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369 – Carly Askani
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In which Storm & Joseph X-Plain the X-Men, Alex Summers is not brainwashed this time, he promises, Scott Lobdell writes better moments than stories, Ed McGuinness draws very large chins, and it’s Denver the Last Dinosaur, not Denver the Lost Dinosaur
X-PLAINED:
- Uncanny X-Men #339
- Spider-Man disambiguation
- A. Kubert disambiguation
- J. Jonah Jameson (again) (hooray!)
- Sneaking songs
- The history of smoking regulation on airlines
- Creed disambiguation
- Havok’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
- Bonding while falling out of planes
- X-Men #59
- The copyright status of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Well-drawn Wolverines
- Hercules vs The Tick
- Wolverine Annual 1996
- The tragic death of Mariko Yashida
- Silver Samurai (Kuniuchio Harada)
- Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida) and what he’s been up to since Fatal Attractions
- Josef Stalin, apparently?
- Red Ronin and its nemesis, a time-lost dinosaur who we assure you is not Godzilla
- Jedi and/or samurai vs. doors
- Our logo fonts
- James Howlett, guidance counselor
- Onslaught but not evil
- Whether Magneto could wield Mjolnir
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As Mentioned in Episode 366 – Nine-Tenths of the Law
366 – Nine-Tenths of the Law
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In which the Beast miniseries is actually a cleverly disguised Karma miniseries; Gateway’s moral alignment remains a mystery; Cannonball rocks some sideburns; there are many reasons to dislike Viper; and every #1 is somebody’s first.
X-PLAINED:
- An off-panel death
- X-Force #62
- Beast #1-3
- Karma’s family and backstory (again)
- Twin absorption
- MacGuffins and/or children
- Clearcut and Mindmeld
- Unconsciousness
- Spiral (again)
- Marios
- What to do (visually) with six arms
- Spiral’s mutates
- Some very impressive body horror
- MId-fight stalling
- Misplaced revenge
- Hank McCoy’s multiversal offspring
- The history of Karma’s sexual orientation
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As Mentioned in Episode 365 – A Whole Year of This Nonsense
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 357 – The Semiotics of Regret
As Mentioned in Episode 353 – Scientists and Superheroes
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LINKS & FURTHER SPINOFFS
- I’m pretty sure we’ve linked to Robert Cop before, but just in case, here you go.
353 – Scientists and Superheroes
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In which Dark Beast is an unlikely father figure; Wild Child remains low-budget Wolverine; X-Factor foreshadows the XSE; no one else thwarts Richardses on Doom’s watch; the cow goes “hate”; and Juggernaut fails to grow as a person.
X-PLAINED:
- The Red Ghost
- Onslaught thus far
- X-Factor #126
- Fantastic Four #416
- X-Men Unlimited #12
- Random’s origins (kind of)
- Pinochle
- Kristoff Vernard
- Several villains
- Juggernaut’s adventures in the Gem of Cyttorak
- Gomurr the Ancient (again)
- Spite
- Unreliable narrators
- The evolution of Cyttorak
- Wolverine’s hair
- X-arcs we’d like to see as video games
NEXT EPISODE: To nobody’s surprise, Onslaught.
CORRECTION: Kristoff Vernard is not in fact a clone of Doctor Doom.
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As Mentioned in Episode 347 – Onslaught Begins
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LINKS & FURTHER ALLUSIONS
- Muscle March sure is a real video game that actually exists.