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As Mentioned in Episode 294 – The Infernal Gallop
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LINKS & FURTHER ALLUSIONS
- That really depressing historical anecdote about ballast tanks came courtesy of friend of the show Joe Streckert, of the Weird History Podcast. Thanks, Joe!
- Seriously: Mystique-295 is Tovah Feldshuh as Naomi Bunch on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
- We differ on the quality of the X-Files episode “The Field Where I Died”; your mileage may vary.
294 – The Infernal Gallop

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In which a whole lot of things burn; Nightcrawler gets gritty; it’s hard to be Dead Man Wade; Apocalypse’s IT department has some explaining to do; Mystique is the most mom of all moms; Doug Ramsey dies (again); and Jay will fight anyone who says comics can’t be “real” literature.
X-PLAINED:
- Damask
- X-Calibre #1-4
- Switchback
- Cain Marko of Earth-295
- Avalon
- Destiny of Earth-295
- Nightcrawler of Earth-295
- Ghost Dance (actual)
- Ghost Dance (fictional)
- John Proudstar of Earth-295
- The Infernal Gallop vs. the Infernal Galop
- Moonstar of Earth-295
- Dead Man Wade
- The Pale Riders
- Videoconferencing software of Earth-295
- The Excalibur
- Walter Newell
- Callisto of Earth-295
- A lot of murders
- A really dark historical precedent
- Parenthood
- Death by existential crisis
- The worst plan
- Variations on the death of Doug Ramsey
- Geography of the Age of Apocalypse
- The rest of the Marvel books during the Age of Apocalypse
- Jay vs. Western canon
NEXT EPISODE: Gambit and the X-Ternals
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As Mentioned in Episode 287 – Welcome to the Age of Apocalypse

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LINKS & FURTHER UNIVERSES:
- Guest X-Pert Logan Bonner DM’d our tabletop X-games in Giant-Size Special #2 and Giant-Size Special #4!
As Mentioned in Episode 286 – Family Before Continuity

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LINKS & FURTHER EVENT HORIZONS:
- Come see us at Emerald City Comic Con! Miles is delightful in person; and Jay, um, exists corporeally.
- Jay wrote an X-Men comic! It’s about Cyclops, and it will be out in April. Please tell your local comics shop to order a lot of copies so that they will let him write more.
- Also, Thor: Metal Gods continues on over at Serial Box!
- We covered the first 3/4 of Legion Quest in Episode 285 – Immediately If Not Sooner…
- …and interviewed Fabian Nicieza about X-Force and a bunch of other stuff in Episode 250 – Minding the DNA!
- New Intersections: Queer Futurism and the Krakoan Body Politic is a really fascinating article.
286 – Family Before Continuity

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In which Sunspot is a bad enough dude to save the president; Black Air is nowhere near as fun as WHO; we reach the end of Fabian Nicieza’s X-Force run; Rictor and Shatterstar talk about feelings; Gambit does not go gently into that good night; Scott and Jean choose family over continuity; Legion Quest comes to a close, along with Earth-616; the heart of Dawn of X is its margins; you should come see us at ECCC; and we announce a new schedule.
X-PLAINED:
- The Maker (Reed Richards of Earth-1610)
- Jay & Miles at ECCC and FlameCon 2020
- Stuff Jay writes
- Excalibur #86
- X-Force #43
- Cable #20
- Black Air
- Pete Wisdom
- What’s been up in Genosha
- The Midnight Runner
- Navigating Kitty Pryde’s age in Excalibur
- A very abrupt ending
- The ongoing evolution of X-Force
- Locus’s new look
- Clubbing with Rictor and Shatterstar
- Legion Quest so far
- Complicated feelings at the end of the world
- A reunion
- Where it all started
- Vague power sets
- Complicated feelings about Dawn of X
- The new podcast schedule
NEXT EPISODE: The Age of Apocalypse
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As Mentioned in Episode 276 – Wizard Problems

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LINKS & FURTHER DIVERSIONS:
- You can hear all about the time Margali made Kurt his own personal hell in Episode 134 – Live at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival.
- The Raven probably isn’t a good film; but it is a delightful one.
- Here’s Max’s significantly funnier take on Tarot’s potential.
- Jay co-wrote a Thor novel! You can pre-order it here, if you are so inclined.
276 – Wizard Problems

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In which Excalibur gets a regular writer again; we judge a book against against its covers; nothing good ever comes from being sexy on Muir Isle; and the soul sword’s real power is cutting through continuity.
X-PLAINED:
- Stegron
- Dinosaur powers
- Excalibur #83-85 (The Soul Sword Trilogy)
- Warren Ellis on Excalibur
- Excalibur (more) (again)
- Bends Sinister and Bend Sinister
- Outsider days
- Boundaries
- Darkoth
- Gravemoss
- The Winding Way
- Shrill
- A problematic prosthesis
- Roger Corman’s The Raven
- A large number of continuity errors
- Gratuitous dickery
- An untold tale
- The semantics of skin removal
- Possession vs. retrograde amnesia
- The circle of nostalgia
NEXT EPISODE: Jorts Unlimited!
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