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Some real-life couples have waited more than 37 years to safely kiss in public.
Some never got the chance.
Some are still waiting.
Representation matters.
As Mentioned in Episode 261 – Out of the Subtext
Tag: FlameCon
261 – Out of the Subtext, Live from FlameCon with Vita Ayala!
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In which we return to our favorite convention; writer Vita Ayala remains an absolute legend; everything was always already queer; and nobody should ever have to wait 37 years for a kiss.
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As Mentioned in Episode 213 – Live from FlameCon
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OH MY GOSH LOOK AT ALL THESE SKETCHES! (We also forgot to photograph a ton of the ones we did, including one of Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau in a Speedo. We are very sorry.)
Rogue, by Miles
Warlock, by Jay
Phoenix, by Miles
Business-Casual Cyclops, by Jay
Archangel, by Miles
Dazzler, by Jay
Phoenix II / Marvel Girl / Prestige, by Miles
MAGNETO! sharpie tats, by Jay
Iceman, by Miles
Quentin Quire, by Jay
Anole, by Miles
Jubilee, by Miles
Warlock, by Jay
Dark Phoenix, by Miles
Phoenix Quentin Quire, by Miles
Rictor, by Jay
Rogue, by Miles
Cyclops, by Jay
Wolverine, by Miles
A good drawing, which is how you can tell it’s not by us: Cyclops Has a Good Day, for Jay’s sketchbook, by Amy Reeder!
NEXT EPISODE: Stryfe’s Burn Book!
LINKS & FURTHER TANGENTS
- Follow our delightful panelists on Twitter!
- Join the Mutant Revolution Discord!
213 – Live from FlameCon, feat. Sina Grace, Magdalene Visaggio, and Leah Williams
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In which Leah dives headfirst into the world of con panels; Magdalene will burn down your idols; Sina is a fashion icon; none of the X-Men are straight (but they do share a sweater); you can’t spell “gay sex” without X; and we are all very, VERY in love with FlameCon.
Special thanks to Sina, Mags, Leah, Matt, Maya, Tea, Anna, the Discord crowd, and all our amazing listeners and patrons!
NEXT EPISODE: Stryfe’s Burn Book!
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As Mentioned in Episode 209 – To Me, My X-Books
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Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
COME SEE US AT FLAMECON! SERIOUSLY! IT’LL BE RAD AS HELL!
Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe is a delightful series and you should all go read it immediately.
You heard it here first: No wang beams.
NEXT EPISODE: X-CUTIONER’S SONG BEGINS!
LINKS & FURTHER DIVERSIONS:
- NO, SERIOUSLY, COME TO FLAMECON.
- Jordan D. White is a delightful individual, and you should both follow him on Twitter and check out Sailor Business!
- Lewis Tan, who played the character in Deadpool 2, loves Shatterstar very much.
- Here’s the official Uncanny X-Men press release.
209 – To Me, My X-Books; feat. Jordan D. White
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In which we welcome Marvel editor Jordan D. White to the podcast to talk about the current state of the X-Universe!
X-PLAINED:
- The cosmic luck balance
- Mr. Dapples
- A remarkable concurrence of luck
- Our FlameCon live show lineup
- What an X-Men group editor does
- How X-books happen
- Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe
- Shatterstar
- Jordan’s history with X-Men
- Uncanny X-Men: First Class
- Wolverine: First Class
- Whether Deadpool is an X-Man (No.)
- Mercurial mutancy
- What defines the X-Men
- Queer X-characters (and their absence)
- Problematic namesakes
- Sailors X
- Drawing lines on social media
- Why to read modern X-Men
- Uncanny X-Men
NEXT EPISODE: X-CUTIONER’S SONG BEGINS!
