Tag: Black Tom Cassidy
380 – Arbor Day
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In which no one wants to be compared to Chris Bachalo; it’s always a holiday for Generation X; you may already be a Guthrie; M is a fascinating mystery; and Black Tom Cassidy (finally) makes his move.
X-PLAINED:
- What Black Tom Cassidy is up to these days
- Generation X #23-25
- Generation X (again)
- Seasons
- Visual representations of Banshee’s powers
- Several holidays
- The Blue Ridge Mountains
- A slumber party
- Emplate (somewhat)
- Bad times with Black Tom Cassidy
- The apparent death of Emma Frost
- What we do and don’t cover when
- Leech on Krakoa
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As Mentioned in Episode 378 – The Unstoppable Huggernaut
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378 – The Unstoppable Huggernaut
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In which our favorite(?) fear lord returns; Sirocco Sprawl is an extremely unpleasant fictional town; the Juggernaut is not a subtle man; we really need to get our hands on the Generation X novels; Tarot gets a logo font; and Banshee is menaced by spectral leprechauns.
X-PLAINED
- Several Juggernauts
- Soap Operas
- D’Spayre (again)
- D’Spayre vs. Nightmare
- Juggernaut #1
- Generation X Annual 1997
- Magical pants
- Juggernaut (Cain Marko) and what he’s been up to lately
- Incidental reptiles
- Sirocco Sprawl, NM
- Marvin T. Rocksalt
- A spree of cartoonish destruction
- Spite (again)
- Black Tom Cassidy (again)
- A really cool skeleton
- Generation X novels
- Several episodes we should probably do someday
- A very poorly-drawn butt
- The Hellions (more) (again)
- One way to put out a fire
- Garden Plots with Skeletor
- Several nightmare scenarios
- Alex Summers’s adoptive family
- What would happen if Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau met Cameron Hodge
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As Mentioned in Episode 324 – Snack Attack
324 – Snack Attack
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In which Cordelia Frost is a terrible friend; Mondo is better than the story arcs that surround him; and we’d really love to see a series about Sean Cassidy’s super groovy past.
X-PLAINED:
- The one who got away
- Generation X Annual 1995
- Generation X #10-11
- A failed seduction attempt
- Mondo and a plant-based facsimile thereof
- An emergency
- The very personal and private journal of Monet St. Croix
- A party
- Omega Red (again)
- Sean Cassidy’s Interpol days
- An unlikely informant
- A somewhat surreal monitoring system
- The Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men Wiki
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As Mentioned in Episode 189 – How Do You Solve a Problem Like Nate Summers?
189 – How Do You Solve a Problem Like Nate Summers?
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In which Jay’s mom broke the Internet; correct credits are important; everyone has a Danger Room; no one needs that many teeth; there are so many reasons to laugh at Stryfe; the Watcher is probably affiliated with Pepperidge Farm; Boom Boom is the Rogue of X-Force; and Cable’s pouches are definitely full of menstrual products.
X-PLAINED:
- The Franklin Richards of Earth X
- The One True Cable
- X-Force #5-7
- Pocket-Size Juggernaut
- A novel approach to trauma surgery
- A moment of intersectionality
- Teeth of the early ’90s
- Soft pink bags of rice-paper flesh
- A villain speech
- X-Force’s bathtub
- Several Shel Silverstein poems that may or may not be about superheroes
- Cooking with Boom Boom
- Why the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants keeps the “Evil” in their name
- Thornn (Lucia Callasantos)
- Phantazia
- Writers vs. Scripters
- Sex Ed at the Xavier School
- The Worst Twitter Thread
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As Mentioned in Episode 181 – Badgers Everywhere
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LINKS & FURTHER READING
- The concerns expressed in Tom Lehrer’s “MLF Lullaby” don’t age wildly well, but it’s still a catchy song.
- Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play is definitely a thing on Earth-4935, only instead of a Simpsons episode, it’s the Pizza Hut X-Men comic where Cyclops doesn’t think it’s cool to have an adventure in Cyberspace.
181 – Badgers Everywhere
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In which X-Force is the cotton candy of comics; Jay & Miles overanalyze; eye spots are not the new domino masks; Feral is all about some murder; Black Tom and Juggernaut remain a delightful criminal power couple; Siryn’s costume is on point; over the edge is where we live; Jay gets briefly and intensely into Todd McFarlane; nothing will convince us that Fabian Nicieza did not know exactly what he was doing; and Kelly Thompson is a national treasure.
X-PLAINED:
- Rumekistan
- X-Force #1-4
- Spider-Man #16
- Leaping, both literal and metaphorical
- Cannonball
- Boom Boom
- Cable
- Domino
- Warpath
- Feral
- Shatterstar
- Siryn (Theresa Cassidy) (again)
- MLF
- The second and third-best-selling issues of all time
- The Profit$
- A very violent catchphrase
- Chalet Shwartzkopf
- Power Poses™ with Gideon™
- The All-New, All-Different Weapon X (Garrison Kane)
- 6-Pack
- Good vs. Awesome
- George Washington Bridge
- A moment so dramatic that it produces a second Shatterstar in a single panel
- Some sports stuff, kind of
- Uncomfortable anachronism
- The stylistic necessity of healing factors
- Marvel Unlimited view options
- Rogue and Gambit
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