugent
- Chekhov’s Hell computer (and its secretions)
- Kurt Wagner’s short and bizarre career in the church
- Vitchen
- Several cool demon battles
- The Dread Dormammu
- Gleeg
- A problem
- Muspelheim
- Twilight (sword)
- Some Mephisto nonsense
- Hades, maybe
- Epithets
- A convocation
- Weird Hell guys
- Duke Bleys
- The Archenemy
- The Hell Tuba
- The most demonic brass instrument
- Some time travel bullshit
- Stories where Emma Frost is at her best
- Villain reuse
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As Mentioned in Episode 481 – Chekhov’s Butt-Gun
481 – Chekhov’s Butt-Gun
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X-PLAINED:
- Several potential origins of Havok’s stupid hat
- Generation X #67-70
- Revolution (more) (again)
- Shockwave (more) (again)
- Adrienne Frost (more) (again)
- The New Xavier School and/or Massachusetts Academy (more) (again)
- Possible necrophilia
- Dorm life
- How not to draw clothing
- Rules of entry to Jubilee’s dorm room
- The Rich Person Store
- How to say the word “consigliere”
- The ‘90s
- Blackmail
- Limits of telepathy
- Arson
- Ninja Boogie
- Panic
- How to keep Synch safe
- Adultification
- Failure to keep Synch safe
- Where to pick up to follow along with us
- Plot threads we’d like to see picked back up
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As Mentioned in Episode 468 – Sasquatch Road Trip
468 – Sasquatch Road Trip
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X-PLAINED:
- Apocalypse’s influence
- The Big House (about which we are confused)
- Generation X #58
- Cartier and/or Louis St. Croix
- Our college’s Dean, naked jogger
- Things that are sharp in the woods
- HUMP
- Penance (Hollow)
- Emplate, spoiled teenager
- Generation X Annual 1999
- Epistolary fonts
- Jubilee’s pre-X past
- Round Wolverine
- Hunter Brawn (again, sigh)
- Recognizing random dudes from pictures
- Dad Things and Dad Pipes
- Juggernaut and Black Tom as a relationship model
- Jubilee, competent veteran
- A murder mystery
- Legault, cosplaying bodyguard
- Taking notes on comics
- Magneto’s telepathy-blocking (or not) helmet
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As Mentioned in Episode 462 – Angst and Continuity
462 – Angst and Continuity
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In which the 1990s were very long; if you die in the simulation, you die in real life; Adrienne Frost is a bad person with good clothes; we judge the number 57; things just keep happening; and Penance somehow gets even more complicated.
X-PLAINED:
- Bevatron
- Generation X #55-57
- The Hellions and their untimely demise (again)
- Uncanny X-Men #281
- A continuity conundrum
- Many allusions and references
- Cognitive dissonance
- Dancing between the raindrops of continuity
- Resolution
- Emma Frost, triumphant
- Fashion
- Emplate (more) (again)
- Propeller beanies
- Feelings
- Explosions
- One way to solve a problem
- Whether you should read Dazzler: The Movie
- The worst possible power swaps
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As Mentioned in Episode 460 – Setting Sons
460 – Setting Sons
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In which Synch is better with your powers than you are; Generation X gets some actual training; Artie and Leech are fully feral; everyone gets the hots for Paladin; Zeus has probably fucked a motorcycle at some point; many countries have valleys; and Adrienne Frost is terrible.
X-PLAINED:
- Generation X #52-54
- Tristan Brawn (more) (again)
- Grant Morrison on suspension of disbelief in superhero media
- Honor vs. privilege
- School dance themes
- Artie and Leech’s habitat
- Spider-Ham
- Ducktor Doom
- Role models
- What Gaia is probably definitely up to
- Paladin
- The Rising Sons
- Rollerblades
- Dragon problems
- Power emulation vs. reproduction
- Pokémans
- Cosplaying Emma Frost with a beard
- Diamond Patch
- Muir Island vs. Muir Isle
NEXT EPISODE: X-Force goes to Genosha!
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