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Tag: miniseries
377 – Sam Hill
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In which Domino’s miniseries earns a grade of “present”; Miles gets to know Sam Hill; Domino trades pouches for boots; and we would prefer that you not sexualize Lady Deathstrike.
X-PLAINED:
- Halloween Jack
- Domino (Neena Thurman)
- Domino #1-3
- Milo Thurman
- The idiomatic Sam Hill
- Lady Deathstrike (again)
- The Reavers (again)
- Pico
- Boot pouches
- Puck (Eugene Judd)
- Dante’s Beatrice
- Several Skullbusters
- Robot tits
- The E.T. Atari game
- One way to get out of saying “I love you”
- Our unpopular favorites
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As Mentioned in Episode 364 – Department of Pareidolia
364 – Department of Pareidolia
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In which we lie extensively about how comics schedules work; the Mystery School is clearly a backdoor pitch; the Wisdom family has a lot going on; red dyes fade fast; and we (roughly) calculate the odds of Cyclops having a good day.
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- Marvel’s KISS comics
- Pryde and Wisdom #1-3
- Age
- Cheerful hissing
- Jardine
- A serial killer
- Department F66/The Mystery School
- Stoats
- Kill Your Boyfriend
- Several skeletons
- Harold Wisdom
- Serial disambiguation
- Inconsistent use of inhibitor guns
- Romany Wisdom
- A man stone
- Distinctive hair
- Some woman who seems important but never gets a name or follow-up
- John Gideon
- The Tube
- The inexplicable evolution of Romany Wisdom
- How not to end your miniseries
- Forgotten friendships
- The relative odds of Cyclops having a good day
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As Mentioned in Episode 361 – The World’s Densest Eagle
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 335 – Bone Town
335 – Bone Town
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In which we cover somewhat peculiar content under somewhat peculiar circumstances; nobody does it like Alan Davis; in this house, we appreciate Gracie Gamble; Bernard the Poet makes a comeback; nominal errors are not what they appear; and you should probably not leave your children with most of the X-Men.
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- Ravencroft vs. Ravenscroft
- Unusual recording circumstances
- ClanDestine #1-8
- X-Men/ClanDestine #1-2
- Destines including but not limited to:
- Rory (Crimson Crusader)
- Pandora (Imp)
- Adam
- Walter
- Kay (Cuckoo)
- Dominic (Hex)
- Samantha (Argent)
- Newton
- Gracie Gamble
- Elalyth
- The Relative Stranger Protocol
- Lenz
- Dr. Hywel Griffin
- GRYPHON
- Earth-95710
- Synraith
- How normal people unwind
- A dimensional rift and affiliated tentacles
- How to draw sexy ladies without wrecking your comic
- A big fight
- X-sitters
- The evolution of Hank McCoy’s personality
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As Mentioned in Episode 313 – Iguanafall
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- This dress was weirdly central to the Internet Discourse of 2015.
- We covered Lifedeath II in Episode 45 – A Woman Who Could Fly.
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313 – Iguanafall
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In which sky pirates are the best pirates; Wolverine eats chicken in the woods; Xavier’s area loses its status as our least favorite panel; Cable is suspiciously credulous; we search in vain for a consistent metaphor; Storm has a thing or two to learn about restorative justice; and this entire miniseries should probably just have been an annual.
X-PLAINED:
- Storm’s pirate adventures
- Storm #1-4
- Mark Trail
- The Morlocks (more) (again)
- Unacceptable gradients
- Butt murder
- Fashion
- Several memes of yesteryear
- Product placement
- The new Worst Panel
- Several variations on the Ceremony of Light
- How not to identify a body
- The Hill (Limbo)
- “Daddy”
- The inconsistent portrayals of Mikhail Rasputin
- Still more members of Gene Nation
- A new costume
- The most obscure stories we’ve covered
- That time Wolverine at his own arm
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