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As Mentioned in Episode 519 – Beautiful People With Incredible Powers

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And so it begins. (New X-Men #114)
That is a damn stylish credits page. (New X-Men #114)
Cerebra. (New X-Men #114)
Well, fuck. (New X-Men #114)
Charles Xavier vs. Cassandra Nova, round 2 (although you won’t officially find that out ’til later). (New X-Men #114)
These covers! (New X-Men #115)
I really like the way Morrison writes these two. (New X-Men #115)
Alas, Ugly John, we hardly knew ye. (New X-Men #115)
She’s so evil, but also so fucking weird. (New X-Men #115)
The original Negasonic Teenage Warhead. (New X-Men #115)
So, that happened. (New X-Men #115)
It may be improbable, but I legitimately like the negative-space X as a statement. (New X-Men #116)
The return of Emma Frost. (New X-Men #116)
One of the most lingering images of the run. (New X-Men #116)
Oh. That’s bad. (New X-Men #116)
That’s not Charles Xavier. (New X-Men #116)
NEXT EPISODE: Beast has a bad day.

 

519 – Beautiful People With Incredible Powers

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In which we start the Morrison Run; Professor X gets his hands on Chekhov’s gun; Cassandra Nova raises X-villains to a new level of weird; and humanity is running on borrowed time.

X-PLAINED:

  • No-Girl
  • New X-Men #114-116
  • Grant Morrison and their approach to the X-Men
  • Superhero fashion
  • Cerebra
  • Beast’s new look
  • Ugly John
  • Interpersonal dynamics
  • Cassandra Nova (somewhat)
  • Donald Trask
  • Master Molds
  • Wild Sentinels
  • Emma Frost (more) (again)
  • Negasonic Teenage Warhead (the original)
  • The fall of Genosha
  • Secondary mutations
  • The most strapless bra of all time
  • The Black Bug Room
  • Summers problems
  • Official X-Men and the designation thereof
  • Wonder Man and mutants

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As Mentioned in Episode 514 – Plan 9 From Westchester

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Fun in the sewers! (X-Men #112)
Amelia Voght, fancy version. (X-Men #112)
Saint Sebastian got nothin’ on Charles Xavier. (X-Men #112)
Those rare moments when masks make sense! (X-Men #112)
Heh. (X-Men #112)
He gets things done. (X-Men #112)
Northstar X-Plains Eve of Destruction. (X-Men #112)
Poor Frenzy. (Uncanny X-Men #393)
This panel was a mistake. (Uncanny X-Men #393)
The Age of Apocalypse X-Babies. (Uncanny X-Men #393)
DAMNIT, WOLVERINE. (Uncanny X-Men #393)
Whoops. (Uncanny X-Men #393)
When in doubt, yeet your problems into space. (X-Men #113)
Wolverine has been trying for this moment for how long now? (X-Men #113)
Me, too, thanks. (X-Men #113)
NEXT EPISODE: Wolverine’s secret and oft-retconned origins!

LINKS & FURTHER READING:

If you’re interested in getting involved in community activism, here are some good places to start:

514 – Plan 9 From Westchester

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In which we provide some inroads to resisting fascism in your community; pacifism has amazing abs; Cyclops and Wolverine play revolutionary chicken; Amelia Voght fails to live up to her narrative potential; Jean Grey continues to make spectacularly bad choices; Polaris deserves better; and Wolverine finally gets to stab Magneto.

X-PLAINED:

  • Community action and aid
  • X-Men #112-113
  • Uncanny X-Men #393
  • Genosha (more) (again)
  • Northstar (more) (again)
  • Dazzler (more) (again)
  • Sunpyre (more) (again)
  • Hector Rendoza (more) (again)
  • Paulie Provenzano (more) (again)
  • Frenzy (more) (again)
  • Amelia Voght (more) (again)
  • St. Sebastian thirst traps
  • Sewer adventures
  • Post-Apocalypse Cyclops (more) (again)
  • Awkward conversations about feelings
  • Implausible knitting
  • The Age of Apocalypse X-Babies
  • A protracted confrontation
  • Bad strategy
  • A confusing ruse
  • Some stabbing
  • What happens to the unlikeliest X-Men
  • Jean Grey as Charles Xavier’s heir
  • Best potential uses of Hector Rendoza

NEXT EPISODE: The secret (retconned) origin of Wolverine!

