Tag: Sam Guthrie
412 – Yappin’ and Scrappin’
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In which Kelly and Seagle’s X-runs begin with immense promise; dark psychic residue gets just everywhere; Storm’s past is literally buried; Wolverine is just saying is all; Cecilia Reyes’s job doesn’t deserve her, and Cyclops and Phoenix are the worst at being normal.
X-PLAINED:
- The Grey family reunion
- X-Men #71-72
- What counts as an Uncanny X-Men #138 cover reference
- Baggage and also suitcases
- Steve Seagle’s (scuttled) Phoenix plans
- Bone whiskers
- Telemarketer power moves
- Cecilia Reyes
- Marrow (Sarah)
- Sam Guthrie’s tiny ponytail
- The ol’ wall-of-televisions trope
- The cost of one banana
- Sebastian Shaw vs the IRS (maybe)
- A mostly empty attic
- Wolverine’s etiquette lessons
- The dessert claw vs the salad claw
- The physicality of Carlos Pacheco’s art
- Cannonball, the grown-up in the room
- Magneto’s increasingly complicated past
- Magnus, Erik, and Max (again)
- Uncanny X-Men #351-352
- Cecilia Reyes’s return-to-office
- Intersectionality
- Pyro, forever dying of the Legacy Virus
- Daredevil vs Cecilia Reyes’s bedside manner
- Kevin, Lord of the Jungle
- Ending conversations by turning into a bird
- A.I.M.* (*Advanced Idea Mechanics)
- Crows of Ill Portent
- A Box of Entity
- Condors and Cockatoos
- Logan’s denim proclivities
- Arcade vs. Mojo
Special thanks to Dylan Higgins for edits and production assistance!
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As Mentioned in Episode 401 – True Tales of Double-Entry Bookkeeping
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401 – True Tales of Double-Entry Bookkeeping
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In which Santa Claus makes problematic choices; we make good on a promise; Sebastian is the new Deadpool; Skrulls get stuck as animals more than you’d think; Nanny and Orphan-Maker celebrate; and Jubilee stops worrying and learns to love Christmas.
X-PLAINED
- Santa Claus’s flirtations with villainy
- A new direction for Generation X
- Larry Hama
- Al vs. U.S. geography
- Generation X #32-33
- Generation X Holiday Special
- New Mutants #92
- Thing One & Thing Two St. Croix
- The Circus of Crime
- The Pirates of Dark Water (somewhat)
- Hacker T. Dog
- Why Wolfsbane is scared of clowns
- Skrull Kill Crew
- Carnie Voltron
- Chief Authier
- Phat beats
- A reality biscuit
- Emplate’s pocket dimension
- Chimera and Dirtnap
- Variant interiors
- Nanny & Orphan-Maker (more) (again)
- Santa Claus (in general)
- Benefits of inconsistent characterization
NEXT WEEK: Break week
NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur!
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As Mentioned in Episode 400 – Loud Noises
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- All that remains of Gambit Cyber Comic: The Hunt for the Tomorrow Stone
400 – Loud Noises
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In which legacy numbering is best left alone; all roads lead to the Antarctic; we finally learn Gambit’s big secret; Erik the Red gets yet a third identity; no one soils the Juggernaut; Maggott saves the day; and we have somehow made (technically more than) 400 of these things.
X-PLAINED
- Spat
- The tragic loss of the Cyber Comics
- How not to back up your work
- Uncanny X-Men #350
- X-Men #70
- A shambles
- What’s been happening since Operation Zero Tolerance
- A very fancy cover
- Insufficient outerwear
- Senses
- Justice as a decorating theme
- Baffling statuary
- The return of Erik the Red
- Erik the Red (again)
- Ferris
- Gambit’s big secret
- A large number of continuity errors
- A total dick move
- De-icing
- Untitled Marrow Game
- A big fight
- Living room surgery
- Legal documents
- Favorite anniversary issues
- Dangling plot threads
NEXT EPISODE: Generation X vs. Christmas
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As Mentioned in Episode 396 – Giant-Size Special #11
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- Behold the glory that is the Hardee’s kids meal comic X-Men: Time Gliders
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396 – Giant-Size Special #11
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In which we spend too long trying to place a time-travel miniseries in continuity, Al Kennedy does us a solid, Bernard Chang draws some excellent New Mutants young and old, Al Ewing x-plains X-Men: Red, Forearm and Random play Nintendo, and we reveal the winners of The Ninth Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence!
X-PLAINED:
- Jay’s spatial and temporal whereabouts
- Cannonball, Mirage, Magik, Sunspot, Wolfsbane, Karma, Magma, Cypher, Warlock, and Douglock
- New Mutants: Truth or Death
- Kitty Pryde and Illyana Rasputin, gal pals
- Triple-dog dares
- Nova Roma, or not
- Mikhail F**king Rasputin
- The arrogance of reality warpers
- How to write Magma
- The Technarchy and the Phalanx
- Hardee’s X-Men: Time Gliders
- Farmboy chic
- Bernard Chang’s 21 Panels
- Branching vs. overwriting timelines
- The effects of de-aging and history rewriting on immunology
- Found family
- She Who Swam With The Acanti
- Sleep-Eeze Mattresses Starring The Hulk
- Arrako
- Continuity synchronicity
- S.W.O.R.D. as a workplace drama
- The moral downfall of Abigail Brand
- The leadership styles of Storm, Magneto, and Sunspot
- Himbo disambiguation
- The fates of Armor, Risque, and Peeper
- Mysterium Clicker
- Santa Claus
- The Ninth Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
(Note: Our interview with Al Ewing contains spoilers for X-Men: Red!)
NEXT EPISODE: Sabretooth betrays an X-team! Again!
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388 – Deceit and Death
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In which there’s a lot of good television out there; Shang-Chi says the title of the story at every possible opportunity; Wolverine is probably not a Deadhead; Sebastian Shaw thinks he’s a bigger deal than he is; and Operation Zero Tolerance officially begins.
X-PLAINED:
- Storm’s ruby
- X-Men #62-65
- The Story So Far
- Space LEGOs
- Shang-Chi
- Shang-Chi’s dad
- An excellent fight scene
- Word balloon placements
- Agent Reston
- Elixir Vitae
- Several varyingly unexpected resurrections
- Cyber Ninjas
- Product placement for your own product
- Bludgeon, Katana, Fist, and some other guy
- Fujikawa Enterprises
- Richard Fisk
- Rambo heresay
- Prime Sentinels
- Children of Apocalypse
- Carol Danvers substitutions
NEXT WEEK: Hawk talk
NEXT EPISODE: Generation X floats on
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