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As Mentioned in Episode 239 – Rap and Rumble (feat. Max Carleton)

March 18, 2019 Jay One comment

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Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

Awkward Family Portraits: The Avengers Edition (Avengers #368)

Nick, no. (Avengers #368)

The Avengers were not always Marvel’s A-List team. (Avengers #368)

TFW your kid gets replaced by a shapeshifter and then explodes. (Avengers #368)

“Mr. Agent” BWAHAHAHAHA (Avengers #368)

Trolling Henry Peter Gyrich is the real superheroism. (Avengers #368)

“Just like Dracula would.” (Avengers #368)

Oh, hey, it’s the yelling disembodied head of Charles Xavier! (Avengers #368)

Everyone else is rushing into battle; and there’s Cap, just, like, “FORGET THIS I’M GONNA FIGHT THE SKY” (X-Men #26)

Good work, Mr. Agent. (X-Men #26)

Avengers West Coast #101

Hawkeye should enter every room this way. (Avengers West Coast #101)

Genosha: Still the Goddamn Worst. (Avengers West Coast #101)

Did they, though? I kind of suspect he named himself that. (Uncanny X-Men #307)

The cover IS the trading card. (Avengers #69)

1993 seems like a little late to have two yelling Xavier heads in one story, but you do you.(Avengers #69)

Well, he sure pontificates like Magneto. (Avengers #69)

And yet, he won’t be out for another decade and change. (Avengers #69)

NEXT EPISODE: Live at Emerald City Comic Con, with Vita Ayala, Seanan McGuire, and Leah Williams!

LINKS & FURTHER MAXIMOFFS:

Max Carleton is an unmitigated delight! Here’s where you can check out more of his work:
- Read Max’s comics about comics at Waiting for the Trade!
- Follow him on Twitter!
- Hear Max and Tina dive into the weird and somewhat horrifying world of Once Upon a Time in Welcome to Storybrooke…
- …and find their secret podcast by supporting them on Patreon!
- Then come back and listen to Max and Jay talk about the wonders and horrors of the X-Men anime in our Episode 115 – So Many Teeth.
Life on the Infinite Farm, by Richard Evan Schwartz
Erdös Numbers
Aud Koch’s impressive take on Viv Vision’s family tree
Seriously, Marvel, give Aud all your mystical characters immediately.

239 – Rap and Rumble (feat. Max Carleton)

March 18, 2019 Jay 17 comments

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In which we enter the era of bomber jackets; the covers are the cards; Genosha remains neither green nor pleasant; the A is for “Avengers,” not “A-list”; Henry Peter Gyrich is the straightest of men; Cyclops sets an important precedent; Exodus is a huge jerk; we speculate about movies we have definitely not seen; Stephen Strange is not a qualified OBGYN; the Avengers are really weird even by our standards; and Max manages to connect two of Marvel’s most complicated family trees.

X-PLAINED:

One way to name babies
Blood Ties
Infinite bomber jackets
Avengers #368-369
X-Men #26
Avengers West Coast #101
Uncanny X-Men #307
Several very fancy covers
A shadow government, but not that kind of shadow government
Genosha (more) (again)
The Avengers, as of 1993
A special delegation
The Genoshan resistance
U.S. Agent
A time Cyclops told someone other than Dracula to follow their heart
The many belts of Nicholas Fury
Several members of the Maximoff family (more) (again)
Black Knight (Dane Whitman)
Sersi
A very drawn-out fight
Roy Thomas dialogue
The racist icing on the racist cake
Exodus (Bennet du Paris)
Diplomacy, kind of
Apolitical avenging
Magneto’s dream
A green and pleasant beverage
Yet another energy-dome-enclosed crisis
The giant, angry disembodied head of Charles Xavier
What is definitely the actual plot of the Purge movies
The surprisingly torrid private lives of the Maximoffs
Scarlet Witch and Vision’s kids
Master Pandemonium and his weird baby hands
Damian Hellstrom
How we’d handle Magneto’s family in modern Marvel
Robopaternity
A possible link between the Summers and Maximoff families

NEXT EPISODE: Live at Emerald City Comic Con, with Vita Ayala, Seanan McGuire, and Leah Williams!

