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426 – A Gift from the Lower Regions
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In which the Shi’ar have zero chill; Bishop and Deathbird do space opera; we travel to the far-future year of 2018; Alanna Nerimani stretches the definition of “bird”; Deathbird is the cool aunt; Bishop needs a break from dark futures; and Bishop and Sauron have an intimate encounter.
X-PLAINED:
- The current number of Summers brothers
- Uncanny X-Men #358
- Team X 2000
- The Shi’ar Empire (more) (again)
- Shi’ar voices
- Parker Posey vs. Posie Parker
- Sexual dimorphism in art
- The Ursaa
- Organs
- The Chnitt
- Karel
- Several cameos
- Nullifier charges
- Tu
- The first appearance of Cyclops’s Captain America teddy bear
- 2018
- Alan Smithee
- Gith
- Deathbird’s terrible childhood
- Shi’ar-occupied Earth
- Alanna Nerimani
- Your cool murder aunt
- Earth-9922
- Deathbird’s war journals
- The Morlocks (but not those ones)
- Team X (but not that one)
- Bribery
- A very sexual encounter
- Explorations of disability and ableism in comics
- Beast’s long, slow heel turn
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As Mentioned in Episode 370 – The Sound of Evil
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370 – The Sound of Evil (feat. Max Carleton)
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In which Max Carleton and Miles take a trip back to the Silver Age, the origins of Marvel Girl’s telepathy are questionable, the nature of Polaris’s parentage is also questionable, and the quality of Sauron’s origin story shall never be questioned.
X-PLAINED:
- The Locust (Dr. August Hopper)
- Uncanny X-Men #46, 52, and 60
- Genuine tragedy
- Funereal fashion
- Frederick “Amos” Duncan
- The Juggernaut (Cain Marko) (again)
- The Crimson Cosmos
- Energy globules
- Charles Xavier’s telepathy lending library
- Jean Grey, spiteful seamstress
- Erik the Red (the first one) (Scott Summers)
- Lorna Dane, fashion icon
- Filially-obligated villainy
- Psychic-delia
- The sadly short-lived Roy Thomas / Neal Adams run
- Suspension of disbelief
- Pteranodons
- Sauron (Karl Lykos, fantasy nerd)
- Alex Summers, perpetual captive and/or villain battery
- Miles’s favorite two-page spread
- How to choose the perfect supervillain name
- X-Men: The Animated Series, 1960s Edition
- Our Silver Age X-creator wish list
- Magnetism
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As Mentioned in Episode 304 – Explosive Ops
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LINKS & FURTHER NONSENSE:
- Rutland, Vermont had multiple Marvel and DC stories set in it during the 1970s – but it’s also a real place. Apologies for telling everyone it was imaginary, and thank you to all the listeners who kindly pointed out that it wasn’t!
304 – Explosive Ops
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In which Jay discovers a continuity loop; phonetic spelling reaches a new level of implausibility; it’s always already Onslaught; X-Force’s roster gets shaken up; Siryn goes undercover; and the Upstarts remain vaguely plot-relevant despite our fervent wishes.
X-PLAINED:
- Mimic (Calvin Rankin)
- Wing problems
- X-Force #45-47
- One of Adam Pollina’s more remarkable non-Marvel art credits
- One of many homages to the cover of X-Men #138
- X-Force, its members, and its recent history
- Phonetic spelling
- Warpath’s hair
- Baffling managerial decisions
- Whether Reed Richards is machine washable
- Many pouches
- An unlikely friendship
- Sabretooth’s state of mind
- Rutland, VT
- The Weisman Institute for the Criminally Insane
- Dr. Rachel Weisman
- Jeremy Stevens
- Part of why we like following X-books over time
- Character redesigns
CORRECTION: In addition to being the setting of a number of 1970s Marvel and DC stories, Rutland, VT is actually a real place with a famous annual (and largely superhero-themed) Halloween parade!
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As Mentioned in Episode 300 – Götterdämmerung
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LINKS & FURTHER EPICS:
- Janet K. Lee makes really, really gorgeous comics and other art.
- A lot of the episodes we mentioned are in the roundup from our 5th anniversary episode.
- You can hear more about Jay’s chickens-in-law in Hawk Talk: Florida Mans
300 – Götterdämmerung
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In which the Age of Apocalypse comes to an end; Angel briefly lives up to his potential; Bishop was sometimes right; It’s not a climactic ending without an X-Men #137 reference; Colossus breaks our hearts; X-Men: Marvels Snapshot will be out in September; and somehow we have made 300 of these things.
X-PLAINED:
- Beast vs. Dark Beast
- X-Men: Omega
- The entirety of the (first) Age of Apocalypse
- Potpourri vs. incense
- Dramatic hair
- Many, many errors
- Unforeseen consequences
- A long-anticipated team-up
- Many deaths
- Art as artifact
- Narration that has haunted Jay for 20 years
- One of the more persistent deaths of David Haller
- Blast Attack
- The end of a world
- Refugees from the Age of Apocalypse
- Our favorite X-milestone issues
- Theoretical teams
- Orphans
- When X-Men: Marvels Snapshot is actually coming out
- Our favorite show bits
- How Jay’s chickens-in-law are doing
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As Mentioned in Episode 296 – Hard Choices
296 – Hard Choices
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In which Magneto doesn’t really do work/live divide; Amazing X-Men is a bit of a misnomer; Exodus is the lawful evil to Fabian Cortez’s chaotic evil; smoking is bad for you; moisture molecular inversion is fairly definitely not a real thing; Earth-295 Quicksilver and Earth-616 Cyclops would probably get along; OSHA would probably like a word with the Madrii; Gambit had ONE JOB; and there are no superheroes in the Age of Apocalypse.
X-PLAINED:
- An unlikely team-up
- Relative amazingness
- Amazing X-Men #1-5
- Color separations
- Comics credits
- The Brotherhood of Mutants and/or Chaos
- The Great Human Airlift
- Exodus (more) (again)
- Best Quicksilver (Earth-295)
- Abyss
- A dubiously aerodynamic cape
- One last job
- Several points of semantic distinction
- Lone Nanny & Cub
- The most punchable man on Earth-295
- A difficult choice
- What it means to be X-Men
- Dick Valentine
- Jamie Madrox (Earth-295)
- A world without superheroes
- Universe numbering
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CORRECTION: The line about fence-straddling that Jay attributed to Wonder Woman was in fact spoken by Hawkgirl.
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