Tag: Nathaniel Essex
266 – They’re Good Dogs, Miles
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In which Havok goes surfing; Malice eats a poodle; Strong Guy’s ex is a big jerk; Sinister’s gotta Sinister; and Miles learns about a meme.
X-PLAINED:
- The Puppet Master
- X-Factor #103-105
- Comparative Summers brooding
- Perks of being a mutant geologist and/or geophysicist
- Malice and Polaris’s complicated history
- A somewhat convoluted plan
- Several reasons to go to Rhinebeck, NY
- Friendship
- The extended Carosella family
- Candy stripers
- Mary, who is a big jerk
- A Sinister entrance
- The Nasty Boys (more) (again)
- Karate pants
- 14-year-old Chris Gethard’s feelings about Jamie Madrox
- Ionic vampirism
- Misguided vengeance
- Pushing back against whitewashing in comics
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As Mentioned in Episode 248 – Destructo Woman
248 – Destructo Woman
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In which Tom Cassidy and Cain Marko may be the most stable couple in the Marvel Universe; Rory Campbell is no Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau; Siena Blaze remains a big jerk; the Cassidy family has some issues; and we are dismayed by an inexplicable dearth of leprechauns.
X-PLAINED:
- Birthday presents
- What Excalibur has been up to
- Excalibur #72-74
- X-Force #31
- How to be mysterious
- The Proteus Room
- The continually terrible choices of Moira MacTaggert
- Porridge ghosts
- An unnatural disaster
- Chekhov’s solid rock
- Rory Campbell
- Destructo Woman
- Limitations of CD-ROMs
- Siryn (Theresa Cassidy)
- The Cassidy family
- How not to treat a gunshot wound
- Kelvin Donaghann and his fancy hair
- An intervention
- The future of the New Mutants feature film
- Underwear
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As Mentioned in Episode 246 – Foreshadow Puppets
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LINKS & FURTHER CONSUMABLES:
- Mandy may be the quintessential Nic Cage movie.
- We first washed up on the shores of Octopusheim in Episode 19 – Acorns & Swords!
246 – Foreshadow Puppets
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In which Danielle Moonstar is not a master of disguise; the MLF are bad enough dudes to kidnap a guy who works near the president; Tempo wasn’t even supposed to be here today; Reignfire is no Magneto; we now desperately want X-Force matryoshka dolls; Feral quits the team; Henry Peter Gyrich fails to learn from experience (or anything else); small children are bad at everything; Shatterstar gets a tagline; Sam Guthrie REALLY needs a vacation; and it’s surprisingly difficult to choose a favorite resurrection.
X-PLAINED:
- Cortex
- The kinder, gentler Cable
- Several matters related to Nicholas Cage
- X-Force #27-30
- Broome jaws
- The Area jar
- The Mutant Liberation Front
- Reignfire (again)
- Hardaway
- A cyborg asshole
- Locus
- Moonstar
- “Of Faith and Fable”
- Foreshadow puppets
- Bobby da Costa’s greatest fear
- Dad jokes with Cable
- X-Force’s day off
- Shatterstar vs. Adam X the X-Treme
- Windsong
- An inevitable team-up
- A Very Special Episode moment
- The return of Wine Mom Domino
- The return of Jean Grey’s telepathy
- Our favorite resurrections
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As Mentioned in Episode 222 – A Tale of Two Betsys
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LINKS & FURTHER SORROWS
- Listen to our discussion of Psylocke’s original transformation–featuring author Sarah Kuhn–in Episode 137 – Kicky Kinko Killers.
- Marvel’s current EiC has a particularly ugly history when it comes to appropriation of Japanese culture and identities.
222 – A Tale of Two Betsys
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In which it has been a pretty intense month; there is a lot to unpack about Psylocke; we are confused by hip teen lingo; Cyclops definitively lacks game; organized crime is anything but; and the mystery of the third Summers brother officially begins.
X-PLAINED:
- How the Maximoffs joined the Avengers
- X-Cutioner’s Song fallout
- An X-ceptionally convoluted set of retcons
- X-Men #20-23
- How not to repair an airplane
- One way to get out of an awkward conversation
- Several Betsys Braddock
- Revanche
- Dubiously organized crime
- Kwannon
- Nyorin’s diary
- Awkward family conversations
- Mike Milbury
- Twin Peaks Season 3
- Akira Yoshida
NEXT EPISODE: Dracula in Vegas!
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As Mentioned in Episode 212 – Drumbeats of Despair
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LINKS & FURTHER MISHAPS:
- I know this Waiting for the Trade strip is years old, but the joke really never stops being funny.
- For all your old-school hacking needs.
- According to Wikipedia, the not-Stüssy S is in fact called the “Cool S,” which is a fairly bold claim.
- Ferruginous hawks are ridiculous, but they’re still not as ridiculous as Warren Kenneth Worthington III.
212 – Drumbeats of Despair: X-Cutioner’s Song (Part 3 or 3)
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In which nobody but Stryfe’s diary understands him; Apocalypse is the best at what he does (and what he does is remarkably versatile); Scott and Jean weaponize their clichés; Jae Lee does his best Patrick Nagel; Apocalypse is poisonous; Cable goes full T-800; nothing good ever happens to Cyclops on the moon; Stryfe dies as passive-aggressively as he lived; and X-Cutioner’s Song finally concludes.
X-PLAINED:
- How Cable dies
- The Story So Far
- Still more trading-card taxonomy
- Uncanny X-Men #296
- X-Factor #86
- X-Men #16
- X-Force #18
- An AU we’d like to read
- The not-Stüssy S
- How to effectively reference X-Men #137
- A decoy baby
- An abortive escape
- Moon gravity
- Revelatory vandalism
- A trip to the moon
- A probably excessive number of hawk facts
- Various daring rescues
- How to kill time in space
- Cathexes
- A very fancy moon base
- The cavalry, kind of
- Stryfe vs. Cable
- An X-Cellent epilogue
- Several Silent Hill 2 references
- Stryfe’s Legacy
- Pawnee, Indiana vs. Marvel
- Sexy high-security prisons of the future
NEXT EPISODE: Live from FlameCon, featuring Sina Grace, Magdalene Visaggio, and Leah Williams!
Special thanks to Matt for the subject of this episode’s cold open; and to the Protomen for use of their cover of “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”
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