Tag: Asgard
413 – Convergence (feat. Douglas Wolk)
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In which X-Force goes to Burning Man Exploding Colossal Man; Douglas Wolk may or may not have superpowers; Karma gets girlfriends; we are already tired of Reignfire; Meltdown and Sunspot initiate a love triangle; and Jay is writing some more X-Men.
X-PLAINED:
- Road trips
- X-Force #75-76
- New Mutants vol. 4 #30
- A gatefold and a half
- Burning Man
- Exploding Colossal Man
- Karma’s name
- Echidna Faire
- Text
- Selene (more) (again)
- Crowd scenes
- Various character relationships
- Callbacks
- Mud
- A magic box and a fancy stick
- Eitri the Dwarf
- A grand conjunction
- A big, silly fight
- Peak late ‘90s queer culture
- Echidna Faire
- Bowling
- Etienne Rousseau
- Updating Bastion’s facial hair
- Wolverine’s mentees
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As Mentioned in Episode 376 – Moore of This
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING
- Previously on Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men:
- Miles and guest x-pert Elisabeth Allie talked about the X-Men and Alpha Flight’s visit to the Viking citadel in Episode 47: The Price of Power!
- To learn about the New Mutants’ first visit to Asgard (and Mirage becoming a Valkyrie), check out Episode 48: Guitar Solos of the Gods!
- We discussed the New Mutants second visit to Asgard (and Mirage’s corruption by Hela) in Episode 127: Disaster City and Episode 132: Nornheim Lemonade!
- Miles and Elisabeth Allie covered Walter Simonson’s entire epic Thor run in their limited-series podcast THOR: The Lightning and the Storm!
376 – Moore of This
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In which we begin John Francis Moore’s run on X-Force; Latveria is less fun without Doctor Doom; there may still be a tiny clone of Meltdown running around; Forearm is a good pal; Marvel Asgard is a realm of crossover fan fiction; and you should totally watch both Our Flag Means Death and Doom Patrol.
X-PLAINED:
- Blackbeard, somewhat
- X-Force #63-64
- X-Force & Cable Annual 1997
- Life after Onslaught
- Dimitri Fortunov
- Dr. Doom’s time podium
- New costumes
- Liddleville
- Latveria, 1941
- Sturmfanger
- Valkyrie (Brunhilde)
- Aragorn (but not that one)
- The Mutant Liberation Front (again) (briefly)
- A large dog who may or may not have eaten a horse
- Valkyries (more) (again)
- What all the former New Mutants are up to
- Yggdrasil and the Nine Realms (again)
- Malekith the Accursed
- Kindra the Dwarf (again)
- Skadi the Frost Giant
- Hela (again) (briefly)
- Doctor Who analogs
- What we miss about the Silver Age
NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk
NEXT EPISODE: Domino goes solo!
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As Mentioned in Episode 141 – Reason to Go to the Devil
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141 – Reason to Go to the Devil
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In which we ring in the new year with Cable’s on-page debut; it’s really the ’90s now; we enter the third major era of New Mutants; what Liefeld lacks in craft he makes up for in energy; we pitch a new “What if–” line; Rusty and Skids are terrible superheroes; X-Factor has probably given up on a lot of things; we speculate at gratuitous length on the content of Cable’s pouches; you have reason to go to the devil; and Cable makes a lot more sense when you realize he’s of, by, and for teenagers.
X-PLAINED:
- How the Legacy Virus got loose
- New Mutants #86-89
- Cable’s on-page debut
- Rob Liefeld
- The third major era of New Mutants
- A shift in the balance of power
- A comics shop to probably avoid if you time-travel back to the mid 1990s
- The stupid adventures of Rusty & Skids
- Yet another Acts of Vengeance tie-in
- Nitro
- An accidental prison break
- Cops, or maybe protestors
- The Mutant Liberation Front
- Feet
- A goody two-shoes man-stealing redheaded werewolf
- Wildside
- Reaper
- Strobe
- Thumbelina
- Tempo
- Forearm
- Zero
- Stryfe
- Stryfe’s armor
- Spooning with Cable
NEXT EPISODE: X-Factor kicks it Silver Age.
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As Mentioned in Episode 132 – Nornheim Lemonade
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LINKS:
- We covered the first half of the Asgard Adventure in Episode 127 – Disaster City.
- COME SEE US AT VEGAS VALLEY COMIC BOOK FEST ON NOVEMBER 5! It’s an awesome convention, and we will be doing a VERY SPECIAL live show.
132 – Nornheim Lemonade
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In which Rusty is an honorary Bluth; we bid a sad farewell to Bret Blevins; Hogan the Grim is probably the best at bedtime stories; Asgard has really tight hat game; Hela is a remarkably competent supervillain; there are some sound effects you have to earn; Rusty and Skids fight the Vulture; and Miles has so many feelings about Thor.
X-PLAINED:
- Cortex
- Damian Tryp
- Our weird 2016 recording schedule
- Jay & Miles at Vegas Valley Comic Book Fest 2016
- Recent ResurrXion announcements
- The second half of the Asgard Adventure
- The end of Bret Blevins’ New Mutants run
- New Mutants #82-85
- The Odinsleep
- A fairly upsetting board game
- Volstagg’s awesome kids
- Tiwaz of the Wastes
- Many excellent hats
- Ula and the Savage Swarm
- Garm
- Miles’s favorite Fenrir story
- A remarkably clever villainous plan
- A signature sound effect
- Karnilla the Norn Queen
- Cable’s relationship to Longshot
- Recommendations for a comics newcomer
NEXT EPISODE: X-Factor vs. Celestials, as Judgment War concludes!
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As Mentioned in Episode 127 – Disaster City
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LINKS & FURTHER READING:
- We covered the New Mutants’ first visit to Asgard in Episode 48 – Guitar Solos of the Gods
- Read James Leask’s article on Dani Moonstar–and find links to more of his work–here!
- Two favorite resources on Writing the Other:
127 – Disaster City
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In which we get back on the continuity train; everything is the aftermath of Inferno forever; you should never fight a tractor or a horse without first putting on some damn pants; Vincent Price would’ve made a terrific Doctor Strange; Rusty Collins never really gets a fair break; Boom Boom is in over her head; and Brett Blevins takes his place as the definitive New Mutants artist.
X-PLAINED:
- Mirage’s on-again-off-again Valkyrie career
- Asgardia
- The New Mutants’ previous Asgard adventures
- The best single issue of all time
- The Naglfar
- A proposal for a new calendar
- New Mutants #77-80
- The Ust-Ordynski Collective (again) (more)
- There’s Stuff Going On: The Doctor Strange Story
- A very bad decision
- Why unicorns are the worst
- Doctor Stephen Sanders / Doctor Strange / Doctor Dad
- Let’s Make a Deal
- Whether arson counts as a personality trait
- Several nefarious plans
- Creative growth
- Disaster City
- Fun with the Technarchy
- Mindful representation
- Miles’s dad’s comics collection
NEXT EPISODE: Judgment War!
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