Tag: G.W. Bridge
355 – All Sentinels Are Bastards
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In which we take a break from X-Men to talk Onslaught tie-ins; Miles learns about coffee shop AUs; Sentinels are very large; there are no bystanders in a crossover event; we are really not Punisher people; and all the bad guys have plans.
X-PLAINED:
- The Clone Saga (briefly)
- How not to dispose of a dead clone
- Ben Reilly
- Amazing Spider-Man #415
- Spider-Man #72
- Green Goblin #12
- Punisher #11
- Onslaught’s increasingly nebulous goals
- Sentinel timing
- Coffee shop AUs
- Sentinels in Manhattan
- Several fights with Sentinels
- Green Goblin (Phil Urich)
- Uncles Ben
- The Lunatic Laugh
- Punisher (Frank Castle) (briefly)
- Yet another helicarrier crash
- The happiest cannon fodder
- The Junkyard Dogs
- Rashid Hammer Jones
- The surprisingly exciting world of NYC maritime salvage
- Make-believe superpowers
- Deadlines
NEXT EPISODE: A Big Fight
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As Mentioned in Episode 343 – The Water Cooler of Violence
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LINKS & FURTHER CATASTROPHES:
- For the backstory on the Weisman Institute, listen to Episode 304 – Explosive Ops.
- Please enjoy the genius that is Hans Jensen.
343 – The Water Cooler of Violence
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In which X-Force carries on the New Mutants’ tradition of property damage; a lot of people have infiltrated Helicarriers; G.W. Bridge makes it weird; Gamesmaster returns to no particular end; and we go back in time to cover the origins of Chris Bradley.
X-PLAINED:
- The deaths of several Worthingtons
- X-Force #55-56
- X-Men Unlimited #8
- A legacy of explosions
- Uncanny X-Men #333 (briefly) (again)
- A heist
- Several of the many characters who had successfully infiltrated Helicarriers as of 1996
- Dum Dum Dugan
- Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine
- The glory days off LASER tag
- Church fights
- Subtext
- The Weisman Institute for the Criminally Insane (more) (again)
- How to pronounce “Risque”
- Chris Bradley
- Hans Jensen
- Nostalgia goggles and their absence
- Civilian awareness of cosmic Marvel
- Asgard, Oklahoma
- Annalee
NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk
NEXT EPISODE: Where No Mutant Has Gone Before
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As Mentioned in Episode 221 – Better Than LEGO
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LINKS & FURTHER MONSTROSITIES:
- Yes, Virginia, Dismal Nitch is a real place.
- Miles, this one’s for you.
- Secrets Behind the X-Men
- VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
221 – Better Than LEGO
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In which Miles stops worrying and learns to love X-Force; you should absolutely not google the phrase “face jam”; the kids take a field trip to Graymalkin; Jay reverse-engineers Shatterstar’s hair; Donald Pierce gets a new job; Sam Guthrie is the most trustworthy man in the Marvel Universe; Cable is your guns grandma; Professor earns its name; X-Force really only has one setting; and not every Sluggo is lit.
X-PLAINED:
- A bunch of stuff Quicksilver did
- Several cats
- X-Force #20-23
- The Externals (more) (again)
- A deeply unlikely hairstyle
- Graymalkin / Ship / Professor
- A somewhat one-sided reunion
- Yahoos
- Inaccurate arithmetic
- Why Feral sounds like that
- Neither Tom, Dick, nor Harry
- War Machine (James Rhodes)
- Salvage
- Sam Guthrie’s long trail of dead father figures
- Shatterstar
- How to fight an External
- The seventh plague
- What Domino’s been up to
- Hammer’s mom
- Tigerstryke (more) (again)
- Sluggo (but not that Sluggo)
- Learning to appreciate the ’90s
NEXT EPISODE: Psylocke Vs. Revanche!
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As Mentioned in Episode 214 – Stryfe’s Burn Book
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LINKS & FURTHER CONVERSATIONS:
- Check out the first Very Official Episode Transcript, over on the J&M wiki!
