Tag: N’garai
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 422 – Cairn Touch This
422 – Cairn Touch This
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In which the X-Men’s membership is a complicated subject; not all angels know each other; we need to talk about Beast’s Wasp costume; Cecilia Reyes speaks for all reasonable folk; Storm gets a mysterious package; and reading comics day-and-date may not be for everyone.
X-PLAINED:
- The variable loyalties of the N’garai
- X-Men #74-76
- A somewhat atypical team lineup
- A whole lotta backstory
- How to join the X-Men
- Warren Kenneth Worthington III as a religious figure
- Flechette clean-up
- Teenage drama
- Detective Jim Logan
- A lot of murder
- The N’garai
- Beast’s Wasp costume
- Explanatory captions for real life
- The Ru’tai
- Pilgrimm
- Mai’Keth the Undying One
- The Eye of Kierokk
- Maggott’s secret origins
- X-Men cartoons for a 7-year-old
- Reckoning with loss in comics
NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur rushes toward its conclusion
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As Mentioned in Episode 325 – Captain Bloodscream
325 – Captain Bloodscream
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In which we recommend against having a birthday in the Marvel Universe; Shinobi Shaw was a proto-Quentin Quire; Lee Forrester returns under the best possible circumstances; Bloodscream lives his best unlife; Belasco is apparently master of the cat people now; and a former Marvel intern returns to solve a mystery.
X-PLAINED:
- Bloodscream (again)
- X-Force/Cable Annual 1995
- Spider-Man Team-Up #1
- X-Men Unlimited #9
- The Impossible Man (and his slacker kids)
- The Clone Saga
- Benedict Kine
- A really superlative insult
- The continuity box
- Still more Bloodscream
- 30-50 feral hogs
- GHOST PIRACY
- Belasco (more)(again)
- The N’garai (more) (again)
- A follow-up to a mystery from Episode #323
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