Tag: Tabitha Smith
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 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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As Mentioned in Episode 228 – Thinkin’ Shorts
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228 – Thinkin’ Shorts
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In which it still sucks to be a Rasputin; John Romita Jr. has a solid, if muscular, grasp of anatomy; Jay and Miles are better exes than Forge and anyone; and Cannonball’s many younger siblings have almost prepared him for running X-Force.
X-PLAINED:
- Peters Parker
- The Merry X-Men Holiday Special
- Comic book release schedules vs. J&MXPtXM
- Uncanny X-Men #301-302
- Trevor F**king Fitzroy, possibly the worst Upstart
- Comics Code Authority closeting versus real-life closeting
- 21st Century Torture Devices
- Risky mood fonts
- Robert’s Rules of Upstart Order (this week)
- Gamesmaster vs. the Isolationist
- Shinobi Shaw: Good At Sex
- Russian tragedy (more, again)
- Charles Xavier and his poor decisions
- Shi’ar tech support
- Pants and villainy
- Racist jerks vs. rhetorical questions
- TIME PARADOX
- Weirdly specific contingencies
- Piotr Rasputin and his justified fury
- X-Force #24
- Meaningless (but fun!) timestamps
- The Friends of Humanity (who are not our friends)
- Rusty and Skids’ latest arrest
- Disappointed Dad Sam Guthrie
- Action vs. public perception
- Vinz Clortho
- Domino’s continuing quest to figure out what exactly an X-Force is
- The dramatic return of… well, you know
- Spacesuit logistics
- Numerical universe designations
- Plastic Warlock
NEXT EPISODE: Our Fifth Annual Giant-Size Winter Special!
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As Mentioned in Episode 221 – Better Than LEGO
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LINKS & FURTHER MONSTROSITIES:
- Yes, Virginia, Dismal Nitch is a real place.
- Miles, this one’s for you.
- Secrets Behind the X-Men
- VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
221 – Better Than LEGO
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In which Miles stops worrying and learns to love X-Force; you should absolutely not google the phrase “face jam”; the kids take a field trip to Graymalkin; Jay reverse-engineers Shatterstar’s hair; Donald Pierce gets a new job; Sam Guthrie is the most trustworthy man in the Marvel Universe; Cable is your guns grandma; Professor earns its name; X-Force really only has one setting; and not every Sluggo is lit.
X-PLAINED:
- A bunch of stuff Quicksilver did
- Several cats
- X-Force #20-23
- The Externals (more) (again)
- A deeply unlikely hairstyle
- Graymalkin / Ship / Professor
- A somewhat one-sided reunion
- Yahoos
- Inaccurate arithmetic
- Why Feral sounds like that
- Neither Tom, Dick, nor Harry
- War Machine (James Rhodes)
- Salvage
- Sam Guthrie’s long trail of dead father figures
- Shatterstar
- How to fight an External
- The seventh plague
- What Domino’s been up to
- Hammer’s mom
- Tigerstryke (more) (again)
- Sluggo (but not that Sluggo)
- Learning to appreciate the ’90s
NEXT EPISODE: Psylocke Vs. Revanche!
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