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As Mentioned in Episode 462 – Angst and Continuity

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Oh, that can’t be good. (Generation X #55)
Well, shit. (Generation X #55)
Cold, Emma. (Generation X #55)
Ew, but also awesome. (Generation X #56)
FUCK YEAH EMMA FROST (Generation X #56)
Aw. (Generation X #56)
She’s evil, but damn does she have an eye for fashion. (Generation X #56)
Propellor beanie! (Generation X #57)
You really, really can’t. (Generation X #57)
Bobert Drake, straight heterosexual. (Generation X #57)
The queen of the goths! (Generation X #57)
We did not describe Skin’s outfit in the podcast because frankly, words do not do it justice. (Generation X #57)
TBH, this is how most of our school dances ended, too. (Generation X #57)
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462 – Angst and Continuity

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In which the 1990s were very long; if you die in the simulation, you die in real life; Adrienne Frost is a bad person with good clothes; we judge the number 57; things just keep happening; and Penance somehow gets even more complicated.

X-PLAINED:

  • Bevatron
  • Generation X #55-57
  • The Hellions and their untimely demise (again)
  • Uncanny X-Men #281
  • A continuity conundrum
  • Many allusions and references
  • Cognitive dissonance
  • Dancing between the raindrops of continuity
  • Resolution
  • Emma Frost, triumphant
  • Fashion
  • Emplate (more) (again)
  • Propeller beanies
  • Feelings
  • Explosions
  • One way to solve a problem
  • Whether you should read Dazzler: The Movie
  • The worst possible power swaps

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As Mentioned in Episode 460 – Setting Sons

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I really enjoy cover copy like this. (Generation X #52)
Synch is better at your powers than you are. (Generation X #52)
Oh, snap! (Generation X #52)
Wait, if it’s just her skin, shouldn’t we be seeing muscles and stuff under it? (Generation X #52)
What happens when you give image inducers to moppets. (Generation X #52)
TFW you just rescued a mercenary in the woods outside your boarding school, and he’s kinda hot. (Generation X #53)
The Rising Sons. (Generation X #53)
This is one of very few panels in which you can see Paladin’s whole costume. (Generation X #54)
Damn, Adrienne. (Generation X #54)
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460 – Setting Sons

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In which Synch is better with your powers than you are; Generation X gets some actual training; Artie and Leech are fully feral; everyone gets the hots for Paladin; Zeus has probably fucked a motorcycle at some point; many countries have valleys; and Adrienne Frost is terrible.

X-PLAINED:

  • Generation X #52-54
  • Tristan Brawn (more) (again)
  • Grant Morrison on suspension of disbelief in superhero media
  • Honor vs. privilege
  • School dance themes
  • Artie and Leech’s habitat
  • Spider-Ham
  • Ducktor Doom
  • Role models
  • What Gaia is probably definitely up to
  • Paladin
  • The Rising Sons
  • Rollerblades
  • Dragon problems
  • Power emulation vs. reproduction
  • Pokémans
  • Cosplaying Emma Frost with a beard
  • Diamond Patch
  • Muir Island vs. Muir Isle

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As Mentioned in Episode 457 – Stinking at the Moon

