Tag: Phoenix
393 – Camping With Uncle Mustang
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In which Operation Zero Tolerance continues; the X-Men take over Wolverine; wolverine is the designated John McClane of the X-Men; torsos are confusing places; and we sincerely hope that Jean Grey got to do some off-panel dating.
X-PLAINED:
- Bastion’s priorities
- Operation Zero Tolerance (so far)
- Wolverine #115-118
- How to villainously declaim
- Mustang
- Roustabouts
- Waking up with the X-Men
- Where (some) Prime Sentinels come from
- Fatality, kind of
- Felipe, Arvell, and Helmut
- Inevitability
- A reunion
- Government intervention
- Anatomy
- Jaz disks
- Friendship
- Jean Grey’s romantic history
- The League of Nations vs. The League of Nathans
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As Mentioned in Episode 369 – Carly Askani
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING
369 – Carly Askani
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In which Storm & Joseph X-Plain the X-Men, Alex Summers is not brainwashed this time, he promises, Scott Lobdell writes better moments than stories, Ed McGuinness draws very large chins, and it’s Denver the Last Dinosaur, not Denver the Lost Dinosaur
X-PLAINED:
- Uncanny X-Men #339
- Spider-Man disambiguation
- A. Kubert disambiguation
- J. Jonah Jameson (again) (hooray!)
- Sneaking songs
- The history of smoking regulation on airlines
- Creed disambiguation
- Havok’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
- Bonding while falling out of planes
- X-Men #59
- The copyright status of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Well-drawn Wolverines
- Hercules vs The Tick
- Wolverine Annual 1996
- The tragic death of Mariko Yashida
- Silver Samurai (Kuniuchio Harada)
- Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida) and what he’s been up to since Fatal Attractions
- Josef Stalin, apparently?
- Red Ronin and its nemesis, a time-lost dinosaur who we assure you is not Godzilla
- Jedi and/or samurai vs. doors
- Our logo fonts
- James Howlett, guidance counselor
- Onslaught but not evil
- Whether Magneto could wield Mjolnir
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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
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As Mentioned in Episode 356 – The Michael Bay-eux Tapestry
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356 – The Michael Bay-eux Tapestry
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Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which it’s hard to be Joseph; we do our best to explain the inexplicable; Miles is full of feelings; Hulk smashes; and Onslaught finally (mostly) ends.
X-PLAINED:
- Heroes Reborn Return
- Wild times with the Dreaming Celestial
- Onslaught so far
- X-Men #56
- Onslaught: Marvel Universe
- Jay’s definitive Bond
- Joseph (more)
- The physical evolution of Onslaught
- Sense of scale
- Hawkeye (TV series)
- Onslaught’s goals, to what extent they exist
- The three genders
- A really big fight
- A miracle of magnetism
- The (nominal) end of the Age of Heroes
- Beast’s scientific career
- Chamber’s voice
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As Mentioned in Episode 343 – The Water Cooler of Violence
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LINKS & FURTHER CATASTROPHES:
- For the backstory on the Weisman Institute, listen to Episode 304 – Explosive Ops.
- Please enjoy the genius that is Hans Jensen.
343 – The Water Cooler of Violence
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In which X-Force carries on the New Mutants’ tradition of property damage; a lot of people have infiltrated Helicarriers; G.W. Bridge makes it weird; Gamesmaster returns to no particular end; and we go back in time to cover the origins of Chris Bradley.
X-PLAINED:
- The deaths of several Worthingtons
- X-Force #55-56
- X-Men Unlimited #8
- A legacy of explosions
- Uncanny X-Men #333 (briefly) (again)
- A heist
- Several of the many characters who had successfully infiltrated Helicarriers as of 1996
- Dum Dum Dugan
- Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine
- The glory days off LASER tag
- Church fights
- Subtext
- The Weisman Institute for the Criminally Insane (more) (again)
- How to pronounce “Risque”
- Chris Bradley
- Hans Jensen
- Nostalgia goggles and their absence
- Civilian awareness of cosmic Marvel
- Asgard, Oklahoma
- Annalee
NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk
NEXT EPISODE: Where No Mutant Has Gone Before
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