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266 – They’re Good Dogs, Miles
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In which Havok goes surfing; Malice eats a poodle; Strong Guy’s ex is a big jerk; Sinister’s gotta Sinister; and Miles learns about a meme.
X-PLAINED:
- The Puppet Master
- X-Factor #103-105
- Comparative Summers brooding
- Perks of being a mutant geologist and/or geophysicist
- Malice and Polaris’s complicated history
- A somewhat convoluted plan
- Several reasons to go to Rhinebeck, NY
- Friendship
- The extended Carosella family
- Candy stripers
- Mary, who is a big jerk
- A Sinister entrance
- The Nasty Boys (more) (again)
- Karate pants
- 14-year-old Chris Gethard’s feelings about Jamie Madrox
- Ionic vampirism
- Misguided vengeance
- Pushing back against whitewashing in comics
NEXT EPISODE: Emma Frost takes a joyride
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As Mentioned in Episode 246 – Foreshadow Puppets
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LINKS & FURTHER CONSUMABLES:
- Mandy may be the quintessential Nic Cage movie.
- We first washed up on the shores of Octopusheim in Episode 19 – Acorns & Swords!
246 – Foreshadow Puppets
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In which Danielle Moonstar is not a master of disguise; the MLF are bad enough dudes to kidnap a guy who works near the president; Tempo wasn’t even supposed to be here today; Reignfire is no Magneto; we now desperately want X-Force matryoshka dolls; Feral quits the team; Henry Peter Gyrich fails to learn from experience (or anything else); small children are bad at everything; Shatterstar gets a tagline; Sam Guthrie REALLY needs a vacation; and it’s surprisingly difficult to choose a favorite resurrection.
X-PLAINED:
- Cortex
- The kinder, gentler Cable
- Several matters related to Nicholas Cage
- X-Force #27-30
- Broome jaws
- The Area jar
- The Mutant Liberation Front
- Reignfire (again)
- Hardaway
- A cyborg asshole
- Locus
- Moonstar
- “Of Faith and Fable”
- Foreshadow puppets
- Bobby da Costa’s greatest fear
- Dad jokes with Cable
- X-Force’s day off
- Shatterstar vs. Adam X the X-Treme
- Windsong
- An inevitable team-up
- A Very Special Episode moment
- The return of Wine Mom Domino
- The return of Jean Grey’s telepathy
- Our favorite resurrections
NEXT EPISODE: Sabretooth
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As Mentioned in Episode 238 – Meet Them Where They Are
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LINKS & FURTHER RESURRECTIONS
- Come see us at Emerald City Comic Con!
- You can find the new Heck Yeah Queens t-shirt designed by Randall Trang in our Teepublic shop!
- For the full scoop on Cameron Hodge, check out our previous coverage of his various nefarious activities!
238 – Meet Them Where They Are
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In which X-Force is the new New Mutants; Professor is what Cable has instead of a burn book; Cable develops emotional literacy; Jay has a lot of feelings about Shatterstar; Cowboys can be wizards, too; you really shouldn’t call adult people “child”; privilege is truly the greatest superpower; Cameron Hodge remains improbably difficult to kill; Candy Southern gets to write the ending to her own story; and Emerald City Comic Con is coming up REALLY fast!
- X-PLAINED:
Reignfire - Jay & Miles at Emerald City Comic Con
- Some new merch
- X-Force #26
- Uncanny X-Men #305-306
- The evolution of Tabitha Smith’s code name
- X-Force and its members (more) (again)
- Professor’s narrative function
- A sudden mustache and its potential implications
- A lot of things about Shatterstar
- Cable as a leader
- Armor full of skin
- Louis St. Croix and/or Mark Twain
- An inappropriate nickname
- The first Xavier school prom
- Inflatable erotic accessory semantics
- The return of Candy Southern
- The return of Cameron Hodge
- Moral event horizons and how to handle them in comics
- Pros and cons of dating telepaths
NEXT EPISODE: A Maximoffstravaganza, feat. Max Carleton
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As Mentioned in Episode 237 – X-Treme
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LINKS & FURTHER DIVERSIONS
- Fun fact: Aron Wisenfeld is the only person Jay has ever seen spell his given name like Jay’s dad.
- This is King Radical. (He also has a skateboard.)
237 – X-Treme
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In which there is only one Big Pine Key; Empyrean is actually a pretty sensible dude; the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants are ride-or-die; you should probably avoid setting X-Men stories in Phoenix, Arizona; Adam X the X-Treme is the Longshot of the 1990s; Miles adopts a ship; heteronormativity is why we can’t have nice things; and you should really seriously come see us at ECCC!
X-PLAINED:
- Why Nate Grey is Like That
- X-Men Annual #2
- X-Force Annual #2
- The worst book Aron Wisenfeld ever drew
- Big Pine Key
- Empyrean
- Jonathan Chambers
- A very fancy bathrobe
- What’s going on in Psylocke’s head
- Pallative care for late-stage Legacy virus patients
- Revanche’s fairly bleak legacy
- X-Men: Time Gliders
- How to dress to discuss Adam X the X-Treme
- Adam X the X-Treme
- Personal lettering styles
- Michelle
- Flashing, but not like that
- Martin Strong
- Miles’s new ship
- Subtext vs. canon
- Heteronormativity
- X-Crayons
NEXT EPISODE: Jay gets really emotional about a remote control.
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As Mentioned in Episode 221 – Better Than LEGO
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LINKS & FURTHER MONSTROSITIES:
- Yes, Virginia, Dismal Nitch is a real place.
- Miles, this one’s for you.
- Secrets Behind the X-Men
- VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
221 – Better Than LEGO
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In which Miles stops worrying and learns to love X-Force; you should absolutely not google the phrase “face jam”; the kids take a field trip to Graymalkin; Jay reverse-engineers Shatterstar’s hair; Donald Pierce gets a new job; Sam Guthrie is the most trustworthy man in the Marvel Universe; Cable is your guns grandma; Professor earns its name; X-Force really only has one setting; and not every Sluggo is lit.
X-PLAINED:
- A bunch of stuff Quicksilver did
- Several cats
- X-Force #20-23
- The Externals (more) (again)
- A deeply unlikely hairstyle
- Graymalkin / Ship / Professor
- A somewhat one-sided reunion
- Yahoos
- Inaccurate arithmetic
- Why Feral sounds like that
- Neither Tom, Dick, nor Harry
- War Machine (James Rhodes)
- Salvage
- Sam Guthrie’s long trail of dead father figures
- Shatterstar
- How to fight an External
- The seventh plague
- What Domino’s been up to
- Hammer’s mom
- Tigerstryke (more) (again)
- Sluggo (but not that Sluggo)
- Learning to appreciate the ’90s
NEXT EPISODE: Psylocke Vs. Revanche!
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