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As Mentioned in Episode 229 – Giant-Size Special #7

December 30, 2018 Jay 2 comments

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Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

Surprisingly, not the worst trip either of them has been on. (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #1)

Welcome to the future. Hope you survive the… y’know. (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #1)

I kind of feel like most parents would be a little irritated if their kids did this. (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #1)

Despite the cybernetics, this is definitely the closest li’l Nathan Christopher has ever looked to an actual human baby. (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #1)

That is the face of a man who knows he will never, ever get to take a real vacation. (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #1)

We see what you did, there. (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #2)

Parents, amirite? (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #2)

It takes a certain degree of dedication to throw an orgy this boring. (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #2)

That’s our Stryfe! (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #2)

Apocalypse’s future look. (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #2)

Gene Ha is so good at weird cyborgs! (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #2)

“Also, where do babies come from?” (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #3)

I love the conceit that everyone in the future gives them shit for PDA. (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #3)

OH, HEY, IT’S THE LEGACY VIRUS. (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #3)

Quite literally face to face. (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #3)

Nobody likes Stryfe. (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #3)

And you thought puberty hit you hard. (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #4)

Aw, Rachel. (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #4)

“Also, I was thinking we could do brunch sometime. No? Too soon?” (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #4)

This dysfunctional fictional family is so damn important to me. (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #4)

Clone Problems(TM). (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #4)

I mean, the first time aside from THE ENTIRETY OF THE LAST TWELVE YEARS. (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #4)

I’m not crying. You’re crying. We’re both crying. Everyone is crying. (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #4)

This comic, man. Right in the feels. (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #4)

We don’t usually post pages that we also read, but we couldn’t in good conscience leave this one out. (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #4)

“Time to get a lot of guns and some snappy one-liners.” (The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #4)

NEXT EPISODE: Bring kleenex.

LINKS & FURTHER FESTIVITY:

David Wynne is awesome! Here’s where you can find him on the Internet:
- Tumblr
- Twitter
- David’s Comics:
- Josh & Jamie Do Daredevil
The Apocrypals pretty much do what we do, but for the bible!
The Fantasticast pretty much does what we do, but for the Fantastic Four!

Click through for Corbeau Awards and song lyrics!

229 – Giant-Size Special #7

December 30, 2018 Jay 28 comments

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In which we are beset by festivity; Scott Summers still can’t take a vacation; the Daysprings are a really good family; “G’journey” is a really good greeting; Stryfe is his own namesake; retcons have served Cable well; illustrator David Wynne makes his X-Plain podcast debut; and you should probably go ahead and get a shelf for all these awards.

X-PLAINED:

The Hayes family
The Grey-Summers Family circa 1993
The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #1-4
Summers/Sommers disambiguation
Gene Ha
Time travel
Earth-4935
Mother Askani
Prelate Ch’vayre
What “Askani” means
When and whether Cable sleeps
The passage of time
Slym and Redd Dayspring
A biblical allusion
A very good greeting
Prior Turrin
“Old” English
Li’l Stryfe
Some constraints of superhero comics
Parenting
Rachel Summers’s self-image
The origin of Cable’s codename
David Wynne and his art
“Strontium Dogs”
The X-Fandom starter pack
The Fifth Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
D&D with the Blue Team
All-New staying power
Fictional intersectionality
Change, in general

NEXT EPISODE: Bring kleenex.

CORRECTION: In this episode, Miles states that Scott and Jean are cool. They are, in fact, categorically uncool. We regret the error.

Special thanks to carolers Tina Carleton, Matt Gardner, Peter Gresser, Erin Pence, and Steve Pence!

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