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424 – Times Change
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In which everything is Havok’s fault; Jay is a bad influence; Polaris makes some valid points; Jamie Madrox is the Bobby Drake of X-Factor; and X-Factor vol. 1 ends with a bang.
X-PLAINED:
- Muppet rules
- X-Factor, vol. 1, in general
- X-Factor #146-149
- Sense of place
- Jude Black and his inexplicable facial hair
- Boundaries
- Edible Arrangements
- A different kind of sports bar
- Kevin
- Nostalgia, I guess?
- Several confrontations
- Temporal insanity
- A very specialized course
- What happens next
- The universe where Dazzler replaced Jean Grey in the original X-Factor
- Characters we would like to have seen more of
NEXT EPISODE: Psi-War!
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414 – Blackwater Boy Band
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In which Wild Child makes an unlikely Santa Claus; Sabretooth champions continuity; Random’s last name should’a been Violence; Forge doesn’t have to like you; and Mackie’s X-Factor run gets interesting—right before its untimely end.
X-PLAINED:
- Another X-Factor
- X-Factor #142-145
- Unrealized anticipation
- Deadline
- What Val Cooper wants for Christmas
- The evolutionary symbolism of noses
- Several breeds of dog
- The secret history of Val Cooper and Wild Child
- Wildheart
- The Secret Empire
- The X.U.E. (more) (again)
- Ice skating, interrupted
- Another cool way to draw Havok’s powers
- A clever retcon
- The X-Factor that might have been
- Greystone’s origins
- Micah
- A temple of doom
- The hierarchy of cool skulls
- Branching timelines and the implications thereof
- An Alex Summers / Moira MacTaggert chimera
NEXT EPISODE: Gambit, again.
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As Mentioned in Episode 407 – Freshening Up
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LINKS & FURTHER TIME SINKS
- We covered the first X.S.E. miniseries in Episode 340 – Retconaganda.
407 – Freshening Up
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In which X-Factor bounces from one rock-bottom to another; Sabretooth gets his (murderous) groove back; Dark Beast embraces the iMac aesthetic; the tip was righteous; Mystique multitasks like a pro; and Shard Bishop has come unstuck in time.
X-PLAINED:
- X-Nation
- What X-Factor’s been up to
- X-Factor #138-141
- Omega Red (again)
- The Brotherhood’s new hideout
- Mallory Brickman
- Miles and/or Ralph Brickman
- Gloria Brickman
- “Freshening up”
- Mystique, but a sitcom
- Agent Vargas
- Ever
- The secret purpose of Havok’s Brotherhood
- Exhumes vs. emplates
- Fixx
- Greystone
- Archer
- The X.U.E.
- Bantam
- Leisure activities
- What would happen if the T-O virus took over Cable’s body
- What we want from X-Men #700
NEXT EPISODE: Bishop: X.S.E.
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As Mentioned in Episode 406 – The Most Dangerous Mini-Game
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LINKS & FURTHER READING
- If you want to know more about the man behind the mustache, we recommend the hell out of Abraham Josephine Riesman’s True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee.
406 – The Most Dangerous Mini-Game
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In which we disagree about the value of Stan Lee intros; everybody wants Wolverine; Mister Sinister lurks; Haley Blanding deserves better; Thunderbird fights a tiger; and Xavier and Magneto do their usual thing.
X-PLAINED:
- The Circus of Crime
- Stan Lee intros
- Wolverine #-1
- X-Factor #-1
- X-Force #-1
- X-Men #-1
- Proust vs. Sartre
- How Logan joined Alpha Flight
- The secret origin of the word “canucklehead.”
- USDA, Annex B
- Myron MacLain
- Logan’s cigars
- Yet more continuity errors
- Sabretooth’s ridiculous car
- The balance of scary and silly
- Wolverine’s cowboy hat
- Summers family bullshit
- The Blandings and/or Masterses
- Vince
- The Proudstar family
- One or more cats named Coyote
- The origin of Thunderbird’s totem
- Edwin Martynec (again)
- Chondu the Magician
- Ringmaster
- Yet more Xavier and Magneto flashback drama
- The bottom of the resurrection queue
- Good car-trip episodes
NEXT EPISODE: X-Factor continues to make poor decisions
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As Mentioned in Episode 398 – Shanna the Wee Devil
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398 – Shanna the Wee Devil
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- Motormouth (Harley Davis)
- Motormouth and Killpower
- Uncanny X-Men #347-349
- Grovel and Spat
- A horse guy who is actually a cat-frog-lizard guy
- An extraordinarily half-assed action figure
- Load-bearing backstory
- Landscape
- The other Nanny
- Elegant foreshadowing
- Beast’s appearance as a mutant power
- Gambit’s chest hair
- The end of playtime
- CCA-compliant foliage
- Deathbird and Bishop
- A vanity plate
- Eany and Meany
- One-off psychometry
- Psylocke vs. Maggott
- Decompression
- Havok’s enduring lack of a Ph.D.
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