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29 – Mutant in a Box
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In which Cyclops is the worst at vacations, Mystique is your favorite MurderMom™, Havok is eternally ABD, Kitty Pryde does science, Callisto doesn’t give a damn about her bad reputation, Xavier has a Troy Barnes moment, Miles may be the only person with fond memories of Secret Wars, and Rachel finally gets to make Spalding Gray references.
X-Plained:
- Fantomex
- Uncanny X-Men #176-181
- Reset issues
- Scott Summers’s second-worst honeymoon
- Cephalopod disambiguation
- Project Wideawake (more) (again)
- Valerie Cooper
- Foreshadowing
- Public displays of affection
- Leech
- How X-Men age
- A sewer wizard
- Doug Ramsey
- Secret Wars
- Japan
- Mystique’s kids
- Douglock
- Mystique’s powers
- The other X-Men Forever
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1 – The Strangest Podcast of Them All
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In which we begin at the beginning: everything clicks with #3, Professor Xavier is a jerk, Magneto is a fearless fashionista, Cyclops gets a name, Jean Grey has a chronic case of the Silver Age, and allegorical diversity is not enough.
X-Plained:
- Mutant genetics and taxonomy
- Practical semantics of “X-Men”
- Charles Xavier’s equally dubious ethics and decorating choices
- Superhero couture of the Atomic Age
- Why Cyclops can’t control his powers
- The miracle of comic-book magnetism
- A problematic analogy
- X-books for beginners
- Snow grenades
- The word “yaybo”
- The mystery of the ubiquitous plaid suit
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