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397 – Mürdr at IKEA
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In which Al Kennedy and Miles enter a somewhat post-OZT world, the art of Frank Teran (whose uncle built a jetpack) elevates an otherwise merely decent story, Puck is played by Bob Hoskins, Wild Child gets a chance to shine, Mystique and Forge are sitting in a tree, and Swamp Thing is amazing.
X-PLAINED:
- Spider-Man’s head cold
- Sabretooth: Back to Nature #1
- Sabretooth (Victor Creed)
- Wild Child (Kyle Gibney)
- Horrible violence, expertly implied
- The ubiquity of sewers
- Saturday morning cartoons of R-rated movies
- Serial killers with G.I. Joe names
- Improbable tracking
- Bilingual crime
- Chekhov’s waterfall
- DRUGS
- X-Factor #136-137
- The Hound program
- Skeumorphism
- Doctor Valerie Cooper and Major Edmond Atkinson, excellent exes
- Questionable wound-dressing
- Holograms
- Government jobs
- The sad fate of the Chase family
- Nimrod disambiguation
- The Marvel Universe According to Doctor Seuss
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As Mentioned in Episode 381 – If We Told You, We’d Have to Kill You
381 – If We Told You, We’d Have to Kill You
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In which real life sucks; Havok may or may not be a bad enough dude to rescue mutantkind; X-Factor quits; CD-ROMs were never THAT cool; subtlety is for suckers; Val Cooper hates nothing more than she hates the U.S. government; and Jamie Madrox wants nothing to do with your nonsense.
X-PLAINED:
- One way to end a wedding
- X-Factor #130-133
- Malice (again)
- A thumb (and the biting thereof)
- Barnes (and her hair)
- The relative versatility of plasma
- The Brotherhood
- A ruse and/or retcon
- Lighting design
- A CD-ROM
- The time Jay wrote some Captain America comics
- The last time you’re gonna see these
- Trevor Chase (more)
- One thing that might’ve inspired Jamie Madrox’s heel turn
- The nature of Jamie Madrox’s relative mortality
- Brand names
- Many faked deaths
- Agent Bowser
- A very fancy haunted house
- X-Factor’s true calling
- The X.S.E. (again)
- Mutant shifts in adaptations
- ‘Nuff said
NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur vs. Crimson Dawn!
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As Mentioned in Episode 373 – Tainted Loins
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FURTHER READING
- Miles talked about how to follow Krakoa’s year two X-books into year three:
- Bridge miniseries:
- Planet-Size X-Men 1-shot
- Inferno
- X Lives of Wolverine
- X Deaths of Wolverine
- Year two books that don’t continue into year three:
- Cable (got a wrap-up 1-shot called Cable Reloaded)
- Children of the Atom
- Hellions
- X-Corp
- X-Factor
- Books that have kept their year two numbering:
- New Mutants
- Wolverine
- X-Force
- X-Men Unlimited (on Marvel Unlimited)
- Books that relaunched with a new #1 and new creators:
- Marauders
- X-Men
- Books that relaunched with a new title:
- Excalibur -> Knights of X
- SWORD -> X-Men: Red
- Way of X -> X-Men: the Onslaught Revelation -> Legion of X
- One book is brand new:
- Immortal X-Men
- Also, don’t miss the Secret X-Men 1-shot toward the end of year two!
- Bridge miniseries:
373 – Tainted Loins
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In which the Drake Roberts identity is retired; Gambit bonds with William Drake; Graydon Creed is evil but nondescript; tales of Pyro’s death have been somewhat exaggerated; and some mysteries resolve better than others.
X-PLAINED:
- Damian Tryp
- X-Factor (more) (again)
- Uncanny X-Men #340
- X-Factor #128-30
- More Drake family dynamics
- The Sword of Shannara
- The general vagueness of Graydon Creed
- Several ninjas
- Hound stuff
- Val Cooper’s pajamas
- An unexpected return
- Shapeshifting
- Overextended plotlines
- Some unusually threatening dad jokes
- The anticlimactic death of Graydon Creed
- Some time travel bullshit
- Which series are ending and which are relaunching between Reign of X and Destiny of X
- How and when Colossus stopped being the Juggernaut
NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk
NEXT EPISODE: The Adventures of Carl & Frank
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As Mentioned in Episode 370 – The Sound of Evil
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- More from Max Carleton:
370 – The Sound of Evil (feat. Max Carleton)
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In which Max Carleton and Miles take a trip back to the Silver Age, the origins of Marvel Girl’s telepathy are questionable, the nature of Polaris’s parentage is also questionable, and the quality of Sauron’s origin story shall never be questioned.
X-PLAINED:
- The Locust (Dr. August Hopper)
- Uncanny X-Men #46, 52, and 60
- Genuine tragedy
- Funereal fashion
- Frederick “Amos” Duncan
- The Juggernaut (Cain Marko) (again)
- The Crimson Cosmos
- Energy globules
- Charles Xavier’s telepathy lending library
- Jean Grey, spiteful seamstress
- Erik the Red (the first one) (Scott Summers)
- Lorna Dane, fashion icon
- Filially-obligated villainy
- Psychic-delia
- The sadly short-lived Roy Thomas / Neal Adams run
- Suspension of disbelief
- Pteranodons
- Sauron (Karl Lykos, fantasy nerd)
- Alex Summers, perpetual captive and/or villain battery
- Miles’s favorite two-page spread
- How to choose the perfect supervillain name
- X-Men: The Animated Series, 1960s Edition
- Our Silver Age X-creator wish list
- Magnetism
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As Mentioned in Episode 353 – Scientists and Superheroes
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LINKS & FURTHER SPINOFFS
- I’m pretty sure we’ve linked to Robert Cop before, but just in case, here you go.
353 – Scientists and Superheroes
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In which Dark Beast is an unlikely father figure; Wild Child remains low-budget Wolverine; X-Factor foreshadows the XSE; no one else thwarts Richardses on Doom’s watch; the cow goes “hate”; and Juggernaut fails to grow as a person.
X-PLAINED:
- The Red Ghost
- Onslaught thus far
- X-Factor #126
- Fantastic Four #416
- X-Men Unlimited #12
- Random’s origins (kind of)
- Pinochle
- Kristoff Vernard
- Several villains
- Juggernaut’s adventures in the Gem of Cyttorak
- Gomurr the Ancient (again)
- Spite
- Unreliable narrators
- The evolution of Cyttorak
- Wolverine’s hair
- X-arcs we’d like to see as video games
NEXT EPISODE: To nobody’s surprise, Onslaught.
CORRECTION: Kristoff Vernard is not in fact a clone of Doctor Doom.
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