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As Mentioned in Episode 207 – Blood and Metal
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Everyone in this comic book is yelling at all times. (Cable: Blood and Metal #1)
There is also a lot of leaping. The early ’90s were very leaping-heavy years. (Cable: Blood and Metal #1)
Garrison, you delightful scamp! (Cable: Blood and Metal #1)
That’s right. The Six Pack is named after beer. (Cable: Blood and Metal #1)
Grizzly is kind of a delight in this series. (Cable: Blood and Metal #1)
Stryfe is ALWAYS a delight. (Cable: Blood and Metal #1)
Look at these ridiculous guns. LOOK AT THEM. (Cable: Blood and Metal #2)
Every fight in this series is exuberantly ridiculous, and it’s great. (Cable: Blood and Metal #2)
Cable is a really, really terrible boss. (Cable: Blood and Metal #2)
More leaping! (Cable: Blood and Metal #1)
MORE LEAPING! (Cable: Blood and Metal #1)
Having studied under Cable, Kane knows how to leap into battle. (Cable: Blood and Metal #1)
Blood and Metal also does the action-movie thing where the hardboiled dialogue is often vaguely suggestive. (Cable: Blood and Metal #1)
“It makes sense, though. Having an evil clone runs in my family.” (Cable: Blood and Metal #1)
Yes, Garrison. Ninjas. (Cable: Blood and Metal #2)
That’s Stryfe; and this explains a thing or three. (Cable: Blood and Metal #2)
We forgot to mention this scene in the episode, but at one point, Garrison Kane is just randomly eating a fucking enormous sandwich. (Cable: Blood and Metal #2)
And then on the next page, he dramatically rips his shirt off, because, look, SOMETIMES YOU JUST GOTTA. (Cable: Blood and Metal #2)
Shorts! (Cable: Blood and Metal #2)
Look, if you haven’t worked out that Stryfe looks like Cable by this point in the series, I’m not sure I can help you. (Cable: Blood and Metal #2)
I keep imagining Stryfe yelling, “Brother!” in Liquid Snake’s voice; and now you can, too. (Cable: Blood and Metal #2)
“I also got you some unflattering but comfortable briefs. (Cable: Blood and Metal #2)
NEXT EPISODE: X-Factor gets political.
LINKS & FURTHER TOMFOOLERY:
- DID YOU KNOW THAT WE’RE GOING TO BE AT FLAMECON? Of course you did, because we won’t shut up about it! Come see us at table P119, and check out the live episode!
- The Adventures of Dr. McNinja is a masterpiece of modern literature; plus, it’s by the only person who will ever love Robocop vs. Terminator as much as Jay does.
- The new She-Ra design is awesome, and so is all the fan art that it has inspired.
- The Tim Minchin line Jay paraphrased in this episode comes from the song “White Wine in the Sun.”
- Wanna hang out online with a bunch of really nice X-Men fans? Hell, yeah, you do! Join the X-Plain the X-Men Discord!
207 – Blood and Metal
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In which Miles has a Dracula problem; we are really, really excited about FlameCon; Fabian Nicieza is the unsung hero of the early ’90s; Jay doesn’t explain the Iranian Hostage Crisis; Cable does not have a good history with trademark disputes; Cable: Blood and Metal is secretly an allegory for the X-books of the early 1990s; friendship and explosions don’t have to be mutually exclusive; and history evokes but doesn’t quite repeat itself.
X-PLAINED:
- Dracula disambiguation
- One way to stop a vampire invasion
- Wang beams
- Cable: Blood and Metal #1-2
- The continuing miracle that is Fabian Nicieza
- Cable (as established in 1992)
- Stryfe
- The Wild Pack and/or Six Pack
- The ongoing evolution of John Romita, Jr.
- Tolliver
- Several heists of varying quality
- Numerous patches and their contents
- How the Wild Pack became the Six Pack
- An idiom, examined
- A total dick move
- Muscles-and-guns power creep
- Guns of tomorrow
- The McNinja point
- A brief flirtation with Magic: The Gathering
- A typo that became canon
- The new She-Ra
- The new, improved Garrison Kane
- European nipple lasers
- Mr. Richter
- The evolution of Cable
NEXT EPISODE: X-Factor gets political.