- (Did you know we have a wiki? We have a wiki!)
- If you want to get involved in the transcripts–or just hang out with rad folks–come join us on Discord! (Transcription organization happens in the Greymalkin channel.)
- You can hear the WHAT?! supercut in Episode 52!
214 – Stryfe’s Burn Book
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In which “wolves” proves a remarkably broad category in the 616; we at least nominally wrap up X-Cutioner’s Song; Stryfe could really use a style guide; we issue our first-ever music challenge; Jubilee is an agent of chaos; Gambit’s powers are a metaphor; Charles Xavier has a complicated relationship to disability; the quality of Jay’s penmanship is a matter of official record; Boom Boom is a remarkably good costume designer; Cannonball comes into his own as a leader; and every “WHAT?!” you hear on this show is fresh and original.
X-PLAINED:
- Wolves, to a very limited extent
- Jay & Miles (kinda) at NYCC
- Transcripts
- X-Cutioner’s Song
- Stryfe’s Strike File
- Uncanny X-Men #297
- X-Force #19
- A gentle bird caught in a swirling tornado of lust and desperation
- Shades of me
- Shades of you
- Shades of them
- Our first-ever music challenge
- Some foreshadowing
- Nostalgia
- A very nice hug
- The one good side effect of Stryfe’s technoorganic virus
- Charles Xavier vs. disability politics
- Several practical jokes in very poor taste
- Teacher-student bonding
- An excellent epithet
- Some lettering choices
- An extended Hail Caesar riff
- The Clooney Scale
- An enduring mystery
- Clone powers
- Exclamatory logistics
NEXT EPISODE: Hey, remember Excalibur?
MUSIC CHALLENGE: Write and record a song based on or using text from Stryfe’s Strike File (or any of his rants from X-Cutioner’s Song)! Send your masterpieces (or links to ’em) to xplainthexmen(at)gmail(dot)com, with the subject STRYFE SONG!
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As Mentioned in Episode 207 – Blood and Metal
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LINKS & FURTHER TOMFOOLERY:
- DID YOU KNOW THAT WE’RE GOING TO BE AT FLAMECON? Of course you did, because we won’t shut up about it! Come see us at table P119, and check out the live episode!
- The Adventures of Dr. McNinja is a masterpiece of modern literature; plus, it’s by the only person who will ever love Robocop vs. Terminator as much as Jay does.
- The new She-Ra design is awesome, and so is all the fan art that it has inspired.
- The Tim Minchin line Jay paraphrased in this episode comes from the song “White Wine in the Sun.”
- Wanna hang out online with a bunch of really nice X-Men fans? Hell, yeah, you do! Join the X-Plain the X-Men Discord!
207 – Blood and Metal
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In which Miles has a Dracula problem; we are really, really excited about FlameCon; Fabian Nicieza is the unsung hero of the early ’90s; Jay doesn’t explain the Iranian Hostage Crisis; Cable does not have a good history with trademark disputes; Cable: Blood and Metal is secretly an allegory for the X-books of the early 1990s; friendship and explosions don’t have to be mutually exclusive; and history evokes but doesn’t quite repeat itself.
X-PLAINED:
- Dracula disambiguation
- One way to stop a vampire invasion
- Wang beams
- Cable: Blood and Metal #1-2
- The continuing miracle that is Fabian Nicieza
- Cable (as established in 1992)
- Stryfe
- The Wild Pack and/or Six Pack
- The ongoing evolution of John Romita, Jr.
- Tolliver
- Several heists of varying quality
- Numerous patches and their contents
- How the Wild Pack became the Six Pack
- An idiom, examined
- A total dick move
- Muscles-and-guns power creep
- Guns of tomorrow
- The McNinja point
- A brief flirtation with Magic: The Gathering
- A typo that became canon
- The new She-Ra
- The new, improved Garrison Kane
- European nipple lasers
- Mr. Richter
- The evolution of Cable
NEXT EPISODE: X-Factor gets political.
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