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438 – The Man of Harsh Business
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In which Gambit knows how to make an entrance; Rogue and Gambit only have relationship conversations during superhero fights; Wolverine fights a shark; and we have opinions on how to handle certain aspects of backstory.
X-PLAINED:
- One way to take over Madripoor
- Uncanny X-Men #361
- X-Men #81
- Wolverine: Black Rio
- The X-Men’s rapid slide back to the status quo
- Steve Comicraft
- The fork of loneliness
- Cyttorak (again)
- Black Tom Cassidy (again)
- Peacocks
- Sarasota Jungle Gardens
- What’s sticking out of Juggernaut’s pants
- Favorite versions of the Danger Room
- Floriography
- Kali (kind of)
- Mary Purcell (a bit)
- Rio Carnival
- An outfit
- Detective Antonio Vargas and his mustache
- Saint Cyrus Leviticus
- Ezra
- Comparing mutant and Inhuman culture
- Demonic homage
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As Mentioned in Episode 436 – The Feel-Good Movie of the Summer
436 – The Feel-Good Movie of the Summer
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In which Colossus has had a rough time of it; the X-Men are at their best in bar fights; Bronze-age Wolverine was a jerk; Ursa Major deserves more page space; kids dig Nightcrawler; and we imagine an X-Men newspaper comic strip.
X-PLAINED:
- Notable incidents in Iceman’s romantic history
- X-Men: Liberators #1-4
- Nostalgia
- Friendship
- A bar fight
- Province 13
- General Sergei
- Several dead deer
- Gregor and Valeri
- Nikolas
- Zener cards
- Several children
- Omega Red (more) (again)
- Ariana
- Ideal formats
- Beast vs. Dark Beast
- A theoretical X-Men newspaper comic
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As Mentioned in Episode 435 – Giant-Size Special #12 (feat. Kieron Gillen)
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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!
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- 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 434 – Return to Cape Citadel
434 – Return to Cape Citadel
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In which the X-Men turn 35; we pause to celebrate the death of Henry Kissinger; Jay is a space nerd; Marrow hang-dries her delicates; space shuttles are not rockets; the band gets back together; and the Danger Room isn’t the first piece of X-tech to get sentience and a robot body.
X-PLAINED
- How Excalibur got a Blackbird
- Uncanny X-Men #360
- X-Men #80
- Many callbacks
- The Benassi Rocket
- The Cassini Probe
- The All-New, Slightly Off X-Men
- The Grey King (Addison Falk)
- Chaos and/or Xhaos (Dan Dash)
- Mercury
- Rapture (Sister Joy)
- Crux (Cristal Lemiuex)
- Landslide (Lee Broder)
- The Founder
- Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau (again)
- The Mutant Defense Net
- Heroic narration
- Lack of spacefaring continuity
- Friendship
- Technology
- Costumes
- All-New All-Different Dungeons & Dragons
NEXT EPISODE: GIANT-SIZE WINTER SPECIAL #10
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As Mentioned in Episode 428 – Naked in a Cake
428 – Naked in a Cake
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In which you shouldn’t invite nazis to your wedding, there’s a lot of multiverse, Captain Britain and Meggan are pretty heteronormative but make it work, everybody forgot Feron, and the next husband will be Gatecrasher’s.
X-PLAINED:
- Captain Britain varieties
- The history of Brian Braddock and Meggan Puceanu, abridged
- Excalibur #124-125
- Mutants most likely to jump out of a cake
- The Crazy Gang (again)
- Meggan’s crush on Colossus
- Colossus’s guilt about Meggan’s crush on Colossus
- A surprise bridal shower
- The return of Captain UK
- Brian Braddock’s teetotaling techniques
- Mimic’s ever-changing facial hair
- Glorious, glorious chaos
- Poor, poor Feron
- Multiple awkward conversations
- The return of Widget and also everyone else
- Lightning Force (dammit)
- A lengthy but not exhaustive list of Captains Britain
- So many cameos
- …Seriously, so many cameos
- Dai Thomas’s anti-iron
- Shockingly healthy communication
- Bouquet brawls and garter gar-nage
- A bittersweet ending
- Nightcrawler’s best outfit
- The universe where the X-Men X-Plain Jay & Miles
- Our hypothetical post-finale Excalibur lineup
NEXT EPISODE: The return of X-Factor! Kind of!
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