Tag: scott summers
469 – Killed by Death
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In which the Shattering officially concludes; you can’t swoop over the phone; toddlers are engines of pure chaos; the X-Men do some processing; and we are mildly scandalized by the absence of footnotes.
X-PLAINED:
- Rama-Tut
- Evan Sabahnur
- Uncanny X-Men #375
- X-Men #95
- X-Men Unlimited #25
- Skrull problems
- One very upsetting way to identify a traitor
- Skrullverine
- Fiz and Jaq
- The Ally
- A ruse
- Death’s mask
- A dramatic revelation
- Processing
- The unrealized potential of Spirit Halloween
- Wolverine memories
- Rogue’s temporary tattoos
- Yet another time loop
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As Mentioned in Episode 465 – Right in the Fabric
465 – Right in the Fabric
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In which “Astonishing X-Men” is something of a misnomer; Death has a good look; sometimes you just need a guy who swoops; Miles stops worrying and learns to love Nate Grey; Telekinesis is silly looking; “Wolverine” dies; and nothing really changes.
X-PLAINED:
- Astonishing X-Men (miniseries)
- Ambience
- Nina (again)
- Mannites (again)
- The third-best way to get out of awkward conversations
- The Hulkbuster base
- Bastion (again)
- Bastion’s worst nightmare
- Death (a new one)
- Fiddly bits
- Cable’s Psimitar
- Telekinetic snowboarding
- Headcase
- Darco
- Glub
- Beautiful Dreamer
- Grace
- Totem
- Things to do with a severed head
- The Changing
- The (apparent) death of Wolverine
- How to salvage this miniseries
- Hypothetical X-crossovers
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463 – The Fart Ghost That Walks Like a Manhattan
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In which Gambit is fundamentally goofy; t’ieves love research; Magneto was ripped; Professor Xavier remains a jerk; Miles attempts to convey something very fundamentally visual in an audio format; Marrow is adorable; the X-Men pretty much disband (again); and a miniseries is the opposite of a vacation.
X-PLAINED:
- Where Wolverine went
- Gambit Annual 1999
- Uncanny X-Men #372
- X-Men #92
- A lot of backstory
- A very cute plastic goose
- What Gambit does in his free time
- Those weird fluid-filled tubes they put people in all the time for some reason
- Gambit’s abs
- The fart ghost (Mary Purcell)
- Manhattan, Indiana
- A very minor continuity error
- Fart ghost metaphysics
- A very bad idea
- A muppetworthy death
- Dream’s various ends
- X-pajamas
- Professional dinosaurs
- Thinkers
- Theoretical Cyclops-Daredevil team-ups
- X-characters recognizable as civilians
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454 – X-Men ’97, Part 2
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In which Barry Windsor-Smith is too sexy for television; we know what happens when unstable molecules get struck by lightning; X-Men gets political and does it spectacularly; this Captain America would not sew the cape; Magneto continues to throw things into space; and they kissed and we missed it.
X-PLAINED:
- Fabian Cortez’s name
- X-Men ’97 episodes 6-10
- Lifedeath I & II: a surprising adaptation
- Varying levels of going in blind
- A somewhat different and possibly better Forge
- The Adversary vs. the Owl Queen
- Stormiest and least-Stormy costumes
- Professor Charles Xavier, Official Space Boyfriend
- Colonialism vs. Identity
- Delayed catharsis
- The narrative power of altered opening credits
- What makes allyship effective (and not)
- Justified mutant anger
- The worst version of Nina DaCosta
- What makes Prime Sentinels scary
- Summers family feels
- The best damned fight scenes out there
- Bastion, robo-avatar of conservative white patriarchy
- Simultaneous crossovers
- A psychic gay bar
- A last boss arena
- Acolyte equivalencies
- Phoenix Ex Machina
- Crying
- Whether Magneto was right
- Apoca-futures and Apoca-pasts
- A bulletin board and our hopes for its contents
- Soft Serve
- Kitty Pryde’s coffee shop AU
- X-Men ’97 as the perfect gateway
NEXT EPISODE: Skrulls!
LINKS AND FURTHER READING:
- The Judgment of Magneto by Asher Elbein
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453 – X-Men ’97, Part 1
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In which we put the comics on hold to take a look at X-Men ’97; it is still always Inferno in here; Wolverine is best used sparingly; a Marvel show finally embraces politics; Wolverine is best in small doses; Madeylne Pryor still always deserves better; Jubilee grows up; and we are all in on this series.
X-PLAINED:
- “Beyond Good and Evil”
- X-Men: The Animated Series and our respective feelings about it
- X-Men ’97, episodes 1-5
- Watching X-Men ’97 with and without context
- Making animated Cyclops work
- The Magneto’s-hair-length morality index
- Politics
- Voices
- Adaptation pacing
- Agency
- Abcissa
- Foreshadowing
- Time compression
- Horniest Rogue
- Death in cartoons
- A metaphor
- Nonbinary identity in 1997
- Character evolution
NEXT EPISODE: Episodes 6-10
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As Mentioned in Episode 430 – The Bad Feelings Box
430 – The Bad Feelings Box
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In which birds have no business in sex dreams; feelings are complicated and allegories are imperfect; Mystique made some valid points; Psycho-Man is good at UI; Callisto was right; and the label “Omega-level mutant” actually kind of makes sense.
X-PLAINED:
- Psycho-Man
- Malice (but not that one)
- Hate Monger (but not that one)
- Finding good comics from the ‘90s
- Uncanny X-Men #359
- X-Men / Fantastic Four Annual 1998
- X-Men #79
- The dead man’s hand
- Dr. Aubrey Agee
- Psi-War fallout
- Dr. Bradley Beynon
- Hadley the robot
- Poker twinks
- La Bludgeon
- Psycho-Man’s Bad Feelings Box
- An invisible bear trap
- Marvel’s floating poker game
- Officers Aguinal and Cleveland
- Antagonists vs. villains
- Omega-level mutants
NEXT EPISODE: The Generation X Underground Special, feat. Al Kennedy!
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