Tag: XSE
280 – Business-Casual Basilisk
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In which the future is not great at codenames; spot foil is cool as hell; Mountjoy is bafflingly business-themed; Bishop goes full Point Break; Jean Grey and Lorna Dane should absolutely be friends; and Jay & Miles are heading to ECCC 2020!
X-PLAINED:
- Lola vs. L.O.L.A.
- A very good cat
- Bishop #1-4
- Lucas Bishop
- Earth-1191
- X.S.E.
- A surprising convergence
- Guilt
- Bantam
- Mountjoy
- Some terrible banter
- Several nontraditional modes of possession
- Shard Bishop
- How the kids talk these days
- Hancock
- Fashion of the future
- A complex ethical struggle
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As Mentioned in Episode 193 – Sewers of Tomorrow
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LINKS & FURTHER READING
- Learn all about the Cyburai in Episode 160 – Hank McCoy and the Hickey of Destiny!
- Laura Dern is precious and must be protected at all costs.
193 – Sewers of Tomorrow
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In which we pour one out for Malcolm and Randall; Cyclops is the worst at fun; Storm is better than you and always will be; Bishop forgets his first name; the X-Men can’t tie bow ties; Iceman’s dad is spectacularly awful; Mikhail Rasputin may have some lingering issues; and Doug Ramsey would probably have been pretty entertained by Hackers if he had survived long enough to see it.
X-PLAINED:
- Whether Professor Xavier is dead
- Marvel time vs. podcast time
- Uncanny X-Men #287-290
- The Wit and Wisdom of Henry McCoy
- A dance of death and destruction
- Styglut
- Future flashbacks
- Sewers of tomorrow
- The Witness
- “Fun”
- Blood math
- A mysterious letter
- A terrible date
- Several capes
- The return of the cyburai
- A theoretical Hackers crossover
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As Mentioned in Episode 180 – Lawful Badass
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FURTHER READING, WATCHING, & LISTENING:
- Jay won comics.
- Key and Peele’s “Sexy Vampires” sketch is delightful (but dubiously work-safe).
- We talked about X-Men whom we’d be interested in seeing retconned as trans in Episode 171 – Badly Punctuated Equilibrium.
180 – Lawful Badass
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In which Jay is deeply invested in The Gifted; Trevor Fitzroy is generally inexcusable; there are a lot of reasons to be uncomfortable in the Hellfire Club; the mix just got altered in this little clambake; Jean Grey (kind of) dies (again); Earth-1191 gives the Age of Apocalypse some glam competition; Lucas Bishop is a pretty decent metaphor for fan culture; everyone is probably Kang the Conqueror; and now Miles really has no excuse for not watching The Prisoner.
X-PLAINED:
- The Chronomancer and his Chronobots
- The Gifted
- Lucas Bishop’s creative origins
- Trevor Fitzroy
- Goatee Theory
- X-Factor #67
- Uncanny X-Men #281-283
- Dapper Lesbian Shinobi Shaw
- A briefly useful mnemonic
- Cybernetic fuckboys
- The return of Warren Kenneth Worthington III’s hair
- Beef and Bevatron
- The deaths of the Hellions
- Warhammer
- Some of the challenges of X-Plaining the ’90s
- Bringing a knife to a Sentinel fight
- Bantam
- A bunch of bad guys from the future
- Bishop
- Randall
- Malcolm
- Earth-1191
- The Gamemaster
- X-Men we’d like to see come out as trans (revisited)
- Whether either or both of us are Kang the Conquerer
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