Tag: Callisto
430 – The Bad Feelings Box
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In which birds have no business in sex dreams; feelings are complicated and allegories are imperfect; Mystique made some valid points; Psycho-Man is good at UI; Callisto was right; and the label “Omega-level mutant” actually kind of makes sense.
X-PLAINED:
- Psycho-Man
- Malice (but not that one)
- Hate Monger (but not that one)
- Finding good comics from the ‘90s
- Uncanny X-Men #359
- X-Men / Fantastic Four Annual 1998
- X-Men #79
- The dead man’s hand
- Dr. Aubrey Agee
- Psi-War fallout
- Dr. Bradley Beynon
- Hadley the robot
- Poker twinks
- La Bludgeon
- Psycho-Man’s Bad Feelings Box
- An invisible bear trap
- Marvel’s floating poker game
- Officers Aguinal and Cleveland
- Antagonists vs. villains
- Omega-level mutants
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As Mentioned in Episode 422 – Cairn Touch This
422 – Cairn Touch This
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In which the X-Men’s membership is a complicated subject; not all angels know each other; we need to talk about Beast’s Wasp costume; Cecilia Reyes speaks for all reasonable folk; Storm gets a mysterious package; and reading comics day-and-date may not be for everyone.
X-PLAINED:
- The variable loyalties of the N’garai
- X-Men #74-76
- A somewhat atypical team lineup
- A whole lotta backstory
- How to join the X-Men
- Warren Kenneth Worthington III as a religious figure
- Flechette clean-up
- Teenage drama
- Detective Jim Logan
- A lot of murder
- The N’garai
- Beast’s Wasp costume
- Explanatory captions for real life
- The Ru’tai
- Pilgrimm
- Mai’Keth the Undying One
- The Eye of Kierokk
- Maggott’s secret origins
- X-Men cartoons for a 7-year-old
- Reckoning with loss in comics
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As Mentioned in Episode 411 – Tearaway Pants
411 – Tearaway Pants
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In which we actually kind of like a Sabretooth story; we’re not asking for viscera, here; all pants on Earth-616 are tearaway pants; we’d like to see more Wolverine stories about bodily autonomy; Gambit’s hallucinations have hallucinations; and there are probably too many X-books.
X-PLAINED:
- Punch-clock villains
- Hydro-Man’s secret weakness
- 411
- ‘90s fashion
- X-Men Unlimited #17-18
- X-Men Unlimited vs. annuals
- A difficult casting decision
- Forge’s neutralizer gun
- Costume injuries
- Color symbolism? Kinda? I guess?
- Mrs. Hoo
- Saberine & Wolvertooth
- Warren Kenneth Worthington III vs. shirts
- How to dress for Earth-616
- Hot buttered whatever
- Boob foliage
- Clones
- Very tenacious blood stains
- The return of the Angry Claremontean Narrator
- Lots of hallucinations
- Oscar the Fixer
- Hydro-Man
- Redemption, symbolic and otherwise
- The evolution of Magneto’s name
- Our ideal X-line
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As Mentioned in Episode 392 – The Mullet of Leadership
392 – The Mullet of Leadership
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In which Chris Bachalo changes things up; we theorize about Prime Sentinel hierarchy; the headmasters go undercover; fictional characters spend a lot of time in sewers; M’s secret comes to light; J. Jonah Jameson is at his best in X-books; Jay pitches a video game; Marrow gets a makeover; and part of journalistic integrity is choosing what not to cover.
X-PLAINED:
- Banshee, recently
- Generation X #29-31
- Uncanny X-Men #346
- Bastion
- Daria
- Leave It to Chance
- Miguela Torres
- Venice Beach
- Skin’s cousin Gil
- Inconsistencies that may or may not be deliberate
- Jolt Cola™
- Yet another take on Prime Sentinels
- The Mullet of Leadership
- A cool kid
- Cat drama
- DOA (again)
- Cars
- A kiss
- Several attempted murders
- Marrow’s appearance
- Boyd and Mathers
- X-fighting games
- Mutant leadership philosophies
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As Mentioned in Episode 313 – Iguanafall
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LINKS & FURTHER REPTILES:
- This dress was weirdly central to the Internet Discourse of 2015.
- We covered Lifedeath II in Episode 45 – A Woman Who Could Fly.
- Here’s where you can find some of the more obscure stories we’ve X-Plained:
313 – Iguanafall
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In which sky pirates are the best pirates; Wolverine eats chicken in the woods; Xavier’s area loses its status as our least favorite panel; Cable is suspiciously credulous; we search in vain for a consistent metaphor; Storm has a thing or two to learn about restorative justice; and this entire miniseries should probably just have been an annual.
X-PLAINED:
- Storm’s pirate adventures
- Storm #1-4
- Mark Trail
- The Morlocks (more) (again)
- Unacceptable gradients
- Butt murder
- Fashion
- Several memes of yesteryear
- Product placement
- The new Worst Panel
- Several variations on the Ceremony of Light
- How not to identify a body
- The Hill (Limbo)
- “Daddy”
- The inconsistent portrayals of Mikhail Rasputin
- Still more members of Gene Nation
- A new costume
- The most obscure stories we’ve covered
- That time Wolverine at his own arm
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