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332 – Gideon Falls
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In which Swimsuit Catalog is not an actual style of martial arts; Onslaught dabbles in vandalism; Crule is a special guy; we identify briefly with X-Force; and Charles Xavier is the Keyser Soze of Onslaught.
X-PLAINED:
- Externals on Krakoa
- Relative levels of violence in X-books
- X-Force #52-54
- Camp Hayden, KY
- Onslaught-facilitated power-ups
- Gideon (again)
- At least one apparent death
- How it feels to be us
- Businesswear
- Whether Cannonball is an external
- Nazis in the Captain Britain Corps
- Doop
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As Mentioned in Episode 286 – Family Before Continuity
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LINKS & FURTHER EVENT HORIZONS:
- Come see us at Emerald City Comic Con! Miles is delightful in person; and Jay, um, exists corporeally.
- Jay wrote an X-Men comic! It’s about Cyclops, and it will be out in April. Please tell your local comics shop to order a lot of copies so that they will let him write more.
- Also, Thor: Metal Gods continues on over at Serial Box!
- We covered the first 3/4 of Legion Quest in Episode 285 – Immediately If Not Sooner…
- …and interviewed Fabian Nicieza about X-Force and a bunch of other stuff in Episode 250 – Minding the DNA!
- New Intersections: Queer Futurism and the Krakoan Body Politic is a really fascinating article.
286 – Family Before Continuity
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In which Sunspot is a bad enough dude to save the president; Black Air is nowhere near as fun as WHO; we reach the end of Fabian Nicieza’s X-Force run; Rictor and Shatterstar talk about feelings; Gambit does not go gently into that good night; Scott and Jean choose family over continuity; Legion Quest comes to a close, along with Earth-616; the heart of Dawn of X is its margins; you should come see us at ECCC; and we announce a new schedule.
X-PLAINED:
- The Maker (Reed Richards of Earth-1610)
- Jay & Miles at ECCC and FlameCon 2020
- Stuff Jay writes
- Excalibur #86
- X-Force #43
- Cable #20
- Black Air
- Pete Wisdom
- What’s been up in Genosha
- The Midnight Runner
- Navigating Kitty Pryde’s age in Excalibur
- A very abrupt ending
- The ongoing evolution of X-Force
- Locus’s new look
- Clubbing with Rictor and Shatterstar
- Legion Quest so far
- Complicated feelings at the end of the world
- A reunion
- Where it all started
- Vague power sets
- Complicated feelings about Dawn of X
- The new podcast schedule
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Come see us at ECCC, March 12-15!
As Mentioned in Episode 275 – End of the Summer
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LINKS & FURTHER CRYPTIDS:
- Jay co-wrote a Thor novel! You can pre-order it here, if you are so inclined.
- For more on Fred Dukes and confronting and subverting the fatphobic tropes around his characterization, listen to Episode 240 – Live at ECCC, feat. Vita Ayala, Seanan McGuire, & Leah Williams!
- “End of the Summer” is a really good song.
275 – End of the Summer
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In which Professor is too cool for the Phalanx; fatphobia is significantly more dangerous than Fred Dukes; Strong Guy catches a plane; Emma Frost will not let you coast; Jubilee says goodbye to the X-Men; and it’s probably for the best that we have avoided corporate advertisers.
X-PLAINED:
- Mr. M
- Thor: Metal Gods
- Ship (more) (again)
- The Phalanx vs. the Borg
- Several cover homages
- X-Force #39
- X-Factor #107
- Uncanny X-Men #318
- Prosh
- The myriad delights of embodiment
- A complex theory about Leprechauns
- Benefits of single-issue stories
- Strong Guy vs. the Blob
- Strong Guy vs. Gravity
- Strong Guy vs. an airplane
- Strong Guy vs. biology
- Several explosions
- The kids of Generation X
- Deluxe-format comics
- The Xavier Institute for Higher Learning
- Goodbyes
- Dazzler’s relative immortality
- Jay’s X-Men Happy Meal Toy wish list
- How to make a page-accurate Warlock toy
NEXT EPISODE: The Soul Sword Trilogy
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As Mentioned in Episode 272 – Children of the Phalanx
272 – Children of the Phalanx (the Phalanx Covenant, Part 2 of 3)
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In which Ship was inside Cable all along; Life Signs is the Two Towers of the Phalanx Covenant (but only in the bad ways), it’s lucky that the Phalanx doesn’t have WiFi; Nightcrawler embraces chaos; and we promise the crossover gets better next chapter.
X-PLAINED:
- How Cable got his Ship back
- Miles’s official stance on candy corn
- The Two Towers of the Phalanx Covenant
- X-Factor #106
- X-Force #38
- Excalibur #82
- A monastery party
- Douglock (more) (again)
- Forge-O-Vision
- How Steven Lang got mixed up with the Phalanx
- Stages of Phalanx development
- Babel
- Giuseppe Russo, shepherd
- The Phalanx, but dogs
- Shinar
- What you get when you meet a stranger in the Alps
- Whom we’d like to see draw the Phalanx
- Mindwifery
- Adulthood
- “Stealth”
- Where baby Phalanxes come from
- Teamwork
- Good stories about Hope Summers
- What happened to Paul Bailey
NEXT EPISODE: Rock climbing with the Summers Family
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As Mentioned in Episode 263 – The Oldest Teens of Them All
263 – The Oldest Teens of Them All
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In which Cable and Domino may or may not be very old teenagers; disguises are not Dani Moonstar’s strong suit; Empath remains awful; Shatterstar probably talks exactly like a telenovela; X-Force needs an office manager; Mothra is larger than most things; and if you get to choose between being an External or a Guthrie, always be a Guthrie.
X-PLAINED:
- Bastion, to some extent
- X-Force #34-37
- Optical disambiguation
- Moonstar
- Face tentacle semantics
- Sandwiches (again)
- The Richter family
- An entirely avoidable fight
- Some time-travel bullshit
- Hannigan Electronics
- An insecurity system
- Nimrods
- Things neural networks would probably do instead of murdering you
- Defining traits of the Externals
- Adoption, X-Factor style
- Wolverine: The Long Night
NEXT EPISODE: Douglock!
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