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235 – Fatal Extractions (Fatal Attractions, Part 2)
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In which Magneto may or may not own a Namor body pillow; Cyclops probably doesn’t color-code his files; Colossus is Not Okay; bats are nature’s flashers; there are a lot of reasons to be mad at Fatal Attractions; Charles Xavier is surprisingly durable; the X-Men know their Aeschylus; Jean Grey goes in through the face; and bringing Wolverine to fight the guy who controls metal was probably not a great idea.
X-PLAINED:
- Mutant Alpha
- Uncanny X-Men #304
- X-Men #25
- False foreshadowing
- Costume storage and display
- Relative moral event horizons
- The character dehabilitation of Magneto
- The Magneto Protocols
- How Cyclops organizes his files
- An excellent eulogy
- The complicated legacy of Illyana Rasputin
- Several noteworthy absences
- A memorable funeral
- The ‘behold’ thing
- A protective mesh of electromagnetic fire
- A well-played callback
- A strategically dubious plan
- Several Prometheus Bound quotations
- An uncharitable assumption
- The blood-brain barrier
- A severe costume injury
- The definitive scene of Fatal Attractions
- The root of Onslaught
- Which X-Men would podcast
- Our preferred comics formats
NEXT EPISODE: Colossus still can’t catch a break
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As Mentioned in Episode 231 – Life Bites
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LINKS & OTHER AMENITIES:
You can make your own Sienna Blaze lipstick!
While it’s setting, why not read more about the 1993 Marvel annuals and Evan Skolnick’s D&D campaign!
Or you could watch The Gamers and develop a deeper understanding of Jay’s joke about Captain Britain at the gaming table.
And there’s always Episode 21 – Kurt Busiek at the Coffee-a-Go-Go, where we delve deep into the wonders of Metoxo the Lava Man!
231 – Life Bites
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In which DC is out of our bailiwick; Random gets around; someone finally makes an explicit reference to disability politics; death has not improved the Chalkers; Strong Guy can’t catch a break; we’re all whole other people; Sienna Blaze has a crayon name; we totally want to play D&D with Evan Skolnick; a trading card does not a memorable character make; and we are 100% here for the mutant episode of Sesame Street.
- X-PLAINED:
- What happened to Fred Duncan
- Beastwriting
- Marvel’s 1993 Annuals
- The speculator boom
- X-Factor Annual #8
- Uncanny X-Men Annual #17
- Excalibur Annual #1
- Charlie Ronalds (Charon) and his issues
- A protracted Batman reference
- How to string pearls
- A dubious twist on the danger room
- The pure joy of a child, but twisted and distorted like a shredded butterfly
- Cloot (Satannish)
- Howling Mad, by Peter David
- The greatest enemies of X-Factor (but not really)
- Cruel and arbitrary moralizing
- The other X-Cutioner (Carl Denti)
- A protracted illusion
- The Amazing Icemaster
- Metacommentary
- An accidental trap
- The death of Jason Wyngarde (Mastermind)
- Resolution versus forgiveness
- The other first appearance of Sienna Blaze
- More wizard stuff
- Khaos
- Khaos & Gritty 4 Lyfe
- Ghath
- Irth
- Mutants on Sesame Street
- Cycling in and out of comics
NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur goes to space!
CORRECTION: Chris Claremont did not in fact write Dragonlance comics.
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As Mentioned in Episode 223 – Live at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival
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LINKS & FURTHER GAMBLES:
- We discussed X-Men #159–and a lot of other Dracula-relevant material–in Episode 18 – You’ve Got a Dracula Problem.
- You can hear–and see!–us read the picture-book adaptation of “Days of Future Past” in the Jay & Miles Storytime Special.
223 – Live at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival
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In which Dracula probably doesn’t drink his blood from a World’s Greatest Dad mug; Miles massively underestimates the cultural ubiquity of Sexy Dracula; Bill Sienkiewicz may or may not have ever seen a bat; Kitty gets possessed; and Dazzler is singularly well suited to a Vegas residency.
