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232 – Careful With That Axe, Cerise
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In which we’re still not over Into the Spider-Verse; Excalibur becomes an official X-book; Feron tries to help; Butts are fundamental; we care about the weird stuff; threats are unnecessary; and we were all always already Erik the Red.
X-PLAINED:
- Several characters’ Earth-65 counterparts
- The X-Office
- Judging people for not being Alan Davis
- Excalibur #68-70
- A slippery story title
- The unceremonious disappearance of Captain Britain
- Mullets of space and time
- Angst-ridden super-types, all of whom are morbidly obsessed with death
- The other war criminal in Excalibur
- Fashion trends of the Shi’ar Empire
- Krag
- Important conversations to have with your significant other
- A sadness staredown
- Cerise’s actual secret origins
- A fairly poetic life sentence
- The cleverest fights
- Our 2019 Convention Schedule
- How to get Jay & Miles at your local convention
NEXT EPISODE: X-Men Unlimited!
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As Mentioned in Episode 231 – Life Bites
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LINKS & OTHER AMENITIES:
You can make your own Sienna Blaze lipstick!
While it’s setting, why not read more about the 1993 Marvel annuals and Evan Skolnick’s D&D campaign!
Or you could watch The Gamers and develop a deeper understanding of Jay’s joke about Captain Britain at the gaming table.
And there’s always Episode 21 – Kurt Busiek at the Coffee-a-Go-Go, where we delve deep into the wonders of Metoxo the Lava Man!
231 – Life Bites
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In which DC is out of our bailiwick; Random gets around; someone finally makes an explicit reference to disability politics; death has not improved the Chalkers; Strong Guy can’t catch a break; we’re all whole other people; Sienna Blaze has a crayon name; we totally want to play D&D with Evan Skolnick; a trading card does not a memorable character make; and we are 100% here for the mutant episode of Sesame Street.
- X-PLAINED:
- What happened to Fred Duncan
- Beastwriting
- Marvel’s 1993 Annuals
- The speculator boom
- X-Factor Annual #8
- Uncanny X-Men Annual #17
- Excalibur Annual #1
- Charlie Ronalds (Charon) and his issues
- A protracted Batman reference
- How to string pearls
- A dubious twist on the danger room
- The pure joy of a child, but twisted and distorted like a shredded butterfly
- Cloot (Satannish)
- Howling Mad, by Peter David
- The greatest enemies of X-Factor (but not really)
- Cruel and arbitrary moralizing
- The other X-Cutioner (Carl Denti)
- A protracted illusion
- The Amazing Icemaster
- Metacommentary
- An accidental trap
- The death of Jason Wyngarde (Mastermind)
- Resolution versus forgiveness
- The other first appearance of Sienna Blaze
- More wizard stuff
- Khaos
- Khaos & Gritty 4 Lyfe
- Ghath
- Irth
- Mutants on Sesame Street
- Cycling in and out of comics
NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur goes to space!
CORRECTION: Chris Claremont did not in fact write Dragonlance comics.
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224 – Fix the Future
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In which Alan Davis performs his pièce de résistance; the personification of Death is surprisingly supportive; Rachel Summers is the One True Phoenix; Kitty Pryde goes full ’90s; syntax saves the world; and the first Excalibur series should really have ended with #67.
X-PLAINED:
- Origins of Phoenix mythology
- Excalibur #61-67
- The Phoenix Force (more) (again)
- Rachel Summers (more) (again)
- Earth-811 (more) (again)
- Phoenix vs. Galactus
- A pep talk from Death
- The One True Phoenix
- The dark, distant future of 2013
- The dark, even more distant future of 2015
- The extremely complicated future of Kate Pryde
- Rory Campbell / Ahab
- What may or may not be Ahab’s theme song
- Moby Dick, kind of
- That one time Widget was a car
- Resistance Coordination Executive
- Dark Angel
- Killpower
- Albion
- Grace
- Tangerine
- Arthur
- An Excalibur #54 callback
- Excalibur (the gun)
- Kitty’s new image
- How to hack the robot apocalypse
- Saved by the Bell: The College Years
- Where Excalibur should have ended
- Tactical use of Magneto’s hat
- Anti-assimilation stories in X-Men
NEXT EPISODE: The Passion of Butter Rum (feat. Austin Gorton)
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As Mentioned in Episode 223 – Live at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival
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LINKS & FURTHER GAMBLES:
- We discussed X-Men #159–and a lot of other Dracula-relevant material–in Episode 18 – You’ve Got a Dracula Problem.
