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As Mentioned in Episode 131 – The Reaver Bunch
131 – The Reaver Bunch
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In which Jubilee is the sassiest Xenomorph; Lady Deathstrike is way too good for the Reavers; Wolverine gets a sidekick; Forge arm wrestles the Shadow King; Moira takes a cavalier approach lab safety; Magneto’s motives get kind of reconciled; Legion is a chaos gamer; Mystique and Destiny break our hearts; queer erasure in fiction reflects erasure in life; and the Shadow King is not even a little bit subtle.
X-PLAINED:
- That one time Donald Pierce pretended to be Cyclops for like a year
- The post X-Men X-Men
- What may be our deepest cut yet
- Uncanny X-Men #252-255
- Where’s Wolverine?
- The Reaver Bunch
- Major-League lumpoids
- Robot dingoes
- A prescient vision
- Trouble at sea
- Several significant deaths
- Subtext and queer erasure
- The key of agony
- Smile noises
- Non-mutants we’d team up with the X-Men
NEXT WEEK: Back to Asgard!
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As Mentioned in Episode 75 – By Their Deeds You Shall Know Them
75 – By Their Deeds You Shall Know Them
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In which Masque is the worst Morlock; makeouts are a good reason to learn to control your powers; Cyclops and Marvel Girl are terrible role models; Iceman is the heart of X-Factor; Cameron Hodge finally shows his hand; the kids are all right (and probably the only ones who are); and we’ve basically given up on X-Factor ever learning to use doors.
X-PLAINED:
- The Right
- The Ani-Mator
- X-Factor #16-20
- Training with X-Factor
- Skids’ backstory
- Motivational makeouts
- Miles’s Thor-ner
- Thor #377-378
- Why you don’t make deals with frost giants
- The mystical realm of Pittsburgh
- Redundant funeral graffiti
- A totally rad villain speech
- The evolution of Iceman
- Dubious flight safety precautions
- Rictor (Julio Esteban Richter)
- Some really epic gaslighting
- A probably-inevitable confrontation
- Supervillain team-building exercises
- Park maintenance
NEXT WEEK: Rachel & Miles Live at Rose City Comic Con; with Ann Nocenti, Jeff Parker, and Christopher Yost!
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As Mentioned in Episode 70 – Forget It, Jake; It’s X-Factor
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70 – Forget It, Jake; It’s X-Factor
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In which everything is terrible; miscommunication triangles are way more awkward than love triangles; Boom Boom is universally delightful; Miles has feelings about ‘80s fashion; Apocalypse is judging your band posters; X-Factor still hasn’t gotten the hang of doors; Cyclops’s life continues to be an anxiety dream; the Twelve are better in foreshadowing than practice; and Angel dies as he lived: half-naked, at an airport.
X-PLAINED
- The evolution of Angel
- Cold opens
- rachelandmiles.com
- X-Factor so far
- X-Factor #12-15
- A miscommunication triangle
- Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith)
- Rachel’s Marc Silvestri causality loop
- Boom Boom vs. Jubilee
- Cameron disambiguation
- Famine
- Master Mold (more) (again)
- The Twelve
- Tanya Trask
- Caliban
NEXT WEEK: Technoorganic blues!
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As Mentioned in Episode 66 – The Mutant Massacre, Part 2
66 – The Mutant Massacre, Part 2
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In which we wrap up our first official two-parter; Gambit ruins everything; Rachel has a theory about Mister Sinister; Marvel communication technology is behind the times; Trish Tilby is tired of your bullshit; Walter Simonson is the best of the best; X-Factor pulls it together; Power Pack gets uncomfortably dark; Miles has Thor feelings; and even more mutants die.
NOTE: This episode is the second of a two-parter! If you haven’t listened to Episode 65, where we cover the first half of the mutant massacre, you should probably do that before you listen to this one!
X-PLAINED:
- Masque
- Tentacle disambiguation
- More of the Mutant Massacre
- A Sinister hypothesis
- Several Marauder-related retcons
- X-Factor #9-11
- Power Pack #27
- The Mighty Thor #373-374
- Trish Tilby
- Artie & Leech
- Several awkward reunions
- Walter Simonson
- The fall of Angel
- Apocalypse’s horsemen
- Yet another crossover that will probably scar the Power kids for life
- Franklin Richards
- Thor, Donald Blake, and Sigurd Jarlson
- The best issue of any comic, ever.
- The Tunnelers
- Ongoing repercussions of the Mutant Massacre
- Rachel & Miles’s horseman identities
- Which X-Men could and should wield Mjolnir
NEXT WEEK: The New Mutants party like it’s 1299!
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