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Man, I love this cover. (X-Calibre #1)

Cain Marko, man of peace. (X-Calibre #1)

Welcome to Avalon. (X-Calibre #1)

That is an EXCELLENT point. (X-Calibre #1)

I don’t remember Thunderbird having that many muscles or, y’know, being white. (X-Calibre #1)

“Sure thing! That’s BLAMM with two Ms?” (X-Calibre #2)

Aw, buddy. (X-Calibre #2)

But shouldn’t that be Rusty Collins’s icon? (X-Calibre #2)

…well, shit. (X-Calibre #2)

Almost our Kurt, and very much not our Kurt. (X-Calibre #2)

OH HELL YEAH (X-Calibre #3)

TFW Magneto forces you to visit your One Big Ex’s intentional community. (X-Calibre #3)

They have fun. (That is a lie. They do not have fun.) (X-Calibre #3)

Oh, come on. (X-Calibre #3)

AND THAT’S WHY YOU ALWAYS LEAVE A NOTE (X-Calibre #4)

Not AGAIN. (X-Calibre #4)

Welcome to the Age of Apocalypse!

NEXT EPISODE: these goofs, in space
LINKS & FURTHER ALLUSIONS
- That really depressing historical anecdote about ballast tanks came courtesy of friend of the show Joe Streckert, of the Weird History Podcast. Thanks, Joe!
- Seriously: Mystique-295 is Tovah Feldshuh as Naomi Bunch on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
- We differ on the quality of the X-Files episode “The Field Where I Died”; your mileage may vary.
“Thunderbird—the first X-man who died”
A truth claim that was repeated this episode. A claim I 100% agree with…
I grew up believing this was true, but a TWELVE YEAR OLD KID at Alakazam Comics in Irvine, CA recently SCHOOLED me on Morph:
“Sydney first appeared as Changeling, a mutant shapeshifter. He was a short-lived adversary for the X-Men who subsequently joined Professor X and died shortly after, making him the first member of the X-Men to die in action”
From:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Sydney
Which seems like something you would have covered, but I have NO memory of this having been discussed. Is it true? Did #MorphDieFirst ?
Just a heads up, this episode never made its way onto google podcasts/google play.
Weird; it’s showing up there on my phone and on the web (https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLmZlZWRidXJuZXIuY29tL3hwbGFpbnRoZXhtZW4) – on what platform/device are you not seeing it?