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293 – The Monster Under the World

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In which not all Mondos are created equal; the kids are only rarely all right; the Age of Apocalypse is not Magneto’s fault; Sugar Man is the stuff of universal nightmares; “cartoonish” is not necessarily a plus; and the Age of Apocalypse is not particularly sustainable.
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- Generation Next #1-4
- The tradition of YA horror in X-books
- Bachalo unchained
- Whose fault the Age of Apocalypse is
- Adaptive technology vs. Apocalypse
- Chamber of Earth-295
- Husk of Earth-295
- Skin of Earth-295
- Mondo of Earth-295
- Vincente Cimetta
- Know-It-All (Claudia)
- An abysmal training exercise
- Colossus of Earth-295
- Shadowcat of Earth-295
- Gardner Monroe (Flashback)
- Quietus
- Sugar Man
- The Portland and/or Seattle Core
- Illyana Rasputin
- Ace
- Human collaborators
- A gratuitous Monty Python reference
- The difference between mass and volume
- Number Six
- The fall of Generation Next
- Growing up in the Age of Apocalypse
- Illyana 2.0
- Subtext vs. queerbaiting
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As Mentioned in Episode 276 – Wizard Problems

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LINKS & FURTHER DIVERSIONS:
- You can hear all about the time Margali made Kurt his own personal hell in Episode 134 – Live at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival.
- The Raven probably isn’t a good film; but it is a delightful one.
- Here’s Max’s significantly funnier take on Tarot’s potential.
- Jay co-wrote a Thor novel! You can pre-order it here, if you are so inclined.
276 – Wizard Problems

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In which Excalibur gets a regular writer again; we judge a book against against its covers; nothing good ever comes from being sexy on Muir Isle; and the soul sword’s real power is cutting through continuity.
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- Stegron
- Dinosaur powers
- Excalibur #83-85 (The Soul Sword Trilogy)
- Warren Ellis on Excalibur
- Excalibur (more) (again)
- Bends Sinister and Bend Sinister
- Outsider days
- Boundaries
- Darkoth
- Gravemoss
- The Winding Way
- Shrill
- A problematic prosthesis
- Roger Corman’s The Raven
- A large number of continuity errors
- Gratuitous dickery
- An untold tale
- The semantics of skin removal
- Possession vs. retrograde amnesia
- The circle of nostalgia
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As Mentioned in Episode 237 – X-Treme

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LINKS & FURTHER DIVERSIONS
- Fun fact: Aron Wisenfeld is the only person Jay has ever seen spell his given name like Jay’s dad.
- This is King Radical. (He also has a skateboard.)
237 – X-Treme

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In which there is only one Big Pine Key; Empyrean is actually a pretty sensible dude; the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants are ride-or-die; you should probably avoid setting X-Men stories in Phoenix, Arizona; Adam X the X-Treme is the Longshot of the 1990s; Miles adopts a ship; heteronormativity is why we can’t have nice things; and you should really seriously come see us at ECCC!
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- Why Nate Grey is Like That
- X-Men Annual #2
- X-Force Annual #2
- The worst book Aron Wisenfeld ever drew
- Big Pine Key
- Empyrean
- Jonathan Chambers
- A very fancy bathrobe
- What’s going on in Psylocke’s head
- Pallative care for late-stage Legacy virus patients
- Revanche’s fairly bleak legacy
- X-Men: Time Gliders
- How to dress to discuss Adam X the X-Treme
- Adam X the X-Treme
- Personal lettering styles
- Michelle
- Flashing, but not like that
- Martin Strong
- Miles’s new ship
- Subtext vs. canon
- Heteronormativity
- X-Crayons
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As Mentioned in Episode 175 – Lady Windermere’s Fan Club
175 – Lady Windermere’s Fan Club

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In which Gambit is transatlantically terrible; Rick Leonardi is the poor man’s Alan Davis (but in a good way); we try and fail to care about British royals; Miles should probably read some Oscar Wilde already; Jay has a lot of feelings about The Rocketeer; Shadowcat gets a genuinely stylish costume; and we would read the hell out of a series about Destiny, Mystique, and Wolverine’s WWII adventures.
X-PLAINED:
- Why Gambit isn’t welcome in the United Kingdom
- X-Men: True Friends #1-3
- The poor man’s Alan Davis
- Trad night
- Laird Alasdhair Kinross and his nonthreatening but convenient heterosexuality
- Inexplicably absent familial relationships
- Queen Lilibet the Second
- Lady Regina Windermere
- Several notable British fascists of the 1930s
- A snazzy airplane
- Several nefarious plots
- Formal pajamas
- The mystery of the Hypercolor™ kilt
- A large number of strong feelings about The Rocketeer
- Kitty Pryde’s best costumes
- Weaponized cosmic queerness (again)
- Power, agency, and the Dark Phoenix Saga
- How characters end up with their specific mutations.
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