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356 – The Michael Bay-eux Tapestry
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In which it’s hard to be Joseph; we do our best to explain the inexplicable; Miles is full of feelings; Hulk smashes; and Onslaught finally (mostly) ends.
X-PLAINED:
- Heroes Reborn Return
- Wild times with the Dreaming Celestial
- Onslaught so far
- X-Men #56
- Onslaught: Marvel Universe
- Jay’s definitive Bond
- Joseph (more)
- The physical evolution of Onslaught
- Sense of scale
- Hawkeye (TV series)
- Onslaught’s goals, to what extent they exist
- The three genders
- A really big fight
- A miracle of magnetism
- The (nominal) end of the Age of Heroes
- Beast’s scientific career
- Chamber’s voice
NEXT EPISODE: Several epilogues
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As Mentioned in Episode 348 – Onslaught Continues
348 – Onslaught Continues
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In which all the heroes fight each other, a lot.
X-PLAINED:
- Teenage Iron Man
- Onslaught thus far
- What Onslaught wants
- Uncanny X-Men #335
- X-Men Unlimited #11
- Avengers #401
- The rebirth of Apocalypse
- The Apocalocophagous
- The Age of Wonders
- X-Man vs. Professor X
- Nate Grey-sitting
- Humanity’s Last Stand
- Simon Trask
- Bastion
- Rogue and Joseph
- Avengers fashion
- Assumptions
- Other characters who could merge Onslaught-style
- Origins of the Angry Claremontean Narrator
NEXT EPISODE: Yes, still Onslaught.
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342 – Angry Birds
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In which Miles does his best, birds are weird, some of the most dangerous villains are pink, and we are in the Onslaught Zone.
X-PLAINED:
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- Malibu Comics and Marvel Comics, sitting in a (multiversal) tree, KILLING
- Archangel: Phantom Wings
- Unorthodox artistic decisions
- Archangel (Warren Kenneth Worthington III)
- Angst, renewed
- Bird ichor
- Tuesday Bird and her Mad Max outfit
- How (not?) to flirt
- Uncanny X-Men #333
- Various Roberts Kelly
- Graydon Creed, doin’ Mom proud
- Bastion, Nimrod, & Master Mold
- Operation Zero Tolerance
- X-Teams and their lanes
- A naked murder-uncle
- Pink villains
- Obscure callbacks
- Event synergy
- X-Men #53
- Day to-day challenges of telepathy
- Super-Saiyan Magneto
- Phoenix (Jean Grey), actual adult
- Onslaught
- That scene from 1964’s X-Men #3
- A surprisingly insightful look at Professor X’s dark side
- Logan’s assorted friendships with teen girls
- XMEN Disease
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NEXT EPISODE: X-Force gets, predictably, x-treme.
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As Mentioned in Episode 339 – Luck Be a Lady
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LINKS & FURTHER TOMFOOLERY
- Learn more about Preacher in Episode 317 – Acquaintances of Humanity.
- Kate Beaton’s Wolverine is an eternal delight.
- Please note that Dave Cockrum’s art of Nightcrawler and Storm doing that is not remotely work-safe.
339 – Luck Be a Lady
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In which evil robots are fundamentally more optimistic than climate change; Ozymandias could probably use a new hobby; Wolverine goes full Kate Beaton; “Luck Be a Lady” would be a kickass hymn; Shard gets a body (kinda); and the X-Men definitely do that.
X-PLAINED:
- Some of Stryfe’s team-ups
- Fatal Attractions (briefly)
- X-Cutioner’s Song (briefly)
- Genesis / Tolliver / Tyler Dayspring
- Several other individuals named Genesis
- Lost noses, historical and fictional
- Uncanny X-Men #332
- Wolverine #100-101
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 1996
- Zoe Culloden (The Expediter)
- Ozymandias
- Wolverine, golden retriever
- An Elektra cameo
- Wild Thing
- Bishop and Shard (again)
- The return of Preacher
- The Hound (again)
- A reunion
- Deplxelation
- Krakoan team niches
- What heroes do
NEXT: X.S.E.
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As Mentioned in Episode 338 – Chomp & Stomp
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338 – Chomp and Stomp
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In which X-Factor’s lineup shifts further towards villainy; Wild Child is neither wild nor a child; bureaucrat Val Cooper > action Val Cooper; Marvel invests in Bastion; and foreshadowing works better in some titles than in others.
X-PLAINED:
- How Wolverine got his adamantium back
- A marriage of convenience
- X-Factor #122-124
- Amalgam comics
- A clever workaround
- Several new looks
- Belle Fourche (again)
- Several ways to fail to control supervillains
- The Hound
- The Hazard Chamber
- Different titles’ relationships to dark futures
- Statting up Beast in D&D
- Characters with more narrative impact dead than alive
NEXT EPISODE: Wolverine makes it weird.
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