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Logan should always be a little funny-lookin’. (X-Men Unlimited #24)
He’s a berserker murder-uncle who can’t remember his past – she’s a grumpy doctor who’d rather be anywhere but here! Together, they’re Logan ‘n’ Cici – Thursdays on NBC! (X-Men Unlimited #24)
Seriously, I’d happily watch them argue about anything. (X-Men Unlimited #24)
Cecilia’s secondary mutation is the rare ability to avoid misunderstanding-based fights by using her words. (X-Men Unlimited #24)
Are you sure you’re not having fun, Dr. Reyes? (X-Men Unlimited #24)
Is he… is he biting the landing gear? (X-Men Unlimited #24)
Cecilia’s tertiary mutation is to not take any of your bullshit. (X-Men Unlimited #24)
Even a typo cannot mar this perfect panel. (X-Men Unlimited #24)
Jeez, Magnus! Put on some underwear over your pants! This is indecent! (X-Men Unlimited #24)
“But if there was, Father, rest assured that I would be an eighteenth-level Ranger.” (X-Men Unlimited #24)
Has he been carrying that plant around just hoping he’d have the chance to work it into a metaphor? (X-Men Unlimited #24)
“Just like I used to separate the people I teleported from their clothes!” (X-Men Unlimited #24)
“Fabian, what have I told you about sitting on my porn throne?” (X-Men Unlimited #24)
Nice to see a 1999 Magneto story remember all the super-nuance of his past. (X-Men Unlimited #24)
Jay’s got a point – how did they get Banshee into that thing? (Generation X #51)
Goodbye, old costumes… (Generation X #51)
…Hello, new costumes! (Generation X #51)
And that was it for Gaia. (Generation X #51)
Skin’s facial expression is the platonic ideal of “YIKES!” (Generation X #51)
I’m actually not sure which villain’s outfit is more surprising. (Generation X #51)
Armor’s powers, five years before Armor! (Generation X #51)
NEXT TIME: Some damned fine X-Force.

457 – Stinking at the Moon

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In which the theme is too many inkers; Cecilia Reyes has no patience for your bullshit; Genosha’s going to be just fine (it’s not); we would watch a supercut of Fabian Cortez getting punched; we bid an abrupt farewell to Gaia; and comics are exhausting, yet captivating.

X-PLAINED:

  • Dazzler’s murder trial
  • X-Men Unlimited #24
  • The past and future of X-Men Unlimited
  • Doctor Cecilia Reyes
  • Ghost Pirate Cap’n Bloodscream
  • Wolverine and friends
  • Pushing your kid out of a plane as a basic first aid skill
  • Banter
  • The Silver Samurai (Keniuchio Harada)
  • Sunfire and the Big Hero Six
  • Projectile-based wordplay
  • Irene Adler, spoiler machine
  • Genosha (again)
  • The Cabinet of Doctor Lensherr
  • Magneto’s panties
  • Stupid metaphors
  • Football stars and their football cars
  • Magneto’s nuanced and baby-filled past
  • Generation X #51
  • Hunter & Tristan Brawn
  • Helicopter grandparents
  • Artie & Leech, perpetual moppets
  • Emma Frost, forever traumatized
  • Generation X’s new costumes
  • Gaia as the Bird Boy of Generation X
  • Peach Momoko’s Ultimate Armor
  • Sauron and the Lizard’s agendas and fashion
  • Comic book collecting preferences

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As Mentioned in Episode 447 – Minor Altercation of the Mutants

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Welcome to the New Massachusetts Academy! (Generation X #50)
When brains collide. (Generation X #50)
The dean of students of our college used to jog naked, so, y’know, to each their own. (Generation X #50)
How, exactly, do Skin’s powers work? (Generation X #50)
Hi, Membrain. (Generation X #50)
“At least you’ll look awesome.” (Generation X #50)
Elephants: notoriously stretchy. (Generation X #50)
He may be a villain, but he’s a polite villain. (Generation X #50)
Uncle Ernest. (Generation X #50)
He’s wearing so many more shirts than usual. (Generation X #50)
Bad times for Emma. (X-Man #50)
Well, that’s not good. (X-Man #50)
The new, rather silly Gene Nation. (X-Man #50)
SERIOUSLY, HOW DO SKIN’S POWERS WORK (X-Man #50)
NEXT EPISODE: X-Force vs. the New Hellions!

447 – Minor Altercation of the Mutants

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In which everything is an event these days; Skin may or may not have a skeleton; everyone has a crush on Synch; we are intrigued by Integer; and it’s hard to be Emma Frost.

