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389 – Wreck Gotta Recognize
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In which some puns are fundamentally visual; Jubilee is a really good kid; Bastion is a bad person but a good villain; Bachalo does Romita; Seagulls are assholes (but reasonably good narrators); Skin has no time for fantasies; Hitch does Cockrum; and Operation Zero Tolerance (unofficially) begins (again).
X-PLAINED:
- Glorian, the Shaper of Dreams (Thomas Gideon) (and his dad)
- Event build-up
- Generation X #26-28
- Bad times on a raft
- Valuable lessons from the Xavier School
- Yet another somewhat pointless Nightmare cameo
- Jubilee vs. Operation Zero Tolerance
- A good conversation
- Cookin’ with Jubilee
- Seagulls
- Dreams
- The Island that Chills Like a Man
- Strong Guy on Krakoa
- How (and whether) Logan ages
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336 – Serpents in Eden, feat. Si Spurrier
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In which writer Si Spurrier joins us to talk Nightcrawler, the unsustainability of Krakoa, bringing back Legion, the stuff growing on Dr. Nemesis’s head, Welsh accents, founding (and not founding) a mutant religion, and—yes—Onslaught.
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As Mentioned in Episode 284 – Precious Baubles
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LINKS & FURTHER CROSSOVERS
- We talked about the original Fantastic Four vs. the X-Men series in Episode 74 – This Dumb Rumpus…
- …and Dawn of X in Episode 274 – The Red Shoe Prophecies, feat. Chris Eddleman!
- Friend of the show Stephanie Burt is annotating this series alongside Andrea Ayres over at Xavier Files!
- Follow Chip on the Twitters!
- Peruse his website!
284 – Precious Baubles, feat. Chip Zdarsky
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In which we sit down with writer Chip Zdarsky to talk crossovers, continuity, metaphors, and X-Men/Fantastic Four!
X-PLAINED:
- X-Men/Fantastic Four
- A reunion
- Richards kids
- The state of Franklin Richards’ powers
- Balancing characters in team books
- Superhero teams as families
- Several metaphors
- Chip’s definitive X-Men
- Reed Richards vs. Charles Xavier
- Doom
- Krakoan fashion
- Switching gears
- An exchange of portraits
- Whether Garfield is a mutant
- Evolution
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As Mentioned in Episode 274 – The Red Shoe Prophecies

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LINKS & FURTHER RECORDINGS:
- Read Chris Eddleman and Robert Secundus’s X-Annotations at Xavier Files and Polygon!
- Follow Chris on Twitter here!
- Listen to Chrises on Infinite Earths…
- …and follow them on Twitter!
274 – The Red Shoe Prophecies (feat. Chris Eddleman)
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In which Chris Eddleman joins us for a close look at House of X and Powers of X; Doug Ramsey is highly relevant; resurrection is problematic in a universe with a documented afterlife; there is no reasonable in-continuity justification for the lack of trans Marvel characters; and your OT3 is canon.
X-PLAINED:
- The Phalanx (more) (again) (retconned)
- House of X
- Powers of X
- Krakoa (more) (again) (retconned)
- Moira MacTaggert (retconned)
- Bar Sinister
- Sinister Secrets
- Portentous red shoes
- The Man-Machine Ascendancy
- Chimeras
- North
- Cardinal
- Rasputin
- Homo Novissima
- Transhumanism in the Marvel Universe
- The metaphysics of Krakoan resurrection
- The Five
- The true nature of Goldballs’ powers
- Trans representation and its absence
- Retroactive foreshadowing
NEXT EPISODE: Still not quite Generation X
CORRECTION: The story Jay referred to as “Everything Burns” is in fact titled “Time Runs Out,” although a good many things do burn over its course.
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As Mentioned on Episode 5 – The Retcon That Walks Like a Man
5 – The Retcon That Walks Like a Man
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In which the Bronze Age begins; Dave Cockrum is your god now; the band gets together; Sunfire joins the team; cultural sensitivity is not Marvel’s strong suit; Sunfire quits the team; it sucks to be Cyclops; Professor X crosses a moral event horizon; Sunfire joins the team; Ed Brubaker channels Thomas Hardy; you are probably a Summers brother; and Sunfire quits the team.
X-Plained:
- Bamf-Voltron Nightcrawler
- Giant-Size X-Men #1
- The worst hat of the Marvel Universe
- The Mostly-New, Mostly-Different X-Men
- A business-casual angry mob
- The limits of creative good intentions
- Tractor punching on the Ust-Ordynski Collective
- The correct spelling of “fine”
- Canada
- Sunfire’s utter disdain for everything, including you
- Krakoa: The Island That Walks Like a Man!
- Characteristics of good X-fights
- Yet another miracle of magnetism
- X-Men: Deadly Genesis
- Summers Family Continuity (Introductory)
- More hats
- The Muir-MacTaggert Research Facility
- Summers Family Continuity (Intermediate)
- The Charles Xavier Scale of Supervillainy
- Relative immunity
- Wolverine’s ubiquity
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- What would you do with thirteen X-Men?
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