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As Mentioned in Episode 429 – Slightly Sticky

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A goofy and fun cover for a goofy and fun comic. (X-Men Unlimited #20)
Poor Maxie… (X-Men Unlimited #20)
Poor Maxie!!! (X-Men Unlimited #20)
? indeed, Nettles. ? indeed. (X-Men Unlimited #20)
STOP HATIN’ (X-Men Unlimited #20)
I don’t think this Ferris wheel passed inspection. Or was ever inspected in the first place. (X-Men Unlimited #20)
Generation X’s greatest nemesis: a runaway Ferris wheel. (X-Men Unlimited #20)
Paige Guthrie would make a terrible babysitter. (X-Men Unlimited #20)
What was Penance doing in that closet? We’ll never know! (X-Men Unlimited #20)
And then a cop gaslit a child. (X-Men Unlimited #20)
A goofy and fun cover for a goofy and fun comic… again! (X-Men Unlimited #21)
Video rental store clerks: truly the absolute worst of humanity, apparently. (X-Men Unlimited #21)
HE’S HUGE! (X-Men Unlimited #21)
Friendship! (X-Men Unlimited #21)
John Henry Irons he ain’t. (X-Men Unlimited #21)
Gently punched by nostalgia. (X-Men Unlimited #21)
Halt, you men! (X-Men Unlimited #21)
Wolfsbane’s like the kid who clearly put together their science fair project the night before the science fair. (X-Men Unlimited #21)
Party one… (X-Men Unlimited #21)
…party two. (X-Men Unlimited #21)
And then Jay exploded. (X-Men Unlimited #21)
The hero we need! (X-Men Unlimited #21)
It’s a Dracularmy! (X-Men Unlimited #21)
Guido’s going to be telling this story for the rest of his life. (X-Men Unlimited #21)
The X-Factor denouement we never got. (X-Men Unlimited #21)
NEXT EPISODE: The X-Men team up with the Fantastic Four!

429 – Slightly Sticky

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Dracularmy (X-Men Unlimited #21)

In which you should stop hatin’, there’s a big difference between fill-ins and filler, Snow Valley needs higher Ferris wheel standards, Todd DeZago must really hate video rental clerks, and we’re all monsters – some of us just smell better than others.

X-PLAINED:

  • Strong Guy’s hellacious history
  • The nature and purpose of X-Men Unlimited
  • X-Men Unlimited #20-21
  • Rock Trolls (Chambliss, Nettles, and Munson)
  • What Asgard was up to in 1998
  • Magik vs magic
  • The Snow Valley Harvest Festival
  • Jubilation Lee, one of the guys
  • Eagles vs Hats
  • Fatman, Beardlady-o, Stickman-o, & Frogman-o
  • Tic Tac Toe fundamentals
  • Angry mobs
  • Paige Guthrie, Angry Mom
  • The many potential applications of Husk’s powers
  • Falls Edge, VA vs Eagle Ridge, WV
  • Payphones & video rental stores
  • X-friends
  • Rutland, VT (again)
  • Melvin J. Weals
  • Helen Back
  • The Donnybrook Country Club
  • Cat Fancier & Motorcycle Conventions
  • The Shi’ar Wardrobe Transmogrifier
  • Steel (the Shaq one)
  • The worst pun we’ve ever seen in a comic
  • Earth: the Hipster Planet
  • Which X-Men throw the best and/or wildest Halloween parties
  • Fan-casting X-voices

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