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Tag: Hounds
397 – Mürdr at IKEA
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In which Al Kennedy and Miles enter a somewhat post-OZT world, the art of Frank Teran (whose uncle built a jetpack) elevates an otherwise merely decent story, Puck is played by Bob Hoskins, Wild Child gets a chance to shine, Mystique and Forge are sitting in a tree, and Swamp Thing is amazing.
X-PLAINED:
- Spider-Man’s head cold
- Sabretooth: Back to Nature #1
- Sabretooth (Victor Creed)
- Wild Child (Kyle Gibney)
- Horrible violence, expertly implied
- The ubiquity of sewers
- Saturday morning cartoons of R-rated movies
- Serial killers with G.I. Joe names
- Improbable tracking
- Bilingual crime
- Chekhov’s waterfall
- DRUGS
- X-Factor #136-137
- The Hound program
- Skeumorphism
- Doctor Valerie Cooper and Major Edmond Atkinson, excellent exes
- Questionable wound-dressing
- Holograms
- Government jobs
- The sad fate of the Chase family
- Nimrod disambiguation
- The Marvel Universe According to Doctor Seuss
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As Mentioned in Episode 338 – Chomp & Stomp
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338 – Chomp & Stomp
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In which X-Factor’s lineup shifts further towards villainy; Wild Child is neither wild nor a child; bureaucrat Val Cooper > action Val Cooper; Marvel invests in Bastion; and foreshadowing works better in some titles than in others.
X-PLAINED:
- How Wolverine got his adamantium back
- A marriage of convenience
- X-Factor #122-124
- Amalgam comics
- A clever workaround
- Several new looks
- Belle Fourche (again)
- Several ways to fail to control supervillains
- The Hound
- The Hazard Chamber
- Different titles’ relationships to dark futures
- Statting up Beast in D&D
- Characters with more narrative impact dead than alive
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152 – Ghosts of Future Present
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In which Franklin Richards makes everything more complicated; Reed Richards is a terrible parent; Days of Future Present is a surprisingly good ghost story; Valeria Richards is awesome (but does not appear in this crossover); everyone’s got hounds these days; Banshee is your sad cyborg dad; Phoenix has a lot of feelings; and X-Factor once again manages to up the ante for child endangerment.
X-PLAINED:
- Nightcrawler’s brief clerical career
- Days of Future Present
- Annuals, in general
- Some extraordinarily specific Namor headcanon
- Fantastic Four Annual #23
- New Mutants Annual #6
- X-Factor Annual #5
- Uncanny X-Men Annual #14
- Franklin Richards
- Several statuses quo
- The reproductive potential of Doombots
- Ms. Marvel (Sharon Ventura)
- Ahab
- A Code Red Time Emergency
- One of Jay’s dream pitches
- Your sad cyborg dad
- The worst tea party
- One hell of a kiss
- Robocop vs. Terminator
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As Mentioned in Episode 34 – Mordenkainen’s Marvelous Mutants
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Links and Further Reading:
- In Episode 34, we answered a question from a listener looking for textual evidence that Nightcrawler isn’t homophobic (we pointed them to Amazing X-Men #13). Rachel also discussed that question from a different angle–and at considerably more length–on the blog.
- Diana: Warrior Princess is both an incredibly fun game setting and a brilliant piece of cultural satire.
- We are big fans of both the Gamers movies and the humans responsible for them.
- Rachel and Elle talk a lot of shit about Hank Pym in Episode 4 of Into It.
34 – Mordenkainen’s Marvelous Mutants
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In which we venture forth into an age undreamed of, there are so many reasons to have Northstar on your team, Selene is the worst guest, Rachel X-Plains Conan, Cyttorak is the Mordenkainen of the Marvel Universe, Miles loves Doctor Strange, we have some fairly serious Captain America feelings, the X-Men completely fail at hide-and-seek, and we make more D&D references in one episode than in the previous 34 combined.
X-Plained
- Northstar
- Beard privilege
- X-Men 189-192
- Anachronistic timeline markers
- Hounds
- The Culture Shock Class
- An Age Undreamed of
- Conan disambiguation
- Red Sonja vs. Red Sonya
- Kulan Gath
- Marvel Team-Up #79
- Barbarian Avengers
- Why we love Captain America
- Several haircuts
- WiFi sorcery
- A really good inspirational speech
- The inevitable cephalopod revolution
- Why Hank Pym is the absolute worst
- Claudication
- Hide-and-seek
- How Rachel Summers actually traveled back in time
- Magus
- Warlock, Adam Warlock, and their respective Magi
- Politics, religion, and Nightcrawler
Edited to Add: In this episode, we answered a question from a listener looking for textual evidence that Nightcrawler isn’t homophobic (we pointed them to Amazing X-Men #13). We also discussed that question from a different angle–and at considerably more length–on the blog.
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