Tag: kurt wagner
146 – Asshole Factor (feat. Elisabeth Allie)
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In which Elisabeth plans for her reign as Omniversal Majestrix; Hulks and moons are two great tastes that go great together; Nightcrawler takes the lead; Alastair gets a new gadget; it’s just not a cosmic event without Alan Davis; Mastermind is still the absolute worst; Excalibur fixes problems by playing dress-up; Moira MacTaggert desperately needs to hire some staff; and Jamie Braddock is legitimately terrifying.
X-PLAINED:
- M’gubgub
- Nth Man
- Excalibur #25-27
- Nova (Frankie Raye)
- The continually poor decisions of Brian Braddock
- A convergence of cosmic forces
- Lumberjack Death
- Character growth both literal and metaphorical
- A cosmic snit
- Asshole Factor
- A villainous ruse
- Several rounds of reality warping
- Definitive incarnations of characters
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As Mentioned in Episode 143 – Seduction of the Innocent
143 – Seduction of the Innocent
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In which the Cross-Time Caper has finally outstayed its welcome; we bid a reluctant farewell to Alan Davis; Inferno may or may not finally actually be over; Evil Doug Ramsey rocks our socks; the Shadow King is not a particularly nuanced villain; Kitty Pryde celebrates a birthday; and Courtney Ross represents an awful lot of dangling plot threads.
X-PLAINED:
- Nocturne
- Excalibur #21-24
- The end of the Cross-Time Caper
- Post-Alan Davis Excalibur
- Chris Wozniak
- Crusader X
- Earth-2122
- How to track Excalibur
- Phoenix-related telepathic idiosyncracies
- Our general indifference to the Shadow King
- An alternate history of Earth-811
- Earth-23238
- An extended Judge Dredd riff
- Puberty
- Another John Byrne cameo
- Several variations on Courtney Ross
- Kitty Pryde’s 15th birthday
- Nightcrawler’s beard
- The Siege Courageous
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As Mentioned in Episode 136 – Fill-In Frenzy!
136 – Fill-In Frenzy
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In which we find the idea of Jack Kirby as G-d deeply comforting; “Jercules” is our new favorite insult; the difference between camp and divinity is good backlighting; Zeus does not have the moral high ground; Ron Lim’s Captain Britain is the definitive cad; the Demon Druid is the saddest supervillain; Archangel broods like it’s his day job; and Jay gets to do all the fun voices for once.
X-PLAINED:
- The Upstarts
- An inflatable Batman
- New Mutants #81
- Excalibur #20
- X-Factor #47
- Our favorite Magma story
- The best insult
- Pugilistic impunity
- A context-inappropriate oath
- The worst film festival
- Fighting fire with Magma
- The Demon Druid
- A Satanic pirate tavern
- Reactorhenge
- The depths of fuchsia
- Archangel’s deeply weird comfort mechanisms
- Some dude named Greg
- Publishing delays
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As Mentioned in Episode 135 – Kurt Wagner, Warlord of Mars
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LINKS & FURTHER READING
- If you haven’t already read “Kitty Queer,” by Sigrid Ellis, you should go do that right now, because it’s excellent.
135 – Kurt Wagner, Warlord of Mars (Cross-Time Caper, Part 2)
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In which the Cross-Time Caper continues; alliteration is awesome; someone else’s geopolitical conflict is not an appropriate place to play out your pirate fantasies; we are definitely not actually going to eat Alan Davis’s brains; Jamie Braddock is Evil Rex Racer; Widget eats a car; Rick Leonardi is the definitive fill-in artist; the problem is patriarchy; and everything’s sticky in Madripoor.
