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421 – Dudleyworld or Bust
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In which one letter can make a big difference; it’s just not Arcade without giant pinballs; Colossus is nobody’s fool; Margali Szardos is not a relative you want to stay in touch with; Nightcrawler turns to the jerk side; and Jay and Miles pitch an X-Men kids’ show.
X-PLAINED:
- Elisabeth Wilford vs. Elizabeth Wilford
- Colossus #1
- X-Men Unlimited #19
- How to name a miniseries or one-shot
- The destructive potential of happiness
- A clock
- An inaccurate duplicate of Avalon
- The return of the Proletarian
- Costumes with characters’ faces on them
- Death by irony
- A journey to Limbo
- Several blasts from the past
- Margali Szardos’s head
- Foreshadowing that we desperately wish had panned out
- Cold open curation
- A hypothetical X-Men show for five-year-olds
NEXT EPISODE: The secret origin of Maggott
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420 – The Legendary House of Wolverine, feat. Christopher Michael Roman
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In which Jay sits down with scholar Christopher Michael Roman to discuss his recent book, Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction: A Fastball Special; alongside queer theory, porous bodies, and nontraditional mentorship.
CONTENT NOTE: This episode includes graphic discussions of physical trauma as well as consensual if weird fictional sex.
NEXT EPISODE: Colossus and Meggan finally go to Dudleyworld, sort of!
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As Mentioned in Episode 416 – The Screaming Room
416 – The Screaming Room
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In which we are incapable of X-Plaining the Great Lakes Avengers; Pete Wisdom evolves; Douglock hacks the island; Nightcrawler cosplays Nightcrawler; and we find ourselves bafflingly defensive of the Bamfs.
X-PLAINED:
- How to recruit Unus the Untouchable to your super-team
- What Excalibur has been up to
- Excalibur #118-120
- An excellent use of danger room technology
- Some fairly deft metacommentary
- Colossus vs. another tree
- Bamfs and the character assassination thereof
- Nightmare
- Characterization via lettering
- Several nightmare scenarios
- Pete Wisdom vs. Nightmare
- Meggan’s true form (again)
- A poorly conceived romantic gesture
- Foreshadowing
- Relative Bamf quality
- Other Marvel villains we’d like to see menace the X-Men
- Our thoughts on Legion and The Gifted
NEXT EPISODE: A pterodactyl with a gun!
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As Mentioned in Episode 405 – Morally Purple
405 – Morally Purple
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In which Jay returns; babies are bad at pretty much everything; continuity flies straight out the window; Cable should speak English with a Scottish accent; Harry Leland knows how to dress; Tanya Trask makes the same time travel mistake everyone makes; and we love Al Kennedy forever.
X-PLAINED:
- Sentry (but not that one)
- Babies
- Flashback
- Cable #-1
- Excalibur #-1
- Generation X #-1
- Uncanny X-Men #-1
- The preturn of Angus McWhirter, angry hovercraft-rental guy
- Hippie Cable
- Veins of science
- Yet another time travel loop
- What may or may not be how Nightcrawler quit the circus
- Sabu
- “Science”
- A large volume of dubious continuity
- Larry Trask (more) (again)
- Jay’s cosplay aspirations
- Sanctity (Tanya Trask)
- The Twelve (somewhat)
- A possible splinter timeline
- The X-Men of 1602
- Rube Goldberg
NEXT EPISODE: Flashback continues!
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As Mentioned in Episode 402 – What the Damn?!
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402 – What the Damn?!
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In which Marvel UK was a wild ride; everyone has a definitive Kitty Pryde; Sari St. Hubbins studies her X-Men; Moira MacTaggert discovers contagion theory; ideas do not stories make; Meggan is the heart of the team; and Excalibur inches towards its finale.
- Marvel UK
- Digitek
- Excalibur #114-117
- What Excalibur’s been up to
- Tunnels vs. sewers
- An unexpected callback
- Slang
- The mutability of Kitty Pryde
- Friendship
- Sari St. Hubbins
- Fashion
- One way to get around a power inhibitor
- A frosted tips outline
- Viruses
- Phalanx love
- Greebling
- A substantial retcon
- Excalibur vs. the Sidri
- Marvel characters’ musical associations
- Whether there have been more X-Men or Avengers
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As Mentioned in Episode 387 – You’ve Got Vid-Mail
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