Tag: Paul Smith
478 – The Monologue Tube
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In which Alan Davis is Team Cyclops; everyone gets depowered; it’s hard to connect with kids your age when you’re a superhero; Sinister’s gotta sinister; everyone gets repowered; and the ‘90s were much more eclectic than they get credit for being.
X-PLAINED:
- Side effects of Decimation
- Uncanny X-Men #379-380
- X-Force #101
- X-Men #99
- Cadre K
- Summers family drama
- The High Evolutionary (more) (again)
- The (other) time all the mutants got depowered
- Kevin
- A very beautiful book
- The ongoing mess of Genoshan politics
- The Neo (slightly)
- To what extent Logan’s claws are a mutant power
- Sinister monologues
- Herbert Evolutionary
- The New New Men
- The ‘90s, in general
- What makes a Morlock
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As Mentioned in Episode 133 – Feisty Little Fellow from the Stars
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133 – Feisty Little Fellow from the Stars (Judgment War, Part 2)
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In which the plot thickens; Jay and Miles fix Avatar; Ship is a good bro; you are in space right now; the Beginagains go full This Island Earth; Cyclops weaponizes love; voting is really important; and you’re listening to ten straight hours of soft jazz and subversion on ZZ-105
X-PLAINED:
- The other Dazzler (Bertram Worthington)
- Our newest t-shirt
- X-Factor #48-50
- A metaphor within a metaphor, in space
- The first half of Judgment War (briefly) (again)
- A prisoner exchange
- Hairstyles of the possessed and famous
- Proper use of Cable
- A case for retcons
- Iceman vs. Archangel
- A feisty little fellow from the stars
- The secret origin of Ship
- The Celestials
- The core of Iceman’s personality
- Several kisses
- Beast and the Rejects
- Some terrible hats
- An unfair fight
- A nefarious plot
- Contagious heroism
- Arishem
- The power of love
- Why we use the word “queer”
- Several theoretical and unlikely crossovers
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As Mentioned in Episode 128 – A Stupid Way to Die (Judgment War, Part 1)
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128 – A Stupid Way to Die (Judgment War, Part 1)
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In which X-Factor goes to space; Miles gets judgmental about spelling; Paul Smith returns to an X-title; Celestials are a pain; Judgment War is the Star-Trekkiest story that doesn’t actually involve Star Trek; monster ladies are super important; if you can be a green dude, you should be a green dude; and Cyclops gears up to fight some gods.
X-PLAINED:
- One way to kill a Celestial
- Judg(e)ment War
- Drunk Mark Trail
- X-Factor #43-46
- Walls you should maybe not bust through even if you’re X-Factor
- A completely inappropriate show pitch
- Celestials
- The true secret purpose of Ship
- The Chosen
- The Rejects
- Dualers
- Perfect Seera
- Rask
- Zarka
- Monster ladies in cultural context
- Lev
- A stupid way to die
- Jammers
- Plot-relevant amnesia
- The Most Perfect
- ZZ-105
- Baby theft (more)(again)
- Ryest
- The Beginagains
- Whether and when there’ll be another all-question episode
- The current status of the Jean Grey school
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As Mentioned in Episode 20 – The Brood They Carried
20 – The Brood They Carried
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In which Claremont levels up; the Brood are legitimately scary; Colossus is an ethical dude; Nightcrawler and Wolverine share beers in the face of certain death; Storm turns into a space whale; we are Carol Corps for life; New Mutants are really into Magnum, P.I.; Kitty meets a dragon; and Xavier dies (again).
X-Plained:
- Broo
- The Brood Saga (X-Men #161-167)
- Paul Smith
- Space fashion
- A really terrible awards ceremony
- Tim O’Brien’s X-Men
- The Brood
- How to tell a good Wolverine story
- Rocket sharks
- The single most badass magical-girl transformation sequence of all time
- Binary
- The X-Men’s Kobayashi Maru
- Friendship (more) (again)
- The Acanti
- Whether Cyclops watches Star Trek
- The New Mutants
- Cloning
- Our secret cold-open formula
- Cosmic crossovers
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