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Tag: Nimrod
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 395 – Boxer Briefs of Humanity
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LINKS & FURTHER READING:
- The Marvel Universe of Superheroes Exhibition (currently at OMSI in Portland, Oregon).
- You can check out Jay’s article Beyond the Mutant Metaphor in the exhibit’s catalogue!
395 – Boxer Briefs of Humanity
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In which Jay has exciting news, Rick Leonardo draws an impressively creepy mad scientist’s lair, the clouds are purple and so is the prose, Powers of X gets a subtle prequel 21 years early, Cable’s own tolerance has finally reached zero, and we summarize Bastion’s backstory way, way faster than Bastion does.
X-PLAINED:
- Machine Man (X-51) (Aaron Stack)
- Operation Zero Tolerance (more) (again)
- Jay’s upcoming parental leave
- Bastion (Sebastion Gilberti)
- M-Tech
- Powerman 5000
- Cable & Machine Man Annual 1998
- Hobgits and their sound effects
- Street Fighter: the Roleplaying Game
- Batroc ze Lepair
- Jack Kirby’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
- X-51 / X-23 overlaps
- Classic Summers Family Bullshit
- Psionic soapboxes
- What makes Bastion a compelling villain
- The necessity of companions
- Master Mold 3.0 & Nimrod 2.0
- Machine Man & Bastion Annual 1998
- Terrible font choices
- ZORCH
- Cable vs. floors
- The carbon footprint of robotic fascism
- Marvel Comics Presents #17-24 (just a little)
- Incredible Hulk Annual #7 (just a tad)
- The Siege Perilous
- The future of Machine Man
- The hypothetical 2022 version of Bastion
- Historical events in which we’d love to see long-lived mutants take part
NEXT WEEK: We take a break for the holidays!
IN TWO WEEKS: The Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men 2022 Giant-Size Winter Special!
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As Mentioned in Episode 263 – The Oldest Teens of Them All
263 – The Oldest Teens of Them All
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In which Cable and Domino may or may not be very old teenagers; disguises are not Dani Moonstar’s strong suit; Empath remains awful; Shatterstar probably talks exactly like a telenovela; X-Force needs an office manager; Mothra is larger than most things; and if you get to choose between being an External or a Guthrie, always be a Guthrie.
X-PLAINED:
- Bastion, to some extent
- X-Force #34-37
- Optical disambiguation
- Moonstar
- Face tentacle semantics
- Sandwiches (again)
- The Richter family
- An entirely avoidable fight
- Some time-travel bullshit
- Hannigan Electronics
- An insecurity system
- Nimrods
- Things neural networks would probably do instead of murdering you
- Defining traits of the Externals
- Adoption, X-Factor style
- Wolverine: The Long Night
NEXT EPISODE: Douglock!
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224 – Fix the Future
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In which Alan Davis performs his pièce de résistance; the personification of Death is surprisingly supportive; Rachel Summers is the One True Phoenix; Kitty Pryde goes full ’90s; syntax saves the world; and the first Excalibur series should really have ended with #67.
X-PLAINED:
- Origins of Phoenix mythology
- Excalibur #61-67
- The Phoenix Force (more) (again)
- Rachel Summers (more) (again)
- Earth-811 (more) (again)
- Phoenix vs. Galactus
- A pep talk from Death
- The One True Phoenix
- The dark, distant future of 2013
- The dark, even more distant future of 2015
- The extremely complicated future of Kate Pryde
- Rory Campbell / Ahab
- What may or may not be Ahab’s theme song
- Moby Dick, kind of
- That one time Widget was a car
- Resistance Coordination Executive
- Dark Angel
- Killpower
- Albion
- Grace
- Tangerine
- Arthur
- An Excalibur #54 callback
- Excalibur (the gun)
- Kitty’s new image
- How to hack the robot apocalypse
- Saved by the Bell: The College Years
- Where Excalibur should have ended
- Tactical use of Magneto’s hat
- Anti-assimilation stories in X-Men
NEXT EPISODE: The Passion of Butter Rum (feat. Austin Gorton)
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As Mentioned in Episode 60 – Rachel Summers and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
60 – Rachel Summers and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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In which Rachel Summers went to sleep with Wolverine’s claws in her dreams and now there’s claws in her lungs and when she got out of bed this morning she tripped on her traumatic backstory and by mistake she dropped the Phoenix Force in the sink while the water was running and she could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
X-PLAINED:
- Freedom Force
- Supervillains’ day jobs
- Uncanny X-Men #206-209
- The X-Men’s first brief tenure in San Francisco
- Terrible house guests
- Lindsay McCabe
- David Ishima
- Bree Morrell
- A metaphorical ghost story
- Lycanthropy, but dumber
- The crossing of several ethical lines
- Death by narrative stasis (and also impaling)
- Craft night at the Hellfire Club
- Death by costume satin (and also heart failure)
- One way to write someone out of a book
- Our favorite Summers kids
- X-Music
Special thanks to Elle Collins
NEXT WEEK: The New Mutants break your heart.
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