Tag: Moonstar
418 – Reignfirefighters
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In which S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are scarier in suits; Reignfire is the new Erik the Red; “background assets” would be a very funny euphemism; it’s always either time travel or clones; and you should probably not get a corporate logo tattooed on the side of your head.
X-PLAINED:
- Crimes of Dark Beast
- X-Force #77-80
- The Mutant Liberation Front
- Reignfire (repeatedly)
- Video Renaissance
- Almost Reno, NM
- The inversion of several common tropes
- Small towns
- Different kinds of mutants
- X-Force Fun Facts
- Skids (Sally Blevins)
- Several continuity errors
- Some kidnappings
- Sexiness without prurience
- Background assets
- Dr. Joshua (again)
- (Henry Wallinger)
- Psychic shenanigans
- Las Vegas
- Word-balloon disambiguation
- X-Force’s new HQ
- Historical X-Men we’d like to see
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As Mentioned in Episode 390 – Corners and Conspiracies
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And here are some of the ridiculous creatures Jay met at the Sheep and Wool Festival:
390 – Corners and Conspiracies
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In which Danielle Moonstar quiet quits; a bunch of people regular quit; we are pleasantly surprised by the survival of a minor character; tough guys wear hearts; and X-Force once again takes its place as the best comic of the line.
X-PLAINED:
- Vanisher’s brain tumor, again
- X-Force #67-70
- The Wakeman Oncological Research Center
- Commander Ekaterina Gryaznova
- The Mutant Liberation Front
- Wildside
- Dragoness
- Forearm
- Tempo
- Locus
- Moonstar (Mirage) (Danielle Moonstar)
- Quiet quitting (and why it’s a bullshit concept)
- Locus’s skin
- Prime Sentinels
- Ozymandias (again)
- Llamas
- A journey to another dimension
- Spencer Beaumont
- G. W. Bridge’s pajamas
- In-between dimensions
- Yet another homage to Uncanny X-Men #138
- Cerebra
- Earth-2099 vs. Earth-928
- Our favorite non-canon ships
NEXT EPISODE: Cable, home alone
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As Mentioned in Episode 384 – The Banality of Evil
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LINKS & FURTHER AMUSEMENTS:
- We first met Chris Bradley in Episode 343 – The Water Cooler of Violence.
384 – The Banality of Evil
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In which it’s hard to be a mutant post-Onslaught; two Chrises make friends; X-Force goes to off-brand Disney World; we are Team Risque; and you can go to the punch dimension but probably shouldn’t stay long.
X-PLAINED:
- X-Men Unlimited #15
- X-Force #65-66
- Mutant life post-Onslaught
- Spinning editorial oversight into story
- Weasel, Jumbo, and Headcase
- How not to write the Friends of Humanity
- The Marvel sex web
- Thunderbird (John Proudstar)
- Warpath (James Proudstar)
- Risque (Gloria Munoz)
- Clubbing with Risque
- Wacky World
- Sledge
- Dani Moonstar, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- The punch dimension
- The physics of ice ramps
NEXT EPISODE: Strong Guy wakes up!
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As Mentioned in Episode 376 – Moore of This
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING
- Previously on Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men:
- Miles and guest x-pert Elisabeth Allie talked about the X-Men and Alpha Flight’s visit to the Viking citadel in Episode 47: The Price of Power!
- To learn about the New Mutants’ first visit to Asgard (and Mirage becoming a Valkyrie), check out Episode 48: Guitar Solos of the Gods!
- We discussed the New Mutants second visit to Asgard (and Mirage’s corruption by Hela) in Episode 127: Disaster City and Episode 132: Nornheim Lemonade!
- Miles and Elisabeth Allie covered Walter Simonson’s entire epic Thor run in their limited-series podcast THOR: The Lightning and the Storm!
376 – Moore of This
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In which we begin John Francis Moore’s run on X-Force; Latveria is less fun without Doctor Doom; there may still be a tiny clone of Meltdown running around; Forearm is a good pal; Marvel Asgard is a realm of crossover fan fiction; and you should totally watch both Our Flag Means Death and Doom Patrol.
X-PLAINED:
- Blackbeard, somewhat
- X-Force #63-64
- X-Force & Cable Annual 1997
- Life after Onslaught
- Dimitri Fortunov
- Dr. Doom’s time podium
- New costumes
- Liddleville
- Latveria, 1941
- Sturmfanger
- Valkyrie (Brunhilde)
- Aragorn (but not that one)
- The Mutant Liberation Front (again) (briefly)
- A large dog who may or may not have eaten a horse
- Valkyries (more) (again)
- What all the former New Mutants are up to
- Yggdrasil and the Nine Realms (again)
- Malekith the Accursed
- Kindra the Dwarf (again)
- Skadi the Frost Giant
- Hela (again) (briefly)
- Doctor Who analogs
- What we miss about the Silver Age
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NEXT EPISODE: Domino goes solo!
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As Mentioned in Episode 371 – Beware of Psychodrama
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LINKS & FURTHER MISADVENTURES
- We allude frequently to Warlock piloting around Doug’s corpse, which story we covered in Episode 91 – The Saddest Story Ever Told.
371 – Beware of Psychodrama
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In which Douglock is Douglock; Kitty Pryde gets lost in nostalgia; it continues to suck to be Colossus; Professor Xavier is a jerk; the MLF makes one and only one valid point; Ben Raab’s Excalibur run begins; the Acolytes try to get the band back together; and the land mines are a metaphor that are also real land mines.
X-PLAINED:
- Exodus
- Excalibur #104-106
- The current state of Excalibur
- Douglock
- B.P.R.D.
- New Mutants #64 callbacks
- Wolfsbane’s default form
- Nostalgia
- The Xavier Protocols (again)
- The MLF (again)
- The Mysterious Moonstar
- Selby
- The Prodigy
- Character shifts between writers
- Age of Jay and Miles
- How not to write a letter in a comic book
- Assless chaps
- Land mines
- Unuscione
- Scanner
- Mutant lawyers
- Cyclops’s color vision
NEXT EPISODE: Magneto, now with his own miniseries!
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