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As Mentioned in Episode 513 – Eve of Destruction

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Scott Summers, sharply dressed in (morally) gray! (Uncanny X-Men #391)
“Geez, Dad, can you say midlife crisis??” (Uncanny X-Men #391)
Summerses gotta Summers. (Uncanny X-Men #391)
“You must be thinking of the me from Earth-10005 or Earth-13122.” (Uncanny X-Men #391)
Exposition in the front, party in the (flash-)back. (Uncanny X-Men #391)
Scott’s face in that second panel… (Uncanny X-Men #391)
*sniffle* (Uncanny X-Men #391)
Anyone have ideas about the significance of the text on that gravestone in the foreground? (X-Men #111)
A purple and unpleasant land. (X-Men #111)
Muscles and shadows. (X-Men #111)
“Here with us is Doctor Henry McCoy, who’s really good with his… uh, science.” (X-Men #111)
Hey, she’s being nicer than she was back in her Alliance of Evil days! (X-Men #111)
A picture is worth – and includes – a thousand words. (X-Men #111)
Now that’s how you end a prologue. (X-Men #111)
The All-New, Mostly-Untrained X-Men. (Uncanny X-Men #392)
Jean recruits Jean-Paul Beaubier, Northstar! (Uncanny X-Men #392)
Jean recruits Hector Rendoza, AKA Wraith! (Uncanny X-Men #392)
Jean is about to recruit Paulie Provenzano, AKA Omerta! (Uncanny X-Men #392)
Jean recruits Leyu Yoshida, AKA Sunpyre! (Uncanny X-Men #392)
They’re… they’re gonna do fine. (Uncanny X-Men #392)
Jean recruits(?) Joanna Cargill, AKA Frenzy! (Uncanny X-Men #392)
Jean accepts the coincidental timing of the arrival of Alison Blaire, AKA Dazzler! (Uncanny X-Men #392)
NEXT TIME: Eve of Destruction concludes.

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513 – Eve of Destruction

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In which Jay and Miles make an announcement; the X-Men are down to bare bones; Cyclops and Corsair are stunningly bad at feelings; Trish Tilby is stunningly bad at journalism; Magneto says goodbye to nuance; and Jean Grey assembles a team.

X-PLAINED:

  • X-Corps vs. X-Corp
  • A thing that will be happening in a few months
  • The story so far
  • Uncanny X-Men #391-392
  • X-Men #111
  • The state of the X-Men
  • A short-lived Cyclops costume
  • A reunion
  • A sorry excuse
  • Resolution, somewhat
  • Genosha (more) (again)
  • Conflict of interest
  • Several excellent villain speeches
  • Joanna Cargill (Frenzy) (again)
  • Jean-Paul Beaubier (Northstar) (again)
  • Hector Rendoza
  • Yet another angry mob
  • Paulie Provenzano (Omerta)
  • Leyu Yoshida (Sunpyre)
  • Ice skating in Rockefeller Center
  • Our picks for a new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants

NEXT EPISODE: Eve of Destruction concludes!

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As Mentioned in Episode 479 – Nancy Drew and the Secret of Carrion Cove

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Jay’s not wrong that the buildings look like giant dildos… but at least they look like fancy dildos! (Magneto: Dark Seduction #1)
Starring: a bunch of fashionable jerks, mostly! (Magneto: Dark Seduction #1)
Not a good look when your cops look just like the cops who used to oppress you… (Magneto: Dark Seduction #1)
Magneto: Master of Magnetism and Monologues! (Magneto: Dark Seduction #1)
okay but what about the chest-skull (Magneto: Dark Seduction #1)
That floaty platform has a heated floor, blind spot monitoring, and built-in GPS. (Magneto: Dark Seduction #2)
For all your chat reaction needs! (Magneto: Dark Seduction #2)
These here comical books are lookin’ pretty comical-booky. (Magneto: Dark Seduction #2)
Magneto talks to… someone! (Magneto: Dark Seduction #2)
We just like this cover. (Magneto: Dark Seduction #3)
Everybody fights everybody! (Magneto: Dark Seduction #3)
In which dust illustrates speed and impact! (Magneto: Dark Seduction #3)
It’s like the portrait-instead-of-landscape version of widescreen storytelling! (Magneto: Dark Seduction #3)
Father of the year. (Magneto: Dark Seduction #3)
To her credit, she does have all the Kirby Krackle. (Magneto: Dark Seduction #4)
Because Mister Sinister is the hidden force behind literally everything. (Magneto: Dark Seduction #4)
Rest in Ponytail, Fabian Cortez. (Magneto: Dark Seduction #4)
“Time to conceive some other on-again, off-again offspring who suck less.” (Magneto: Dark Seduction #4)
NEXT TIME: X-Man!

