Tag: Sally Blevins
418 – Reignfirefighters
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In which S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are scarier in suits; Reignfire is the new Erik the Red; “background assets” would be a very funny euphemism; it’s always either time travel or clones; and you should probably not get a corporate logo tattooed on the side of your head.
X-PLAINED:
- Crimes of Dark Beast
- X-Force #77-80
- The Mutant Liberation Front
- Reignfire (repeatedly)
- Video Renaissance
- Almost Reno, NM
- The inversion of several common tropes
- Small towns
- Different kinds of mutants
- X-Force Fun Facts
- Skids (Sally Blevins)
- Several continuity errors
- Some kidnappings
- Sexiness without prurience
- Background assets
- Dr. Joshua (again)
- (Henry Wallinger)
- Psychic shenanigans
- Las Vegas
- Word-balloon disambiguation
- X-Force’s new HQ
- Historical X-Men we’d like to see
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As Mentioned in Episode 228 – Thinkin’ Shorts
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228 – Thinkin’ Shorts
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In which it still sucks to be a Rasputin; John Romita Jr. has a solid, if muscular, grasp of anatomy; Jay and Miles are better exes than Forge and anyone; and Cannonball’s many younger siblings have almost prepared him for running X-Force.
X-PLAINED:
- Peters Parker
- The Merry X-Men Holiday Special
- Comic book release schedules vs. J&MXPtXM
- Uncanny X-Men #301-302
- Trevor F**king Fitzroy, possibly the worst Upstart
- Comics Code Authority closeting versus real-life closeting
- 21st Century Torture Devices
- Risky mood fonts
- Robert’s Rules of Upstart Order (this week)
- Gamesmaster vs. the Isolationist
- Shinobi Shaw: Good At Sex
- Russian tragedy (more, again)
- Charles Xavier and his poor decisions
- Shi’ar tech support
- Pants and villainy
- Racist jerks vs. rhetorical questions
- TIME PARADOX
- Weirdly specific contingencies
- Piotr Rasputin and his justified fury
- X-Force #24
- Meaningless (but fun!) timestamps
- The Friends of Humanity (who are not our friends)
- Rusty and Skids’ latest arrest
- Disappointed Dad Sam Guthrie
- Action vs. public perception
- Vinz Clortho
- Domino’s continuing quest to figure out what exactly an X-Force is
- The dramatic return of… well, you know
- Spacesuit logistics
- Numerical universe designations
- Plastic Warlock
NEXT EPISODE: Our Fifth Annual Giant-Size Winter Special!
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As Mentioned in Episode 201 – Pump Up the Jam
201 – Pump Up the Jam
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In which we begin our third podcast century; Cyclops is bi-inclusive; we have high standards for Mojoworld; Dazzler can survive your big-budget horror show; Jim Lee makes his exit; video games that involve Protomen are better than video games that don’t; and plasma is the new magnetism.
X-PLAINED:
- Carter Ryking and his Very Durable Underpants
- Fontanelle
- Jay & Miles Town Cry ye X-Men
- An upcoming event
- X-Men #10-13
- A somewhat disappointing Wizard of Oz pastiche
- Those who like to go both ways
- A mysterious, shadowy figure; revealed
- Several of Cyclops’s uncoolest Dad moments
- Zima
- Moist Alley
- Mojo II: The Sequel
- The Image exodus
- Mojonium™
- An announcement
- Longshot in the Mojoverse vs. Longshot in the 616
- A Maverick adventure
- Alexander Ryking
- The other Xavier File
- Warhawk
- The Ryking Hospital for Paranormal Research
- A poorly defined power set
- Technicolor skeletons
- When and where paper was invented
- A likely-irrelevant pattern
- The devil who haunts Stryfe’s dreams
- Some non-X Marvel recommendations
- Rusty Collins’s codename
NEXT EPISODE: A musical interlude with X-Factor!
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As Mentioned in Episode 141 – Reason to Go to the Devil
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141 – Reason to Go to the Devil
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In which we ring in the new year with Cable’s on-page debut; it’s really the ’90s now; we enter the third major era of New Mutants; what Liefeld lacks in craft he makes up for in energy; we pitch a new “What if–” line; Rusty and Skids are terrible superheroes; X-Factor has probably given up on a lot of things; we speculate at gratuitous length on the content of Cable’s pouches; you have reason to go to the devil; and Cable makes a lot more sense when you realize he’s of, by, and for teenagers.
X-PLAINED:
- How the Legacy Virus got loose
- New Mutants #86-89
- Cable’s on-page debut
- Rob Liefeld
- The third major era of New Mutants
- A shift in the balance of power
- A comics shop to probably avoid if you time-travel back to the mid 1990s
- The stupid adventures of Rusty & Skids
- Yet another Acts of Vengeance tie-in
- Nitro
- An accidental prison break
- Cops, or maybe protestors
- The Mutant Liberation Front
- Feet
- A goody two-shoes man-stealing redheaded werewolf
- Wildside
- Reaper
- Strobe
- Thumbelina
- Tempo
- Forearm
- Zero
- Stryfe
- Stryfe’s armor
- Spooning with Cable
NEXT EPISODE: X-Factor kicks it Silver Age.
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As Mentioned in Episode 132 – Nornheim Lemonade
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LINKS:
- We covered the first half of the Asgard Adventure in Episode 127 – Disaster City.
- COME SEE US AT VEGAS VALLEY COMIC BOOK FEST ON NOVEMBER 5! It’s an awesome convention, and we will be doing a VERY SPECIAL live show.
132 – Nornheim Lemonade
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In which Rusty is an honorary Bluth; we bid a sad farewell to Bret Blevins; Hogan the Grim is probably the best at bedtime stories; Asgard has really tight hat game; Hela is a remarkably competent supervillain; there are some sound effects you have to earn; Rusty and Skids fight the Vulture; and Miles has so many feelings about Thor.
X-PLAINED:
- Cortex
- Damian Tryp
- Our weird 2016 recording schedule
- Jay & Miles at Vegas Valley Comic Book Fest 2016
- Recent ResurrXion announcements
- The second half of the Asgard Adventure
- The end of Bret Blevins’ New Mutants run
- New Mutants #82-85
- The Odinsleep
- A fairly upsetting board game
- Volstagg’s awesome kids
- Tiwaz of the Wastes
- Many excellent hats
- Ula and the Savage Swarm
- Garm
- Miles’s favorite Fenrir story
- A remarkably clever villainous plan
- A signature sound effect
- Karnilla the Norn Queen
- Cable’s relationship to Longshot
- Recommendations for a comics newcomer
NEXT EPISODE: X-Factor vs. Celestials, as Judgment War concludes!
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