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423 – Moby Dick Ice Cream

September 10, 2023 Jay 6 comments

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In which subtlety is not Sabra’s strong point; Moira takes a vacation; Meggan broods; you should take care in referencing the Dark Phoenix Saga; Excalibur may or may not shave Mimic; and Captain Britain is a silly man.

X-PLAINED:

Ghosts
Excalibur #121-123
The Mutant Underground
Empathic recon
An extremely disgruntled kiss
Kitty’s new costume
Several of Legion’s personalities
A mysterious disk
A very fancy trash can and/or ice cream maker
Ice cream of Cloud City
A good dog
Remains of Operation Zero Tolerance
The devolution of Douglock
Mimic (Calvin Rankin)
Mimic’s facial hair
Some Prime Sentinels
Wedding planning
Liking parts of things
Villains who want to marry Storm
Maddy Pryor

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As Mentioned in Episode 416 – The Screaming Room

July 16, 2023 Jay Leave a comment

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Okay, but it’s pretty fucking creepy as a toy, too. (Excalibur #118)

Aaaaand there he goes. (Excalibur #118)

Meanwhile in AWESOME. (Excalibur #118)

Oh, THAT guy. (Excalibur #118)

Nightcrawler’s nightmare. (Excalibur #119)

Colossus’s nightmare. (Excalibur #119)

Shadowcat’s nightmare. (Excalibur #119)

Douglock’s nightmare. (Excalibur #119)

Meggan’s nightmare, featuring a whole lot of great cameos! (Excalibur #119)

I’m not a smoker, but I wanna learn to blow smoke rings like that. (Excalibur #119)

Ouch. (Excalibur #120)

NEXT EPISODE: Why, indeed.

416 – The Screaming Room

July 2, 2023 Jay 7 comments

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In which we are incapable of X-Plaining the Great Lakes Avengers; Pete Wisdom evolves; Douglock hacks the island; Nightcrawler cosplays Nightcrawler; and we find ourselves bafflingly defensive of the Bamfs.

X-PLAINED:

How to recruit Unus the Untouchable to your super-team
What Excalibur has been up to
Excalibur #118-120
An excellent use of danger room technology
Some fairly deft metacommentary
Colossus vs. another tree
Bamfs and the character assassination thereof
Nightmare
Characterization via lettering
Several nightmare scenarios
Pete Wisdom vs. Nightmare
Meggan’s true form (again)
A poorly conceived romantic gesture
Foreshadowing
Relative Bamf quality
Other Marvel villains we’d like to see menace the X-Men
Our thoughts on Legion and The Gifted

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As Mentioned in Episode 403 – Sneaky-Peeky Stuff

March 5, 2023 Miles One comment

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Not a single pouch! Being an intern sucks. (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1)

How did they not hear that coming a mile away? (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1)

ASAB (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1)

A transom is a crossbar at the top of a doorframe that separates it from an above-door window. I had to look that up! (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1)

Kitty Pryde is banned from half the department stores in the UK. (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1)

Face ID was still working out the kinks in 1997. (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1)

You can tell Rigby’s the love interest – look at that hair! (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1)

This is pretty much what Miles’s day job looks like. (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1)

“Type ‘cookie’, you idiot!” (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1)

AWOOOOOGA! (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1)

I mean, Kitty’s had worse looks. (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1)

Medication, lip gloss, spare underwear, dragon… Kitty just packed the basics. (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #2)

Welp, I guess Logan’s new name on the podcast is Wooferino. (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #2)

New Yorkers, amirite? (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #2)

“I feel like I’m going meshugge!” (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #2)

It’s a silly comic, but damn if the pacing isn’t genuinely effective. (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #2)

“God, Dad! Knock before you come in! (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #2)

Logan x-plains Kitty Pryde & Wolverine. (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #2)

That’s handy work! (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #2)

I kinda wish it was a Hello name is sticker instead. (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #2)

Still less embarrassing than dating Pete Wisdom. (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #3)

Well done, Ogun. You kept up the deception for almost five full seconds. (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #3)

Did the Astral Plane used to be this cramped? (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #3)

Lockheed’s helping! (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #3)

I… I mean… sure, fine. Let’s just go with it. (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #3)

Every IT department has to deal with that user. (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #3)

Spoiler: Ogun does not try. (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #3)

NEXT TIME: Death’s Head II!

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We talked about Kitty and Ogun’s first meeting way back in Episode 28!

403 – Sneaky-Peeky Stuff

March 5, 2023 Miles 7 comments

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In which Shadowcat gets a new miniseries; people don’t talk that way (but probably should); holograms are magic; the Helicarrier gets possessed; Wolverine fights a computer; and Miles and Al pitch live-action X-series.

X-PLAINED:

Possession
Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde) (more) (again)
Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1-3
A surprising helicopter
Frictionless bed sheets
S.H.I.E.L.D. vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. vs. S.H.I.E.L.D.
The word “obstreperous”
The nefarious doings of nasty transom peekers, envelope steamers, and door kickers
Larry Hama dialogue
Rigby Fallon
Yet another return of Ogūn
One way to get from the Brooklyn Bridge to a Helicarrier
Yet another fight on the astral plane
Wolverine vs. technology
The intrinsic power of life, I guess
Visibility of psychic powers
Live-action X pitches

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Death’s Head II!

