Tag: Forge
131 – The Reaver Bunch
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In which Jubilee is the sassiest Xenomorph; Lady Deathstrike is way too good for the Reavers; Wolverine gets a sidekick; Forge arm wrestles the Shadow King; Moira takes a cavalier approach lab safety; Magneto’s motives get kind of reconciled; Legion is a chaos gamer; Mystique and Destiny break our hearts; queer erasure in fiction reflects erasure in life; and the Shadow King is not even a little bit subtle.
X-PLAINED:
- That one time Donald Pierce pretended to be Cyclops for like a year
- The post X-Men X-Men
- What may be our deepest cut yet
- Uncanny X-Men #252-255
- Where’s Wolverine?
- The Reaver Bunch
- Major-League lumpoids
- Robot dingoes
- A prescient vision
- Trouble at sea
- Several significant deaths
- Subtext and queer erasure
- The key of agony
- Smile noises
- Non-mutants we’d team up with the X-Men
NEXT WEEK: Back to Asgard!
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93 – The Discreet Charm of the Brood
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In which airplanes are really dangerous if you’re a mutant, Magik remembers that time she dreamed about remembering a dream, those who live by mystically bad judgment die by mystically bad judgment, It’s Always Mystique (TM), and everything leads to Inferno.
X-PLAINED:
- Forge’s moral compass
- New Mutants #62-63 and #65-66
- Empath and irredeemable vs. sympathetic villains
- Magical postal eagles
- Nova Roma
- Jag-u-ars
- Art as era signifier
- Time travel nightmare logic
- Sharpiemancy
- The “last” Brood
- Jerk headmasters who won’t even let you commit murder
- A long-awaited roomie reunion
- Bret Blevins’s mad Limbo skillz
- Claremont / Simonson character maturity equilibrium
- Astrally furry pants
- Loyalty to the living versus loyalty to the dead
- The Ultimate Darkchilde
- Wolverine’s surprisingly non-metallic teeth
- Partying with the New Mutants
NEXT WEEK: Pryde of the X-Men.
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As Mentioned in Episode 86 – Legends
86 – Legends (Fall of the Mutants, Part 1 of 3)
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In which we begin our 3-part coverage of Fall of the Mutants; Roma is very good at her job; strange things are afoot in Dallas; Mystique’s parenting skills are somewhat lopsided; Neal Conan is awesome; Havok gets a soapbox; Storm and Forge flirt with godhood; Rogue’s costume exists in a state of quantum uncertainty; Colossus is the organic steel wrench in the gears of chaos; and the X-Men die for real (but get better).
X-PLAINED:
- Crossovers vs. events
- The Fall of the Mutants
- Uncanny X-Men #225-227
- A really great marketing campaign
- The Adversary (again)
- Roma
- The Starlight Citadel
- Retcons as applied pareidolia
- A metaphor that is also a real chess piece
- A sort-of stabbing
- Neal Conan & Manoli Wetherell
- Literally hard-hitting journalism
- A whole new world
- Another variation on the Rogue’s-costume drinking game
- A really improbable plan
- The death and resurrection of the X-Men
- Mutant metabolisms
NEXT WEEK: It’s Always Darkest…
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Halloween X – 2015
As is our annual tradition, we put out a last-minute call on Twitter for pictures of your X-Men Halloween costumes, and dang are you a stylish bunch! Check out the full roundup–along with some really spectacular jack-o’-lanterns–below!
ETA: I know I missed a handful–and a few came in after the post was done–so if you’ve got an X-costume that’s NOT here, please drop a link in the comments below!
As Mentioned in Episode 78 – The Eye Killers and Other Cautionary Tales
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Links & Further Reading:
- For more on Storm, Forge, and “Lifedeath: A Love Story,” listen to Episode 31 – Chekhov’s Raygun!
- Navaho Religion: A Study in Symbolism, by Gladys Amanda Reichard
78 – The Eye Killers and Other Cautionary Tales
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In which we persevere in the face of adversity; Storm goes on a quest; Mr. Sinister makes his first appearance; Dazzler learns about teamwork (again); it still sucks to be Havok (but not as much as it sucks to be Madelyne Pryor); you should probably put down that cactus; the Murder Grampas join Freedom Force; Storm’s life is a metal-album cover; and the X-Men are doomed as hell.
X-Plained:
- The Mr. Sinister / Summers family time loop
- Uncanny X-Men #220-224
- Actual and potential origins of Mr. Sinister’s name
- How Longshot’s powers work in combat
- Teamwork (again)
- Representing sound and silence in a visual medium
- A protracted fight
- Forge (again)
- Naze (kind of)
- The Adversary
- Eye Killers
- One of many reasons not to masturbate with a cactus
- The X-Men in San Francisco
- Madelyne Pryor vs. fate
- Storm vs. Forge
- Character names vs. code names
- X-Makeovers
NEXT WEEK: X-Men vs. Avengers
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Rachel Recaps X-Men: Evolution
S1E6: Middleverse
I like this episode, because this is where Evolution starts to catch its stride and find its voice. “Middleverse” is kind of a mess animation-wise, but it’s also a one-off, a lighthearted breath of fresh air before we dive headfirst into the Big Ongoing Story next episode.
It also gets bonus points for being a Forge episode, which is almost always a plus. Comics Forge tends to be dark and brooding and at the center of convoluted storylines and soap opera, but two out of three animated Forges are uncomplicatedly delightful. The best animated Forge, of course, is Wolverine and the X-Men Forge, who just straight-up is Miles to the extent that we had his action figure in college and more than one person assumed it was a custom portrait. But Evolution Forge is pretty great, too.
As Mentioned in Episode 45 – A Woman Who Could Fly
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Links and Further Reading:
- Cheryl Lynn Eaton on Idie Oknokwo
- Finder is Rachel’s all-time favorite comic, and you should go read it right now.
- This didn’t actually come up in the episode, but you’ve got just under one week left to get What Would Peter Corbeau Do? t-shirts before they disappear FOREVER.