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As Mentioned in Episode 269 – Double Dactyl

October 20, 2019 Jay 3 comments

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LINKS & FURTHER VILLAINY

See Jay’s Halloween 2013 Quentin Quire costume.
We never miss an opportunity to link to Sigrid Ellis’s excellent essay, “Kitty Queer”!
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SEANAN MCGUIRE IS COOL AS HELL

Hear her talk Emma Frost in last year’s NYCC Sofa Special, and story and legacy in our ECCC 2019 live episode!
Here’s her website!
You can also follow her on Twitter and Tumblr!

269 – NYCC 2019 Sofa Special: Double Dactyl, feat. Seanan McGuire

October 20, 2019 Jay 16 comments

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In which Seanan and Jay break down their favorite X-Villains; technically everyone is always cosplaying Mystique; Magneto remains the gold standard; and we have some concerns about Eye Boy.

X-PLAINED:

Candy Corn, and our official stance thereon
Halloween candy economy
Which X-Character to dress as for your office Halloween party
X-Villains
What makes Magneto tick
Magneto as a Holocaust survivor
What makes a villain redeemable
Face turns
The last DDR machine in New York, and denizens thereof
An X-Villain musical
Mystique
How to make Daken work
Avengers as antagonists
Sinister’s goals
Bringing back Cameron Hodge
Meggan vs. Brexit
Heel turns

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As Mentioned in Episode 77 – Die Hard with a Lobster

October 7, 2015 Jay 4 comments

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Hope you like this narration, because you will be reading a LOT of variations on it. (Fallen Angels #1)

Expounding on the Meaning of Friendship and Then Turning into a Propellor Plane with a Face: The Warlock Story. (Fallen Angels #1)

Oh, Ariel. You’re so… Ariel. (Fallen Angels #2)

HI, GOMI. HI, DON AND BILL. (Fallen Angels #2)

It’s a Madrox Madrox Madrox Madrox world. (Fallen Angels #2)

Don’t mess with Bill and Don. They will fight you, and they will win. (Fallen Angels #2)

Oh. THAT guy. (Fallen Angels #2)

Don’t tell me you don’t want to hang out there. (Fallen Angels #3)

It’s hard to be a super-smart cyborg lobster. (Fallen Angels #3)

The nature of Madrox’s duplicates is going to change pretty radically between this and the present. (Fallen Angels #3)

EVEN AMONG CRUSTACEANS (Fallen Angels #3)

Do you know how hard much restraint we exercised in not making this entire post nothing but pictures of Bill and Don? HINT: A lot. (Fallen Angels #3)

Moon Boy and Devil Dinosaur are good kids. (Fallen Angels #4)

Gomi is a conscientious lobster dad. (Fallen Angels #4)

Ariel is kind of creepy. (Fallen Angels #5)

DON NO (Fallen Angels #5)

DONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Fallen Angels #5)

Aw, Madrox. Madroxes. Whatever. (Fallen Angels #6)

“Also, you know that dream about the–” “DUDE, ENOUGH.” (Fallen Angels #6)

Welcome to Coconut Grove! Hope you survive the… y’know. (Fallen Angels #6)

Somewhere there’s an alternate universe that’s just like 616 except that Bobby and Warlock wore these costumes for the rest of New Mutants. (Fallen Angels #7)

Aw, Boom Boom. =( (Fallen Angels #7)

DAMNIT, ARIEL, THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS. (Fallen Angels #7)

That time Warlock learned to love between two issues of a miniseries. (Fallen Angels #8)

YIPPEE-KI-YAY, MOTHERFUCKER. (Fallen Angels #8)

FOR DON! (Fallen Angels #8)

Devil Dinosaur: master diplomat. (Fallen Angels #8)

NEXT WEEK: Things get… Sinister.

77 – Die Hard With a Lobster

October 5, 2015 Jay 56 comments

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In which we relax our definition of X-book; we really want Sunspot to grow a mustache; Miles gets an excuse to say “shillelagh”; Bill the Lobster goes on a rampage; and Fallen Angels is really, really, really wonderful.

