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297 – Blood Is Compulsory
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In which Nate Grey is a drama kid; Forge-295 is the hero we need; Mister Sinister is a graduate of the Danielle “Moonstar” Moonstar school of secret identities; and we really, really, really wish that the theater troupe had gotten the ongoing series.
X-PLAINED:
- Just how powerful Nate Grey is
- X-Man’s somewhat baffling ongoing appeal
- X-Man #1-4
- A theater company
- The Best Forge (Earth-295)
- Toad (Earth-295)
- Sauron (Earth-295)
- Brute (Earth-295)
- An extended Tom Stoppard allusion
- “Essex”
- Domino (Earth-295)
- Theater in and as resistance
- An ineffectual ruse
- A lot of death
- Caliban (Earth-295)
- A family reunion
- The story we really wanted out of this series
- The X-Man ongoing series
- Chronically missing New Mutants
- X-arcs we’d like to see animated
NEXT EPISODE: X-Universe!
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As Mentioned in Episode 291 – Eat Malarkey and Die
291 – Eat Malarkey and Die
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In which we celebrate a birthday; nuclear war is never a good Plan A; every Logan is Old Man Logan; we are underwhelmed by the Pretty Boys of Earth-295; Jean Grey is one hell of a pilot; there are so many reasons not to like Donald Pierce; teleporters are the narrative nuclei of the Age of Apocalypse; and Gateway of Earth-295 deserves significantly more in-depth exploration than we can provide.
X-PLAINED:
- Weapon X (Logan)
- Weapon X #1-4
- Irony
- Coordinating costumes to tattoos (and vice versa)
- How to ride a sentinel
- Apocalypse’s sea wall
- Mutant power classifications
- The mass human evacuation
- Nuclear war
- Magma
- A load of malarkey
- Interactions of telepathy and PTSD
- The Pretty Boys of Earth-295
- How not to jump out of a zeppelin
- What Carol Danvers smells like
- Gateway (Earth-295)
- An exceptionally high-tech guilt trip
- Unconventional navigation
- Character transformations between universes
- The complex conundrum of Jean Grey
- When humans became aware about mutants
- Logan’s D&D alignment
- Our own D&D character histories
NEXT EPISODE: Factor X!
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As Mentioned in Episode 288 – Cape Citadel Remix
288 – Cape Citadel Remix
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In which Magneto is a drama llama in any universe (but a remarkably decent parent in at least one); the soap opera hits the Age of Apocalypse; Weapon X is a man made of red flags; Gambit has an OT3; the better man wins; some blanks are better left unfilled; and we would probably not fare too well on Earth-295.
X-PLAINED:
- The other Magnus
- Synchronicity
- Earth-295 (more) (again)
- X-Men Chronicles #1-2
- Selective backstory
- Magneto’s hair
- Wundagore Mountain
- Aesthetics of the Age of Apocalypse
- The X-Men of Earth-295
- Magneto’s pedagogy
- More miscellaneous horsemen
- Weapon X (Logan)
- Cape Citadel, revisited
- The death of the Scarlet Witch
- Disaster Bisexual Gambit
- Wolverine (but not that one)
- Punks who may or may not also be scrimshanders
- Emotionally well-adjusted Quicksilver
- Further miracles of magnetism
- The narrative power of evocation
- Age of Somebody Else
- Jay and Miles of Earth-295
NEXT EPISODE: Summers Family Reunions somehow get even worse.
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As Mentioned in Episode 287 – Welcome to the Age of Apocalypse
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LINKS & FURTHER UNIVERSES:
- Guest X-Pert Logan Bonner DM’d our tabletop X-games in Giant-Size Special #2 and Giant-Size Special #4!
287 – Welcome to the Age of Apocalypse
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In which we enter the Age of Apocalypse!
X-PLAINED:
- One way to solve a problem
- The story so far
- Earth-295
- X-Men: Alpha
- Age of Apocalypse Collector’s Preview
- What makes Age of Apocalypse a surprisingly good jumping-on point to the X-Men
- The story so far
- AoA vs. the Clone Saga
- An Age of Apocalypse that might have been
- AoA vs. Earth Askani
- The X-Men of Earth-295
- Fashion motifs
- A dubious hairstyle
- Facial tattoos
- Wild Child
- Blink (but a different Blink)
- Morph
- Character designs as storytelling
- Baby Charles
- Magic of magnetism
- Dark Beast
- The Prelates Summers
- The Horsemen of Earth-295
- The Bobby Newport of the Age of Apocalypse
- Heaven
- The Human Council
- What’s coming
- Characters we’d like to retroactively import to AoA
- Tabletop X-Men
NEXT EPISODE: Previously on Earth-295…
Special thanks to Logan Bonner for the X-Men roleplaying assist!
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As Mentioned in Episode 286 – Family Before Continuity
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LINKS & FURTHER EVENT HORIZONS:
- Come see us at Emerald City Comic Con! Miles is delightful in person; and Jay, um, exists corporeally.
- Jay wrote an X-Men comic! It’s about Cyclops, and it will be out in April. Please tell your local comics shop to order a lot of copies so that they will let him write more.
- Also, Thor: Metal Gods continues on over at Serial Box!
- We covered the first 3/4 of Legion Quest in Episode 285 – Immediately If Not Sooner…
- …and interviewed Fabian Nicieza about X-Force and a bunch of other stuff in Episode 250 – Minding the DNA!
- New Intersections: Queer Futurism and the Krakoan Body Politic is a really fascinating article.
286 – Family Before Continuity
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In which Sunspot is a bad enough dude to save the president; Black Air is nowhere near as fun as WHO; we reach the end of Fabian Nicieza’s X-Force run; Rictor and Shatterstar talk about feelings; Gambit does not go gently into that good night; Scott and Jean choose family over continuity; Legion Quest comes to a close, along with Earth-616; the heart of Dawn of X is its margins; you should come see us at ECCC; and we announce a new schedule.
X-PLAINED:
- The Maker (Reed Richards of Earth-1610)
- Jay & Miles at ECCC and FlameCon 2020
- Stuff Jay writes
- Excalibur #86
- X-Force #43
- Cable #20
- Black Air
- Pete Wisdom
- What’s been up in Genosha
- The Midnight Runner
- Navigating Kitty Pryde’s age in Excalibur
- A very abrupt ending
- The ongoing evolution of X-Force
- Locus’s new look
- Clubbing with Rictor and Shatterstar
- Legion Quest so far
- Complicated feelings at the end of the world
- A reunion
- Where it all started
- Vague power sets
- Complicated feelings about Dawn of X
- The new podcast schedule
NEXT EPISODE: The Age of Apocalypse
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