Tag: Hydra
361 – The World’s Densest Eagle
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In which the 1990s were full of miniseries; Mystique and Sabretooth take a sabbatical from X-Factor; Mystique’s powers are wildly inconsistent; we meet a second Cypher; most secret agents are Mystique; and you should never tell Sabretooth about your girlfriend.
X-PLAINED:
- Sabretooth’s ambitions
- Sabretooth and Mystique #1-4
- A Helicarrier heist
- Hydra
- AIM
- The sounds of autopsies
- How Mystique’s powers work, sometimes, kind of
- Commander Cypher
- Technosassins vs. Cyburai
- Catalyst
- Complimentary types of awful
- Caption colors
- Access
- Gender dimorphism of monsters
- The Comics Code Collar
- Dismember and Corrosion
- The time Cyclops offered to help Cable steal a spaceship
- The Black Womb Project
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As Mentioned in Episode 227 – Wolverine, Killing
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LINKS & FURTHER TANGENTS:
- For more discussions of Kent Williams art, check out Episode 114 – Meltdown.
- For more hawk talk, go to Episode 212 – Drumbeats of Despair.
- Nate Powell makes gorgeous comics.
- John Moschitta, better known as “The Micro Machines Guy,” was famous for his fast patter in the ’80s.
- Smooth, smooth, smooth.
- Chichester and Sienkiewicz’s Moby Dick
- You cannot understand how impressive this animation was in 1998.
- “It sucks… as it cuts!”
227 – Wolverine, Killing
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In which Cowboy Poet Wolverine is the best Wolverine; the Masters of the Universe basically had Internet Cat names; Miles has an Early Metallica moment; Wolverine: Killing is just ludicrously excellent; and the hawk joke somehow keeps going.
X-PLAINED:
- An eccentric approach to ecoterrorism
- Wolverine: Inner Fury
- Wolverine: Killing
- The narrative limits of Bill Sienkiewicz
- Various Terrors
- The Whale and/or Shark
- Microminibots
- A trap
- Mr. Big
- A sexy coffee cup
- Literary allusions
- Atmospheric narration
- Urban despair
- A peculiar community
- Cowboy Poet Wolverine
- A thematic meditation
- Depressingly exceptional representation of a lady in peril
- King Hiss
- The world according to Logan
- The theoretical microbrewery scene of an imaginary enclave
- Regional differences in IPAs
- Feelings and their various sources
- The symbolism of Wolverine’s costume
- Home
- How Archangel sleeps
- Adamantium vs. Vibranium
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As Mentioned in Episode 151 – Czars of Kung Fu
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151 – Czars of Kung Fu
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In which Laura easily is worth a dozen Old Mans Logan; Charlotte Jones is the EveryCop; Genosha remains a fairly versatile allegory; Hydra are totally Nazis; Jubilee gets the best sound effects; Rogue has a bad day; and it’ll take more than a sun to stop Lila Cheney.
X-PLAINED:
- Graydon Creed
- Logan oversaturation (more) (again)
- Uncanny X-Men #264, 268, 269
- A somewhat convoluted status quo
- Death by Derrida
- New York’s sewers (kind of) (maybe)
- The Misty Knight rule
- Jackets of the ’90s
- Cap’s cape
- Mustache metaphysics
- The Press Gang (again)
- VR.5
- The Doctrine of Hot Pursuit
- Dazzler, in handy grenade form
- A prescient scenario
- Jim Lee signature cocktail dresses
- A dubious approach to first aid
- Wolverine’s sexy friends
- Nazi ducks
- Seraph
- Ivan Petrovitch
- Sexy subversion
- Rogue vs. Carol Danvers
- Mutants vs. the Terrigen Mists
- TaXonomy of ambiguously X-characters
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