Tag: Strong Guy
389 – Wreck Gotta Recognize
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In which some puns are fundamentally visual; Jubilee is a really good kid; Bastion is a bad person but a good villain; Bachalo does Romita; Seagulls are assholes (but reasonably good narrators); Skin has no time for fantasies; Hitch does Cockrum; and Operation Zero Tolerance (unofficially) begins (again).
X-PLAINED:
- Glorian, the Shaper of Dreams (Thomas Gideon) (and his dad)
- Event build-up
- Generation X #26-28
- Bad times on a raft
- Valuable lessons from the Xavier School
- Yet another somewhat pointless Nightmare cameo
- Jubilee vs. Operation Zero Tolerance
- A good conversation
- Cookin’ with Jubilee
- Seagulls
- Dreams
- The Island that Chills Like a Man
- Strong Guy on Krakoa
- How (and whether) Logan ages
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As Mentioned in Episode 385 – Super Whiny Adults Simulator 64
385 – Super Whiny Adults Simulator 64
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In which we make an omission; X-Factor’s concept of “underground” is somewhat unconventional; Trevor Chase turns uncanny moppet; and Strong Guy and Lila Cheney have some very silly space adventures.
X-PLAINED:
- X-Factor #134-135
- Strong Guy Reborn #1
- The “deaths” of X-Factor (again)
- Lady Cop
- A contextually inappropriate pun
- The Adversary (more) (again)
- Why you use an air-gapped system
- How not to fake your own death
- Trevor Chase and his mysterious mutant powers
- Rusty Trail
- X-Factor X-Ploits
- A lot of wasted potential
- The Jorken-Kront war
- Space stuff
- Lila Cheney (more) (again)
- Kreetor
- Spiff’s Saucers
- Calvin & Hobbes licensing in the Marvel Universe
- The Chalker Brothers (briefly) (again)
- The most useful and fun mutant powers
- Musicals with Mister Sinister
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NEXT EPISODE: Maggott!
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As Mentioned in Episode 382 – Seven Swords
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LINKS & FURTHER BACKSTORY
- For Captain Britain’s origins, listen to Episode 97 – The Crooked World and Episode 98 – Between Alien Visitations and Drunken Sulks.
- For the time Spiral turned CB and a bunch of X-characters into kids, listen to Episode 63 – Wildways.
382 – Seven Swords
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In which Brian Braddock has grown as a person; we remain unimpressed by the Crimson Dawn; Marvel discovers email; seven swords to two people is a pretty good ratio; everyone hates Spiral; and love may or may not save the world.
X-PLAINED:
- Where Brian Braddock is these days
- Excalibur #107-110
- Post-Onslaught fallout
- Excalibur (more) (again)
- The difference an inker makes
- Nigel McWhirter
- A trip to London
- Spiral (again)
- Engineering outfits? I guess?
- A machine which would be Cerebro
- Several flashbacks
- The most meta bike shorts
- Time-travel safety
- Forgotten characters who turned out to be secretly evil
- A character moment that may actually be an art error
- Shamrock (Molly Fitzgerald)
- The Dragons of the Crimson Dawn
- A ghost
- X-folks who knit
- Best X-guest star moments
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NEXT EPISODE: Yet more Crimson Dawn
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As Mentioned in Episode 381 – If We Told You, We’d Have to Kill You
381 – If We Told You, We’d Have to Kill You
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In which real life sucks; Havok may or may not be a bad enough dude to rescue mutantkind; X-Factor quits; CD-ROMs were never THAT cool; subtlety is for suckers; Val Cooper hates nothing more than she hates the U.S. government; and Jamie Madrox wants nothing to do with your nonsense.
X-PLAINED:
- One way to end a wedding
- X-Factor #130-133
- Malice (again)
- A thumb (and the biting thereof)
- Barnes (and her hair)
- The relative versatility of plasma
- The Brotherhood
- A ruse and/or retcon
- Lighting design
- A CD-ROM
- The time Jay wrote some Captain America comics
- The last time you’re gonna see these
- Trevor Chase (more)
- One thing that might’ve inspired Jamie Madrox’s heel turn
- The nature of Jamie Madrox’s relative mortality
- Brand names
- Many faked deaths
- Agent Bowser
- A very fancy haunted house
- X-Factor’s true calling
- The X.S.E. (again)
- Mutant shifts in adaptations
- ‘Nuff said
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As Mentioned in Episode 300 – Götterdämmerung
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LINKS & FURTHER EPICS:
- Janet K. Lee makes really, really gorgeous comics and other art.
- A lot of the episodes we mentioned are in the roundup from our 5th anniversary episode.
- You can hear more about Jay’s chickens-in-law in Hawk Talk: Florida Mans
300 – Götterdämmerung
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In which the Age of Apocalypse comes to an end; Angel briefly lives up to his potential; Bishop was sometimes right; It’s not a climactic ending without an X-Men #137 reference; Colossus breaks our hearts; X-Men: Marvels Snapshot will be out in September; and somehow we have made 300 of these things.
X-PLAINED:
- Beast vs. Dark Beast
- X-Men: Omega
- The entirety of the (first) Age of Apocalypse
- Potpourri vs. incense
- Dramatic hair
- Many, many errors
- Unforeseen consequences
- A long-anticipated team-up
- Many deaths
- Art as artifact
- Narration that has haunted Jay for 20 years
- One of the more persistent deaths of David Haller
- Blast Attack
- The end of a world
- Refugees from the Age of Apocalypse
- Our favorite X-milestone issues
- Theoretical teams
- Orphans
- When X-Men: Marvels Snapshot is actually coming out
- Our favorite show bits
- How Jay’s chickens-in-law are doing
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