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368 – Six Teenagers in a Van
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In which we return to Rutland, Vermont; Emma Frost faces her salad demons; Banshee is not even supposed to be here today; no one should ever have to drive in New York City; Fenris is both evil and obnoxious; and we’re still not over that one Senator Kelly action figure.
X-PLAINED:
- How to help us help queer and trans youth
- Generation X #22
- Generation X Annual 1996
- Halloween with Generation X
- Stag Beetle Magazine
- X-casting Nicholas Cage
- Neurotica
- William Castle
- Roger Corman’s Poe adaptations
- Saturday morning cartoons
- Weird gardening
- Some very clever lettering tricks
- Several humans
- Train delays
- Fenris
- Mutagen Wave Generator
- The Worst Action Figure (more) (again)
- Robert the Ship
- Our favorite Beast iterations
- Abbreviations
NEXT EPISODE: Wolverine and some other guys!
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As Mentioned in Episode 358 – Giant-Size Special #10
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358 – Giant-Size Special #10
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In which Hub & Lisa X-Plain Howard the Duck; Jay & Miles X-Plain Daydreamers; and Jonathan Hickman X-Plains his tenure on the X-line!
X-PLAINED:
- The many lives of Moira MacTaggert
- Feral moppets
- Man-Thing and several characters who closely resemble Man-Thing
- Howard the Duck
- At least one Nexus of All Reality
- Duck sex
- Daydreamers #1-3
- Never-Never Narnozbia
- Tana Nile
- A shadowy hunter and his ship of empty souls
- A reasonably good Dr. Seuss riff
- Duckworld, or an appealing facsimile thereof
- H.E.R.B.I.E.
- Jonathan Hickman on X-Men
- The 7th Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
(Note: Our interview with Jonathan Hickman contains spoilers for September 2021’s Inferno #1!)
NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur!
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As Mentioned in Episode 356 – The Michael Bay-eux Tapestry
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356 – The Michael Bay-eux Tapestry
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In which it’s hard to be Joseph; we do our best to explain the inexplicable; Miles is full of feelings; Hulk smashes; and Onslaught finally (mostly) ends.
X-PLAINED:
- Heroes Reborn Return
- Wild times with the Dreaming Celestial
- Onslaught so far
- X-Men #56
- Onslaught: Marvel Universe
- Jay’s definitive Bond
- Joseph (more)
- The physical evolution of Onslaught
- Sense of scale
- Hawkeye (TV series)
- Onslaught’s goals, to what extent they exist
- The three genders
- A really big fight
- A miracle of magnetism
- The (nominal) end of the Age of Heroes
- Beast’s scientific career
- Chamber’s voice
NEXT EPISODE: Several epilogues
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As Mentioned in Episode 353 – Scientists and Superheroes
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- I’m pretty sure we’ve linked to Robert Cop before, but just in case, here you go.
353 – Scientists and Superheroes
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In which Dark Beast is an unlikely father figure; Wild Child remains low-budget Wolverine; X-Factor foreshadows the XSE; no one else thwarts Richardses on Doom’s watch; the cow goes “hate”; and Juggernaut fails to grow as a person.
X-PLAINED:
- The Red Ghost
- Onslaught thus far
- X-Factor #126
- Fantastic Four #416
- X-Men Unlimited #12
- Random’s origins (kind of)
- Pinochle
- Kristoff Vernard
- Several villains
- Juggernaut’s adventures in the Gem of Cyttorak
- Gomurr the Ancient (again)
- Spite
- Unreliable narrators
- The evolution of Cyttorak
- Wolverine’s hair
- X-arcs we’d like to see as video games
NEXT EPISODE: To nobody’s surprise, Onslaught.
CORRECTION: Kristoff Vernard is not in fact a clone of Doctor Doom.
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As Mentioned in Episode 351 – His Mighty Hand
351 – His Mighty Hand
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In which we enter Phase 2 of Onslaught; Cable is a man of many purposes; Onslaught gets a makeover; Intentions only matter if you’re Longshot; and Sue Richards will pull over this crossover event right now if you don’t behave.
X-PLAINED:
- Red Onslaught
- Onslaught Phase 1
- Uncanny X-Men #336
- Cable #35
- X-Man #19
- X-Force #58
- A large number of team-ups
- Onslaught, but make it a seder
- Watcher undercarriage
- Onslaught’s second form
- Cable and Apocalypse vs. Onslaught
- Nate Grey vs. Sinister
- A trap
- Several flashbacks and fantasies
- Symbolic roles within X-Force
- What Banshee’s sonic scream sounds like
- Pecs as envisioned by Franklin Richards
NEXT EPISODE: Onslaught, of course.
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