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368 – Six Teenagers in a Van
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In which we return to Rutland, Vermont; Emma Frost faces her salad demons; Banshee is not even supposed to be here today; no one should ever have to drive in New York City; Fenris is both evil and obnoxious; and we’re still not over that one Senator Kelly action figure.
X-PLAINED:
- How to help us help queer and trans youth
- Generation X #22
- Generation X Annual 1996
- Halloween with Generation X
- Stag Beetle Magazine
- X-casting Nicholas Cage
- Neurotica
- William Castle
- Roger Corman’s Poe adaptations
- Saturday morning cartoons
- Weird gardening
- Some very clever lettering tricks
- Several humans
- Train delays
- Fenris
- Mutagen Wave Generator
- The Worst Action Figure (more) (again)
- Robert the Ship
- Our favorite Beast iterations
- Abbreviations
NEXT EPISODE: Wolverine and some other guys!
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As Mentioned in Episode 362 – Lazy Summer Day
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LINKS & FURTHER MISCREANTS
- Waiting for the Trade re: the Danger Room and what’s been done there.
- For more about Tana Nile, Howard the Duck, and Franklin Richards, check out Giant-Size Special #10!
- X-Factor, summarized.
362 – Lazy Summer Day
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In which Chris Bachalo draws excellent critters; Bastion is a terrible boss; everyone fucks in the Danger Room; Jubilee fails a midterm; and humans were the real monsters all along.
X-PLAINED:
- The worst mutant power
- Generation X #20-21
- X-Factor #127
- Bachalo critters
- Bastion (more) (again)
- Daria (but not the one you’re thinking of)
- Chevy the janitor (again)
- Mean Cuisine
- Harker the cat
- A threatening salad
- Yet another time-traveling Nate
- Flirting
- A movie reference
- U.S.1 and Baron von Blimp
- Several ways to fail a midterm
- “Autism”
- Miguela Torres
- Trevor Chase
- A series of interviews
- Richard Starkings and Comicraft
- Destiny’s absence from film
NEXT EPISODE: Baseball!
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As Mentioned in Episode 358 – Giant-Size Special #10
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358 – Giant-Size Special #10
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In which Hub & Lisa X-Plain Howard the Duck; Jay & Miles X-Plain Daydreamers; and Jonathan Hickman X-Plains his tenure on the X-line!
X-PLAINED:
- The many lives of Moira MacTaggert
- Feral moppets
- Man-Thing and several characters who closely resemble Man-Thing
- Howard the Duck
- At least one Nexus of All Reality
- Duck sex
- Daydreamers #1-3
- Never-Never Narnozbia
- Tana Nile
- A shadowy hunter and his ship of empty souls
- A reasonably good Dr. Seuss riff
- Duckworld, or an appealing facsimile thereof
- H.E.R.B.I.E.
- Jonathan Hickman on X-Men
- The 7th Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
(Note: Our interview with Jonathan Hickman contains spoilers for September 2021’s Inferno #1!)
NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur!
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As Mentioned in Episode 354 – The Touch of Magneto
354 – The Touch of Magneto
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In which Onslaught is a party that goes on way too long; we are grateful that the Hand is mostly someone else’s problem; there’s always time to get hosed down by firemen; and Emma Frost should never, under any circumstances, cook.
X-PLAINED:
- The Golden Archer
- Wolverine #104-105
- Generation X #18-19
- Portions of Elektra’s deal
- Stick
- Wolverine’s nose
- Gateway and Onslaught
- Several flashbacks
- The Onslaught goblin
- Retcons and character accountability
- A wet open
- A somewhat atypical plane flight
- Toad by way of Chris Bachalo
- The mysterious DL
- Emma’s Montreal mansion and its staff
- Cooking with Emma Frost
- Quasi-benevolent mind control
- Surgeon
- A bonus Shadowcat power
- Digital invisibility
NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk
NEXT EPISODE: Onslaught tie-ins!
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As Mentioned in Episode 318 – Leprechaun Hill
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- We talked about the leprechauns of Cassidy Keep way back in episode 9, Leprechaun Surprise Party!
318 – Leprechaun Hill
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In which we are broken by leprechauns.
X-PLAINED:
- A very necessary title change
- The leprechauns of Cassidy Keep
- Generation X #7-9
- How to kiss Chamber
- Banshee’s epic past ponytail
- Thoughts
- Amiable grumbling
- The evolution of Emma Frost’s ethics
- Giant shirts of the 1990s
- An unlikely disappearance
- Rapid power creep
- Another dimension
- Whether or not Eamon O’Donnell is a leprechaun
- Existential leprechaun uncertainty
- Grande Dame
- How glamour works, sort of
- A dragon
- Uncanny X-Men: First Class #8
- Uncle Havok
- Whether Kid Apocalypse is an External
NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk.
NEXT EPISODE: GIANT-SIZE WINTER SPECIAL!
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