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148 – That’s So Ravens
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In which Archangel falls in with the LARP crowd; all yuppies are (probably) vampires; Beast is kind of a jerk; there are a lot of reasons to be mad at Forge; and you should totally come hang out with us at ECCC!
X-PLAINED:
- A peculiar scheme
- X-Factor #54, 56-59
- Crimson
- The Ravens
- A gallery opening
- Several varyingly tortured souls
- Charlotte Jones (more)
- Archangel vs. Archangel’s wings
- Ethical reporting
- An accidental bank robbery
- The return of a long-lost villain
- Timmy Jones
NEXT EPISODE: Old Man Logan!
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138 – What Would Dazzler Do?
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In which we continue to follow the post-Siege Perilous X-Men; Dazzler finally makes her big-screen debut; Callisto gets a day job; Colossus gets a ponytail; still more X-Men fake their deaths; Jean Grey gets tentacles; Professor Wolverine is a jerk; and Jay overthinks Community.
X-PLAINED:
- The new-new Howling Commandos
- Hit-Monkey
- Uncanny X-Men #259-263
- Dazzler: The Movie (again)
- Freddie Stanacheck
- Eric Beale
- What Dazzler would do
- Peter Nicholas
- Jenny Ransome and Phillip Moreau (again)
- Twin Peaks references, canonical and otherwise
- Genoshan foreign policy
- The value of allegory
- Some regrettable X-costumes
- That time Jean Grey got tentacles
- Molly the cat
- Dubious medical ethics
- Hardcase and the Harriers
- An unlikely pizza party
- A theoretical Community/X-Men costume party
NEXT EPISODE: Spotlight on the Starjammers!
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As Mentioned in Episode 124 – The Cruelest Planet
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LINKS & FURTHER READING:
- Come see us at Rose City Comic Con!
- You can hear Dennis Hopeless’s explanation of the Noodle Incident in Episode 104!
- Read the pitch for the Siege Perilous game in the visual companion to Episode 18!
- The ergonomic violas and violins Jay mentioned are made by David Rivinus. Check ’em out here!
124 – The Cruelest Planet
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In which everyone dies (or something); every Summers is miserable in their own way; we are pretty done with Nanny and the Orphanmaker; Lady Deathstrike is a surprisingly astute art critic; the X-Men’s digital invisibility does not extend to the White Pages; we venture into slightly less charted territory; Wolverine has a really bad day; and you should totally come hang out with us at Rose City Comic Con!
X-PLAINED:
- Origins of Lady Deathstrike
- Jay & Miles at Rose City Comic Con
- X-Ray party etiquette
- Uncanny X-Men #248-251
- The precise inverse of an anticlimax
- The Siege Perilous (more) (again)
- Dramatic parallels
- Summers tragedy disambiguation
- Jim Lee’s first X-issue
- The apparent death of Storm (this time)
- The merged Reavers
- What it takes for Jay to play a sidescroller
- An X-band
- Longshot’s departure
- A really ineffective rescue
- Art-critic Deathstrike
- Administrative assistant Jubilee
- Zaladane
- An unconventional approach to genealogy
- The ickiest method of mind control
- Dark Claw
NEXT EPISODE: GIANT-SIZE SUMMER SPECIAL!
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As Mentioned in Episode 107 – Fairy Tale Ending
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- We discussed the Magik miniseries in Episode 19 – Acorns and Swords.
107 – Fairy Tale Ending
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In which everyone’s got Inferno issues; Brett Blevins makes it work; Belasco is conspicuously absent from Inferno; you should never go into Hell barefoot; the greatest X-Men stories are about loss; and Illyana Rasputin finally gets a fairy tale ending.
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- Tempus (Eva Bell)
- Storm and Illyana: Magik #1-4 (briefly)
- The two major Inferno plotlines
- New Mutants #71-73
- The best of Brett Blevins
- The rise and fall of Magik
- The ethics of time-travel interventions
- A weaponized retcon
- N’astirh Guyâ„¢
- A chair that is also a moral event horizon
- A significant soul-armor upgrade
- Several variations on a chapter title
- Possessed New York
- An overly complex conspiracy theory
- A bittersweet reunion
- The Kobayashi Maru scenario as applied to X-Men
- An even more bittersweet victory (of sorts)
- The eventual return of Magik (sort of)
- Why it’s really irresponsible to affiliate your school with a superhero team
- Our favorite versions of Wolfsbane’s transitional form
NEXT WEEK:
The Rise of the Goblin Queen!
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As Mentioned in Episode 96 – Horsemen of the Playground
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96 – Horsemen of the Playground
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In which we play Evolutionary War Mad-Libs; it’s probably a bad sign when Apocalypse decides you need an intervention; Dani is (briefly) the new Doug; horses are jerks; it’s probably really dangerous to be Longshot; Storm has the coolest friends; the High Evolutionary is very high indeed; and we make a (very token) nod to Valentine’s Day.
X-PLAINED:
- Secret Origins of the High Evolutionary
- Evolutionary War
- The actual history of eugenics in America
- X-Factor Annual #3
- New Mutants Annual #4
- Uncanny X-Men Annual #12
- Classic X-Men #22
- Purifiers (but not those purifiers)
- Stack
- Purge
- How to tell when an event has major psychic repercussions
- A Silver-Age callback
- An Apocalypse-style intervention
- Toga Steve (Val-Or)
- The return of Bulk and Glow Worm
- Equal-opportunity Hellfire lingerie
- Mirage’s power upgrade
- Miles vs. puberty vs. Uncanny X-Men
- The coolest civilization ever
- Colossus’s illegitimate kid
- The cutest sound effect
- Origins of the Scott/Jean/Logan love triangle
- Stuff Jay likes and Miles doesn’t
- The Elle Collins Theory of Podcast Roles
NEXT EPISODE: Captain Britain!
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As Mentioned in Episode 94 – WELCOME TO DIE!
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LINKS:
- Special thanks to Guest X-Pert Elisabeth Allie!
- Previously on R&MXtX-M: Episode 47 – The Price of Power
- Blog
- GeekCraft Expo PDX
- Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade, where we get our X-Men arcade-game fix.