Tag: Amelia Voght
372 – Monty Python’s Life of Magnus
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In which the first Magneto miniseries is actually a Joseph miniseries; Magneto lost a lot of nuance in the ‘90s; Fabian Cortez is friend to neither man nor bird; Joseph finds his inner supervillain; Marvel’s United Nations is unusually heavily armed; and bears are much cooler than guns.
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- Magneto (again)
- The Acolytes (again)
- Joseph (again)
- Magneto #1-4
- Amelia Voght (again)
- Religious statuary
- Razors
- New Avalon
- Magneto’s voice
- How not to make a point
- Armstrong
- A Trask who may or may not be Simon
- Weird torture
- Peonies
- A big, silly fight
- Happy X-Men comics featuring Wolverine
- The many nexuses of reality
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As Mentioned in Episode 253 – Autumn in the Uncanny Valley
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253 – Autumn in the Uncanny Valley
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In which an engagement begins; Jean Grey’s Walden Puddle counterpart is definitely Nicole; Cyclops is the telepathic equivalent of a pit trap with spikes at the bottom; Charles Xavier’s subconscious is very dialogue-heavy; nobody ever has appropriate professional boundaries; Cable dabbles in passive aggression; and the best is yet to come.
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- Some of Blaquesmith’s recent activities
- Uncanny X-Men #308-310
- A very sweet retcon
- Thanksgiving “traditions”
- How to scare crows
- Emplates
- Feelings and telepathy
- A proposal
- A misprint
- Thanksgiving at the Xavier School
- A somewhat alarming manifestation of a conscience
- The lies Charles Xavier tells himself
- Xavier’s depression beard
- The evolution of Amelia Voght
- Angry Claremontean Narrator: The Movie
- The anticlimactic return of Carl “X-Cutioner” Denti
- An unexpected resolution
- Foreshadowing
- Trans voices in the larger comics conversation
NEXT EPISODE: The wedding!
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As Mentioned in Episode 236 – Baggage of Traumas Past
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- Ask Stryfe
- Come see us at Emerald City Comic Con! We’ll be tabling all weekend, and on Saturday, we’ve got both a live show and a party!
236 – Baggage of Traumas Past (Fatal Attractions, Part 3)
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In which Decimation was kind of sketchy; you should definitely come see us in Seattle; Wolverine has a rough day; Colossus has yet another rough day; Excalibur plans for the future; and Fatal Attractions comes to a close.
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- How Professor X got his groove and/or powers back
- Jay & Miles at Emerald City Comic Con
- Wolverine #75
- Excalibur #71
- Psychic trauma
- High-stakes references
- The personal Ragnarok of a shattered soul
- A really effective sound effect
- The first day of the rest of Logan’s life
- Butterflies of the Xavier School
- Muir Island’s psychiatric ward
- Medical consent
- The worst bar, probably
- Professorial disambiguation
- What Micromax and Kyluun are probably definitely up to
- Several variably awkward Grey-Summers family reunions
- A betrayal
- Amelia Voght
- Unuscione
- Katu
- The future of Excalibur
- Proactive superheroism
- How not to make a White Russian
- Shadowcat’s recovery post-Mutant Massacre
- Our etymological destinies
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As Mentioned in Episode 218 – Careful What You Lick
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- Come see us at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival!
- The delightful PDX Broadsides will also be there!
- This episode involves a LOT of references to past story arcs. Here’s where you can hear us talk about those:
- Learn about one of the less obvious reasons not to masturbate with cacti in Episode 78 – The Eye Killers and Other Cautionary Tales.
- You can hear about the beginning of X-Men vol. 2 in Episode 178 – Giant-Size Special #6.
- We covered God Loves, Man Kills in Giant-Size Special #1.
- You can see Miles’s childhood X-Men drawings in Jay & Miles Made a Zine About the X-Men, now available on Gumroad!
218 – Careful What You Lick
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In which X-Cutioner’s Song may be over, but its repercussions continue; Uncanny X-Men hits a major milestone; superhero comics are and always have been political; Bishop learns to banter; the X-Men gain an unlikely ally; and Magneto remains exceptionally difficult to kill.
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- Jay & Miles at VVCBF
- Uncanny X-Men #298-300
- The Acolytes (more) (again)
- The Upstarts (more) (again)
- Several important lessons
- A very fancy room
- A very fancy brain
- The unpleasant fate of Sharon Friedlander
- The all-new, all-different Acolytes
- Carmella Unuscione
- The return of one of our favorite antagonists
- A sick burn
- The fate of Asteroid M
- Molting
- A debate
- Graydon Creed (more) (again)
- The tentative redemption of Robert Kelly
- How to lose a debate with Joe Biden
- A large number of prescient political references
- Friends of Humanity
- How to engage with a fascist in a televised debate
- Noah DuBois
- Fatale
- A generic rural mob
- Milan
- A narratively convenient superpower
- Amelia Voght
- Seamus Mellencamp
- Neophyte
- The gospel of Magneto
- A joyous reunion
- The helmet that wouldn’t die
- Ponytail ethics
- Timelust
- Several accents
- The current state of Rogue’s powers
NEXT EPISODE: All Emma All Episode (feat. Seanan McGuire, Leah Williams, and more)!
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