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379 – Stardate: Today
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In which what happens in space stays in space; a horse is imperiled; Joseph does some dubious science; Gladiator’s name is absolutely not Gary; everybody gets new costumes; and we learn where babies come from.
X-PLAINED:
- Shi’ar taxonomy, sort of
- The Shi’ar (again)
- The Phalanx (again)
- Uncanny X-Men #341-344
- A whole bunch of callbacks to X-Men #98
- A carriage ride
- The Z’noxx chamber (again)
- One way to have safer sex
- FAO Schwarz
- The Shi’ar Imerial Guard (again)
- Diplomacy, kind of
- Space outfits
- Trademarks
- Pure Phalanx
- Dinosaur Kingdom 2
- Where Shi’ar babies come from
- Flirting
- The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl vs. Isca the Unbeaten
- Characters we would happily voice if invited to do so
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378 – The Unstoppable Huggernaut
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In which our favorite(?) fear lord returns; Sirocco Sprawl is an extremely unpleasant fictional town; the Juggernaut is not a subtle man; we really need to get our hands on the Generation X novels; Tarot gets a logo font; and Banshee is menaced by spectral leprechauns.
X-PLAINED
- Several Juggernauts
- Soap Operas
- D’Spayre (again)
- D’Spayre vs. Nightmare
- Juggernaut #1
- Generation X Annual 1997
- Magical pants
- Juggernaut (Cain Marko) and what he’s been up to lately
- Incidental reptiles
- Sirocco Sprawl, NM
- Marvin T. Rocksalt
- A spree of cartoonish destruction
- Spite (again)
- Black Tom Cassidy (again)
- A really cool skeleton
- Generation X novels
- Several episodes we should probably do someday
- A very poorly-drawn butt
- The Hellions (more) (again)
- One way to put out a fire
- Garden Plots with Skeletor
- Several nightmare scenarios
- Alex Summers’s adoptive family
- What would happen if Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau met Cameron Hodge
NEXT EPISODE: Space!
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377 – Sam Hill
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In which Domino’s miniseries earns a grade of “present”; Miles gets to know Sam Hill; Domino trades pouches for boots; and we would prefer that you not sexualize Lady Deathstrike.
X-PLAINED:
- Halloween Jack
- Domino (Neena Thurman)
- Domino #1-3
- Milo Thurman
- The idiomatic Sam Hill
- Lady Deathstrike (again)
- The Reavers (again)
- Pico
- Boot pouches
- Puck (Eugene Judd)
- Dante’s Beatrice
- Several Skullbusters
- Robot tits
- The E.T. Atari game
- One way to get out of saying “I love you”
- Our unpopular favorites
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HAWK TALK – The Voyage of the Mimi
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376 – Moore of This
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In which we begin John Francis Moore’s run on X-Force; Latveria is less fun without Doctor Doom; there may still be a tiny clone of Meltdown running around; Forearm is a good pal; Marvel Asgard is a realm of crossover fan fiction; and you should totally watch both Our Flag Means Death and Doom Patrol.
X-PLAINED:
- Blackbeard, somewhat
- X-Force #63-64
- X-Force & Cable Annual 1997
- Life after Onslaught
- Dimitri Fortunov
- Dr. Doom’s time podium
- New costumes
- Liddleville
- Latveria, 1941
- Sturmfanger
- Valkyrie (Brunhilde)
- Aragorn (but not that one)
- The Mutant Liberation Front (again) (briefly)
- A large dog who may or may not have eaten a horse
- Valkyries (more) (again)
- What all the former New Mutants are up to
- Yggdrasil and the Nine Realms (again)
- Malekith the Accursed
- Kindra the Dwarf (again)
- Skadi the Frost Giant
- Hela (again) (briefly)
- Doctor Who analogs
- What we miss about the Silver Age
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375 – One Thousand Kicks to the Face
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In which there is definitely a wrong way to enjoy your comics; Storm could probably use a more secure storage system; the Externals need more camp; and Joseph makes some valid points.
X-PLAINED
- What Storm’s up to
- X-Men Unlimited #7 (again) (briefly)
- X-Men #60-61
- X-Men Unlimited #14
- Karima
- Jamil
- Candra (again)
- A surprising absence of Howard Mackie
- Candra’s heart
- Some excessively complex psychic powers
- Phylacteries
- The origin of Storm’s romance with T’Challa
- Kicks to the face as a unit of pain
- Undercloaks
- The alternate universe where the McCoys live in Indiana
- The moppet squad (again)
- Dunfee, IN
- Yet another angry mob
- Multiverse-variable powers
- Favorite X-relationships
Correction: The Brandalorian let us know that “Phylacteries (tefillin) are not Chasidic; they’re a ritual object mentioned by the Torah, used by Jews of all sorts.” Apologies for our error, and we appreciate the correction!
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374 – SMEK
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In which Frank Punisher is not a role model; Carl the X-Cutioner is not very good at secret identities; Miles tries his hand at poetry; and everything’s funny with a sidecar.
X-PLAINED:
- Frankencastle
- Frank Punisher and his cultural context
- Punisher #12-16
- Carl the X-Cutioner
- S.H.I.E.L.D.
- The New Mutant Liberation Front and several members thereof
- William Connover (again)
- Agynt Kymberly Taylor
- Optimal sidecar use
- Simon Trask
- What it’s like to kiss Frank Punisher
- Poor management technique
- How we choose what to reveal when
- The timeline where Magik is textually queer
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HAWK TALK – Doonesbury
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373 – Tainted Loins
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In which the Drake Roberts identity is retired; Gambit bonds with William Drake; Graydon Creed is evil but nondescript; tales of Pyro’s death have been somewhat exaggerated; and some mysteries resolve better than others.
X-PLAINED:
- Damian Tryp
- X-Factor (more) (again)
- Uncanny X-Men #340
- X-Factor #128-30
- More Drake family dynamics
- The Sword of Shannara
- The general vagueness of Graydon Creed
- Several ninjas
- Hound stuff
- Val Cooper’s pajamas
- An unexpected return
- Shapeshifting
- Overextended plotlines
- Some unusually threatening dad jokes
- The anticlimactic death of Graydon Creed
- Some time travel bullshit
- Which series are ending and which are relaunching between Reign of X and Destiny of X
- How and when Colossus stopped being the Juggernaut
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