Tag: Kurt Busiek
53 – Sometimes They Come Back
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In which Wolverine doesn’t care about your baby; Storm takes charge; duels are terrible bases for systems of government; editorial mandate is hell on a marriage; Magneto is a pretty cool teacher; Jean Grey comes back; and we have mixed feelings about the Phoenix retcon.
X-PLAINED:
- Kenji Uedo
 - Uncanny X-Men #201
 - New Mutants #35
 - Avengers #263
 - Fantastic Four #286
 - Classic X-Men #8
 - The post-Trial of Magneto status quo
 - Nathan Christopher Charles Summers
 - A small cross-section of Cyclops’s myriad issues
 - The wrong means to the right end
 - Magneto’s educational philosophy
 - The politics of creative credits
 - “You Know Who”
 - The Phoenix retcon
 - Several unrelated break-ins
 - The return of Jean Grey
 - Jean and the Phoenix Force
 - Alternate-timeline Madelynes Pryor
 - Jean Grey’s code names
 
NEXT WEEK: X-Factor begins! (for real, this time – sorry about that SNAFU!)
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As Mentioned in Episode 21 – Kurt Busiek at the Coffee-a-Go-Go
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  Links & Further Reading:
- Kurt Busiek
 - Unpublished X-Men
 - The X-Axis Silver-Age Index (archived)
 - Marvels
 - X-Men #32
 - X-Men #37
 - X-Men #48
 - Marvel Holiday Special 1994
 - Slan, by A. E. van Vogt
 - Children of the Atom, by Wilmar H. Shiras
 - Mutant, by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner)
 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon
 - The Dark Is Rising Sequence, by Susan Cooper
 - Astro City
 - Tooth and Claw
 
21 – Kurt Busiek at the Coffee-a-Go-Go
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In which special guest Kurt Busiek is the J. Robert Oppenheimer of X-Men, Rachel and Miles learn to love the Silver Age, Cyclops gets a job, Bernard the Poet falls from grace, we really wish X-Men: The Secret Years was a real book, everyone recites poetry, and we still don’t get around to Marvels.
X-Plained:
- METOXO, the Lava Man
 - The true, secret purpose of Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men
 - The Phoenix retcon
 - Archival pocket dimensions
 - Enid Blyton’s X-Men
 - Early-to-mid-20th Century American Jewish Socialism
 - Why the X-Men are terrible mutant P.R.
 - Band names of the Silver Age
 - An X-Men series that might have been.
 - Why Cyclops should be the Rachel Maddow of Marvel
 - Quicksilver’s childhood dreams
 - The Coffee-a-Go-Go
 - Bernard the Poet
 - Zelda Kurtzberg
 - The Barefoot Beats
 
Next week: The wedding of Scott Summers and Jean Grey!
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