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435 – Giant-Size Special #12 (feat. Kieron Gillen)
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In which we have had an eventful year; Longshot is a classic folk hero; writer Kieron Gillen makes a triumphant and mildly terrifying return to the show; and you remain the best listeners of any podcast, ever.
X-PLAINED:
- Our tenth birthday party!
- 2023
- Longshot vol. 2 #1
- Longshot as a folkloric archetype
- Longshot (more) (again)
- Dismal Nitch, Washington
- The Thingee
- Baum, Kansas
- Corn
- Betty
- Barrie, Kansas
- The Albony Avenue Sanitarium and several of its residents
- Innocence, broadly
- The Wuggly Ump, by Edward Gorey
- Love
- Immortal X-Men
- Nathaniel Essex and several significant clones thereof
- Defining Mister Sinister
- Making Charles Xavier sympathetic
- Reset phrases
- Eternals
- The 10th Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
- Many people to whom we are grateful
NEXT EPISODE: X-Men: Liberators
NOTE: If you want to avoid Immortal X-Men spoilers in our interview with Kieron Gillen, you can skip to 01:38:50 for the Corbeau Awards!
Special thanks to:
- Matt Hunter
- Dylan Higgins
- Al Kennedy
- Max Carleton
- Kieron Gillen
- Tea Fougner
- Anna Stokes
- All of our patrons
- All of you listening, always <3
“Sinister Is Cloning This Town” performed by Steve and Erin Pence
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As Mentioned in Episode 406 – The Most Dangerous Mini-Game
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LINKS & FURTHER READING
- If you want to know more about the man behind the mustache, we recommend the hell out of Abraham Josephine Riesman’s True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee.
406 – The Most Dangerous Mini-Game
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In which we disagree about the value of Stan Lee intros; everybody wants Wolverine; Mister Sinister lurks; Haley Blanding deserves better; Thunderbird fights a tiger; and Xavier and Magneto do their usual thing.
X-PLAINED:
- The Circus of Crime
- Stan Lee intros
- Wolverine #-1
- X-Factor #-1
- X-Force #-1
- X-Men #-1
- Proust vs. Sartre
- How Logan joined Alpha Flight
- The secret origin of the word “canucklehead.”
- USDA, Annex B
- Myron MacLain
- Logan’s cigars
- Yet more continuity errors
- Sabretooth’s ridiculous car
- The balance of scary and silly
- Wolverine’s cowboy hat
- Summers family bullshit
- The Blandings and/or Masterses
- Vince
- The Proudstar family
- One or more cats named Coyote
- The origin of Thunderbird’s totem
- Edwin Martynec (again)
- Chondu the Magician
- Ringmaster
- Yet more Xavier and Magneto flashback drama
- The bottom of the resurrection queue
- Good car-trip episodes
NEXT EPISODE: X-Factor continues to make poor decisions
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As Mentioned in Episode 362 – Lazy Summer Day
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LINKS & FURTHER MISCREANTS
- Waiting for the Trade re: the Danger Room and what’s been done there.
- For more about Tana Nile, Howard the Duck, and Franklin Richards, check out Giant-Size Special #10!
- X-Factor, summarized.
362 – Lazy Summer Day
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In which Chris Bachalo draws excellent critters; Bastion is a terrible boss; everyone fucks in the Danger Room; Jubilee fails a midterm; and humans were the real monsters all along.
X-PLAINED:
- The worst mutant power
- Generation X #20-21
- X-Factor #127
- Bachalo critters
- Bastion (more) (again)
- Daria (but not the one you’re thinking of)
- Chevy the janitor (again)
- Mean Cuisine
- Harker the cat
- A threatening salad
- Yet another time-traveling Nate
- Flirting
- A movie reference
- U.S.1 and Baron von Blimp
- Several ways to fail a midterm
- “Autism”
- Miguela Torres
- Trevor Chase
- A series of interviews
- Richard Starkings and Comicraft
- Destiny’s absence from film
NEXT EPISODE: Baseball!
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As Mentioned in Episode 300 – Götterdämmerung
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LINKS & FURTHER EPICS:
- Janet K. Lee makes really, really gorgeous comics and other art.
- A lot of the episodes we mentioned are in the roundup from our 5th anniversary episode.
- You can hear more about Jay’s chickens-in-law in Hawk Talk: Florida Mans
300 – Götterdämmerung
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In which the Age of Apocalypse comes to an end; Angel briefly lives up to his potential; Bishop was sometimes right; It’s not a climactic ending without an X-Men #137 reference; Colossus breaks our hearts; X-Men: Marvels Snapshot will be out in September; and somehow we have made 300 of these things.
X-PLAINED:
- Beast vs. Dark Beast
- X-Men: Omega
- The entirety of the (first) Age of Apocalypse
- Potpourri vs. incense
- Dramatic hair
- Many, many errors
- Unforeseen consequences
- A long-anticipated team-up
- Many deaths
- Art as artifact
- Narration that has haunted Jay for 20 years
- One of the more persistent deaths of David Haller
- Blast Attack
- The end of a world
- Refugees from the Age of Apocalypse
- Our favorite X-milestone issues
- Theoretical teams
- Orphans
- When X-Men: Marvels Snapshot is actually coming out
- Our favorite show bits
- How Jay’s chickens-in-law are doing
NEXT EPISODE: X-Men Prime
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As Mentioned in Episode 294 – The Infernal Gallop
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LINKS & FURTHER ALLUSIONS
- That really depressing historical anecdote about ballast tanks came courtesy of friend of the show Joe Streckert, of the Weird History Podcast. Thanks, Joe!
- Seriously: Mystique-295 is Tovah Feldshuh as Naomi Bunch on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
- We differ on the quality of the X-Files episode “The Field Where I Died”; your mileage may vary.
294 – The Infernal Gallop
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In which a whole lot of things burn; Nightcrawler gets gritty; it’s hard to be Dead Man Wade; Apocalypse’s IT department has some explaining to do; Mystique is the most mom of all moms; Doug Ramsey dies (again); and Jay will fight anyone who says comics can’t be “real” literature.
X-PLAINED:
- Damask
- X-Calibre #1-4
- Switchback
- Cain Marko of Earth-295
- Avalon
- Destiny of Earth-295
- Nightcrawler of Earth-295
- Ghost Dance (actual)
- Ghost Dance (fictional)
- John Proudstar of Earth-295
- The Infernal Gallop vs. the Infernal Galop
- Moonstar of Earth-295
- Dead Man Wade
- The Pale Riders
- Videoconferencing software of Earth-295
- The Excalibur
- Walter Newell
- Callisto of Earth-295
- A lot of murders
- A really dark historical precedent
- Parenthood
- Death by existential crisis
- The worst plan
- Variations on the death of Doug Ramsey
- Geography of the Age of Apocalypse
- The rest of the Marvel books during the Age of Apocalypse
- Jay vs. Western canon
NEXT EPISODE: Gambit and the X-Ternals
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