Tag: Tabitha Smith
117 – How to Pee Like a Supervillain
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In which Gossamyr definitely probably doesn’t get blown up; we engage in a long and surprisingly canon-based exploration of Hellfire Club bathroom etiquette; the New Mutants break up with Magneto; you should probably never go swimming in the Marvel Universe; and it is possible (but unlikely) that Jay yells “IMPERIUS REX” more than is strictly necessary.
X-PLAINED
- New Son/New Sun
- Post-Inferno New Mutants
- New Mutants #74-76
- Babies
- Ship shipping
- Inanimate objects Warlock has attempted to befriend
- Hellfire Club bathroom etiquette
- A long-anticipated showdown
- Magneto’s on-again-off-again children
- The Mutant Wars
- The Grey King (but not The Grey King)
- Undersea creatures that have no business near New York
- An Atlantean artificat of dubious provenance
- How to deter a giant and possibly supernatural octopus
- Recycled powers
- Friendly sentinels
NOTE: The Dispossessed is in fact by Ursula K. Le Guin.
NEXT EPISODE: Trolls!
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As Mentioned in Episode 106 – The X-Terminators
106 – The X-Terminators
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In which Nextwave is both canon and not-canon; Inferno officially begins; X-Terminators is basically a cartoon; Bill Gaines cannot catch a break; Artie and Leach are superbabies; Takeshi Matsuya is fantastic; you should probably never take our advice about anything; Boom Boom is pretty good at superhero costume design; Walter Peck was right; Miles still won’t stop saying that one line about stealing a baby; N’astirh is no pigeon; and “No Mutant Is an Island” is a patently inaccurate statement.
X-PLAINED:
- The Beyond Corporation
- The Defilers
- X-Terminators #1-4
- The first 35 issues of X-Factor, briefly
- Two teams with the same name
- Fredric Wertham
- Bill Gaines
- Crotus
- Babies
- A boarding school that may or may not be Phillips Exeter Academy
- Muffy
- Saint Simon’s Academy
- Wiz Kid (Takeshi Matsuya)
- Nuprin
- Medical advice from goblins
- The Goblin Buster
- Metareferential snack food
- RadSport Sport Fashion Outfitters
- An exceptionally specific Ghostbusters reference
- Helen and Tim
- Dubious spell semantics
- How not to incorporate a crossover into a miniseries, and vice versa
- “No Mutant Is an Island”
- A brief history of Magneto’s helmet
- Definitive Magnetos
NEXT WEEK: The fall of Magik.
Special thanks to multiversal metacontinuity wizard Al Ewing for the last-minute assist on the cold open!
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As Mentioned in Episode 102 – Baby Race 2000
102 – Baby Race 2000
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In which Beast’s DNA is basically held together with spit and baling wire; Boom Boom wins MVP; Angel goes full goth; Cameron Hodge loses his head; Cyclops is basically a Silent Hill protagonist; and the Nebraska Department of Social Services is probably not adequately equipped to deal with Mister Sinister.
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- The Horsemen of Death
- X-Factor #32-35
- Xartans
- Superheroic triage
- A vague prophecy
- Fake Avengers
- Fake-band disambiguation
- KiLLeR DWaRfS
- Crippled Puppies
- Audiophile Apocalypse
- Shopping
- Dubiously zealous trademark protection
- Acronym disambiguation
- The death of Candy Southern
- The not-exactly death of Cameron Hodge
- Nanny
- Orphan-Maker
- Baby Race 2000
- An orphanage that is also a metaphor
- Unreliable narration
- The dubious partnership of Mister Sinister and Apocalypse
- Best iterations of Boom Boom
NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur goes ongoing!
InfernoWatch
- Malicious inanimate objects
- Early signs of Marvel Girl’s returning telepathy
- First clues of Cyclops’s connection to Sinister
- First mention of Goblin Queen by name
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As Mentioned in Episode 84 – The Fourth Horseman
84 – The Fourth Horseman
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In which Franklin Richards is the center of a disproportionate number of X-Men specials; Quicksilver without powers is comedy gold; Luna is the best little girl on the moon (but it’s kind of a low bar); Jay accidentally cares about the Inhumans; Jean Grey may or may not be the Wesley Willis of X-Factor; Cameron Hodge’s exit interview is weirdly professional; Boom Boom is the best reluctant hero; and Archangel makes his debut.
X-PLAINED:
- Quicksilver’s team associations
- Knights of Wundagore
- Chthon
- X-Factor Annual #2
- X-Factor #21-23
- The Inhumans
- Black Bolt
- Medusa
- Crystal
- Lockjaw
- QWOP Quicksilver
- Leech’s wildly inconsistent powers
- Gorgon
- Luna
- Headbutting ghosts, or, why sentence structure matters
- Maximus
- Several methods of mind control
- A really terrible place for a date
- Cameron Hodge: Bureaucrat Supervillain
- The last will & testament of Warren Worthington III
- Another superpower pet peeve
- A theoretical team-up we would love to see
- The Arlington Interactive Museum of (evil) Science
- Some really dumb armor
- Archangel
- Our preferred third Summers brothers
NEXT WEEK: Secret Convergence on Infinite Podcasts!
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As Mentioned in Episode 81 – The Kids Are All Right, with Dennis Hopeless
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LINKS & FURTHER READING
- Dennis Hopeless is delightful. Go follow him on Twitter.
- We are seriously never gonna stop preaching the gospel of X-Men: Season One.
- Actually, all of Dennis’s X-books are great. Here are some of our particular favorites:
- X-Men: Season One (Yes, twice in one list. It’s that good.)
- Inferno
- Cable & X-Force
- You can preorder All-New X-Men #1 at your local comics shop or from Marvel.com.
- Come see us at Vegas Valley Comic Book Fest–and be part of our second live episode–on Saturday, November 7, at Clark County Library!
81 – The Kids Are All Right, with Dennis Hopeless
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In which we sit down with one of our favorite writers to talk about his upcoming series; the X-teens take to the road; Season One is kind of Friday Night Lights; good relationships make good stories; and we are really excited for All-New X-Men.
X-PLAINED:
- Genesis (Evan Sabahnur)
- Dennis Hopeless
- Secret origins of X-Men: Season One
- All-New X-Men, vol. 2
- How to write Jean Grey
- Building a team
- Why Quentin Quire isn’t in All-New X-Men
- All-New in the larger X-line, and the X-line in the larger Marvel Universe
- Definitive X-eras
- Cable & X-Force
- What makes Cable tick
- Boom Boom
- Colossus and Domino
- The narrative case for solid relationships
- Favorite villains
- Mark Bagley
- Character evolution across multiple creative teams
- X-teen hobbies
- Vegas Valley Comic Book Fest
NEXT WEEK: The New Mutants meet Bird Boy, with mixed results.
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