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As Mentioned in Episode 402 – What the Damn?!

February 26, 2023 Miles Leave a comment

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Shadowcat, Douglock, and… Hard-Boiled Harry?! (Excalibur #114)

Sari St. Hubbins, Fashion Plate: Part 1. (Excalibur #114)

Colossus would have bought a hat too, but then where would he keep all that hair? (Excalibur #114)

Captain Mustache, Part the First. (Excalibur #114)

I’m a firestarter, twisted firestarter (Excalibur #114)

Katherine Pryde, experienced superhero. (Excalibur #114)

Sari St. Hubbins, Fashion Plate: Part 2. (Excalibur #114)

Captain Mustache, Part the Second. (Excalibur #115)

Banshee is so muscly! And his cape is so foldy! (Excalibur #115)

Mel Rubi’s Douglock. (Excalibur #115)

Miles’s average day in IT looks pretty much like this. (Excalibur #115)

“Plus some Externals, but… I don’t think any of us really want to spent the time to talk about them.” (Excalibur #115)

He is so sweet. (Excalibur #115)

“Freakin’ last boss of Ninja Gaiden sends me all the way back to the beginning of the level even when I still have lives left..!” (Excalibur #115)

When Meggan’s happy, I’m happy. (Excalibur #115)

Aww jeez you two (Excalibur #115)

It’s been an honor, Shepherd. (Excalibur #115)

Check out that sweet shadow-invisible hand! (Excalibur #116)

Mel Rubi does Paul Smith. (Excalibur #116)

Where did that costume end up? You should break it out again, Captain Kate! (Excalibur #116)

So that mutagenic agent made the Sidri… swole? (Excalibur #116)

“It’s-a-me, Stereotype!” (Excalibur #116)

Pete Wisdom in: Terminator 2. (Excalibur #116)

Triple-wielding! (Excalibur #116)

Additional swordplay – this time, in callback form! (Excalibur #116)

They pulled his collectivism out through his belly button..? (Excalibur #116)

Hey, that’s not what Kitty wears in her SHIELD miniseries! Kinda wish it was, though. (Excalibur #116)

NEXT EPISODE: Kitty Pryde goes to work for The Man

402 – What the Damn?!

February 26, 2023 Miles 7 comments

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In which Marvel UK was a wild ride; everyone has a definitive Kitty Pryde; Sari St. Hubbins studies her X-Men; Moira MacTaggert discovers contagion theory; ideas do not stories make; Meggan is the heart of the team; and Excalibur inches towards its finale.

X-PLAINED:

Marvel UK
Digitek
Excalibur #114-117
What Excalibur’s been up to
Tunnels vs. sewers
An unexpected callback
Slang
The mutability of Kitty Pryde
Friendship
Sari St. Hubbins
Fashion
One way to get around a power inhibitor
A frosted tips outline
Viruses
Phalanx love
Greebling
A substantial retcon
Excalibur vs. the Sidri
Marvel characters’ musical associations
Whether there have been more X-Men or Avengers

NEXT EPISODE: Kitty Pryde goes to work for The Man

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As Mentioned in Episode 387 – You’ve Got Vid-Mail

October 2, 2022 Jay Leave a comment

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Colossus is a good friend and will call you on your bullshit. (Excalibur #111)

Rory Campbell, now with two legs and excessive foreshortening. (Excalibur #111)

I hate this party. (Excalibur #111)

Daaaaaamn, Kurt. (Excalibur #111)

Welcome to the CITADEL OF SCIENCE! (Excalibur #112)

Now we are bros. (Excalibur #113)

Meet the Knights of Wundagore! They are delightful. (Excalibur #113)

NEVER LET THIS MAN BABYSIT YOUR CHILD (Excalibur #113)

Doug, no. Letterer, NO. (Excalibur #112)

Moira’s hair got LONG. (Excalibur #113)

AW! (Excalibur #113)

They just don’t make dens of sin and iniquity like they used to. (Excalibur #112)

Je suis un chic type / Qui joue la guitare. (Excalibur #113)

Shades of Transmetropolitan.(Excalibur #113)

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“Je Suis Rick Springfield,” in all its glory.

387 – You’ve Got Vid-Mail

October 2, 2022 Jay 11 comments

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In which Colossus is good at friendship; nobody notices when Amanda Sefton disappears; evil peaked in the disco era; and Pete Wisdom had hot claws before it was cool.

X-PLAINED:

Fun times on Mount Wundagore
Excalibur #111-113
Rob Stotz
Brooding
Friendship
Rory Campbell (again)
The return of Sebastian Shaw
MIS departments
Two versions of the same conversation
A palette-swapped wardrobe
Invincible Head Technique
A polite murderer
Ogun, again
A brief possession
Mount Wundagore
Bova
Sir Ram
Ursula
Lord Gator
The Knights of Wundagore
Ace Duck
The High Evolutionary
Artistic turnover
A kiss
Were-girlfriends
A sin-filled and disreputable club
“Je Suis Rick Springfield”
Storylines we’d like to see from bystanders’ perspectives
Professor X’s crush on Marvel Girl

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