Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

 

 

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In which we wrap up the continuity portion of the podcast along with our coverage of Grant Morrison’s New X-Men; Wolverine poses dramatically; Cyclops breaks the timeline; Wolverine poses dramatically; we are deeply intrigued by Brian and his magic car; Wolverine poses dramatically; Sublime extends his reach; Phoenix heals the timeline; Wolverine poses dramatically; change is important; and somewhere Wolverine is probably still posing dramatically.

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X of Swords (somewhat)

Endings

Varying opinions on the same art

Earth-15104

‘Crawlers

Tom Skylark

Rover (in several media)

The Beast (Hank McCoy) (sort of)

The evolution of EVA

An evocative quotation

Several recognizable oracles

Where the timeline broke

The Proud People

Apollyon the Destroyer

Mer-Max

A somewhat robotic love triangle

Tito Bohusk

How to hatch a Phoenix egg

The White Hot Room

The Termids

Several atrocities

An unfortunate costume choice

John Sublime (for real this time)

Yet another origin of life on Earth

Evil science

Kick (more) (again)

Weapon XIV

The X-Men’s last stand

An unlikely Phoenix host

Breaking cycles

Aspects of Earth-15104 we’d like to see explored further

Where we’d conclude the X-Men

NEXT EPISODE: The end.

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In which we remain frustrated with Morrison’s Magneto; Esme Cuckoo’s hat game is lacking; and the status quo dies with Jean Grey.

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Dubious X-relationships

Some excellent songs from an excellent show

New X-Men #149-150

Various atrocities and catastrophes

The resistance, such as it is

Magneto’s limits

A rebirth

Neutron warheads

The cavalry

Yet another death of Magneto

Yet another death of Jean Grey

A peculiar epilogue

A legacy of retcons

A miasma of bleakness and futility

The Xorn retcon

Disability in “Planet X”

Miracles of Magnetism

NEXT EPISODE: The future!

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In which many plot threads come together; Charles Xavier is a catastrophically bad listener; you should probably not live in the Marvel Universe; bridges are really important; there’s nothing sexy about dying of heat exhaustion; and we judge Morrison’s Magneto and find him wanting.

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What Xorn did after dying

The story so far

New X-Men #146-148

Beast’s typing gloves

Several innovative ways to type loudly

Doomed plans

A manufactured confrontation

A trap

Magneto reimagined

Visual depictions of sweat

“New Genosha”

Death and rebirth

Whether Magneto has a place in New X-Men; and if so, what

A name for an era

NEXT EPISODE: Yet another death of Magneto

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In which friends don’t let friends drink sparkling wine at the Hellfire Club; Cyclops is a Silent Hill protagonist; Fantomex is a cool dude; John Sublime has his grubby little fingers in everything; and three men do a lot of things to avoid going to therapy.

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What happened to the World

Weapon XVI

New X-Men #142-145

Fantomex (more) (again)

The Weapon Plus program

A large number of things men will do instead of going to therapy

How to murder a nice, romantic mood

The Hellfire Club, the rest of the time

Jake Danials Whisky

A drinking contest

The Mysteries of Harris Burdick

The World

Weapon XV

A series of B&Es

Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.)

Car cops

Weapon XV’s feelings

Weapon Plus’s secret space headquarters

Education at the Xavier School

Gender-swapped superheroes and heirs to superheroes

NEXT EPISODE: Magneto, unmasked!

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In which Jean Grey crosses several lines; Emma Frost is killed; Bishop and Sage visit from X-Treme X-Men; mutants are weird; the plot thickens; Emma Frost is resurrected; and we learn several secrets of fly reproduction.

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The brothers Xorn

A question of reading order

New X-Men #139-141

Cosmic force problems

A showdown

A brief tour through the mind of Emma Frost

A murder most foul

Bishop (briefly) (again)

Sage (briefly) (again)

Many suspects

One way to get drugs, I guess?

A mysterious shack and its mysterious contents

Perils and advantages of being a living computer

A murder weapon

Angel and Beak’s excellent babies

A resurrection

A subtly remarkable taxicab

The advent of mixed-case lettering in Marvel comics

How Angel and Beak’s reproductive cycle corresponds to actual fly reproduction

NEXT EPISODE: Assault on Weapon Plus

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