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In which Synch is a more versatile character than he originally got credit for; “eep” and “eek” are likewise underused; space makes everything better; Nate Grey is the proto-himbo; and if you can decipher the secret code in this episode, you, too, can win a Silver Surfer jet ski!
X-PLAINED:
- Diablo
- Generation X Underground Special
- X-Men Unlimited #30
- X-Man: All Saints Day
- Jim Mahfood
- Skin’s video-game preferences
- Strange superpowers
- Poster pirates
- Visual representations of the passage of time
- “Banshee’s Angels”
- Charlie’s Angels
- The infamous donut-day riots
- Perfect costumes
- Adequate restraints for small children
- The raw power of funk
- Generation X vs. the Beat Generation
- The greatest disco event in the universe
- Nate Grey
- Some kid named Jerome
- Countess Absynthia Von Mort
- Transylvania
- Dr. Cindy’s Castle
- The state of Phoenix affairs
- The color bar at the top of the page in ‘90s comics
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Good stuff, guys! You were really on form. I think Absynthia Von Mort’s name is a case of nominative determinism. She was named after something green, she became green. See sprinter Usain Bolt or archeologist Flint Dibble.
Also, I wonder if she was inspired by Elizabeth Bathory, who was alleged to bathe in the blood of virgins in order to preserve her youth.
Anyway, keep up the good work. 🙂
Sometimes nominative determinism stumbles though. Like that hair metal guy Dana Strum, who plays bass.😸
A little “well, actually” on this one — Avengers Assemble Omega establishes that Echo is a former Phoenix host, the fire having been burned out of her when The Avengers re-ignited a universe (or something like that). So current issues of Jean Grey being an asterisk, I believe the Phoenix Force is currently without a host.
…someone should see if Feron’s got anything going on right now.
I suspect that if the comic had been called “Doctor Jennifer Murder’s Drop-In Deathatorium” I might have been more inclined to pick it up.
I’m not sure I remember even seeing the Underground Special, though I might have assumed it was a pastiche in the same vein as Grant Morrison’s “Doom Force Special” rather than something akin to an actual underground comic.