Tag: Benjamin Russell
360 – Charging Forward
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In which history gets rewritten (again); Shatterstar definitely knows how to dance; and everyone gets extremely grumpy about Loeb’s final X-Force arc.
X-PLAINED:
- What happened to Reverend Craig
- X-Force (again)
- The Mojoverse (again)
- X-Force #59-61
- Shatterstar vs. Benjamin Russell
- The Weisman Institute for the Criminally Insane (again)
- Subtext
- Help, sort of
- The dick ship
- Darth Vader’s penis or lack thereof
- The difference between Jay and Miles
- Violently decompressed storytelling
- Gog and Gog’n’Magog (again)
- Prior (or possibly future) events in the rebellion
- Longshot outside his miniseries
- Longshot and Shatterstar
- TV Guide
- Ineffective brainwashing
- A large number of continuity errors
- Mojo V
- Genre hopping
- A stylistic shift
- A body swap
- Benjamin Russell vs. the Leprechauns
- Personally resonant comics
- Wolverine’s sense of smell
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As Mentioned in Episode 250 – Minding the DNA, feat. Fabian Nicieza
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There’s no visual companion to this episode, but here’s some cool stuff we talked about!
- Here’s Fabian on Twitter!
- You can read Outrage here!
- Special thanks to Shatterstarologist Charlie of The Young Ones for lending their X-Pertise to the cold open!
250 – Minding the DNA, feat. Fabian Nicieza
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In which writer Fabian Nicieza joins us to talk ‘90s crossovers, narrative legacies, and what Adam X’s word balloons really sound like!
Special thanks to Shatterstarologist Charlie of The Young Ones for lending their X-Pertise to the cold open!
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