Tag: Rahne Sinclair
329 – Scheming and Argument
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In which Nate Grey has the soul of a man in a mesh shirt; Black Air is somehow even worse than you thought it was; Hulk does not want to be x-treme teen from alternate dimension; we are excited as hell for the upcoming Frasier/Ewing Gamma Flight; and Moira MacTaggert is (sometimes) the adult we need.
X-PLAINED:
- Nate Grey’s (possible) demon zombie baby
- What Excalibur’s been up to lately
- Excalibur #94-95
- X-Man #12
- Yet another take on roughly the same dark future
- Dark-future disambiguation
- Bangs
- The Black Wall
- Leather vs. vinyl
- Sentinels pooping sentinels
- Nate Grey (more) (again)
- Gamma Flight
- Excessively silly diagnostic technology
- Squeezits(TM)
- A minor intervention
- X-characters most likely to lead a successful book club
- Warlock on Krakoa
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As Mentioned in Episode 320 – The Accountability Wagon
320 – The Accountability Wagon
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In which Pete Wisdom is the guy you love to glare at; Nightcrawler is right (and a delightfully complex individual); Colossus has a lot of issues; and Wolfsbane gets the confrontation we’ve been waiting for since the New Mutants graphic novel.
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- Wolfsbane’s powers
- Excalibur #91-93
- The somewhat nebulous age of Kitty Pryde
- Betrayal
- What’s been up on Muir Isle
- Organized sports, Excalibur-style
- Pubs and what happens in them
- Drinking with Excalibur
- Shovel talks
- Phonetic accents, redeemed
- A fairly one-sided fight
- Colossus’s issues (more) (again)
- Anatomy and physiology of organic steel
- Accountability, trauma, and their intersections
- An exceptionally cathartic confrontation
- A hoodie Jay desperately wants
- Where cold opens come from
- Whether and how Gambit passes for human
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316 – Return to Megalopolis: At the Movies with the New Mutants
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In which we review the New Mutants’ film debut.
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As Mentioned in Episode 309 – Excellent Turtle
309 – Excellent Turtle
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In which ballistics get weird; Black Air is no W.H.O.; we have surprisingly mixed feelings about Pete Wisdom and Kitty Pryde as a couple; there is an actual creepy clown bar in Portland; blood eagles are excessively ostentatious; the Uncreated just want to be cool; and Rory Campbell continues his descent into supervillainy.
X-PLAINED:
- The Forever Man
- Turner D. Century
- Excalibur #87-90
- Excalibur (more) (again)
- Genosha (more) (again)
- Some extremely confusing bullets
- Philip Moreau
- Jenny Ransome
- Black Air
- Dream Nails
- Spy bars
- Foundations of Kitty Pryde and Pete Wisdom’s relationship
- Captions
- Work/life separation
- A creepy clown bar
- Easy Tiger
- Blood eagles
- Shrine
- A virus and/or bacteria
- The Uncreated
- Gor the God-Butcher
- Data security
- Rory Campbell vs. Spoor
- How the X-Men got their name
- Terrigen toxicity
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As Mentioned in Episode 283 – Legion Quest Quest
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LINKS & FURTHER SPIN-OFFS
- WHOA DANG JAY IS WRITING A CYCLOPS ONE-SHOT! It is called X-Men Marvels Snapshot #1, or possibly Marvel Snapshots: X-Men #1; but either way, you can read more about it here and find preorder information here.
- Speaking of things Jay writes, if you didn’t get enough Lila Cheney in this week’s episode, she’s stealing hearts and valuables all over Episode 8 of Thor: Metal Gods!
- We talked a lot about Legion and the ways his powers intersect with mental illness in Episode 44 – Assembling Legion, feat. Si Spurrier.
- Here is some context for Jay’s joke about Autism Speaks. (If you’re looking for an organization to support that actually helps and amplifies the voices of Autistic folks, we like the Autistic Self Advocacy Network.)
283 – Legion Quest Quest
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In which Jay is writing a Cyclops one-shot; It is honestly truly almost Legion Quest; Mystique plays the long game; sometimes filler is a good thing; Havok is a geophysicist, not a geographer; Lila definitely stole it; and more stories should be set in space junkyards.
X-PLAINED:
- How Betsy Braddock got her original body back
- Marvel Snapshots: X-Men
- The lead-up to Legion Quest
- X-Factor #108-111
- Mystique’s skill set
- Legion (David Haller) (more) (again)
- Freedom Force
- The most powerful of devices
- A dream about a dream
- An intersection of unreliable narrators
- The narrative justification for Legion Quest
- A rock monster
- Jornick
- Lila Cheney (more) (again)
- A Kurt Vonnegut reference
- The K’Lanti
- A space junkyard
- The end of X-Factor’s second iconic era
- Our favorite male/female X-friendships
- Pros and cons of line cohesiveness
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