X-PLAINED:

  • War of the Mutants
  • Generation X #50
  • X-Man #50
  • Nate Grey (again)
  • Adrienne Frost
  • Science
  • Dark Beast (again)
  • Gene Nation
  • Vessel
  • Hemingway
  • Membrain
  • Fever Pitch
  • Dark Opsidian
  • Iron Maiden
  • Wynter
  • Tattoos
  • More science
  • Integer
  • Trauma
  • Multiversal designations
  • The Morlock Tunnels

NEXT EPISODE: X-Force vs the New Hellions

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As Mentioned in Episode 441 – Dracu-tastic

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Sadly, not a sequel to Banshee’s Angels. (Generation X #48)
I mean, once or twice for most of them, but that’s considered pretty healthy by X-standards. (Generation X #48)
DO NOT TRUST THAT MAN JONO (Generation X #48)
I wish I could have all my arguments while fighting Asgardian trolls. (Generation X #48)
I feel like a lot of women end up making that face at Chamber. (Generation X #48)
Fair point, Gaia, albeit one that raises a number of questions… as do all your points. (Generation X #48)
Husk’s breakup haircut, meet Maggott’s cartoon hearts. (Generation X #49)
Constantine Francis Slaughter IV, level 60 Dwarven Hunter. (Generation X #49)
It’s probably good for Iceman’s self esteem that he never really hung out with Chamber. (Generation X #49)
Emma Frost x-plains Emma Frost. (Generation X #49)
Over the next 26 issues, Adrienne Frost will proceed to ruin absolutely everything. (Generation X #49)
Better or worse than syncing with Glob Herman? (Generation X #49)
Jay cannot even with this face. (Generation X / Dracula Annual 1998)
This issue – the highly collectible first appearance of Jubilee’s bunny slippers! (Generation X / Dracula Annual 1998)
Such good horror movie staging. (Generation X / Dracula Annual 1998)
Look at these awesome weirdos. (Generation X / Dracula Annual 1998)
“BAT!” (Generation X / Dracula Annual 1998)
“It’s the Scary Vampire, Charlie Brown!” (Generation X / Dracula Annual 1998)
And then Dracula’s ghoul gave Chamber the D. (Generation X / Dracula Annual 1998)
Jubilee versus fonts. (Generation X / Dracula Annual 1998)
We’ve all been there, kid. (Generation X / Dracula Annual 1998)
Chamber’s Kirby krackle! Dracula’s impossibly long bloody claws! Husk’s deathly pallor! (Generation X / Dracula Annual 1998)
Man, no one’s powers ever look as cool as when Synch uses them. (Generation X / Dracula Annual 1998)
A for effort, though. (Generation X / Dracula Annual 1998)
NEXT TIME: Victor Von Doom X-Plains the X-Men.

LINKS AND FURTHER READING

  • We talked about Dracula here and here!
  • Wet Leg probably met Dracula too.

441 – Dracu-tastic

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In which Banshee should eat the rich; the real Monet is way more of a jerk than the fake one; the Marvel Universe is the world inside your brain-case; Maggott joins and quits Generation X at almost the speed of Sunfire; Dracula gives Chamber the D; and if Jay and Miles die in this episode, they die in real life.

X-PLAINED:

  • Dracula as a universal standard
  • Earth-441
  • Generation X #48-49
  • The missed potential of 13,000-year-old teenager Gaia
  • The Jay Faerber run of Generation X
  • Emma and Banshee’s forgotten X-friendship
  • That time that Moira ripped off Banshee’s skin and wore it like a Halloween costume (again)
  • Cordelia Frost, Emma’s younger sister
  • Adrienne Frost, Emma’s older sister
  • Interpersonal arguments by way of Asgardian combat scenarios
  • Jubilee, fox; versus M, scorpion
  • Alaska, moping capital of the Marvel Universe
  • Clever scene transitions
  • Constantine Francis Slaughter IV and his mustache
  • Puberty as body horror
  • Husk’s breakup haircut
  • Slug emulation
  • Generation X / Dracula Annual 1998
  • The Council of Cross-Time Draculas
  • Chamber’s goofy face
  • Vampire fonts
  • Jubilee’s bunny slippers
  • Charlie Brown in Snow Valley
  • Count von Count (again)
  • Monsters as class metaphor
  • What would happen if Synch synced with Legion
  • Who would pronounce Cable like Britta Perry pronounces bagel

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