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SPOILER WARNING: ALL OF THEM, NONSTOP
In which Barry Windsor-Smith is too sexy for television; we know what happens when unstable molecules get struck by lightning; X-Men gets political and does it spectacularly; this Captain America would not sew the cape; Magneto continues to throw things into space; and they kissed and we missed it.
X-PLAINED:
- Fabian Cortez’s name
- X-Men ’97 episodes 6-10
- Lifedeath I & II: a surprising adaptation
- Varying levels of going in blind
- A somewhat different and possibly better Forge
- The Adversary vs. the Owl Queen
- Stormiest and least-Stormy costumes
- Professor Charles Xavier, Official Space Boyfriend
- Colonialism vs. Identity
- Delayed catharsis
- The narrative power of altered opening credits
- What makes allyship effective (and not)
- Justified mutant anger
- The worst version of Nina DaCosta
- What makes Prime Sentinels scary
- Summers family feels
- The best damned fight scenes out there
- Bastion, robo-avatar of conservative white patriarchy
- Simultaneous crossovers
- A psychic gay bar
- A last boss arena
- Acolyte equivalencies
- Phoenix Ex Machina
- Crying
- Whether Magneto was right
- Apoca-futures and Apoca-pasts
- A bulletin board and our hopes for its contents
- Soft Serve
- Kitty Pryde’s coffee shop AU
- X-Men ’97 as the perfect gateway
NEXT EPISODE: Skrulls!
LINKS AND FURTHER READING:
- The Judgment of Magneto by Asher Elbein
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