Tag: callbacks
326 – Son of a Gun
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In which it’s hard to be a hologram; the Internet is terrible and you should probably avoid it; we have no idea how Naze is still alive; this is not your mom’s Adversary (if your mom is Fall of the Mutants); Forge is an order muppet; and Sabretooth is not a great addition to most teams.
X-PLAINED:
- Skrulls in American history
- X-Factor’s attrition rate
- The spirit spell (again)
- The Adversary (again)
- X-Factor #119-121
- Hypercolor(TM) t-shirts
- Oblivion vs. masturbation
- Mark Trail (more) (again)
- Forge’s complicated relationship with magic
- The death of X-Factor
- Several retcons
- The resurrection of X-Factor
- (Mis)representation of indigenous cultures in X-books
- Jim Jaspers vs. the Adversary
- The spirit spell (YET AGAIN)
- The Feron of X-Factor
- Val ‘n’ Victor
- Dubious use of technology
- A red herring
- The lingering spectre of Days of Future Past
- Our tech issues
- Reasonable accommodations at the Xavier School
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As Mentioned in Episode 321 – Revolving Doors
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321 – Revolving Doors
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In which Sabretooth does not get effectively rehabilitated; nobody has the moral high ground; Val Cooper is the worst possible person to call in any emergency; Bishop needs a better support system; Jay knows several things about onions; and not everything has to be a mammal.
X-PLAINED:
- Sabretooth (more) (again)
- X-Force #48
- Uncanny X-Men #328
- Sabretooth Special #1
- Bunny slippers
- An intervention
- Stages of grief
- What not to do with Sabretooth
- An evil squirrel
- Onions
- The three genders
- Mutant Massacre callbacks
- Caption disambiguation problems
- The overabundance of boobs on fictional non-mammalian species
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As Mentioned in Episode 282 – The Tide Takes the Castle
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LINKS & FURTHER DELIGHTS:
- When not making our endless nonsense sound good, producer Matt Hunter makes really excellent music, and you should go listen to some!
- Jay does not actually write things on hackertyper.com, but he wishes he could.
- We covered Rogue’s solo series in Episode 245 – Natural Causes.
- This is the plane Philip flew in WWII, if that’s your kind of thing.
282 – The Tide Takes the Castle
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In which the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning should really be the setting of a stoner comedy; Garrabed Bashur’s brain is probably 90% porn by now; the tide always takes the castle; William Drake remains terrible; Adam X the X-Treme deserved better; Jay pitches a series; disability is not a boolean and exclusively medically-defined state; and we are all about some weird X-Men tie-in products.
X-PLAINED:
- Mariko Yoshida in the afterlife
- Moon Talk
- Some upcoming X-books
- X-Men #38-39
- Uncanny X-Men #319
- Many unhealthy coping mechanisms
- Sinister foreshadowing
- Fancy hair
- Commcast (Garabed Bashur)
- Hawk sex
- An exceptionally resonant callback
- Intersectional bigotry
- The domestic dynamics of the Drake household
- The remarkably poignant return of Adam X the X-Treme
- The opposite of a Jack London story
- An unlikely intergenerational frienship
- A novel use of a novel superpower
- Mutation as and intersecting with disability
- X-Men tie-in products we’d like to see
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As Mentioned in Episode 218 – Careful What You Lick
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LINKS & FURTHER NONSENSE:
- Come see us at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival!
- The delightful PDX Broadsides will also be there!
- This episode involves a LOT of references to past story arcs. Here’s where you can hear us talk about those:
- Learn about one of the less obvious reasons not to masturbate with cacti in Episode 78 – The Eye Killers and Other Cautionary Tales.
- You can hear about the beginning of X-Men vol. 2 in Episode 178 – Giant-Size Special #6.
- We covered God Loves, Man Kills in Giant-Size Special #1.
- You can see Miles’s childhood X-Men drawings in Jay & Miles Made a Zine About the X-Men, now available on Gumroad!
218 – Careful What You Lick
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In which X-Cutioner’s Song may be over, but its repercussions continue; Uncanny X-Men hits a major milestone; superhero comics are and always have been political; Bishop learns to banter; the X-Men gain an unlikely ally; and Magneto remains exceptionally difficult to kill.
X-PLAINED:
- Jay & Miles at VVCBF
- Uncanny X-Men #298-300
- The Acolytes (more) (again)
- The Upstarts (more) (again)
- Several important lessons
- A very fancy room
- A very fancy brain
- The unpleasant fate of Sharon Friedlander
- The all-new, all-different Acolytes
- Carmella Unuscione
- The return of one of our favorite antagonists
- A sick burn
- The fate of Asteroid M
- Molting
- A debate
- Graydon Creed (more) (again)
- The tentative redemption of Robert Kelly
- How to lose a debate with Joe Biden
- A large number of prescient political references
- Friends of Humanity
- How to engage with a fascist in a televised debate
- Noah DuBois
- Fatale
- A generic rural mob
- Milan
- A narratively convenient superpower
- Amelia Voght
- Seamus Mellencamp
- Neophyte
- The gospel of Magneto
- A joyous reunion
- The helmet that wouldn’t die
- Ponytail ethics
- Timelust
- Several accents
- The current state of Rogue’s powers
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As Mentioned in Episode 215 – Mon de Orb Uno
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LINKS & FURTHER MISADVENTURES
- You can hear all about Tom and the trolls’ first encounter in Episode 118 – Extrude the Grappling Arms!
- Here is one way to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana.
- The Brussels Sewer Museum is super cool, and if you get the chance, you should absolutely check it out.
215 – Mon de Orb Uno
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In which we finally emerge from the other side of X-Cutioner’s Song; rich people are different from us; Brian Braddock is probably not comfortable with menstruation; Dai Thomas cleans up pretty well; someone FINALLY remembers Sat-Yr-9; Psylocke knows how to defend herself from a man armed with a banana; the (non-Internet) trolls return; and we are fairly sure that Gambit does not actually speak French.
X-PLAINED:
- Winzeldorf
- Excalibur (so far)
- Excalibur #55-58
- Lip massage
- The death of Alysande Stuart
- A banana fight
- Alchemy (again)
- Many trolls
- A fairly joyous reunion
- The Brussels Sewer Museum
- A fake heel turn
- Our hopes and worries for the New Mutants movie
- Comics covers
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