Tag: Hades
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 437 – Dismember the Titans
437 – Dismember the Titans
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In which the overlap between Rocky Horror and ‘90s X-Force fans is probably pretty significant; Pandemonia has priorities; the warehouse gets an evil, sexy glowup; swears are great; Johnny Blaze’s motorcycle probably shouldn’t still be on fire; and there is no single definitive X-Men experience.
X-PLAINED:
- Master Pandemonium
- X-Force #85
- X-Force/Champions Annual 1998
- What X-Force has been up to lately
- The regrettable absence of Doctor Doom
- Possession
- Community
- Cougars (euphemistic)
- The thrift cycle
- Rusty Collins on Krakoa
- Fashion
- An eons-old accord between the Houses of Chaos and the Lord of Valhalla
- Jennifer Kale
- The list
- Swears
- A statue of Hades
- Various appendages sticking out of the earth
- Hercules
- The mystic power of sarcasm
- The greatest fear of a Titan
- Monet St. Croix vs. the Count of Monte Cristo
- Good X-books for your fifteen-year-old niece
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