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311 – Love Makes a Super-Team
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In which we decide to stop recognizing the nominal difference between X-Men and Uncanny X-Men; time travel may or may not wait for you; Mister Sinister has probably appeared in at least one Ed Wood film; we are a pro-Tingle podcast; X-Men is about family; the Braddock twins catch up; Sailor Moon > Shinobi Shaw; Generation X is inducted into the baseball tradition; and Storm does what she does with Morlocks in sewers.
X-PLAINED:
- Franklin Richards’ impressive lineage
- 311
- Yet another structure for annuals
- X-Men Annual 1995
- Uncanny X-Men #325
- Serious academic discussions
- Faye Livingstone
- Mister Sinister’s Hollywood adventures
- Tyler Dayspring / Tolliver / Genesis (again)
- Teenage optimism
- An absolutely nonsensical villainous plot
- A Hank McCoy that might have been
- Friendship
- Fraternal correspondence
- Romance
- Morlocks
- The first time Storm stabbed a Morlock leader in the heart
- Gene Nation
- A really excessive cover
- An intergenerational baseball game
- Another fairly nonsensical villainous plot
- The second time Storm stabbed a Morlock leader in the heart
- X-horror
- Other media X-fans may enjoy reading, playing, or watching
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As Mentioned in Episode 300 – Götterdämmerung
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LINKS & FURTHER EPICS:
- Janet K. Lee makes really, really gorgeous comics and other art.
- A lot of the episodes we mentioned are in the roundup from our 5th anniversary episode.
- You can hear more about Jay’s chickens-in-law in Hawk Talk: Florida Mans
300 – Götterdämmerung
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In which the Age of Apocalypse comes to an end; Angel briefly lives up to his potential; Bishop was sometimes right; It’s not a climactic ending without an X-Men #137 reference; Colossus breaks our hearts; X-Men: Marvels Snapshot will be out in September; and somehow we have made 300 of these things.
X-PLAINED:
- Beast vs. Dark Beast
- X-Men: Omega
- The entirety of the (first) Age of Apocalypse
- Potpourri vs. incense
- Dramatic hair
- Many, many errors
- Unforeseen consequences
- A long-anticipated team-up
- Many deaths
- Art as artifact
- Narration that has haunted Jay for 20 years
- One of the more persistent deaths of David Haller
- Blast Attack
- The end of a world
- Refugees from the Age of Apocalypse
- Our favorite X-milestone issues
- Theoretical teams
- Orphans
- When X-Men: Marvels Snapshot is actually coming out
- Our favorite show bits
- How Jay’s chickens-in-law are doing
NEXT EPISODE: X-Men Prime
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As Mentioned in Episode 293 – The Monster Under the World
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293 – The Monster Under the World
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In which not all Mondos are created equal; the kids are only rarely all right; the Age of Apocalypse is not Magneto’s fault; Sugar Man is the stuff of universal nightmares; “cartoonish” is not necessarily a plus; and the Age of Apocalypse is not particularly sustainable.
X-PLAINED:
- Generation Next #1-4
- The tradition of YA horror in X-books
- Bachalo unchained
- Whose fault the Age of Apocalypse is
- Adaptive technology vs. Apocalypse
- Chamber of Earth-295
- Husk of Earth-295
- Skin of Earth-295
- Mondo of Earth-295
- Vincente Cimetta
- Know-It-All (Claudia)
- An abysmal training exercise
- Colossus of Earth-295
- Shadowcat of Earth-295
- Gardner Monroe (Flashback)
- Quietus
- Sugar Man
- The Portland and/or Seattle Core
- Illyana Rasputin
- Ace
- Human collaborators
- A gratuitous Monty Python reference
- The difference between mass and volume
- Number Six
- The fall of Generation Next
- Growing up in the Age of Apocalypse
- Illyana 2.0
- Subtext vs. queerbaiting
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As Mentioned in Episode 288 – Cape Citadel Remix
288 – Cape Citadel Remix
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In which Magneto is a drama llama in any universe (but a remarkably decent parent in at least one); the soap opera hits the Age of Apocalypse; Weapon X is a man made of red flags; Gambit has an OT3; the better man wins; some blanks are better left unfilled; and we would probably not fare too well on Earth-295.
X-PLAINED:
- The other Magnus
- Synchronicity
- Earth-295 (more) (again)
- X-Men Chronicles #1-2
- Selective backstory
- Magneto’s hair
- Wundagore Mountain
- Aesthetics of the Age of Apocalypse
- The X-Men of Earth-295
- Magneto’s pedagogy
- More miscellaneous horsemen
- Weapon X (Logan)
- Cape Citadel, revisited
- The death of the Scarlet Witch
- Disaster Bisexual Gambit
- Wolverine (but not that one)
- Punks who may or may not also be scrimshanders
- Emotionally well-adjusted Quicksilver
- Further miracles of magnetism
- The narrative power of evocation
- Age of Somebody Else
- Jay and Miles of Earth-295
NEXT EPISODE: Summers Family Reunions somehow get even worse.
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As Mentioned in Episode 287 – Welcome to the Age of Apocalypse
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LINKS & FURTHER UNIVERSES:
- Guest X-Pert Logan Bonner DM’d our tabletop X-games in Giant-Size Special #2 and Giant-Size Special #4!
287 – Welcome to the Age of Apocalypse
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In which we enter the Age of Apocalypse!
X-PLAINED:
- One way to solve a problem
- The story so far
- Earth-295
- X-Men: Alpha
- Age of Apocalypse Collector’s Preview
- What makes Age of Apocalypse a surprisingly good jumping-on point to the X-Men
- The story so far
- AoA vs. the Clone Saga
- An Age of Apocalypse that might have been
- AoA vs. Earth Askani
- The X-Men of Earth-295
- Fashion motifs
- A dubious hairstyle
- Facial tattoos
- Wild Child
- Blink (but a different Blink)
- Morph
- Character designs as storytelling
- Baby Charles
- Magic of magnetism
- Dark Beast
- The Prelates Summers
- The Horsemen of Earth-295
- The Bobby Newport of the Age of Apocalypse
- Heaven
- The Human Council
- What’s coming
- Characters we’d like to retroactively import to AoA
- Tabletop X-Men
NEXT EPISODE: Previously on Earth-295…
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