Tag: Morlocks
422 – Cairn Touch This
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In which the X-Men’s membership is a complicated subject; not all angels know each other; we need to talk about Beast’s Wasp costume; Cecilia Reyes speaks for all reasonable folk; Storm gets a mysterious package; and reading comics day-and-date may not be for everyone.
X-PLAINED:
- The variable loyalties of the N’garai
- X-Men #74-76
- A somewhat atypical team lineup
- A whole lotta backstory
- How to join the X-Men
- Warren Kenneth Worthington III as a religious figure
- Flechette clean-up
- Teenage drama
- Detective Jim Logan
- A lot of murder
- The N’garai
- Beast’s Wasp costume
- Explanatory captions for real life
- The Ru’tai
- Pilgrimm
- Mai’Keth the Undying One
- The Eye of Kierokk
- Maggott’s secret origins
- X-Men cartoons for a 7-year-old
- Reckoning with loss in comics
NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur rushes toward its conclusion
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As Mentioned in Episode 319 – Giant-Size Special #9
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- How to Be a Mutant
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319 – Giant-Size Special #9 (feat. Vita Ayala, Tini Howard, and Leah Williams)
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In which Jay and Miles receive a mysterious missive and are visited by three of our favorite X-writers; Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix is a pleasant surprise; Nathaniel Essex is the most dramatic man in the Marvel Universe; the sewers of Victorian London were a happenin’ place; Apocalypse isn’t even French; Beast is the flip-side of Sinister; community is for everyone; the Internet is (kind of) Krakoa; and death is fixable, but trauma might take a little more work.
X-PLAINED:
- A quotation
- Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #1-4
- A closed loop
- Time travel with Scott Summers and Jean Grey
- Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex)
- A somewhat excessive visual aid
- Beards
- Cootie Tremble
- The cultural context of sideshows
- The first Marauders and/or Nasty Boys
- Victorian Apocalypse
- Strained allegories
- Sanctity
- Apocalypse vs. the Hellfire Club
- Oscar the Somewhat Less Nasty Boy
- Varyingly anachronistic costuming
- The secret origin of ruby quartz
- A very vague objective
- A makeover
- A closed time loop
- Actual Cat Wizard Jonathan Hickman
- Something Jay is not in fact going to pitch to Marvel
- Creative dynamics and processes in the current X-line
- Revolutionary joy
- What’s cooler than one sword
- The Sixth Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
NEXT WEEK: Jay & Miles take a break
NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur gets several Peters and a wolf!
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As Mentioned in Episode 313 – Iguanafall
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LINKS & FURTHER REPTILES:
- This dress was weirdly central to the Internet Discourse of 2015.
- We covered Lifedeath II in Episode 45 – A Woman Who Could Fly.
- Here’s where you can find some of the more obscure stories we’ve X-Plained:
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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As Mentioned in Episode 311 – Love Makes a Super Team
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311 – Love Makes a Super-Team
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In which we decide to stop recognizing the nominal difference between X-Men and Uncanny X-Men; time travel may or may not wait for you; Mister Sinister has probably appeared in at least one Ed Wood film; we are a pro-Tingle podcast; X-Men is about family; the Braddock twins catch up; Sailor Moon > Shinobi Shaw; Generation X is inducted into the baseball tradition; and Storm does what she does with Morlocks in sewers.
X-PLAINED:
- Franklin Richards’ impressive lineage
- 311
- Yet another structure for annuals
- X-Men Annual 1995
- Uncanny X-Men #325
- Serious academic discussions
- Faye Livingstone
- Mister Sinister’s Hollywood adventures
- Tyler Dayspring / Tolliver / Genesis (again)
- Teenage optimism
- An absolutely nonsensical villainous plot
- A Hank McCoy that might have been
- Friendship
- Fraternal correspondence
- Romance
- Morlocks
- The first time Storm stabbed a Morlock leader in the heart
- Gene Nation
- A really excessive cover
- An intergenerational baseball game
- Another fairly nonsensical villainous plot
- The second time Storm stabbed a Morlock leader in the heart
- X-horror
- Other media X-fans may enjoy reading, playing, or watching
NEXT EPISODE: Bob Proehl X-Plains the Resonant Duology!
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As Mentioned in Episode 307 – Ugly Mootants Only
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LINKS & FURTHER SHAMELESS PROMOTION:
- You can find relevant info about X-Men: Marvels Snapshots #1 over here…
- …and find a comics shop from which to purchase it here…
- …or just go straight to our favorite, Books With Pictures!
307 – Ugly Mootants Only
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In which Cable has clearly inherited his father’s inability to go on a date that doesn’t end disastrously; Husk is a lightweight; we are very taken with a turtle; you really don’t want to run into the other Hemingway in an elevator, either; Jubilee can speak in logos; and Wolverine gives some fatherly advice.
X-PLAINED:
- One way to get your powers back
- Cable #15
- Generation X #5-6
- X-Men: Marvels Snapshots #1 (Coming September 16)
- Cable, in general
- A date
- “Sheer” fabrics
- What we’d bring to desert islands
- Sarah (Marrow)
- The Ceremony of Light
- Several generations of mutant teenagers
- Generation X and its members (more) (again)
- Chamber’s socks
- Gateway’s taste in television
- Husk’s extremely low alcohol tolerance
- Some cool lettering
- Banshee is to Chris Bachalo as Nightcrawler is to Alan Davis
- Fridge wolves
- NYC celebrity encounters
- The ongoing legacy of X-kids with gross powers
- Teenagers
- Hemingway, but not that Hemingway
- The return of Artie and Leech
- Bones
- How we would incorporate the X-Men into the MCU
NEXT EPISODE: Snapshots!
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