Tag: Forge
424 – Times Change
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In which everything is Havok’s fault; Jay is a bad influence; Polaris makes some valid points; Jamie Madrox is the Bobby Drake of X-Factor; and X-Factor vol. 1 ends with a bang.
X-PLAINED:
- Muppet rules
- X-Factor, vol. 1, in general
- X-Factor #146-149
- Sense of place
- Jude Black and his inexplicable facial hair
- Boundaries
- Edible Arrangements
- A different kind of sports bar
- Kevin
- Nostalgia, I guess?
- Several confrontations
- Temporal insanity
- A very specialized course
- What happens next
- The universe where Dazzler replaced Jean Grey in the original X-Factor
- Characters we would like to have seen more of
NEXT EPISODE: Psi-War!
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As Mentioned in Episode 411 – Tearaway Pants
411 – Tearaway Pants
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In which we actually kind of like a Sabretooth story; we’re not asking for viscera, here; all pants on Earth-616 are tearaway pants; we’d like to see more Wolverine stories about bodily autonomy; Gambit’s hallucinations have hallucinations; and there are probably too many X-books.
X-PLAINED:
- Punch-clock villains
- Hydro-Man’s secret weakness
- 411
- ‘90s fashion
- X-Men Unlimited #17-18
- X-Men Unlimited vs. annuals
- A difficult casting decision
- Forge’s neutralizer gun
- Costume injuries
- Color symbolism? Kinda? I guess?
- Mrs. Hoo
- Saberine & Wolvertooth
- Warren Kenneth Worthington III vs. shirts
- How to dress for Earth-616
- Hot buttered whatever
- Boob foliage
- Clones
- Very tenacious blood stains
- The return of the Angry Claremontean Narrator
- Lots of hallucinations
- Oscar the Fixer
- Hydro-Man
- Redemption, symbolic and otherwise
- The evolution of Magneto’s name
- Our ideal X-line
NEXT EPISODE: Back to the core!
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As Mentioned in Episode 407 – Freshening Up
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LINKS & FURTHER TIME SINKS
- We covered the first X.S.E. miniseries in Episode 340 – Retconaganda.
407 – Freshening Up
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In which X-Factor bounces from one rock-bottom to another; Sabretooth gets his (murderous) groove back; Dark Beast embraces the iMac aesthetic; the tip was righteous; Mystique multitasks like a pro; and Shard Bishop has come unstuck in time.
X-PLAINED:
- X-Nation
- What X-Factor’s been up to
- X-Factor #138-141
- Omega Red (again)
- The Brotherhood’s new hideout
- Mallory Brickman
- Miles and/or Ralph Brickman
- Gloria Brickman
- “Freshening up”
- Mystique, but a sitcom
- Agent Vargas
- Ever
- The secret purpose of Havok’s Brotherhood
- Exhumes vs. emplates
- Fixx
- Greystone
- Archer
- The X.U.E.
- Bantam
- Leisure activities
- What would happen if the T-O virus took over Cable’s body
- What we want from X-Men #700
NEXT EPISODE: Bishop: X.S.E.
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As Mentioned in Episode 397 – Mürdr at IKEA
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397 – Mürdr at IKEA
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In which Al Kennedy and Miles enter a somewhat post-OZT world, the art of Frank Teran (whose uncle built a jetpack) elevates an otherwise merely decent story, Puck is played by Bob Hoskins, Wild Child gets a chance to shine, Mystique and Forge are sitting in a tree, and Swamp Thing is amazing.
X-PLAINED:
- Spider-Man’s head cold
- Sabretooth: Back to Nature #1
- Sabretooth (Victor Creed)
- Wild Child (Kyle Gibney)
- Horrible violence, expertly implied
- The ubiquity of sewers
- Saturday morning cartoons of R-rated movies
- Serial killers with G.I. Joe names
- Improbable tracking
- Bilingual crime
- Chekhov’s waterfall
- DRUGS
- X-Factor #136-137
- The Hound program
- Skeumorphism
- Doctor Valerie Cooper and Major Edmond Atkinson, excellent exes
- Questionable wound-dressing
- Holograms
- Government jobs
- The sad fate of the Chase family
- Nimrod disambiguation
- The Marvel Universe According to Doctor Seuss
NEXT EPISODE: The X-Men return from space!
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As Mentioned in Episode 385 – Super Whiny Adults Simulator 64
385 – Super Whiny Adults Simulator 64
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In which we make an omission; X-Factor’s concept of “underground” is somewhat unconventional; Trevor Chase turns uncanny moppet; and Strong Guy and Lila Cheney have some very silly space adventures.
X-PLAINED:
- X-Factor #134-135
- Strong Guy Reborn #1
- The “deaths” of X-Factor (again)
- Lady Cop
- A contextually inappropriate pun
- The Adversary (more) (again)
- Why you use an air-gapped system
- How not to fake your own death
- Trevor Chase and his mysterious mutant powers
- Rusty Trail
- X-Factor X-Ploits
- A lot of wasted potential
- The Jorken-Kront war
- Space stuff
- Lila Cheney (more) (again)
- Kreetor
- Spiff’s Saucers
- Calvin & Hobbes licensing in the Marvel Universe
- The Chalker Brothers (briefly) (again)
- The most useful and fun mutant powers
- Musicals with Mister Sinister
NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk
NEXT EPISODE: Maggott!
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