Tag: Mystique
430 – The Bad Feelings Box
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In which birds have no business in sex dreams; feelings are complicated and allegories are imperfect; Mystique made some valid points; Psycho-Man is good at UI; Callisto was right; and the label “Omega-level mutant” actually kind of makes sense.
X-PLAINED:
- Psycho-Man
- Malice (but not that one)
- Hate Monger (but not that one)
- Finding good comics from the ‘90s
- Uncanny X-Men #359
- X-Men / Fantastic Four Annual 1998
- X-Men #79
- The dead man’s hand
- Dr. Aubrey Agee
- Psi-War fallout
- Dr. Bradley Beynon
- Hadley the robot
- Poker twinks
- La Bludgeon
- Psycho-Man’s Bad Feelings Box
- An invisible bear trap
- Marvel’s floating poker game
- Officers Aguinal and Cleveland
- Antagonists vs. villains
- Omega-level mutants
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414 – Blackwater Boy Band
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In which Wild Child makes an unlikely Santa Claus; Sabretooth champions continuity; Random’s last name should’a been Violence; Forge doesn’t have to like you; and Mackie’s X-Factor run gets interesting—right before its untimely end.
X-PLAINED:
- Another X-Factor
- X-Factor #142-145
- Unrealized anticipation
- Deadline
- What Val Cooper wants for Christmas
- The evolutionary symbolism of noses
- Several breeds of dog
- The secret history of Val Cooper and Wild Child
- Wildheart
- The Secret Empire
- The X.U.E. (more) (again)
- Ice skating, interrupted
- Another cool way to draw Havok’s powers
- A clever retcon
- The X-Factor that might have been
- Greystone’s origins
- Micah
- A temple of doom
- The hierarchy of cool skulls
- Branching timelines and the implications thereof
- An Alex Summers / Moira MacTaggert chimera
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As Mentioned in Episode 407 – Freshening Up
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LINKS & FURTHER TIME SINKS
- We covered the first X.S.E. miniseries in Episode 340 – Retconaganda.
407 – Freshening Up
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In which X-Factor bounces from one rock-bottom to another; Sabretooth gets his (murderous) groove back; Dark Beast embraces the iMac aesthetic; the tip was righteous; Mystique multitasks like a pro; and Shard Bishop has come unstuck in time.
X-PLAINED:
- X-Nation
- What X-Factor’s been up to
- X-Factor #138-141
- Omega Red (again)
- The Brotherhood’s new hideout
- Mallory Brickman
- Miles and/or Ralph Brickman
- Gloria Brickman
- “Freshening up”
- Mystique, but a sitcom
- Agent Vargas
- Ever
- The secret purpose of Havok’s Brotherhood
- Exhumes vs. emplates
- Fixx
- Greystone
- Archer
- The X.U.E.
- Bantam
- Leisure activities
- What would happen if the T-O virus took over Cable’s body
- What we want from X-Men #700
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As Mentioned in Episode 406 – The Most Dangerous Mini-Game
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LINKS & FURTHER READING
- If you want to know more about the man behind the mustache, we recommend the hell out of Abraham Josephine Riesman’s True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee.
406 – The Most Dangerous Mini-Game
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In which we disagree about the value of Stan Lee intros; everybody wants Wolverine; Mister Sinister lurks; Haley Blanding deserves better; Thunderbird fights a tiger; and Xavier and Magneto do their usual thing.
X-PLAINED:
- The Circus of Crime
- Stan Lee intros
- Wolverine #-1
- X-Factor #-1
- X-Force #-1
- X-Men #-1
- Proust vs. Sartre
- How Logan joined Alpha Flight
- The secret origin of the word “canucklehead.”
- USDA, Annex B
- Myron MacLain
- Logan’s cigars
- Yet more continuity errors
- Sabretooth’s ridiculous car
- The balance of scary and silly
- Wolverine’s cowboy hat
- Summers family bullshit
- The Blandings and/or Masterses
- Vince
- The Proudstar family
- One or more cats named Coyote
- The origin of Thunderbird’s totem
- Edwin Martynec (again)
- Chondu the Magician
- Ringmaster
- Yet more Xavier and Magneto flashback drama
- The bottom of the resurrection queue
- Good car-trip episodes
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As Mentioned in Episode 397 – Mürdr at IKEA
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397 – Mürdr at IKEA
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In which Al Kennedy and Miles enter a somewhat post-OZT world, the art of Frank Teran (whose uncle built a jetpack) elevates an otherwise merely decent story, Puck is played by Bob Hoskins, Wild Child gets a chance to shine, Mystique and Forge are sitting in a tree, and Swamp Thing is amazing.
X-PLAINED:
- Spider-Man’s head cold
- Sabretooth: Back to Nature #1
- Sabretooth (Victor Creed)
- Wild Child (Kyle Gibney)
- Horrible violence, expertly implied
- The ubiquity of sewers
- Saturday morning cartoons of R-rated movies
- Serial killers with G.I. Joe names
- Improbable tracking
- Bilingual crime
- Chekhov’s waterfall
- DRUGS
- X-Factor #136-137
- The Hound program
- Skeumorphism
- Doctor Valerie Cooper and Major Edmond Atkinson, excellent exes
- Questionable wound-dressing
- Holograms
- Government jobs
- The sad fate of the Chase family
- Nimrod disambiguation
- The Marvel Universe According to Doctor Seuss
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