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293 – The Monster Under the World

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Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
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 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!
As Mentioned in Episode 234 – Magnetic Feels

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LINKS & FURTHER LISTENING
- In the first Summer Special, we may or may not have learned what Australians have to celebrate.
- Nimrod problems are unusually complex.
234 – Magnetic Feels (Fatal Attractions Part 1)

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WHOA DANG! This is David Wynne’s 200th illustration for our show! Wanna buy one of David’s original illustrations, or commission a new piece? Drop him a line!
In which the Acolytes are pretty terrible; Exodus considers his options; Val Cooper is not wildly trustworthy; Cable uses his words; and people with significant metal implants should probably stop confronting Magneto.
X-PLAINED:
- How not to get possessed by Mister Sinister
- Crossover structures
- How not to make friends or influence people
- The Acolytes (again)
- X-Factor #92
- A total dick move
- The new Project Wideawake
- X-Force #25
- A first appearance
- Cable #1-3
- A reunion
- Avalon
- Magneto’s bathrobe
- The evolution of X-Force
- Mojoworld in the multiverse
- X-characters who haven’t officially died at least once
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Happy podiversary to our beloved illustrator, David Wynne!
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As Mentioned in Episode 212 – Drumbeats of Despair

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LINKS & FURTHER MISHAPS:
- I know this Waiting for the Trade strip is years old, but the joke really never stops being funny.
- For all your old-school hacking needs.
- According to Wikipedia, the not-Stüssy S is in fact called the “Cool S,” which is a fairly bold claim.
- Ferruginous hawks are ridiculous, but they’re still not as ridiculous as Warren Kenneth Worthington III.
212 – Drumbeats of Despair: X-Cutioner’s Song (Part 3 or 3)

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In which nobody but Stryfe’s diary understands him; Apocalypse is the best at what he does (and what he does is remarkably versatile); Scott and Jean weaponize their clichés; Jae Lee does his best Patrick Nagel; Apocalypse is poisonous; Cable goes full T-800; nothing good ever happens to Cyclops on the moon; Stryfe dies as passive-aggressively as he lived; and X-Cutioner’s Song finally concludes.
X-PLAINED:
- How Cable dies
- The Story So Far
- Still more trading-card taxonomy
- Uncanny X-Men #296
- X-Factor #86
- X-Men #16
- X-Force #18
- An AU we’d like to read
- The not-Stüssy S
- How to effectively reference X-Men #137
- A decoy baby
- An abortive escape
- Moon gravity
- Revelatory vandalism
- A trip to the moon
- A probably excessive number of hawk facts
- Various daring rescues
- How to kill time in space
- Cathexes
- A very fancy moon base
- The cavalry, kind of
- Stryfe vs. Cable
- An X-Cellent epilogue
- Several Silent Hill 2 references
- Stryfe’s Legacy
- Pawnee, Indiana vs. Marvel
- Sexy high-security prisons of the future
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Special thanks to Matt for the subject of this episode’s cold open; and to the Protomen for use of their cover of “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”
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