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As Mentioned in Episode 256 – Mullets of Time and Space

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LINKS & FURTHER LISTENING:
- You can hear all about D’Spayre’s first clash with the X-Men (or at least one of them) in Episode 14 – Look Upon My Man-Thing and D’Spayre!
- We talked about the time Margali Szardos build Nightcrawler his own private hell in Episode 134 – Live at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival.
256 – Mullets of Time and Space

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In which you raised a lot of money for Trans Lifeline; we continue to miss Alan Davis; Rory Campbell should not be narrating a climactic event; Daytripper needs to dial up her eldritch patter; the universe is dubiously self-correcting; Britannic is not nearly weird enough; and we have ongoing concerns about the anatomy of incarnate concepts.
X-PLAINED:
- The X-Men of Earth-77995
- Excalibur #75-77
- Daytripper
- A somewhat pointless sacrifice
- Rough times in the timestream
- Britannic
- X-theology
- D’Spayre’s butt
- The rest of D’Spayre
- Margali Szardos
- The blood-brain barrier
- Acrobatic flirtation
- The Winding Way
- Stark emptiness
- A shocking possible resurrection
- Major X
- Essential characters
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As Mentioned in Episode 248 – Destructo Woman
248 – Destructo Woman

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In which Tom Cassidy and Cain Marko may be the most stable couple in the Marvel Universe; Rory Campbell is no Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau; Siena Blaze remains a big jerk; the Cassidy family has some issues; and we are dismayed by an inexplicable dearth of leprechauns.
X-PLAINED:
- Birthday presents
- What Excalibur has been up to
- Excalibur #72-74
- X-Force #31
- How to be mysterious
- The Proteus Room
- The continually terrible choices of Moira MacTaggert
- Porridge ghosts
- An unnatural disaster
- Chekhov’s solid rock
- Rory Campbell
- Destructo Woman
- Limitations of CD-ROMs
- Siryn (Theresa Cassidy)
- The Cassidy family
- How not to treat a gunshot wound
- Kelvin Donaghann and his fancy hair
- An intervention
- The future of the New Mutants feature film
- Underwear
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152 – Ghosts of Future Present

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In which Franklin Richards makes everything more complicated; Reed Richards is a terrible parent; Days of Future Present is a surprisingly good ghost story; Valeria Richards is awesome (but does not appear in this crossover); everyone’s got hounds these days; Banshee is your sad cyborg dad; Phoenix has a lot of feelings; and X-Factor once again manages to up the ante for child endangerment.
X-PLAINED:
- Nightcrawler’s brief clerical career
- Days of Future Present
- Annuals, in general
- Some extraordinarily specific Namor headcanon
- Fantastic Four Annual #23
- New Mutants Annual #6
- X-Factor Annual #5
- Uncanny X-Men Annual #14
- Franklin Richards
- Several statuses quo
- The reproductive potential of Doombots
- Ms. Marvel (Sharon Ventura)
- Ahab
- A Code Red Time Emergency
- One of Jay’s dream pitches
- Your sad cyborg dad
- The worst tea party
- One hell of a kiss
- Robocop vs. Terminator
NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur gets eclectic!
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