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435 – Giant-Size Special #12 (feat. Kieron Gillen)
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In which we have had an eventful year; Longshot is a classic folk hero; writer Kieron Gillen makes a triumphant and mildly terrifying return to the show; and you remain the best listeners of any podcast, ever.
X-PLAINED:
- Our tenth birthday party!
- 2023
- Longshot vol. 2 #1
- Longshot as a folkloric archetype
- Longshot (more) (again)
- Dismal Nitch, Washington
- The Thingee
- Baum, Kansas
- Corn
- Betty
- Barrie, Kansas
- The Albony Avenue Sanitarium and several of its residents
- Innocence, broadly
- The Wuggly Ump, by Edward Gorey
- Love
- Immortal X-Men
- Nathaniel Essex and several significant clones thereof
- Defining Mister Sinister
- Making Charles Xavier sympathetic
- Reset phrases
- Eternals
- The 10th Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
- Many people to whom we are grateful
NEXT EPISODE: X-Men: Liberators
NOTE: If you want to avoid Immortal X-Men spoilers in our interview with Kieron Gillen, you can skip to 01:38:50 for the Corbeau Awards!
Special thanks to:
- Matt Hunter
- Dylan Higgins
- Al Kennedy
- Max Carleton
- Kieron Gillen
- Tea Fougner
- Anna Stokes
- All of our patrons
- All of you listening, always <3
“Sinister Is Cloning This Town” performed by Steve and Erin Pence
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As Mentioned in Episode 324 – Snack Attack
324 – Snack Attack
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In which Cordelia Frost is a terrible friend; Mondo is better than the story arcs that surround him; and we’d really love to see a series about Sean Cassidy’s super groovy past.
X-PLAINED:
- The one who got away
- Generation X Annual 1995
- Generation X #10-11
- A failed seduction attempt
- Mondo and a plant-based facsimile thereof
- An emergency
- The very personal and private journal of Monet St. Croix
- A party
- Omega Red (again)
- Sean Cassidy’s Interpol days
- An unlikely informant
- A somewhat surreal monitoring system
- The Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men Wiki
NEXT EPISODE: GHOST PIRATES!
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As Mentioned in Episode 322 – Do More Crimes
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LINKS & FURTHER MISDIRECTION:
- True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee, by Abraham Riesman, will be out February 16!
322 – Do More Crimes
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In which the X-Babies fail to charm; clones are people, too; Iceman doesn’t (quite) come out; Gambit and Bishop bond; Joseph comes into ambiguous being; and Principal Nezu and Charles Xavier would probably get along okay.
X-PLAINED:
- Inconsistent quality
- X-Men #46-47
- Uncanny X-Men #327
- The X-Babies (more) (again)
- Sfogliatelle
- Gog
- Gog’n’Magog
- Politics of the Mojoverse
- Personhood of constructed entities
- What makes an X-Babies story work
- Jay’s favorite episodes of The Muppet Show
- Age-appropriate literature
- Fictional books
- Fun with Bishop
- Several restaurants
- Hypothetical casting
- What Magneto’s been up to
- Joseph
- Sister Maria
- Why Magneto gets de-aged a lot
- Amnesia
- Various orphans and individuals affiliated therewith
- How to keep up with upcoming X-titles
- A cross-media friendship
- True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee
NEXT EPISODE: HAWK TALK
THE ONE AFTER THAT: MORE X-BABIES SO MANY X-BABIES
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As Mentioned in Episode 265 – Rude Awakenings
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FURTHER LISTENING
- We covered The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix in Episode 229 – Giant-Size Special #7!
265 – Rude Awakenings
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In which Glen Danzig was the most popular Wolverine fancast for a weirdly long time; breasts have physical mass; the Shi’ar empire is not your friend; Deathbird should not be left in charge of anything alive; Jubilee learns about privilege; Sinister is not subtle; plasma is the new magnetism; Scott and Jean return from the future; and Nick Fury probably sews his name into the waistband of all his underpants.
X-PLAINED:
- Some guy from Earth-1610
- X-Men: Unlimited #5
- X-Men #34-35
- Shi’ar sexting
- A rude awakening (literal)
- Rococo Stryfe
- Some uncomfortable fashion choices
- X-pajamas
- Definitely nude Charles Xavier
- Breasts
- Shi’ar imperial bullshit
- A very impressive headdress
- Reality TV… in space!
- A rude awakening (metaphorical)
- Shi’ar childhood
- Negotiation
- A total dick move
- Another total dick move
- Beast’s brief tenure as field leader of the X-Men
- The return of Threnody
- The titles of several sex tapes
- High-tech spelunking
- Sinister’s secret DNA library
- Controversial outfits
- Nick Fury’s stuff
- Sunset Grace
- The racism inherent to Evan Sabahnur’s background
- A question we’ve answered before and will probably answer again
NEXT EPISODE: Malice!
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As Mentioned in Episode 171 – Badly Punctuated Equilibrium
As Mentioned in Episode 109 – The Passion of Madelyne Pryor
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LINKS & FURTHER LISTENING
- For our Inferno coverage, we’re working (somewhat loosely) from the reading order mapped out at UncannyXMen.net.
- We’ll be bringing you up to speed on both the cinematic X-Men and Apocalypse’s comics background in episode 110, but if you want to brush up this week, you can do that here: