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365 – A Whole Year of This Nonsense
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In which you can now listen to a unique episode of Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men every day for a year; Shi’ar tech support leaves something to be desired; Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau does not appear in a story; it’s Deathbird, not Dueprocessbird; Zenn-La gets destroyed a lot; and we shall never speak of this incident again.
X-PLAINED:
- Where babies come from
- The Shi’ar (again)
- Cable/X-Force Annual 1996
- X-Men Unlimited #13
- Organs
- Shi’ar ship names
- Pulse
- Unconventional use of the Danger Room
- Butt-first framing
- Interplanetary extradition
- The word “contemplative”
- Binary (again)
- More Shi’ar ship names
- Zenn-La
- Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd)
- The Inciters
- A giant metal space skull
- Junction, NY
- A metaphor for America
- Marie Cavendish
- Mutants with synthetics-based powers
- Literary intersections
NEXT EPISODE: Beast!
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As Mentioned in Episode 363 – Licked by a Shadow
363 – Licked by a Shadow
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In which standing in fields looking confused is a way of life; Psylocke gets a new superpower; when you gotta confess you gotta confess; Iceman’s dad stands up for justice; we mourn a Sentinel; and it’s probably a good thing that most companies don’t do mind melds as a team-building exercise.
X-PLAINED:
- Levels of mutant power
- Omicron-level mutations
- Miles’s brief baseball career
- Uncanny X-Men #338
- X-Men #58
- X-Men Annual 1996
- Archangel’s wings
- Joseph vs. Holographic Magneto
- Shadow teleportation
- The errand theory of confession
- Graydon Creed (more) (again)
- “Drake Roberts” and “Samson Guthry”
- Several ways to memorialize the Mutant Massacre
- Onslaught, but an anteater
- A fight
- Several JJJ cameos
- X-baseball games
- A highly atypical Sentinel
- Several oblique warnings
- X-Men ‘97
- Media inspired by the X-Men
NEXT EPISODE: Pryde & Wisdom
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As Mentioned in Episode 325 – Captain Bloodscream
325 – Captain Bloodscream
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In which we recommend against having a birthday in the Marvel Universe; Shinobi Shaw was a proto-Quentin Quire; Lee Forrester returns under the best possible circumstances; Bloodscream lives his best unlife; Belasco is apparently master of the cat people now; and a former Marvel intern returns to solve a mystery.
X-PLAINED:
- Bloodscream (again)
- X-Force/Cable Annual 1995
- Spider-Man Team-Up #1
- X-Men Unlimited #9
- The Impossible Man (and his slacker kids)
- The Clone Saga
- Benedict Kine
- A really superlative insult
- The continuity box
- Still more Bloodscream
- 30-50 feral hogs
- GHOST PIRACY
- Belasco (more)(again)
- The N’garai (more) (again)
- A follow-up to a mystery from Episode #323
NEXT EPISODE: X-Factor vs. the Adversary
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As Mentioned in Episode 278 – A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing
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LINKS & FURTHER ATROCITIES:
- Listen to Miles talk about people who turn into dinosaurs on Battle of the Atom!
- Here is a fairly remarkable Marxist examination of Sex House; because, why not?
- Should you be so inclined, you can watch the entire series here. It’s worth noting that the first few episodes do not reflect the tone of the series as it progresses. (Content Warning: I don’t even know anymore.)
- We delved into Reignfire’s weird, weird origins in the cold open to Episode 238 – Meet Them Where They Are.
- Jay co-wrote a serial Thor novel! You can subscribe to it here, if you are so inclined.
278 – A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing
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In which Moonstar really wasn’t fooling anybody; Bird Brain is somehow still alive; Cassidy Keep is weird; Gene Ha draws excellent Storm; Reeva Payge makes her sole comics appearance; and Shinobi Shaw is wrong about everything.
X-PLAINED:
- A not-particularly-cunning disguise
- Upcoming coverage
- X-Force Annual #3
- X-Men Annual #3
- The MLF
- Reignfire (more) (again)
- Moonstar (more) (again)
- An unconventional way to keep a secret diary
- A bittersweet semi-reunion
- 3Peace
- Murphy Keep
- A ghost, maybe
- The kind of thing that happens at Cassidy Keep
- An excellent burn
- Leather
- “Neurotoxins”
- Sex House as the definitive artifact of the 2010s
- How not to draw someone having a nightmare
- A very short-lived version of the Hellfire Club
- How not to villain
- Coming to terms with bad fictional tech
NEXT EPISODE: Giant-Size Winter Special, feat. Christina Strain & Chip Zdarsky!
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As Mentioned in Episode 267 – The Saddest Joyride
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LINKS & FURTHER ACTION POINTS
- Here’s where to send your strongly worded letter about why Marvel should give us Earth-441:
- Marvel Entertainment, LLC
135 W. 50th Street
New York, NY 10020 - You can also tweet at them with the hashtag #EarthXPlain!
- Or e-mail the X-office directly at [email protected]!
- Marvel Entertainment, LLC
- For more in-depth discussion of Emma Frost, check out Episode 219 – Brutal Hearts: An Appreciation of Emma Frost (feat. Seanan McGuire, Leah Williams, Tea Fougner, Kel McDonald, and Diana Fox)!
- Yes, SoftPaws are a real thing.
267 – The Saddest Joyride
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In which Emma Frost is a better Iceman than Bobby Drake; Generation X is aggressively foreshadowed; Malcolm and Randall are the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to Bishop’s Hamlet; and we launch a campaign for our own Multiversal designation.
X-PLAINED:
- The first time the X-Men met Emma Frost
- Uncanny X-Men 314-315
- X-Men Annual #18
- A game show nobody should ever under any circumstances actually make
- Emma Frost’s recruitment tactics
- Previously unexplored ice powers
- The direct prelude to Generation X
- Caliban (more) (again)
- SoftPaws(TM)
- The giant squids of New York
- The neophyte
- A trial, kind of
- X-Men power fantasies
- Earth-X-Plain
NEXT EPISODE: We’re so close to nearly reaching what’s almost the Phalanx Covenant!
Game show music by MusicManiac301; used with permission.
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