X-PLAINED:
- Dracula’s ungrateful children
- Marvel Dracula
- A fortuitously named writer
- Rachel Van Helsing
- X-Men #159 (again) (briefly)
- Sexy Dracula
- The secret origin of sexy Draculas
- Fastball Special body mechanics
- X-Men Annual #6
- A nightmare
- “Bats”
- Yet another Castle Dracula
- The Montesi Formula
- Sound effects, spoken or otherwise
- Lilith
- Chairs
- The relative efficacy of holy symbols against Dracula
- X-Vegas
- Characters we have grown to love as a result of the podcast
NEXT EPISODE: Fix the future!
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As Mentioned in Episode 222 – A Tale of Two Betsys
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LINKS & FURTHER SORROWS
- Listen to our discussion of Psylocke’s original transformation–featuring author Sarah Kuhn–in Episode 137 – Kicky Kinko Killers.
- Marvel’s current EiC has a particularly ugly history when it comes to appropriation of Japanese culture and identities.
222 – A Tale of Two Betsys
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In which it has been a pretty intense month; there is a lot to unpack about Psylocke; we are confused by hip teen lingo; Cyclops definitively lacks game; organized crime is anything but; and the mystery of the third Summers brother officially begins.
X-PLAINED:
- How the Maximoffs joined the Avengers
- X-Cutioner’s Song fallout
- An X-ceptionally convoluted set of retcons
- X-Men #20-23
- How not to repair an airplane
- One way to get out of an awkward conversation
- Several Betsys Braddock
- Revanche
- Dubiously organized crime
- Kwannon
- Nyorin’s diary
- Awkward family conversations
- Mike Milbury
- Twin Peaks Season 3
- Akira Yoshida
NEXT EPISODE: Dracula in Vegas!
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As Mentioned in Episode 218 – Careful What You Lick
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LINKS & FURTHER NONSENSE:
- Come see us at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival!
- The delightful PDX Broadsides will also be there!
- This episode involves a LOT of references to past story arcs. Here’s where you can hear us talk about those:
- Learn about one of the less obvious reasons not to masturbate with cacti in Episode 78 – The Eye Killers and Other Cautionary Tales.
- You can hear about the beginning of X-Men vol. 2 in Episode 178 – Giant-Size Special #6.
- We covered God Loves, Man Kills in Giant-Size Special #1.
- You can see Miles’s childhood X-Men drawings in Jay & Miles Made a Zine About the X-Men, now available on Gumroad!
218 – Careful What You Lick
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In which X-Cutioner’s Song may be over, but its repercussions continue; Uncanny X-Men hits a major milestone; superhero comics are and always have been political; Bishop learns to banter; the X-Men gain an unlikely ally; and Magneto remains exceptionally difficult to kill.
X-PLAINED:
- Jay & Miles at VVCBF
- Uncanny X-Men #298-300
- The Acolytes (more) (again)
- The Upstarts (more) (again)
- Several important lessons
- A very fancy room
- A very fancy brain
- The unpleasant fate of Sharon Friedlander
- The all-new, all-different Acolytes
- Carmella Unuscione
- The return of one of our favorite antagonists
- A sick burn
- The fate of Asteroid M
- Molting
- A debate
- Graydon Creed (more) (again)
- The tentative redemption of Robert Kelly
- How to lose a debate with Joe Biden
- A large number of prescient political references
- Friends of Humanity
- How to engage with a fascist in a televised debate
- Noah DuBois
- Fatale
- A generic rural mob
- Milan
- A narratively convenient superpower
- Amelia Voght
- Seamus Mellencamp
- Neophyte
- The gospel of Magneto
- A joyous reunion
- The helmet that wouldn’t die
- Ponytail ethics
- Timelust
- Several accents
- The current state of Rogue’s powers
NEXT EPISODE: All Emma All Episode (feat. Seanan McGuire, Leah Williams, and more)!
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