X-Plained:

Devil Dinosaur
Moon Boy
Fallen Angels #1-8
Jo Duffy
Assembling a team
Sunspot as a point-of-view character
Compassion as a superpower
Da Costa’s Devils vs. Ma Guthrie’s Gorillas
Goat Simulator
An unfortunate incident
Somewhat harsh student evaluations
The moral compass of Magnum, P.I.
Warlock and Sunspot as mutual foils
Chance
Ariel
Multiple Man (Jamie Madrox) and several notable duplicates
Siryn (Theresa Cassidy)
Gomi
Bill
Don
The Fallen Angels
The Vanisher
The Marvel Girl Fan Club
Lobster feelings
Kirby monsters
Doris Danger
Dinosaur World
Fallen Angels as a spiritual antecedent to Runaways
The tragic death of Don the Lobster
Fallen Angels II
How to party like Dr. Doom
Doom Patrol vs. X-Men

NEXT WEEK: A Sinister debut.

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As Mentioned in Episode 70 – Forget It, Jake; It’s X-Factor

August 17, 2015 Jay 10 comments

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SPOILER. (X-Factor #12)

Meanwhile, in a nearby sitcom… (X-Factor #12)

HI, BOOM BOOM! (X-Factor #12)

Seriously, though, THOSE DRAMATIC GESTURES! (X-Factor #12)

FUN FACT: In 1987, a sufficiently high Dig Dug score actually provided legal immunity from a number of petty misdemeanors in the state of New York! (X-Factor #12)

X-Factor: Trained superheroes; still haven’t really gotten the hang of doors. (X-Factor #12)

This will certainly end well. (X-Factor #13)

Oh, hi, that one photo of Jean! It’s been a while! (X-Factor #13)

Aw, these kids. (X-Factor #13)

I can’t figure out what kind of fish this is supposed to be, and it’s really bothering me. (X-Factor #13)

Cameron Hodge: Definitely the worst. (X-Factor #13)

Same story, different door. (X-Factor #13)

LOOK AT THAT AMAZING ZOMBIE ROBOT. LOOK. LOOK. (X-Factor #13)

Seriously, just buy some damn lockpicks already. (X-Factor #13)

Scott Summers’s life: literally an anxiety dream. (X-Factor #13)

Those Walter Simonson layouts, tho. Dang. (X-Factor #14)

Even Rusty and Skids can’t look away from the amazing soap opera. (X-Factor #14)

Aw, man. (X-Factor #14)

Trish, THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE. (X-Factor #14)

“Oh, shit, we totally saved him from an inevitable and painful death! We’re monsters!” (X-Factor #14)

This cover is kind of hilarious. (X-Factor #15)

WHO KEEPS BRINGING HIM NEWSPAPERS? Probably Cameron Hodge. JERK. (X-Factor #15)

“Also, I think I might have a kid? I’m pretty sure there was a plot point about that last issue.” (X-Factor #15)

Caliban tries so hard. (X-Factor #15)

Due to lack of participation in X-Factor’s mandatory program of despair, Iceman has been temporary relocated to another book. (X-Factor #15)

I know this is supposed to be very poignant, but I can’t stop wondering why the hell Angel’s little private plane has fucking MISSILES. (X-Factor #15)

Well, I mean, it’s one way to get to Arizona. (X-Factor #15)

NEXT WEEK: Technoorganic blues!

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70 – Forget It, Jake; It’s X-Factor

August 17, 2015 Jay 31 comments

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In which everything is terrible; miscommunication triangles are way more awkward than love triangles; Boom Boom is universally delightful; Miles has feelings about ‘80s fashion; Apocalypse is judging your band posters; X-Factor still hasn’t gotten the hang of doors; Cyclops’s life continues to be an anxiety dream; the Twelve are better in foreshadowing than practice; and Angel dies as he lived: half-naked, at an airport.

X-PLAINED

The evolution of Angel
Cold opens
rachelandmiles.com
X-Factor so far
X-Factor #12-15
A miscommunication triangle
Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith)
Rachel’s Marc Silvestri causality loop
Boom Boom vs. Jubilee
Cameron disambiguation
Famine
Master Mold (more) (again)
The Twelve
Tanya Trask
Caliban

NEXT WEEK: Technoorganic blues!

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