Tag: Limbo
484 – Hell Tuba
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In which the 2000 Magik miniseries is not a good comics series but is an excellent heavy metal concept album; Nightmare has a nightmare; and tubas work differently in Hell.
X-PLAINED:
- Belasco: the early years
- Magik (2000 series) #1-4
- Magik (Amanda Sefton) (Jimaine Szardos) (more) (again)
- Some art stuff
- The realm of Nightmare
- The Splinter Realms
- The Soul Sword (Amanda Sefton version)
- An Archfiend of the Pit
- Nugent
- Chekhov’s Hell computer (and its secretions)
- Kurt Wagner’s short and bizarre career in the church
- Vitchen
- Several cool demon battles
- The Dread Dormammu
- Gleeg
- A problem
- Muspelheim
- Twilight (sword)
- Some Mephisto nonsense
- Hades, maybe
- Epithets
- A convocation
- Weird Hell guys
- Duke Bleys
- The Archenemy
- The Hell Tuba
- The most demonic brass instrument
- Some time travel bullshit
- Stories where Emma Frost is at her best
- Villain reuse
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As Mentioned in Episode 483 – Piotr Lovely Locks
483 – Piotr Lovely Locks
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In which a lot has happened in the Six Month Gap (and we even get to learn about some of it); we’d missed Claremontian narration; Miles has questions about Colossus’s ponytail; the Soulsword is basically a Poké Ball; the Shadow Pope is cooler than the regular Pope; and Magik has a secret.
X-PLAINED:
- Some big news
- X-Men: Black Sun #1-5
- Phoenix and Psylocke’s sorta-power-swap
- Implied continuity
- The N’Garai
- Belasco
- Limbo
- Magik (Illyana Rasputin)
- New costumes
- Priests vs blood magic
- An impressively overcomplicated evil plot
- Chekhov’s skeleton
- Body swaps and/or possession
- Thunderbird (Neal Sharra)
- Pilgrimm and the Ru’tai (again, surprisingly)
- Astral meetups
- Confusing bloodstone math
- A Triple-Tech
- Magik (Amanda Sefton)
- Counting X-generations
- Our favorite X-decades
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As Mentioned in Episode 421 – Dudleyworld or Bust
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
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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
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359 – Meanwhile in Britain
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In which Excalibur has a lot going on; Margali Szardos is never up to any good; Nightcrawler grows into leadership; we delve into the politics of superheroism; Pete Wisdom earns his keep; Miles catches a Prisoner reference; and we reach the end of Warren Ellis’ Excalibur.
X-PLAINED:
- John the Skrull
- Excalibur #100-103
- The current state of Excalibur
- Black Air (again)
- The Hellfire Club (London Branch)
- Australia
- Margali Szardos (more)
- Demonic ethernet
- Captain Britain’s new-old suit
- Emma Steed
- Dune
- Several fights
- Combat IT
- Boolean definitions of madness
- The Department
- Laserdisks
- Patriotism
- Many doppelgangers
- Nightcreeper
- Another reference to Dante’s Inferno
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