LINKS AND FURTHER READING

  • That thing about the cooking show and spreader bars and Namor that Jay was talking about
  • Information and pencils from Chris Claremont and Rick Leonardi’s canceled Phoenix miniseries

479 – Nancy Drew and the Secret of Carrion Cove

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In which Genosha gets better and/or worse; Fabian Cortez is the Secretary of Betrayal; having an action figure of yourself is the path to immortality; and Hammer Bay sounds like a sex toy company.

X-PLAINED:

  • Triathlon
  • The Revolution relaunch and the six-month gap
  • Magneto: Dark Seduction #1-4
  • Erotic skyscrapers
  • Magneto (again) (forever)
  • X-Men Tijuana Bibles
  • The Genoshan Cabinet
  • Dark friendship with benefits
  • Polaris’s newfound interest in heavy metal
  • Magneto’s on-again, off-again children
  • Carrion Cove
  • Coloring symbolism and/or errors
  • Spat and Grovel (kind of)
  • Magneto’s ancestral f**k-ghost
  • Socialism!
  • Magneto’s mysterious mind-voice
  • Neal Conan
  • The Avengers of 2000
  • Kirby Krackle
  • Magneto’s smooth arc into villainy
  • Bonking
  • Human nature
  • Rachel Summers in the Body Shoppe
  • Our (lack of) coverage of solo comics

NEXT EPISODE: X-Man!

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As Mentioned in Episode 478 – The Monologue Tube

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Alan Davis protests the death of Cyclops. (From this link)
X-teams, past to present. (At least the ones who still had comics in 2000.) (Uncanny X-Men #379)
Well, at least this time he’s leaving with someone other than those five motorcycle guys who could turn into a sixth motorcycle guy. (Uncanny X-Men #379)
It really, really isn’t. (Uncanny X-Men #379)
“…why do you call yourself X-Man, anyway?” (Uncanny X-Men #379)
Suddenly, the plot! (Uncanny X-Men #379)
“Sacre blue, non! Our elf ears!” (Uncanny X-Men #379)
“you guys i am so mad right now you have no idea” (Uncanny X-Men #379)
Toad, did you just… have that mirror with you? (Uncanny X-Men #379)
Just a really good cover. (X-Force #101)
That pacing, though. (X-Force #101)
Aww man. (X-Force #101)
We’ve all been there, kid. Well, maybe not exactly there, but like… metaphorically. (X-Force #101)
Meltdown counsels a sad child in a comic by Joseph Harris, part 2. (X-Force #101)
Doctor Wily, is that you? (X-Men #99)
“You wanna play paintball with us?” (X-Men #99)
How does a costume that looks so good when you’re blue look so silly when you’re not? (X-Men #99)
I’m not so sure about this Storm-and-Marrow-as-camp-counselors subplot, but I do love me some soap opera. (X-Men #99)
Businesspeople and bikers: the two genders. (X-Men #99)
Tentacle-guys, demons, and hulks: the three genders. (X-Men #99)
Mystique really misses that lamp. (Uncanny X-Men #380)
Logan may be dying, but his eyebrows are very impressive right now. (Uncanny X-Men #380)
“Plus, they charged us like thirty bucks just to bring a carry-on!” (Uncanny X-Men #380)
The S stands for Sexy. (Uncanny X-Men #380)
We’ve all had that dream, Blob. (Uncanny X-Men #380)
Bye, Alan Davis! It’s been weird but pretty fun! (Uncanny X-Men #380)
NEXT TIME: Magneto versus everybody.

478 – The Monologue Tube

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In which Alan Davis is Team Cyclops; everyone gets depowered; it’s hard to connect with kids your age when you’re a superhero; Sinister’s gotta sinister; everyone gets repowered; and the ‘90s were much more eclectic than they get credit for being.

X-PLAINED:

  • Side effects of Decimation
  • Uncanny X-Men #379-380
  • X-Force #101
  • X-Men #99
  • Cadre K
  • Summers family drama
  • The High Evolutionary (more) (again)
  • The (other) time all the mutants got depowered
  • Kevin
  • A very beautiful book
  • The ongoing mess of Genoshan politics
  • The Neo (slightly)
  • To what extent Logan’s claws are a mutant power
  • Sinister monologues
  • Herbert Evolutionary
  • The New New Men
  • The ‘90s, in general
  • What makes a Morlock

NEXT EPISODE: Magneto: Dark Seduction!

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