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11 – Who Would Win in a Fight
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In which we answer 45 straight minutes of your questions and alienate everyone with our answer to Jean vs. Emma, Miles is probably too nice to win in a fight, we are really into The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Rachel is the Vega to Miles’s Shepard, Excalibur is awesome, you should stop punching the DNA, Wolverine is Rogue, Longshot is the prettiest man, and Professor X is a pufferfish.
X-Plained:
- Who would win in a fight
- The Rachel & Miles Fastball Special
- Cycloptometry
- Backissues, collections, and where to find them
- Podcaster ‘shipping
- Spinoffs
- Rachel Summers (more) (again)
- Five tattoos
- Non-X stuff we’re into
- X-Force versus the Comics Code Authority
- Ultimate X-Men
- How to keep track of crossovers
- Textual queerness
- The Siege Perilous
- Jean vs. Emma
- Some good Nightcrawler and Iceman stories
- Dream teams
- The Glammest Timeline
- Best and worst code names
- Bendis’s X-books
- X-animals
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Next week: The Dark Phoenix Saga
You Made Art!
Gaze on these at length, because they are amazing. You are amazing. Everything is amazing.
As Mentioned In Episode 10 – Not All Mandroids
10 – Not All Mandroids
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In which Phoenix has nothing on Jamie Madrox when it comes to retcons, Pterosaurs have super punchable faces, Colossus gets laid, we are uninterested in the Savage Land, Wolverine and Storm are both pretty interesting, smiling costs extra if you’re Doctor Doom, Banshee saves the day, Alpha Flight tries, Angry Hovercraft Guy comes back, and Proteus is fairly upsetting.
X-Plained:
- X-Men #109, 114-16, 118-122, and 125-128
- Multiple Man
- Metacontinuity
- The Savage Land
- Pterosaurs
- Shi’ar mustache technology
- Karl Lykos
- Misty Knight
- Colleen Wing
- Wolverine in Japan
- Mandroids
- Moses Magnum
- A Heist
- Angus McWhirter, disgruntled hovercraft rental guy
- Alpha Flight
- Team Dynamics
- Why you always leave a note
- Proteus
You can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog.
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Next week: Secret origins, shipper wars, the Siege Perilous, and which of us would win in a fight.
As Mentioned in Episode 9 – Leprechaun Surprise Party
9 – Leprechaun Surprise Party
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In which Rachel refuses to back down from a challenge, we reject a point of canon, Leprechauns know Wolverine’s secrets, Erik the Red is (still) awful, Professor X is (still) a dick, the X-Men are your D&D party, the Shi’ar do a Star Trek riff, Phoenix is kind of a big deal, the circus comes to town, and Magneto gets creepy.
X-Plained:
- Cassandra Nova
- More early Claremont
- Sound effects
- Cassidy Keep
- Seneschals
- Shillelaghs
- Image inducers
- Black Tom Cassidy
- Supervillain bromance
- Bronze-age pacing
- Leprechauns
- Hovercraft rental
- Muir Island
- The Shi’ar Imperial Guard
- The M’Kraan Cyrstal
- Phoenix 101
- Secret volcano lairs
- Magneto’s mercifully short-lived age-play fixation
- The (dis)continuity of mutant powers
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Next week: Wolverine punches a pterosaur, Cyclops grows a mustache, and everyone gets possessed!
As Mentioned in Episode 8 – What We Talk About When We Talk About Claremont
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Episode 05 – The Retcon That Walks Like a Man (Covering Giant-Size X-Men #1)
8 – What We Talk About When We Talk About Claremont
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In which Chris Claremont defines the X-Universe; Sunfire quits the team (again); Nightcrawler is the best; the narrator is nobody’s friend; Colossus is a good kid; Cyclops has a long series of bad days; everyone is a bondage Viking; Rachel is a space pedant, we meet the Phoenix, and Wolverine is the Batman of Marvel.
X-Plained:
- Polaris’s kinda-powers
- Our first crossover event
- How much we love you
- Chris Claremont, and why he’s the definitive X-writer
- Comics In Focus: Chris Claremont’s X-Men
- Why Nightcrawler is the best point-of-view character
- The long game
- Tom Orzechowski’s dimension-folding lettering skills
- Claremontisms
- The malicious narrator
- Count Nefaria
- Sliding-scale ransom
- The life, death, and occasional reanimation of Thunderbird
- Friendship
- The care and feeding of cairns
- Erik the Red
- Quiet moments
- Sentinels and X-Sentinels
- Steven Lang
- The (first) death and return of Jean Grey
- Accents
You can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog.
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Next week: Leprechauns!
How Much Do We Love David Wynne? SO MUCH.
David continues his stint as official-unofficial X-Plain illustrator with a Very Serious X-Factor Cyclops!
(David is also a splendid human and a hella good cartoonist. Go read Spacescape!)