- You can hear–and see!–us read the picture-book adaptation of “Days of Future Past” in the Jay & Miles Storytime Special.
223 – Live at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival
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In which Dracula probably doesn’t drink his blood from a World’s Greatest Dad mug; Miles massively underestimates the cultural ubiquity of Sexy Dracula; Bill Sienkiewicz may or may not have ever seen a bat; Kitty gets possessed; and Dazzler is singularly well suited to a Vegas residency.
X-PLAINED:
- Dracula’s ungrateful children
- Marvel Dracula
- A fortuitously named writer
- Rachel Van Helsing
- X-Men #159 (again) (briefly)
- Sexy Dracula
- The secret origin of sexy Draculas
- Fastball Special body mechanics
- X-Men Annual #6
- A nightmare
- “Bats”
- Yet another Castle Dracula
- The Montesi Formula
- Sound effects, spoken or otherwise
- Lilith
- Chairs
- The relative efficacy of holy symbols against Dracula
- X-Vegas
- Characters we have grown to love as a result of the podcast
NEXT EPISODE: Fix the future!
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As Mentioned in Episode 220 – On Your Bike
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LINKS & FURTHER DUBIOUS LIFE CHOICES:
- COME SEE US THIS COMING WEEKEND AT VEGAS VALLEY COMIC BOOK FESTIVAL!
- For more in-depth coverage of pre-Excalibur Captain Britain, check out Episode 97 – The Crooked World and Episode 98 – Between Alien Visitations and Drunken Sulks.
- Jay wasn’t kidding about the kid from Flight of the Navigator robbing a bank.
220 – On Your Bike
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In which we approach the end of Alan Davis’s Excalibur run; “duopenultimate” is not actually a word; Captain Britain pops the question; we do in fact (kinda) get follow-up on Alysande Stuart’s death; Miles needs to get a little less credulous about bureaucrats’ good intentions; Shadowcat engages in espionage; Nightcrawler and Cerise are tactically saucy; and the sun definitely ought to set on the British Empire.
X-PLAINED:
- Warpies
- Excalibur #61-65
- The Jaspers Warp (more) (again)
- The RCX (more) (again)
- Agents Gabriel and Michael
- What happened to Jay’s mom’s Hypercolor™ T-shirt
- What not to do with a dead parrot
- Several Hamlet references
- Scott Wright (MicroMax)
- The Cherubim
- Cloud Nine
- Agent Peter (Nigel Orpington-Smythe)
- Warpie naming conventions
- Beetroot
- Screen tone
- An idiom
- Evasive makeouts
- A specific thing on The Gifted
- Why Kitty Pryde tends to go by her given name
NEXT EPISODE: Space Fight!
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As Mentioned in Episode 218 – Careful What You Lick
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LINKS & FURTHER NONSENSE:
- Come see us at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival!
- The delightful PDX Broadsides will also be there!
- This episode involves a LOT of references to past story arcs. Here’s where you can hear us talk about those:
- Learn about one of the less obvious reasons not to masturbate with cacti in Episode 78 – The Eye Killers and Other Cautionary Tales.
- You can hear about the beginning of X-Men vol. 2 in Episode 178 – Giant-Size Special #6.
- We covered God Loves, Man Kills in Giant-Size Special #1.
- You can see Miles’s childhood X-Men drawings in Jay & Miles Made a Zine About the X-Men, now available on Gumroad!