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As Mentioned in Episode 206 – Anatomy of a Phoenix
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Tuesday, basically. (Excalibur #51)
Meet the Excalibur of Earth-99476! (Excalibur #51)
This Sauron’s opinions on jorts are never canonically established, but I think we all know. (Excalibur #51)
I see what you did there, Davis. (Excalibur #51)
Ka-Zar, Lord of the Savage Land! (Excalibur #51)
The Fantastic Five! (Excalibur #51)
There is definitely an alternate universe that is the same as 616 in every way except that Dai Thomas ended this call by yelling, “The Aristocrats!” (Excalibur #51)
It’s true. I will pretty much always pay to watch the X-Men beat up Professor X. (Excalibur #52)
You know it’s an illusion because none of them is wearing a plaid suit. (Excalibur #52)
Several aspects of Rachel’s backstory as presented in this issue will be retconned away, but this is the most significant of those. (Excalibur #52)
WELL THAT EXPLAINS A THING OR TWO (Excalibur #52)
And then they went to space. For like a year. (Excalibur #52)
That’s our Brian! (Excalibur #54)
Spoiler: Kitty is cutting off his cast and it’s itchy. (Excalibur #54)
That’s our Brian! (Excalibur #54)
Oh, man, can you imagine Meggan at Disney World? I bet she has THE MOST fun and also gets asked to leave very quickly. (Excalibur #54)
It seems kind of ridiculous that he jumps straight to “must be an illusion” after everything he’s seen, but… That’s our Brian! (Excalibur #54)
I love the Crazy Gang and very much want them to be happy. (Excalibur #54)
The best kind of twist ending! (Excalibur #54)
The mystery deepens and gets even cooler-looking. (Excalibur #54)
As promised, here is a photograph of two-year-old Jay dressed as a compsognathus.
NEXT EPISODE: Cable: Blood and Metal!
LINKS & ADDITIONAL FUN:
- You should all come hang out with us at FlameCon!
- All lizards are good lizards, but this Savannah Monitor is especially excellent.
- Check out the Mr. & Mrs. X preview pages.
- Our Lila Cheney Live t-shirt is a staple for any well-dressed denizens of the multiverse.
- Wanna hang out online with a bunch of really nice X-Men fans? Join the X-Plain the X-Men Discord!
- We’ve talked a lot about the Phoenix on this podcast, but here’s where we covered some particularly significant chapters in its history:
- We covered the Dark Phoenix Saga in Episode 12 – Inner Circle Jerk and Episode 13 – Last Stand on the Moon.
- You can learn more about Rachel Summers’s history with the Phoenix in Episode 60 – Rachel Summers and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
206 – Anatomy of a Phoenix
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In which you should all come see us at FlameCon; all lizards are good lizards; we recap a recap; the Phoenix force is really complicated; Earth-99476 may or may not be the secret history of Earth-616; Alan Davis takes on continuity; the X-Men fail to save the day; the Phoenix says its piece; Rachel takes a vacation in space; Captain Britain doesn’t like to be psychoanalyzed; and the Crazy Gang gets a happy ending.
X-PLAINED:
- Evil Shadowcats
- Jay & Miles at FlameCon
- Excalibur #51, 52, and 54
- A brief history of Excalibur
- The Phoenix Force
- A recap of a recap
- What this episode isn’t covering
- Lizard Excalibur
- The most meta t-shirt in the multiverse
- Several long-ago Halloween costumes
- Dinosaurs of Earths-616 and -99476
- National Lampoon Vacation apocrypha
- Earth-99476 and its Savage Land
- The Fantastic Five
- A vow of vengeance
- Feron as an antecedent to Kubark
- Alan Davis’s modern authorial counterpart
- A telepathic journey
- The full history of the Phoenix Force (as established circa 1991)
- Inherited vs. inherent mutant powers (and a No-Prize explanation thereof)
- The rehabilitation of Rachel Summers
- Several retcons yet to come
- Jean Grey’s inconsistent relationship to the Phoenix Force
- A mysterious disappearance
- What the Crazy Gang has been up to
- The nicest kind of twist
- A very easy way to make Kitty Pryde textually queer
- Differentiating X-teams
- The X-Plain Discord
- Strong Guy’s new hobby
NEXT EPISODE: Cable: Blood & Metal
UPDATE: Not only can birds see color, but they can see a wider spectrum than humans. THE MORE YOU KNOW!
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