The visual companion to Episode 68 will be up a little late, because we’ve been moving all weekend. Meanwhile, please enjoy a sneak peek at our new home, which can double as a rousing game of Spot the Anna!
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68 – The Most Dangerous Game
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In which we catch our breath after the Mutant Massacre; Miles’s taste is both epic and adorable; Dazzler’s Achilles heel is fame; Madelyne Pryor; it’s hard to be a teenage ghost; Crimson Commando is not actually Frank Borman (but we wish he were); Wolverine may or may not make truck noises; Heroes for Hope is profoundly baffling; and Sunspot would definitely be way into Leslie Knope.
X-PLAINED:
- Several untimely deaths
- Uncanny X-Men #214-216
- Heroes for Hope
- The post-Mutant Massacre X-Men
- Malice
- Another set of Phoenix callbacks
- The Murder Grandpas
- Crimson Commando
- Super Sabre
- Stonewall
- Actual superhero Marsha P. Johnson
- Priscilla the jerk
- Wolverine SFX
- Some fairly spectacular misunderstandings
- One hell of a jam comic
- X-costumes
- A Thomas Magnum for 21st-century X-kids
NEXT WEEK: Elle Collins and Graeme McMillan X-Plain Beast’s solo adventures!
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As Mentioned in Episode 66 – The Mutant Massacre, Part 2
66 – The Mutant Massacre, Part 2
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In which we wrap up our first official two-parter; Gambit ruins everything; Rachel has a theory about Mister Sinister; Marvel communication technology is behind the times; Trish Tilby is tired of your bullshit; Walter Simonson is the best of the best; X-Factor pulls it together; Power Pack gets uncomfortably dark; Miles has Thor feelings; and even more mutants die.
NOTE: This episode is the second of a two-parter! If you haven’t listened to Episode 65, where we cover the first half of the mutant massacre, you should probably do that before you listen to this one!
X-PLAINED:
- Masque
- Tentacle disambiguation
- More of the Mutant Massacre
- A Sinister hypothesis
- Several Marauder-related retcons
- X-Factor #9-11
- Power Pack #27
- The Mighty Thor #373-374
- Trish Tilby
- Artie & Leech
- Several awkward reunions
- Walter Simonson
- The fall of Angel
- Apocalypse’s horsemen
- Yet another crossover that will probably scar the Power kids for life
- Franklin Richards
- Thor, Donald Blake, and Sigurd Jarlson
- The best issue of any comic, ever.
- The Tunnelers
- Ongoing repercussions of the Mutant Massacre
- Rachel & Miles’s horseman identities
- Which X-Men could and should wield Mjolnir
NEXT WEEK: The New Mutants party like it’s 1299!
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As Mentioned in Episode 65 – The Mutant Massacre, Part 1
65 – The Mutant Massacre, Part 1
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In which we hit the first big X-centric crossover; a lot of Morlocks die; X-Factor is a dark farce; Kitty Pryde talks down a mob without using racial slurs; when Doug Ramsey tells you there’s a problem, you listen; and Callisto should be one of the iconic leaders of the Marvel Universe.
X-PLAINED:
- Death by intellectual-property dispute
- The Mutant Massacre
- Mutant Massacres that might have been
- Uncanny X-Men #210-213
- New Mutants #46
- The Marauders
- The best way to guarantee the New Mutants’ involvement in a storyline
- Limbo fashion
- The responsibility of leadership
- Wolverine vs. Sabretooth
- Psylocke vs. Sabretooth
- The evolution of crossovers
- Characters we’d like to see more of post-Secret Wars
NEXT WEEK: The Mutant Massacre, Part 2!
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As Mentioned in Episode 60 – Rachel Summers and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
60 – Rachel Summers and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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In which Rachel Summers went to sleep with Wolverine’s claws in her dreams and now there’s claws in her lungs and when she got out of bed this morning she tripped on her traumatic backstory and by mistake she dropped the Phoenix Force in the sink while the water was running and she could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
X-PLAINED:
- Freedom Force
- Supervillains’ day jobs
- Uncanny X-Men #206-209
- The X-Men’s first brief tenure in San Francisco
- Terrible house guests
- Lindsay McCabe
- David Ishima
- Bree Morrell
- A metaphorical ghost story
- Lycanthropy, but dumber
- The crossing of several ethical lines
- Death by narrative stasis (and also impaling)
- Craft night at the Hellfire Club
- Death by costume satin (and also heart failure)
- One way to write someone out of a book
- Our favorite Summers kids
- X-Music
Special thanks to Elle Collins
NEXT WEEK: The New Mutants break your heart.
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June 2015 Shirt of the Month – Three Wolverine Moon, by Tyler Crook
Because sometimes correct taxonomy* has to take a back seat to the rule of cool.
Artist Tyler Crook (B.P.R.D., Harrow County) brings your wildest dreams–and our favorite persistent error–to howling life on this stunning shirt, which features not only a luminous full moon, but two entire Wolverines more than t-shirts with only one Wolverine on them.
Three Wolverine Moon is available on a wide variety of shirts, which can be worn consecutively or concurrently for additional simultaneous Wolverines; as well as tote bags, throw pillows, and stickers. It’ll be up in our shop until July 1, 2015, after which it will disappear forever.
*Yes, we are aware that wolverines are not wolves. That’s what makes it funny.
As Mentioned in Episode 55 – How Nightcrawler Got His Groove Back
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING:
- Here is a video of 3-year-old X-Pert Kestrel and her brother Jasper pretending to be us.
- Here are the titles Kestrel and Jasper’s mom Katie recommends for very young X-Fans:
- These Are the X-Men is part of Disney’s World of Reading series, which also includes some books for slightly older readers, The Story of the X-Men and Days of Future Past (both recommended for ages 6-8).
- Kestrel and Jasper also love X-Men and Power Pack and X-Men: First Class, as well as the original animated series; but Katie cautions that all of those involve some adult themes you’ll need to either read around or be ready to have some challenging conversations about.