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Archive for September 2020
As Mentioned in Episode 307 – Ugly Mootants Only

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307 – Ugly Mootants Only

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Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which Cable has clearly inherited his father’s inability to go on a date that doesn’t end disastrously; Husk is a lightweight; we are very taken with a turtle; you really don’t want to run into the other Hemingway in an elevator, either; Jubilee can speak in logos; and Wolverine gives some fatherly advice.
X-PLAINED:
- One way to get your powers back
- Cable #15
- Generation X #5-6
- X-Men: Marvels Snapshots #1 (Coming September 16)
- Cable, in general
- A date
- “Sheer” fabrics
- What we’d bring to desert islands
- Sarah (Marrow)
- The Ceremony of Light
- Several generations of mutant teenagers
- Generation X and its members (more) (again)
- Chamber’s socks
- Gateway’s taste in television
- Husk’s extremely low alcohol tolerance
- Some cool lettering
- Banshee is to Chris Bachalo as Nightcrawler is to Alan Davis
- Fridge wolves
- NYC celebrity encounters
- The ongoing legacy of X-kids with gross powers
- Teenagers
- Hemingway, but not that Hemingway
- The return of Artie and Leech
- Bones
- How we would incorporate the X-Men into the MCU
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HAWK TALK – Playing With Super Power (feat. Matthew Hunter)

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This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, our producer Matthew Hunter subbed in for Jay and he and Miles talked about the video games they grew up on!
Topics, roughly:
- Crystalis
- Power Blade
- Fighting robots (in general)
- Super Mario World
- F-Zero
- Final Fantasy II (which is to say IV)
- Street Fighter II
- Rockin’ Kats
- Shatter Hand
- Battletoads
- Lemmings
- The Incredible Machine
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
- Turtles in Time
- Mario Paint
- Doom
- Secret of Mana
- Mega Man X
- Disney adaptations
- Final Fantasy III (which is to say VI)
- Donkey Kong Country
- Super Punch Out
- Illusion of Gaia
- BioForge
- DWANGO (Dial-up Wide-Area Network Game Operation)
- Full Throttle, Quest For Glory, Gabriel Knight…
- Wild ARMs
- Wipeout
- Stun Runner
- Resident Evil
- Final Fantasy VII
- Fallout
- Parasite Eve
- Xenogears
- Baldur’s Gate
- Tetris DX
- Pokémon (Blue)
- LUNAR
- Silent Hill