Tag: X-Men
422 – Cairn Touch This
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In which the X-Men’s membership is a complicated subject; not all angels know each other; we need to talk about Beast’s Wasp costume; Cecilia Reyes speaks for all reasonable folk; Storm gets a mysterious package; and reading comics day-and-date may not be for everyone.
X-PLAINED:
- The variable loyalties of the N’garai
- X-Men #74-76
- A somewhat atypical team lineup
- A whole lotta backstory
- How to join the X-Men
- Warren Kenneth Worthington III as a religious figure
- Flechette clean-up
- Teenage drama
- Detective Jim Logan
- A lot of murder
- The N’garai
- Beast’s Wasp costume
- Explanatory captions for real life
- The Ru’tai
- Pilgrimm
- Mai’Keth the Undying One
- The Eye of Kierokk
- Maggott’s secret origins
- X-Men cartoons for a 7-year-old
- Reckoning with loss in comics
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As Mentioned in Episode 400 – Loud Noises
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NOTES & FURTHER READING:
- All that remains of Gambit Cyber Comic: The Hunt for the Tomorrow Stone
400 – Loud Noises
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In which legacy numbering is best left alone; all roads lead to the Antarctic; we finally learn Gambit’s big secret; Erik the Red gets yet a third identity; no one soils the Juggernaut; Maggott saves the day; and we have somehow made (technically more than) 400 of these things.
X-PLAINED
- Spat
- The tragic loss of the Cyber Comics
- How not to back up your work
- Uncanny X-Men #350
- X-Men #70
- A shambles
- What’s been happening since Operation Zero Tolerance
- A very fancy cover
- Insufficient outerwear
- Senses
- Justice as a decorating theme
- Baffling statuary
- The return of Erik the Red
- Erik the Red (again)
- Ferris
- Gambit’s big secret
- A large number of continuity errors
- A total dick move
- De-icing
- Untitled Marrow Game
- A big fight
- Living room surgery
- Legal documents
- Favorite anniversary issues
- Dangling plot threads
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388 – Deceit and Death
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In which there’s a lot of good television out there; Shang-Chi says the title of the story at every possible opportunity; Wolverine is probably not a Deadhead; Sebastian Shaw thinks he’s a bigger deal than he is; and Operation Zero Tolerance officially begins.
X-PLAINED:
- Storm’s ruby
- X-Men #62-65
- The Story So Far
- Space LEGOs
- Shang-Chi
- Shang-Chi’s dad
- An excellent fight scene
- Word balloon placements
- Agent Reston
- Elixir Vitae
- Several varyingly unexpected resurrections
- Cyber Ninjas
- Product placement for your own product
- Bludgeon, Katana, Fist, and some other guy
- Fujikawa Enterprises
- Richard Fisk
- Rambo heresay
- Prime Sentinels
- Children of Apocalypse
- Carol Danvers substitutions
NEXT WEEK: Hawk talk
NEXT EPISODE: Generation X floats on
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As Mentioned in Episode 386 – No Puppy for Storm
386 – No Puppies for Storm
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In which treading water isn’t always a bad thing; Storm remains an irresponsible leader; nobody should ever trust Dark Beast; we are befuddled by a large metal man; Maggott makes his debut; and we ship the heck out of Deathbird and Bishop.
X-PLAINED:
- The time Captain America dated a supervillain
- Treading water
- Gene Nation (again)
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 1997
- Uncanny X-Men #345
- Razors
- Humanity’s Last Stand
- Surprise
- Boost and Tether
- D’gard
- A Star Trek allusion
- The Morlock retcon
- Maggott (Japheth)
- A large metal individual
- Foreshadowing
- A large, inconvenient spaceship
- Magneto’s relationship to Judaism
- Recovery from the Legacy Virus
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As Mentioned in Episode 379 – Stardate: Today
379 – Stardate: Today
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In which what happens in space stays in space; a horse is imperiled; Joseph does some dubious science; Gladiator’s name is absolutely not Gary; everybody gets new costumes; and we learn where babies come from.
X-PLAINED:
- Shi’ar taxonomy, sort of
- The Shi’ar (again)
- The Phalanx (again)
- Uncanny X-Men #341-344
- A whole bunch of callbacks to X-Men #98
- A carriage ride
- The Z’noxx chamber (again)
- One way to have safer sex
- FAO Schwarz
- The Shi’ar Imerial Guard (again)
- Diplomacy, kind of
- Space outfits
- Trademarks
- Pure Phalanx
- Dinosaur Kingdom 2
- Where Shi’ar babies come from
- Flirting
- The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl vs. Isca the Unbeaten
- Characters we would happily voice if invited to do so
NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk
NEXT EPISODE: Generation X vs. Black Tom Cassidy!
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As Mentioned in Episode 373 – Tainted Loins
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FURTHER READING
- Miles talked about how to follow Krakoa’s year two X-books into year three:
- Bridge miniseries:
- Planet-Size X-Men 1-shot
- Inferno
- X Lives of Wolverine
- X Deaths of Wolverine
- Year two books that don’t continue into year three:
- Cable (got a wrap-up 1-shot called Cable Reloaded)
- Children of the Atom
- Hellions
- X-Corp
- X-Factor
- Books that have kept their year two numbering:
- New Mutants
- Wolverine
- X-Force
- X-Men Unlimited (on Marvel Unlimited)
- Books that relaunched with a new #1 and new creators:
- Marauders
- X-Men
- Books that relaunched with a new title:
- Excalibur -> Knights of X
- SWORD -> X-Men: Red
- Way of X -> X-Men: the Onslaught Revelation -> Legion of X
- One book is brand new:
- Immortal X-Men
- Also, don’t miss the Secret X-Men 1-shot toward the end of year two!
- Bridge miniseries: