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As Mentioned in Episode 424 – Times Change
Tag: Shard Bishop
424 – Times Change
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In which everything is Havok’s fault; Jay is a bad influence; Polaris makes some valid points; Jamie Madrox is the Bobby Drake of X-Factor; and X-Factor vol. 1 ends with a bang.
X-PLAINED:
- Muppet rules
- X-Factor, vol. 1, in general
- X-Factor #146-149
- Sense of place
- Jude Black and his inexplicable facial hair
- Boundaries
- Edible Arrangements
- A different kind of sports bar
- Kevin
- Nostalgia, I guess?
- Several confrontations
- Temporal insanity
- A very specialized course
- What happens next
- The universe where Dazzler replaced Jean Grey in the original X-Factor
- Characters we would like to have seen more of
NEXT EPISODE: Psi-War!
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414 – Blackwater Boy Band
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In which Wild Child makes an unlikely Santa Claus; Sabretooth champions continuity; Random’s last name should’a been Violence; Forge doesn’t have to like you; and Mackie’s X-Factor run gets interesting—right before its untimely end.
X-PLAINED:
- Another X-Factor
- X-Factor #142-145
- Unrealized anticipation
- Deadline
- What Val Cooper wants for Christmas
- The evolutionary symbolism of noses
- Several breeds of dog
- The secret history of Val Cooper and Wild Child
- Wildheart
- The Secret Empire
- The X.U.E. (more) (again)
- Ice skating, interrupted
- Another cool way to draw Havok’s powers
- A clever retcon
- The X-Factor that might have been
- Greystone’s origins
- Micah
- A temple of doom
- The hierarchy of cool skulls
- Branching timelines and the implications thereof
- An Alex Summers / Moira MacTaggert chimera
NEXT EPISODE: Gambit, again.
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408 – Yabba Yabba Yabba
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In which Bishop gets another miniseries; splinter timelines make fun narrative sandboxes; the X.S.E. goes detecting; the Statue of Liberty never fares well in dystopian futures; “Booger” is not a name you give yourself; and we can’t believe it’s taken us this long to make a hanky code joke about Bishop.
X-PLAINED:
- Graymalkin
- Bishop: X.S.E. #1-3
- Bishop (more) (again)
- Earth-1191
- The X.S.E.
- Hecate
- Malcolm
- Randall
- The popularity of Earth-1191 miniseries
- The solid-light hologram of Theseus
- The Fanatix
- Pulsar
- Dogface
- Hardball
- Razorback
- Kali (but not that one)
- Shadowbox
- “Quotations”
- Seldon Trask
- A mystery
- The Rook
- Annabella Knox
- Anthony Shaw
- The Bay Borough
- The best episode of Justice League Unlimited
- Organic LMDs
- A disguise
- An uncanny child
- Dazzler’s career
- X-Adjectives
NEXT EPISODE: The M-Plate Saga!
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As Mentioned in Episode 407 – Freshening Up
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LINKS & FURTHER TIME SINKS
- We covered the first X.S.E. miniseries in Episode 340 – Retconaganda.
407 – Freshening Up
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In which X-Factor bounces from one rock-bottom to another; Sabretooth gets his (murderous) groove back; Dark Beast embraces the iMac aesthetic; the tip was righteous; Mystique multitasks like a pro; and Shard Bishop has come unstuck in time.
X-PLAINED:
- X-Nation
- What X-Factor’s been up to
- X-Factor #138-141
- Omega Red (again)
- The Brotherhood’s new hideout
- Mallory Brickman
- Miles and/or Ralph Brickman
- Gloria Brickman
- “Freshening up”
- Mystique, but a sitcom
- Agent Vargas
- Ever
- The secret purpose of Havok’s Brotherhood
- Exhumes vs. emplates
- Fixx
- Greystone
- Archer
- The X.U.E.
- Bantam
- Leisure activities
- What would happen if the T-O virus took over Cable’s body
- What we want from X-Men #700
NEXT EPISODE: Bishop: X.S.E.
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As Mentioned in Episode 397 – Mürdr at IKEA
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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
NEXT EPISODE: The X-Men return from space!
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As Mentioned in Episode 381 – If We Told You, We’d Have to Kill You
381 – If We Told You, We’d Have to Kill You
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In which real life sucks; Havok may or may not be a bad enough dude to rescue mutantkind; X-Factor quits; CD-ROMs were never THAT cool; subtlety is for suckers; Val Cooper hates nothing more than she hates the U.S. government; and Jamie Madrox wants nothing to do with your nonsense.
X-PLAINED:
- One way to end a wedding
- X-Factor #130-133
- Malice (again)
- A thumb (and the biting thereof)
- Barnes (and her hair)
- The relative versatility of plasma
- The Brotherhood
- A ruse and/or retcon
- Lighting design
- A CD-ROM
- The time Jay wrote some Captain America comics
- The last time you’re gonna see these
- Trevor Chase (more)
- One thing that might’ve inspired Jamie Madrox’s heel turn
- The nature of Jamie Madrox’s relative mortality
- Brand names
- Many faked deaths
- Agent Bowser
- A very fancy haunted house
- X-Factor’s true calling
- The X.S.E. (again)
- Mutant shifts in adaptations
- ‘Nuff said
NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur vs. Crimson Dawn!
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