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272 – Children of the Phalanx (the Phalanx Covenant, Part 2 of 3)
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In which Ship was inside Cable all along; Life Signs is the Two Towers of the Phalanx Covenant (but only in the bad ways), it’s lucky that the Phalanx doesn’t have WiFi; Nightcrawler embraces chaos; and we promise the crossover gets better next chapter.
X-PLAINED:
- How Cable got his Ship back
- Miles’s official stance on candy corn
- The Two Towers of the Phalanx Covenant
- X-Factor #106
- X-Force #38
- Excalibur #82
- A monastery party
- Douglock (more) (again)
- Forge-O-Vision
- How Steven Lang got mixed up with the Phalanx
- Stages of Phalanx development
- Babel
- Giuseppe Russo, shepherd
- The Phalanx, but dogs
- Shinar
- What you get when you meet a stranger in the Alps
- Whom we’d like to see draw the Phalanx
- Mindwifery
- Adulthood
- “Stealth”
- Where baby Phalanxes come from
- Teamwork
- Good stories about Hope Summers
- What happened to Paul Bailey
NEXT EPISODE: Rock climbing with the Summers Family
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As Mentioned in Episode 255 – Rules of the Game
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LINKS & FURTHER LISTENING
- Miles was on Unpacking the Power of the Power Pack, which you can listen to right here!
- We were both all over the Internet in June.
255 – Rules of the Game
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In which the Upstarts are the worst at Calvinball; Moonstar remains a non-mystery; Speedball gets a new costume; Shinobi Shaw never gets to finish a bath; Gamesmaster comes perilously close to getting context; Cable gets a new superpower; and Rahne Sinclair is too good for your crossover.
X-PLAINED:
- The time Husk went evil
- An anniversary
- A guest appearance
- X-Force #32-33
- New Warriors #45-46
- A crossover
- A game
- Younghunt
- The semi-debut of Paige Guthrie
- Deeply uncomfortable bathing-suit choices
- A toy that never actually existed
- The New Warriors
- Justice (Vance Astrovik)
- Night Thrasher (Dwayne Taylor)
- Nova (Rich Rider)
- Silhouette (Sil Chord)
- Kymaera
- Speedball (Robbie Baldwin)
- Rage (Elvin Haliday)
- Firestar (Angelica Jones) (more) (again)
- A plan
- Bantam
- A lot of mind control
- A very ambiguous game and its potential implications
- Favorite ads
- The narrative economy of resurrection
NEXT EPISODE: Mullets of time & space!
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As Mentioned in Episode 248 – Destructo Woman
248 – Destructo Woman
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In which Tom Cassidy and Cain Marko may be the most stable couple in the Marvel Universe; Rory Campbell is no Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau; Siena Blaze remains a big jerk; the Cassidy family has some issues; and we are dismayed by an inexplicable dearth of leprechauns.
X-PLAINED:
- Birthday presents
- What Excalibur has been up to
- Excalibur #72-74
- X-Force #31
- How to be mysterious
- The Proteus Room
- The continually terrible choices of Moira MacTaggert
- Porridge ghosts
- An unnatural disaster
- Chekhov’s solid rock
- Rory Campbell
- Destructo Woman
- Limitations of CD-ROMs
- Siryn (Theresa Cassidy)
- The Cassidy family
- How not to treat a gunshot wound
- Kelvin Donaghann and his fancy hair
- An intervention
- The future of the New Mutants feature film
- Underwear
NEXT EPISODE: Family Reunion!
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As Mentioned in Episode 246 – Foreshadow Puppets
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LINKS & FURTHER CONSUMABLES:
- Mandy may be the quintessential Nic Cage movie.
- We first washed up on the shores of Octopusheim in Episode 19 – Acorns & Swords!
246 – Foreshadow Puppets
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In which Danielle Moonstar is not a master of disguise; the MLF are bad enough dudes to kidnap a guy who works near the president; Tempo wasn’t even supposed to be here today; Reignfire is no Magneto; we now desperately want X-Force matryoshka dolls; Feral quits the team; Henry Peter Gyrich fails to learn from experience (or anything else); small children are bad at everything; Shatterstar gets a tagline; Sam Guthrie REALLY needs a vacation; and it’s surprisingly difficult to choose a favorite resurrection.
X-PLAINED:
- Cortex
- The kinder, gentler Cable
- Several matters related to Nicholas Cage
- X-Force #27-30
- Broome jaws
- The Area jar
- The Mutant Liberation Front
- Reignfire (again)
- Hardaway
- A cyborg asshole
- Locus
- Moonstar
- “Of Faith and Fable”
- Foreshadow puppets
- Bobby da Costa’s greatest fear
- Dad jokes with Cable
- X-Force’s day off
- Shatterstar vs. Adam X the X-Treme
- Windsong
- An inevitable team-up
- A Very Special Episode moment
- The return of Wine Mom Domino
- The return of Jean Grey’s telepathy
- Our favorite resurrections
NEXT EPISODE: Sabretooth
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As Mentioned in Episode 238 – Meet Them Where They Are
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LINKS & FURTHER RESURRECTIONS
- Come see us at Emerald City Comic Con!
- You can find the new Heck Yeah Queens t-shirt designed by Randall Trang in our Teepublic shop!
- For the full scoop on Cameron Hodge, check out our previous coverage of his various nefarious activities!
238 – Meet Them Where They Are
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In which X-Force is the new New Mutants; Professor is what Cable has instead of a burn book; Cable develops emotional literacy; Jay has a lot of feelings about Shatterstar; Cowboys can be wizards, too; you really shouldn’t call adult people “child”; privilege is truly the greatest superpower; Cameron Hodge remains improbably difficult to kill; Candy Southern gets to write the ending to her own story; and Emerald City Comic Con is coming up REALLY fast!
- X-PLAINED:
Reignfire - Jay & Miles at Emerald City Comic Con
- Some new merch
- X-Force #26
- Uncanny X-Men #305-306
- The evolution of Tabitha Smith’s code name
- X-Force and its members (more) (again)
- Professor’s narrative function
- A sudden mustache and its potential implications
- A lot of things about Shatterstar
- Cable as a leader
- Armor full of skin
- Louis St. Croix and/or Mark Twain
- An inappropriate nickname
- The first Xavier school prom
- Inflatable erotic accessory semantics
- The return of Candy Southern
- The return of Cameron Hodge
- Moral event horizons and how to handle them in comics
- Pros and cons of dating telepaths
NEXT EPISODE: A Maximoffstravaganza, feat. Max Carleton
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