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296 – Hard Choices
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In which Magneto doesn’t really do work/live divide; Amazing X-Men is a bit of a misnomer; Exodus is the lawful evil to Fabian Cortez’s chaotic evil; smoking is bad for you; moisture molecular inversion is fairly definitely not a real thing; Earth-295 Quicksilver and Earth-616 Cyclops would probably get along; OSHA would probably like a word with the Madrii; Gambit had ONE JOB; and there are no superheroes in the Age of Apocalypse.
X-PLAINED:
- An unlikely team-up
- Relative amazingness
- Amazing X-Men #1-5
- Color separations
- Comics credits
- The Brotherhood of Mutants and/or Chaos
- The Great Human Airlift
- Exodus (more) (again)
- Best Quicksilver (Earth-295)
- Abyss
- A dubiously aerodynamic cape
- One last job
- Several points of semantic distinction
- Lone Nanny & Cub
- The most punchable man on Earth-295
- A difficult choice
- What it means to be X-Men
- Dick Valentine
- Jamie Madrox (Earth-295)
- A world without superheroes
- Universe numbering
NEXT EPISODE: X-Man!
CORRECTION: The line about fence-straddling that Jay attributed to Wonder Woman was in fact spoken by Hawkgirl.
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As Mentioned in Episode 290 – The Obvious, the Silly, and the True
290 – The Obvious, the Silly, and the True
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In which it’s kind of a relief to be talking about a fictional apocalypse right now; Joe Madureira defines the look of the mid-late 1990s; Sunfire is less cheesecake than crepes Suzette; it all comes back to capes; Wild Child is more than he seems; Holocaust sucks about as much as you’d expect of someone who picked that code name; Jay has surprisingly strong feelings about Morph; Miles is all about judging some babies; resistance is fundamental to the X-Men’s identity within a superhero-universe paradigm; nobody deserves to be quarantined with Quentin Quire; and our two-week lead is making proofing these podcasts an increasingly surreal experience.
X-PLAINED:
- Several things Blink might have done but did not.
- The status quo as of mid-March, 2020
- Earth-295 (more) (again)
- Astonishing X-Men #1-4
- Our coverage of the core Age of Apocalypse series
- Age of Apocalypse as proof of concept
- The best character design of Earth-295
- Some guy named Rex
- A lake of blood which may or may not be figurative
- Sabretooth’s last-ish stand
- The revolutionary value of silliness
- Jay’s favorite Orwell quote
- The Infinite Processing Plant
- DefCon Armageddon
- A very cool fight scene
- Catharsis
- Mutants without the metaphor
- Best and worst X-Men to be quarantined with
NEXT EPISODE: Weapon X!
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As Mentioned in Episode 288 – Cape Citadel Remix
288 – Cape Citadel Remix
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In which Magneto is a drama llama in any universe (but a remarkably decent parent in at least one); the soap opera hits the Age of Apocalypse; Weapon X is a man made of red flags; Gambit has an OT3; the better man wins; some blanks are better left unfilled; and we would probably not fare too well on Earth-295.
X-PLAINED:
- The other Magnus
- Synchronicity
- Earth-295 (more) (again)
- X-Men Chronicles #1-2
- Selective backstory
- Magneto’s hair
- Wundagore Mountain
- Aesthetics of the Age of Apocalypse
- The X-Men of Earth-295
- Magneto’s pedagogy
- More miscellaneous horsemen
- Weapon X (Logan)
- Cape Citadel, revisited
- The death of the Scarlet Witch
- Disaster Bisexual Gambit
- Wolverine (but not that one)
- Punks who may or may not also be scrimshanders
- Emotionally well-adjusted Quicksilver
- Further miracles of magnetism
- The narrative power of evocation
- Age of Somebody Else
- Jay and Miles of Earth-295
NEXT EPISODE: Summers Family Reunions somehow get even worse.
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As Mentioned in Episode 287 – Welcome to the Age of Apocalypse
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LINKS & FURTHER UNIVERSES:
- Guest X-Pert Logan Bonner DM’d our tabletop X-games in Giant-Size Special #2 and Giant-Size Special #4!
287 – Welcome to the Age of Apocalypse
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In which we enter the Age of Apocalypse!
X-PLAINED:
- One way to solve a problem
- The story so far
- Earth-295
- X-Men: Alpha
- Age of Apocalypse Collector’s Preview
- What makes Age of Apocalypse a surprisingly good jumping-on point to the X-Men
- The story so far
- AoA vs. the Clone Saga
- An Age of Apocalypse that might have been
- AoA vs. Earth Askani
- The X-Men of Earth-295
- Fashion motifs
- A dubious hairstyle
- Facial tattoos
- Wild Child
- Blink (but a different Blink)
- Morph
- Character designs as storytelling
- Baby Charles
- Magic of magnetism
- Dark Beast
- The Prelates Summers
- The Horsemen of Earth-295
- The Bobby Newport of the Age of Apocalypse
- Heaven
- The Human Council
- What’s coming
- Characters we’d like to retroactively import to AoA
- Tabletop X-Men
NEXT EPISODE: Previously on Earth-295…
Special thanks to Logan Bonner for the X-Men roleplaying assist!
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As Mentioned in Episode 286 – Family Before Continuity
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LINKS & FURTHER EVENT HORIZONS:
- Come see us at Emerald City Comic Con! Miles is delightful in person; and Jay, um, exists corporeally.
- Jay wrote an X-Men comic! It’s about Cyclops, and it will be out in April. Please tell your local comics shop to order a lot of copies so that they will let him write more.
- Also, Thor: Metal Gods continues on over at Serial Box!
- We covered the first 3/4 of Legion Quest in Episode 285 – Immediately If Not Sooner…
- …and interviewed Fabian Nicieza about X-Force and a bunch of other stuff in Episode 250 – Minding the DNA!
- New Intersections: Queer Futurism and the Krakoan Body Politic is a really fascinating article.
286 – Family Before Continuity
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In which Sunspot is a bad enough dude to save the president; Black Air is nowhere near as fun as WHO; we reach the end of Fabian Nicieza’s X-Force run; Rictor and Shatterstar talk about feelings; Gambit does not go gently into that good night; Scott and Jean choose family over continuity; Legion Quest comes to a close, along with Earth-616; the heart of Dawn of X is its margins; you should come see us at ECCC; and we announce a new schedule.
X-PLAINED:
- The Maker (Reed Richards of Earth-1610)
- Jay & Miles at ECCC and FlameCon 2020
- Stuff Jay writes
- Excalibur #86
- X-Force #43
- Cable #20
- Black Air
- Pete Wisdom
- What’s been up in Genosha
- The Midnight Runner
- Navigating Kitty Pryde’s age in Excalibur
- A very abrupt ending
- The ongoing evolution of X-Force
- Locus’s new look
- Clubbing with Rictor and Shatterstar
- Legion Quest so far
- Complicated feelings at the end of the world
- A reunion
- Where it all started
- Vague power sets
- Complicated feelings about Dawn of X
- The new podcast schedule
NEXT EPISODE: The Age of Apocalypse
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