Tag: nightcrawler
29 – Mutant in a Box
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In which Cyclops is the worst at vacations, Mystique is your favorite MurderMom™, Havok is eternally ABD, Kitty Pryde does science, Callisto doesn’t give a damn about her bad reputation, Xavier has a Troy Barnes moment, Miles may be the only person with fond memories of Secret Wars, and Rachel finally gets to make Spalding Gray references.
X-Plained:
- Fantomex
- Uncanny X-Men #176-181
- Reset issues
- Scott Summers’s second-worst honeymoon
- Cephalopod disambiguation
- Project Wideawake (more) (again)
- Valerie Cooper
- Foreshadowing
- Public displays of affection
- Leech
- How X-Men age
- A sewer wizard
- Doug Ramsey
- Secret Wars
- Japan
- Mystique’s kids
- Douglock
- Mystique’s powers
- The other X-Men Forever
Next Week: The New Mutants gets weird!
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Rachel and Miles Review the X-men, Episode 10
Weeks of October 8 and October 15, 2014
In which we catch up after New York Comic Con, and Wolverine finally dies. (Also, Rachel reorganized her office. YAY!)
Reviewed:
- Axis #1
- Axis #2
- Magneto #11
- Death of Wolverine #4
- Logan Legacy #1
- Nightcrawler #7
- Wolverine and the X-Men #10
- Storm #4
- X-Force #10*
- Uncanny X-Men #27**
*Pick of the week of October 8
**Pick of the week of October 15
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As Mentioned in Episode 25 – The Best at What He Does
25 – The Best at What He Does
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In which Wolverine gets his first miniseries, Yukio is still (and forever) the best, we categorically reject the classification “manic pixie dreamgirl,” everything is noir as hell, Wolverine gets an Iron Giant moment, Storm is too cool for your dress code, and we finally made “Probably a Summers Brother” t-shirts.
X-Plained:
- X-23
- The 1982 Wolverine miniseries
- Uncanny X-Men #172-173
- Rachel’s Wolverine feelings
- An auspicious road trip
- Early Frank Miller
- A really epic team-up
- Plug’n’play storytelling
- How to tell a good Wolverine story
- Mariko Yashida
- Honor
- Shingen Yashida
- Yukio
- The Inverse Law of Ninjas
- The Forty-Seven Ronin
- Silver Samurai
- Viper
- A Ninja meet-cute
- The Cyclops / Wolverine double standard
- The secret origins of Wolverine’s mask and hair
Next Week: The New Mutants meet Team America!
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As Mentioned in Episode 24 – Ororo, Queen of the Galaxy
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24 – Ororo, Queen of the Galaxy
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In which Professor X is (canonically!) a jerk, Miles has Sidrian Hunter feelings, Kitty Pryde is Clarissa Darling with a dragon, we introduce a drinking game, the X-Men do Barbarella, Rachel has a ‘shipper moment, Rogue joins the team, Storm gets a haircut, Mastermind is still the worst, and Madelyne Pryor is underrated.
X-Plained:
- Lockheed
- Uncanny X-Men #168-175
- Reset issues
- A one-sided rivalry
- The lowest-drama X-romance
- The Cream of Wheat box as a metaphor for infinity
- Kitty’s Kostume Korner
- Rachel’s questionably-canon ships
- The Morlocks
- Class privilege and the mutant metaphor
- Callisto
- Caliban
- Sunder
- Plague
- Masque
- A dubbing error
- Gender dimorphism in superhero media
- Storm’s first major character arc
- Our single favorite superhero artist
- Rogue
- Rogue’s accent
- A Charles Xavier we can believe in
- Yukio
- Punk Storm
- Madelyne Pryor
- Closure
- Cyclops vs. formalwear
Art Challenge: Send us your Kitty Pryde costume redesigns–any era, any codename–to xplainthexmen(at)gmail(dot)com
Next Week: Claremont and Miller’s Wolverine!
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Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 6
Weeks of September 10 and September 17, 2014
In which we play catch-up and review a record nine issues!
Reviewed:
- From the week of September 10:
- Magneto #9*
- Death of Wolverine #2
- Nightcrawler #6
- X-Force #9
- From the week of September 17:
- Wolverine and the X-Men #9
- All-New X-Men #32*
- Uncanny Avengers #24
- All-New X-Factor #14
- Uncanny X-Men #26
*Picks of their respective weeks
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Rachel wrote more about Uncanny X-Men #26 over here.
As Mentioned in Episode 20 – The Brood They Carried
20 – The Brood They Carried
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In which Claremont levels up; the Brood are legitimately scary; Colossus is an ethical dude; Nightcrawler and Wolverine share beers in the face of certain death; Storm turns into a space whale; we are Carol Corps for life; New Mutants are really into Magnum, P.I.; Kitty meets a dragon; and Xavier dies (again).
X-Plained:
- Broo
- The Brood Saga (X-Men #161-167)
- Paul Smith
- Space fashion
- A really terrible awards ceremony
- Tim O’Brien’s X-Men
- The Brood
- How to tell a good Wolverine story
- Rocket sharks
- The single most badass magical-girl transformation sequence of all time
- Binary
- The X-Men’s Kobayashi Maru
- Friendship (more) (again)
- The Acanti
- Whether Cyclops watches Star Trek
- The New Mutants
- Cloning
- Our secret cold-open formula
- Cosmic crossovers
Next Week: Kurt Busiek! We would have words with thee!
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