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399 – The Cybertronic Spree
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In which the X-Force road trip era begins; Team X takes on a new dimension; Dani Moonstar gets her subtext back; pointing out a stereotype doesn’t excuse using it; Tabitha Smith generally deserves better; platypuses are underrepresented in the superhero genre; Hell becomes Stryfe; and Domino gets back in the game.
X-PLAINED
- A dastardly plot
- X-Men 2099
- Road trips
- X-Force #71-74
- Team X
- A Love & Rockets reference
- Stan and Ollie
- The Triplets of Belleville
- How not to fund your film
- Michael Whitecloud
- Project Stepladder
- Colossal Man
- Several references to X-Force -1
- Platypuses
- Edwin Martynec
- Weaponized humming
- The death of Warpath
- Hell
- Blackheart
- Friendship
- A mysterious villain
NOTE: Whoa, The Cybertronic Spree is actually a real band!
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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
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As Mentioned in Episode 377 – Sam Hill
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377 – Sam Hill
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In which Domino’s miniseries earns a grade of “present”; Miles gets to know Sam Hill; Domino trades pouches for boots; and we would prefer that you not sexualize Lady Deathstrike.
X-PLAINED:
- Halloween Jack
- Domino (Neena Thurman)
- Domino #1-3
- Milo Thurman
- The idiomatic Sam Hill
- Lady Deathstrike (again)
- The Reavers (again)
- Pico
- Boot pouches
- Puck (Eugene Judd)
- Dante’s Beatrice
- Several Skullbusters
- Robot tits
- The E.T. Atari game
- One way to get out of saying “I love you”
- Our unpopular favorites
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As Mentioned in Episode 365 – A Whole Year of This Nonsense
365 – A Whole Year of This Nonsense
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In which you can now listen to a unique episode of Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men every day for a year; Shi’ar tech support leaves something to be desired; Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau does not appear in a story; it’s Deathbird, not Dueprocessbird; Zenn-La gets destroyed a lot; and we shall never speak of this incident again.
X-PLAINED:
- Where babies come from
- The Shi’ar (again)
- Cable/X-Force Annual 1996
- X-Men Unlimited #13
- Organs
- Shi’ar ship names
- Pulse
- Unconventional use of the Danger Room
- Butt-first framing
- Interplanetary extradition
- The word “contemplative”
- Binary (again)
- More Shi’ar ship names
- Zenn-La
- Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd)
- The Inciters
- A giant metal space skull
- Junction, NY
- A metaphor for America
- Marie Cavendish
- Mutants with synthetics-based powers
- Literary intersections
NEXT EPISODE: Beast!
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As Mentioned in Episode 360 – Charging Forward
360 – Charging Forward
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In which history gets rewritten (again); Shatterstar definitely knows how to dance; and everyone gets extremely grumpy about Loeb’s final X-Force arc.
X-PLAINED:
- What happened to Reverend Craig
- X-Force (again)
- The Mojoverse (again)
- X-Force #59-61
- Shatterstar vs. Benjamin Russell
- The Weisman Institute for the Criminally Insane (again)
- Subtext
- Help, sort of
- The dick ship
- Darth Vader’s penis or lack thereof
- The difference between Jay and Miles
- Violently decompressed storytelling
- Gog and Gog’n’Magog (again)
- Prior (or possibly future) events in the rebellion
- Longshot outside his miniseries
- Longshot and Shatterstar
- TV Guide
- Ineffective brainwashing
- A large number of continuity errors
- Mojo V
- Genre hopping
- A stylistic shift
- A body swap
- Benjamin Russell vs. the Leprechauns
- Personally resonant comics
- Wolverine’s sense of smell
NEXT EPISODE: Sabretooth & Mystique!
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