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Happy New Year!
OH, MY GOD, LEE MOYER AND ZACH FISCHER, HOW ARE YOU EVEN REAL?
Lee–who is also the genius behindlast week’s Erik the Red-Nosed Reindeer–even sent solicitation copy to go with the art:
Janet! Harvey! Elsie Carson! Peter Corbeau! And…. Erik the Red!
Also? Michael Rossi, who’s kind of a dick. But maybe he’ll be killed in the second issue.
P.S. No new X-books this week means no video reviews, but the new podcast episode will be up on Sunday, per usual! Happy New Year!
Erik the Red-Nosed Reindeer
We were going to save this card–from spectacular artist and all-around excellent human Lee Moyer–for Christmas proper, but it’s way too awesome not to share early. (Click through for high-res.)
Merry holidays to you and all your bondage vikings!
Love,
R&M
Our New OTP
David Wynne, you are a gift to the universe. There are not adequate words in any language we know for how happy we are about this picture.
For those of you unfamiliar with the mustachio’d gentleman standing next to Everyone’s Favorite Bondage Viking(TM) Erik the Red, that’s Italian Porno Batman, from the 1982 film Bathman dal Pianeta Eros, which at this point is best known for its bewilderingly long sequences of the Caped Crusader riding a bicycle around the Italian countryside in full costume.
…No, seriously. (Link is totally work-and-kid-safe.)
As Mentioned in Episode 8 – What We Talk About When We Talk About Claremont
Listen to the podcast here!
In a moment of clarity, Cyclops recognizes that the X-Men’s greatest enemy is, in fact, the guy writing the book. (X-Men #96)
Never change, Sunfire. (X-Men #94)
Check out that sweet Dave Cockrum training montage. (X-Men #94)
Welcome to the X-Men, Thunderbird! Hope you survive the… oh. (X-Men #95)
This panel isn’t all that plot-relevant. We just think Havok’s powers look super cool. (X-Men #97)
“There can’t be TWO bondage vikings running around the Marvel universe!” (X-Men #97)
Professor Xavier’s nightmares are AWESOME. (X-Men #97)
Steven Lang: Stable and upstanding member of society. (X-Men #96)
In the Silver Age, superhero romance was limited to soulful gazes and ongoing sexual harassment. (X-Men #98)
I don’t know why they all look so surprised. (X-Men #98)
Cyclops obliterating a Sentinel: never gets old. (X-Men #98)
As far as we can tell, he swam here. From the middle of the ocean. Dr. Peter Corbeau: Ph.D. Badassitude. (X-Men #98)
Those are actually Sentinels designed to look and act like the original X-Men, because, Steven Lang. Just run with it. (X-Men #99)
Oh, hey, it’s the first Fastball Special! (X-Men #100)
You know how we say Jean Grey is underrated? Jean Grey is freakin’ underrated. (X-Men #100)
Aw. man. This whole scene. (X-Men #100)
The (first) death of Jean Grey. (X-Men #100)
And then… (X-Men #101)
This page still gives us chills. (X-Men #101)
Next week: Leprechauns. We’re not even joking.
Links and further reading:
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!