Tag: Lucas Bishop
321 – Revolving Doors
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In which Sabretooth does not get effectively rehabilitated; nobody has the moral high ground; Val Cooper is the worst possible person to call in any emergency; Bishop needs a better support system; Jay knows several things about onions; and not everything has to be a mammal.
X-PLAINED:
- Sabretooth (more) (again)
- X-Force #48
- Uncanny X-Men #328
- Sabretooth Special #1
- Bunny slippers
- An intervention
- Stages of grief
- What not to do with Sabretooth
- An evil squirrel
- Onions
- The three genders
- Mutant Massacre callbacks
- Caption disambiguation problems
- The overabundance of boobs on fictional non-mammalian species
NEXT EPISODE: INTO THE CLONE ZONE!
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As Mentioned in Episode 317 – Acquaintances of Humanity
317 – Acquaintances of Humanity
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In which Nicholas Cage is more of a concept than a human being; Rogue’s angst-fueled road trip continues; Gambit and Sinister have complementary aesthetics; there are a lot of Guthries; the Trasks are never up to any good; and whether or not it is canon, Ghost Rider has definitely teamed up with Johnny Cash.
X-PLAINED:
- Ghost Rider (film)
- Nicholas Cage
- Rogue and Gambit
- X-Men #45
- Uncanny X-Men #326
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 1995
- A gratuitous gatefold
- Alliteration vs. consonance
- Osmium
- Fancy captions
- Aesthetics
- Shorts
- Gambit vs. Sabretooth
- Questionable medical policy
- AIDS and the Legacy Virus, revisited
- Humanity’s Last Stand
- Guthries
- Preacher
- The evolution of killer robots
- Superhero-musician team-ups
- Otherworld vs. the M’Kraan crystal
NEXT EPISODE: THE LEPRECHAUNS RETURN
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As Mentioned in Episode 306 – Between Here and There
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LINKS & FURTHER ATROCITIES:
- Check out Episode 203 – The X-Man’s Burden for more on the apparent death of the Morlocks!
- WHOA, DANG! Jay wrote an official X-Men comic, which comes out on September 16!
306 – Between Here and There
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In which we continue our ongoing tour of the post-Age of Apocalypse X-Universe; Onslaught gets a name; nobody’s sure what Noah Dubois is doing there; Iceman gets to be the practical one, for once; T&A should not generally appear on the same visual plane; someone needs to talk to Cannonball about kink safety; and Emma Frost lets a call go to voicemail.
X-PLAINED:
- Tarzan fandom
- X-Man, summarized
- Uncanny X-Men #322-324
- Color as a narrative tool
- The evolution of Storm’s shower etiquette
- How not to relax with Lucas Bishop
- Seat-of-the-pants plotting
- Parenting
- Noah Dubois, sort of
- A road trip
- Sexiness vs. sexualization
- Emma Frost as Caprica Six
- How not to walk a supervillain
- Cannonball’s uniform
- Sack
- Vessel
- Greycrow (more) (again)
- The worst morgue and/or disco ever
- Edna and Norton McCoy
- Times Rogue has absorbed Colossus’s powers
- X-Men: Marvels Snapshot
NEXT EPISODE: Generation X
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As Mentioned in Episode 300 – Götterdämmerung
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LINKS & FURTHER EPICS:
- Janet K. Lee makes really, really gorgeous comics and other art.
- A lot of the episodes we mentioned are in the roundup from our 5th anniversary episode.
- You can hear more about Jay’s chickens-in-law in Hawk Talk: Florida Mans
300 – Götterdämmerung
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In which the Age of Apocalypse comes to an end; Angel briefly lives up to his potential; Bishop was sometimes right; It’s not a climactic ending without an X-Men #137 reference; Colossus breaks our hearts; X-Men: Marvels Snapshot will be out in September; and somehow we have made 300 of these things.
X-PLAINED:
- Beast vs. Dark Beast
- X-Men: Omega
- The entirety of the (first) Age of Apocalypse
- Potpourri vs. incense
- Dramatic hair
- Many, many errors
- Unforeseen consequences
- A long-anticipated team-up
- Many deaths
- Art as artifact
- Narration that has haunted Jay for 20 years
- One of the more persistent deaths of David Haller
- Blast Attack
- The end of a world
- Refugees from the Age of Apocalypse
- Our favorite X-milestone issues
- Theoretical teams
- Orphans
- When X-Men: Marvels Snapshot is actually coming out
- Our favorite show bits
- How Jay’s chickens-in-law are doing
NEXT EPISODE: X-Men Prime
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As Mentioned in Episode 296 – Hard Choices
296 – Hard Choices
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In which Magneto doesn’t really do work/live divide; Amazing X-Men is a bit of a misnomer; Exodus is the lawful evil to Fabian Cortez’s chaotic evil; smoking is bad for you; moisture molecular inversion is fairly definitely not a real thing; Earth-295 Quicksilver and Earth-616 Cyclops would probably get along; OSHA would probably like a word with the Madrii; Gambit had ONE JOB; and there are no superheroes in the Age of Apocalypse.
X-PLAINED:
- An unlikely team-up
- Relative amazingness
- Amazing X-Men #1-5
- Color separations
- Comics credits
- The Brotherhood of Mutants and/or Chaos
- The Great Human Airlift
- Exodus (more) (again)
- Best Quicksilver (Earth-295)
- Abyss
- A dubiously aerodynamic cape
- One last job
- Several points of semantic distinction
- Lone Nanny & Cub
- The most punchable man on Earth-295
- A difficult choice
- What it means to be X-Men
- Dick Valentine
- Jamie Madrox (Earth-295)
- A world without superheroes
- Universe numbering
NEXT EPISODE: X-Man!
CORRECTION: The line about fence-straddling that Jay attributed to Wonder Woman was in fact spoken by Hawkgirl.
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