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169 – Bad Kansas
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In which Justin Thyme is a forgotten superstar of comics; Nazis should pretty much never be used as a metaphor; Charles Xavier is somehow even worse than usual; Excalibur may lack object permanence; Phoenix defeats Hitler with the power of gayness; we may have hit Peak Nocenti; Brett Blevins should draw Boom Boom forever; and the New Mutants get a taste of media theory.
X-PLAINED:
- The exact nature of Shatterstar and Longshot’s relationship
- Excalibur: Weird War III
- New Mutants Summer Special: A Mutant in Megalopolis
- Justin Thyme
- Bad Kansas
- Nazi Charles Xavier
- Kinda-Nazi Moira MacTaggert
- The Reichsmen
- Lightning Squad (again)
- Naked Space Xavier
- Largely unsuccessful denouement
- The Wobbly Sneaker Gang
- Megalopolis
- Media theory and several of its anthropomorphic personifications
- Socially conscious comics
- The Gifted
- The New Mutants trailer
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As Mentioned in Episode 166 – Proteus Has Two Mommies
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LINKS & FURTHER READING
- Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men LIVE at New York Comic Con, with special guests Chris Claremont and Louise Simonson!
- TEDxHarvardCollege
- We met all-around rad dude Taki in Episode 106 – The X-Terminators!
- We talked about Proteus in Episode 10 – Not All Mandroids!
166 – Proteus Has Two Mommies
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In which we finally announce our NYCC panel lineup; Boom Boom is the Gina Linetti of X-Force; we don’t actually know very much about the New Warriors; Cable grows as a person; Cyclops makes an ethically dubious call; Warren Kenneth Worthington III is a jerk; Jay gets very angry at a fictional character; no one gets a happy ending and the skeleton was inside you all along.
X-PLAINED:
- Penance (but not that Penance)
- Our actual, for-real NYCC panel details
- “Kings of Pain”
- New Mutants Annual #7
- New Warriors Annual #1
- Uncanny X-Men Annual #15
- X-Factor Annual #6
- The Alliance of Evil
- Harness
- Piecemeal
- Genetech
- IDIC
- Symbolic chess
- The New Warriors
- The Clean Plate Club from Hell
- The Pec Twins
- ReBoot
- A really screwed up debate
- Magneto vs. Human Nature
- Privilege and Callouts
NEXT WEEK: Summers Family Bullshit on the Moon!
COME SEE US LIVE AT NEW YORK COMIC CON, WITH SPECIAL GUESTS CHRIS CLAREMONT AND LOUISE SIMONSON!
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As Mentioned in Episode 159 – Childhood’s End
159 – Childhood’s End
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In which Stryfe is the Jan Brady of the Summers family; Miles’s dreams are trampled beneath tiny, delicate feet; Rictor goes on an unnecessary rescue mission; Cable is Washington to Cannonball’s Hamilton; the New Mutants may or may not time travel; Boom Boom scarfs up some chow for the bohunk; you should definitely not mess with Feral’s pigeons; Liefeld fights are pure rule-of-cool; Jay is absolutely not qualified to give legal advice; and we bid a bittersweet goodbye to New Mutants.
X-PLAINED:
- Zero
- Production transitions
- The end of New Mutants
- New Mutants #98-100
- Plotting vs. scripting
- The most valuable issue of New Mutants
- Gideon
- Liefeld butts (more) (again)
- The very dramatic death of Emmanuel da Costa
- Tolliver
- Some Spider-Man looking jerk
- Domino (Neena Thurman)
- A specific and likely inaccurate timeline
- Feral (Maria Callasantos)
- The signature Liefeld Kick™
- The Tavern on the Green
- Five or six kinds of mutants
- A sad goodbye
- Shatterstar (Gaveedra Seven)
- Cadre Alliance
- Nesting habits of the urban bohunk
- Some rad moves
- A prologue that is also an epilogue
- The Stryfe that might have been
- How Logan fits into the X-Men movie timeline
- X-Men mostly likely to watch Yuri!!! On Ice
- Jay at FlameCon!!
NEXT EPISODE: Beast has a sexistential crisis!
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As Mentioned in Episode 158 – No Focus, Less Direction
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- The Lightning and the Storm (Miles & Elisabeth’s now-complete Thor podcast)
- Jay’s Instagram
158 – No Focus, Less Direction
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In which we return triumphant from hiatus; it’s still always Inferno in here; no one should ever under any circumstances date Cameron Hodge; Kenneth is a fundamentally hilarious name; Magneto’s family gets retconned to death; Pterosaurs are still the absolute worst; and Magik totally deserves a sidekick.
X-PLAINED:
- Ka-Zar’s real name
- Shanna the She-Devil
- Our new production set-up
- What we did on our summer vacations
- Previously on X-Men
- Further limits of the mutant metaphor
- Uncanny X-Men #273-275
- A crisis of leadership
- A comic that is a metaphor that is also a comic
- Cable’s OkCupid profile
- Changing creative dynamics on the X-line
- Archangel’s middle name
- Gambit vs. Wolverine
- Censorship Steam
- The protean X-bathroom
- Magneto’s retconned family
- Colonel Semyanov
- A perhaps ill-conceived team-up
- The Self-Styled Mistress of Magnetism
- Some remarkably lucky timing
- The semantics of heel turns
- Gender and sidekicks
- Mr. Sinister’s powers
NEXT EPISODE: The end of New Mutants!
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As Mentioned in Episode 157 – Melted to Slag
157 – Melted to Slag
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In which the X-Tinction Agenda reaches its Return of the Jedi; Wolverine is a weaponized nuisance; HR would like a word with Gambit; Havok gets framed; Cameron Hodge is the great unifier; Genosha is revolting; you don’t get to make a threatening speech about someone else’s powers; Jean Grey is tired of your bullshit; and Jay and Miles may or may not dive into the Siege Perilous!
X-PLAINED:
- The Law of Conservation of Plot Elements
- Uncanny X-Men #272
- New Mutants #97
- X-Factor #62
- The Story So Far
- Glasses fashions in comics
- The difference between Batman and the Punisher
- How to tell that something has gone terribly wrong
- Acceptable pants
- Some really sketchy judicial process
- A ruse
- Several retcons concerning Wolverine
- Consequence-free impaling
- Chekhov’s genetic engineering
- Louise Simonson’s final issue of New Mutants
- The relative durability of mutants
- A number of prescient threats
- This one time Jay and Miles got paid to throw a bunch of printers down a flight of stairs
- Summers Brothers team-ups
- A very cathartic fight
- Thoughts on books as physical artifacts and collecting comics
- Places to jump into long X-series on Marvel Unlimited
- Our plans for the hiatus
THE PODCAST WILL BE ON HIATUS DURING MAY, JUNE, AND JULY, 2017! SEE YOU IN AUGUST!
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