X-PLAINED:
- X-Manga
- Excalibur #16-19
- Crosstime
- A John Carter riff
- A mysterious and dubiously reliable narrator
- A terrible pick-up line
- Kymri
- Anjulie
- Gender-neutral fantasy armor
- Implicit fellatio in several media
- Space Fred Savage
- An alternate Jean Grey (and her untimely demise)
- Tullamore Voge
- A grand tourney
- A deeply disappointing pastiche
- ORZ-1
- Dirty Pair (and a sustained riff thereon)
- What makes a train sexy
- Wolverine’s table manners
- Jim Jaspers vs. Jamie Braddock vs. Jamie Jeffers
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As Mentioned in Episode 134 – Live at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival
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Here are the lyrics to all thirty-nine verses of Dear Mister Sinister (you’ll have to hit Tea or Scott up for the chords):
Dear Mister Sinister
My name is Alex; I’ve
Got a school project
I hope you can help with
My teacher said we have to
Map out our families
Parents and grandparents
Brothers and sisters
She gave us poster board
She gave us markers, but
I’m having trouble with
Several specifics
You see, I’m adopted
But I’ve got a brother
We used to have parents
We don’t anymore
Dad’s name was Christopher
Mom’s name was Katherine
Dad’s mom and dad were named
Philip and Deborah
That part is easy, the
Trouble’s my brother, see
His name is Scott and he’s
Kind of a pain
But that’s not the problem, the
Problem is Maddy and
Nathan and Rachel and
Also some time travel
Maddy is Scott’s ex, and
Nathan’s their son, he
Grew up in the future
And Scott and Jean raised him
Jean is another ex
Maddy’s her clone, but
Jean’s also the Phoenix
Except so is Rachel
Rachel’s Scott’s kid
(with Jean not with Maddy)
She’s Mother Askani
Or she will be someday
(‘Cept Scott’s not her father
At least, not my brother
Because she was born in
An alternate timeline
That said, her parentage
Is somewhat hazy; it
Involves the Phoenix and
Parthenogenesis)
Rachel cloned Nathan in
Case of emergency
That clone is Stryfe; he
Was raised by Apocalypse
Nathan’s got Hope
Who is also adopted
(She isn’t a clone, though
Her last name was Spalding)
His son was named Tyler
But Wolverine killed him
And then we all kind of
Forgot he’d existed
But that’s Nathan Summers
Nate Grey’s someone different
He’s kind of like Rachel, but
From a worse timeline
Nate is a clone or grew
Up in a test tube; And
You might have raised him (Well,
Not you, exactly)
And now Scott’s with Emma
And Ruby’s their daughter, at
Least in one future where
Scott is a cyborg
They also have kids from
A different timeline; a
daughter named Meagan
With twin baby sisters
I married Jan in an
Alternate future and
We had a daughter but
Kang started meddling
Our daughter’s named Katie
Or will be or was, and
Her timeline is gone and
It’s kind of an issue
Did I forget Hepzibah?
She’s Dad’s new girlfriend, ’cause
Dad’s alive after all
And he’s a space pirate
Speaking of space stuff, I
Should mention Gabriel
My younger brother, at
Least ’til I killed him
He was born after mom died
And aged artificially
He married Deathbird and
Then he killed Dad again
Deathbird was pregnant
The Kree got involved and now;
No one is certain if
She’s given birth yet
Oh! And I should tell you
That I am some sort of
Multiversal nexus
Which complicates matters
See, there’s also Scotty
(My son, not my brother)
Well, not mine exactly
A parallel Alex’s
And that Alex married
a Madelyne Pryor
Who in this dimension
Is Scott’s ex-wife Maddy
(I mean Scott, my brother,
Of whom there are two now
And one is sixteen it’s
Incredibly awkward)
I’m also supposed
To trace my name’s history
That’s also a problem, see,
‘Cause there’s a time loop
‘Cause once Scott went back to
The late Nineteenth Century
To thwart a villain
Or something like that
And he saved a guy who
I think was your prisoner
His surname name was Edge, but
He changed it to Summers
He came to the States and he’s
My twice-great granddad, which
All seems a bit too
Complex for a poster
That’s why I am writing; see,
Your machinations are
Largely at fault for the
Mess that I’m in
I used to blame Scott but
It’s really not his fault
You’re clearly the one
Who was pulling the strings
Out of some weird obsession
With all our genetics
(Well, less so with mine, but
It’s still pretty creepy)
I mean, you cloned Scott’s girlfriend
And kidnapped my nephew
The least you can do is
Help me diagram this
Yours very sincerely,
Alex “Havok” Summers
(Scott’s younger brother)
(In case you’d forgotten)
Dear Mister Sinister
My name is Alex; I’ve
Got a school project
I hope you can help with
134 – Live at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival (feat. Scott Koblish)
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In which Deadpool and X-Men ’92 artist Scott Koblish joins us to present the Summers Family Tree as you’ve never experienced it before; the X-Men go to Dante’s Hell; Dr. Strange gets his Virgil on; Wolverine sniffs snakes; Iceman has probably killed a lot of people; and X-Men fans have remained remarkably consistent over the years.
X-PLAINED
- The Summers family
- Birthdays at the Xavier mansion
- A package as sinister as it is stylish
- Uncanny X-Men King-Size Annual #4
- One version of Hell
- A demon who is also a sorting hat
- Another X-Men crossover conspiracy theory
- The X-Men’s religious affiliations and lack thereof
- Nuance of self-narration
- Snakes with arms, and the vocalizations thereof
- Dangers of encasing people in ice
- The death of Stefan Szardos
- An overly complex revenge plot
- The origin of that one angry mob from Giant-Size X-Men #1
- Kinda-incest
- Reader responses to the Dark Phoenix Saga
- X-Men vs. board games
- The appeal of the Outback X-Men
- Artist-character associations
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DEAR MISTER SINISTER lyrics by Jay Edidin & music by Tea Fougner. Performed by Scott Koblish.
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