Tag: Morlocks
301 – Can’t Beat the Real Thing
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In which we enter our fourth century of podcasting with brand new theme music; we have both Wolverine questions and wolverine questions; it is extremely rough to be Bishop; the creator of Garfield may or may not live in a sewer on Earth-616; Rogue needs better coping mechanisms; bigotry is depressingly timeless; and everything is Onslaught now.
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- Joseph’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
- Our new theme music
- X-Men Prime #1
- A genuinely cool cover gimmick
- What happened after the end of the world
- Boundaries
- War crimes vs. fashion crimes
- Destruction of real landmarks in fiction
- A mysterious assailant
- Actual embodied chaos god Jim Davis and his Earth-616 namesake
- Several memorable Garfield stories
- Marrow (Sarah Rushman)
- The secret origin of the Morlocks
- A friendship we miss
- Unhealthy coping mechanisms
- The perennially dubious journalistic ethics of Trish Tilby
- Dennis
- The death of Dennis
- Flaws of the mutant metaphor (more) (again)
- Several refugees from Earth-295
- Mr. Summers and Mr. Summers
- The secret origin of the Genoshan mutates
- The Acolytes
- The continuing relevance of the mutant metaphor (more) (again)
- Cross-universe characterization
NEXT EPISODE: The fall of Avalon!
NOTE: The Garfield strips Jay mentions appeared in newspapers, on purpose, in October 1989.
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As Mentioned in Episode 220 – On Your Bike
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- 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.
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- 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 203 – The X-Man’s Burden
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203 – The X-Man’s Burden
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In which the Morlocks used to have more agency, we have a surprising amount to say about the Rat King from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Archangel receives some exceptionally disturbing news, and 90s comics are all about finding the parts you love.
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- Marrow’s internal organs
- The post-Image Exodus era
- Judging books by their covers
- Uncanny X-Men #291-293
- Sexy dead girls (again)
- The Morlock leadership vacuum
- A significant Callisto personality retcon
- Failures of leadership due to own-death-faking
- The magical life and magical death of the Morlock Sewer Wizard
- Science Made Stupid
- Storm’s claustrophobia (again)
- MeMe, scourge of Miles’s childhood
- 90s Jean Grey: cartoon vs comic
- The Br’er Rabbit Technique
- Some unfortunate and significant continuity errors
- Professor Xavier’s impressive upper body strength
- Mikhail Rasputin’s genuinely terrifying mutant powers
- Bobby Drake’s potential
- Morlock organizational techniques
- Mikhail Rasputin’s very bad plan
- Jean Grey’s real talk
- The Home for Infinite Losers
- Piotr Rasputin, tragedy collector
- Copyright law and Fair Use
- Queer headcanon
- X-beards
NEXT EPISODE: Hub from Titan Up the Defense joins Miles to talk Bronze Age X-weirdness!
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As Mentioned in Episode 159 – Childhood’s End
159 – Childhood’s End
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In which Stryfe is the Jan Brady of the Summers family; Miles’s dreams are trampled beneath tiny, delicate feet; Rictor goes on an unnecessary rescue mission; Cable is Washington to Cannonball’s Hamilton; the New Mutants may or may not time travel; Boom Boom scarfs up some chow for the bohunk; you should definitely not mess with Feral’s pigeons; Liefeld fights are pure rule-of-cool; Jay is absolutely not qualified to give legal advice; and we bid a bittersweet goodbye to New Mutants.
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- Zero
- Production transitions
- The end of New Mutants
- New Mutants #98-100
- Plotting vs. scripting
- The most valuable issue of New Mutants
- Gideon
- Liefeld butts (more) (again)
- The very dramatic death of Emmanuel da Costa
- Tolliver
- Some Spider-Man looking jerk
- Domino (Neena Thurman)
- A specific and likely inaccurate timeline
- Feral (Maria Callasantos)
- The signature Liefeld Kick™
- The Tavern on the Green
- Five or six kinds of mutants
- A sad goodbye
- Shatterstar (Gaveedra Seven)
- Cadre Alliance
- Nesting habits of the urban bohunk
- Some rad moves
- A prologue that is also an epilogue
- The Stryfe that might have been
- How Logan fits into the X-Men movie timeline
- X-Men mostly likely to watch Yuri!!! On Ice
- Jay at FlameCon!!
NEXT EPISODE: Beast has a sexistential crisis!
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As Mentioned in Episode 142 – The Monster at the End of This Comic
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- For more on Scott and Jean’s Central Park conversation (and an especially ironic listen this week), check out Episode 22 – Through Death and Through Life!
142 – The Monster at the End of This Comic
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In which Jay and Miles make a personal announcement; moles (probably) don’t lay eggs; Angel is full of angst and flechettes; there’s always room for cello; and no matter how complicated our personal lives get, X-Factor’s will always be worse!
X-PLAINED:
- The Tanaka family business
- Jay & Miles vs. time travel
- Some personal stuff that’s going on
- Our definitive Iceman artist
- A whole lot of child endangerment
- Two reasons not to eat cereal from the 1980s
- X-Factor #51-53 and 55
- Cable’s first word
- Slightly dubious zoning
- Charlotte Jones
- Opal Tanaka
- Mole
- Chicken Wings
- Grover, but not that Grover
- B-grade Sabretooth
- A double date
- Giant bugs
- The Locust (August Hopper)
- A walk in the park
- A failed proposal
- What we talk about when we talk about retcons
NEXT EPISODE: Happy Birthday, Shadowcat!
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