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165 – Pop Rocks
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In which Charles Xavier returns to the pages of Uncanny X-Men; Storm is out of our league forever; Miles would be a terrible president; Psylocke picks up the frequent-shower torch; everyone gets possessed; Gambit acts more Sinister than he is; and our NYCC panel is definitely on THURSDAY, not Friday.
X-PLAINED:
- The Pantheon
- Uncanny X-Men #275-277
- Dinosaurs in space
- A very impressive cover
- Several kinds of manacle
- Small children we’d like to see beat up Gladiator
- Varying levels of Evil Charles Xavier
- A nefarious plan
- Double death
- FailCat Logan
- Two bad, beautiful babes with really big guns
- Some excellent sound effects
- Awesome space fights
- Shopping with Deathbird
- Mall vs. maul
- X-archenemies
NEXT EPISODE: The Kings of Pain!
NOTE: Seriously, the NYCC Panel is on THURSDAY. Not Friday. THURSDAY. It’s official now.
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As Mentioned in Episode 162 – Naked in Canada
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LINKS & FURTHER READING
- Come see us at RCCC, and party with us on Friday night!
- The Milgram experiment is both horrifying and really important.
- Here are a large number of photographs of snow leopards with their tails in their mouths.
162 – Naked In Canada
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In which almost everyone is better than Romulus; Barry Windsor-Smith continues to draw the best naked X-Men; Jay has strong feelings about Wolverine’s origins; Miles still hasn’t seen The Prisoner; when in doubt, it’s probably Kang the Conqueror and/or Mystique; we remain unqualified to give bear-fighting advice; you should not hide out in a nuclear reactor; and the Coffee-a-Go-Go has probably been turned into a new-wave sushi bar or something.
X-PLAINED:
- The Professor (Truett Hudson)
- Romulus
- Jay & Miles at Rose City Comic Con
- Marvel Comics Presents #72-84
- “Weapon X”
- Backstory attrition
- A really good opening montage
- Some very effective use of color
- Healing hair
- The original villain behind Weapon X
- A retconned origin of Wolverine’s claws
- Dr. Abraham Cornelius
- Carol Hines
- Terry Gilliam’s Weapon X
- Audio vs. text-based mind control
- An action figure in dubious taste
- The Milgram Experiment
- An adaptation we’d like to see
- A bad place to hide
- Subsequent “Weapon X” retcons
- How Cyclops’s powers have (and haven’t) developed
- Jay’s general failure at X-tourism
NEXT WEEK: More MCP, featuring “The Retribution Affair” and “God’s Country”!
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As Mentioned in Episode 158 – No Focus, Less Direction
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LINKS & FURTHER LISTENING
- The Lightning and the Storm (Miles & Elisabeth’s now-complete Thor podcast)
- Jay’s Instagram
158 – No Focus, Less Direction
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In which we return triumphant from hiatus; it’s still always Inferno in here; no one should ever under any circumstances date Cameron Hodge; Kenneth is a fundamentally hilarious name; Magneto’s family gets retconned to death; Pterosaurs are still the absolute worst; and Magik totally deserves a sidekick.
X-PLAINED:
- Ka-Zar’s real name
- Shanna the She-Devil
- Our new production set-up
- What we did on our summer vacations
- Previously on X-Men
- Further limits of the mutant metaphor
- Uncanny X-Men #273-275
- A crisis of leadership
- A comic that is a metaphor that is also a comic
- Cable’s OkCupid profile
- Changing creative dynamics on the X-line
- Archangel’s middle name
- Gambit vs. Wolverine
- Censorship Steam
- The protean X-bathroom
- Magneto’s retconned family
- Colonel Semyanov
- A perhaps ill-conceived team-up
- The Self-Styled Mistress of Magnetism
- Some remarkably lucky timing
- The semantics of heel turns
- Gender and sidekicks
- Mr. Sinister’s powers
NEXT EPISODE: The end of New Mutants!
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As Mentioned in Episode 157 – Melted to Slag
157 – Melted to Slag
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In which the X-Tinction Agenda reaches its Return of the Jedi; Wolverine is a weaponized nuisance; HR would like a word with Gambit; Havok gets framed; Cameron Hodge is the great unifier; Genosha is revolting; you don’t get to make a threatening speech about someone else’s powers; Jean Grey is tired of your bullshit; and Jay and Miles may or may not dive into the Siege Perilous!
X-PLAINED:
- The Law of Conservation of Plot Elements
- Uncanny X-Men #272
- New Mutants #97
- X-Factor #62
- The Story So Far
- Glasses fashions in comics
- The difference between Batman and the Punisher
- How to tell that something has gone terribly wrong
- Acceptable pants
- Some really sketchy judicial process
- A ruse
- Several retcons concerning Wolverine
- Consequence-free impaling
- Chekhov’s genetic engineering
- Louise Simonson’s final issue of New Mutants
- The relative durability of mutants
- A number of prescient threats
- This one time Jay and Miles got paid to throw a bunch of printers down a flight of stairs
- Summers Brothers team-ups
- A very cathartic fight
- Thoughts on books as physical artifacts and collecting comics
- Places to jump into long X-series on Marvel Unlimited
- Our plans for the hiatus
THE PODCAST WILL BE ON HIATUS DURING MAY, JUNE, AND JULY, 2017! SEE YOU IN AUGUST!
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As Mentioned in Episode 156 – Genosha Strikes Back
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LINKS & FURTHER READING
- “Politics and the English Language,” by George Orwell, is one of Jay’s favorite essays of all time.
- Now you, too, can be robot Jean Valjean.
- Here’s Elle Collins’s X-Men reboot pitch at the late, great Comics Alliance.
156 – Genosha Strikes Back
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In which we hit the Empire Strikes Back of X-Tinction Agenda; it’s hard to be Laura Kinney; the psychic knife makes its debut; Evil!Sexy Moira retains some moral high ground; if your society is built on slavery, your society deserves to crumble; words mean things; Havok would be a terrible housecat; the mutants do not have the patent on stupidity; the opposite of blades is cotton; we give Cameron Hodge’s severed head a pep talk; and Cyclops goes full Peralta.
X-PLAINED:
- Uncanny X-Men #271, New Mutants #96, X-Factor #61
- Laura Kinney’s brief babysitting career
- Our upcoming hiatus
- Dramatis personae
- A figurative battering ram
- Focused totality
- Best insults of the 1990s
- A debate
- Ethics of rhetoric
- Housecat Havok
- Skittering
- Mutate numbering systems
- The Prisoner vs. Les Miserables
- The slow disintegration of reality as we know it
- Sneaking with Cable
- A singularly anticlimactic cover
- A lushly illustrated report
- Increasingly petty revenge
- S.H.I.E.L.D.’s most advanced bald cap
- A rising storm
- Art teams
- What we’d like to see out of an X-Men cinematic reboot
NEXT EPISODE: Return of the Revenge of the X-Men
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