Classic (x2). (Warlock #2)

In which the Warlock ongoing series is fun, and fun is good; people should maybe leave Doug Ramsey’s grave alone; Tony Stark is probably not in touch with the Indigo Girls; the heroes skate awfully close to the “no killing” line; Bastion gets exhumed, rehumed, and re-exhumed; you should really read the Avengers Academy Infinity Comic; and you remain the best listeners of any podcast, ever.

X-PLAINED:

• X-related characters of Avengers Academy
• Warlock vol. 5, #1-9
• Warlock (more) (again)
• M-Tech
• Jay’s Bluey Test for all-ages media
• The visual semiotics of Warlock
• Project Mainspring
• Hope (Esperanza Ling)
• Chi-Chee
• Psi-cops
• Gatekeepers
• Technarchs
• The transmode virus
• A fancy hat
• Many guest stars
• The Phalanx (more) (again)
• Psiren
• Psimon
• The techno-mechanic virus
• Complicated feelings
• Psycho Man (more) (again)
• Astro-computers
• Hope’s actual powers
• Template
• Magus (more) (again)
• Avengers Academy Marvel Voices Infinity Comic
• Why there are so many Canadian comic-book writers
• Superhero comics vs. religious texts
• Defining heroism
• Escapade
• Captain America of the Railways
• Bloodline
• Red Goblin
• Moon Girl
• Kid Juggernaut
• Blackheart
• Ongoing storytelling
• Emplate as a queer character
• Marcus Wetherell
• What else to read if you love Avengers Academy Marvel Voices Infinity Comic
• The 11th Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
• Many people to whom we are profoundly grateful

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In which you know it’s serious business when a logo gets smashed; the prophecy of the Twelve is an elaborate prank; we have a lot of Summers family feelings; Apocalypse is not a very good planner; and the Twelve reaches its conclusion.

X-PLAINED:

• Who Madelyne Pryor’s psychic ghost really is
• The story so far
• Uncanny X-Men #377
• Cable #76
• X-Men #97
• Perks of immortality
• A slightly gratuitous way to destroy an airplane
• Several doppelgangers
• Apocalypse’s big, stupid plan
• A fancy science machine
• The Atomium
• The Twelve
• The three elements
• The best issue of the Twelve
• Orb action
• Cable’s knowledge of history
• Summers feelings
• How to establish stakes
• Potato storms
• The mutant Skrulls (more) (again)
• Cadre K
• Categories of mutants
• How to beta test an Armageddon machine
• Alpha nerd Charles Xavier
• Weaponized continuity
• The color(s) of Cyclops’s eyes
• How to evoke Uncanny X-Men #137
• An unfortunate twist
• Mundane uses of superpowers
• The Altar
• What would have improved the Twelve

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In which the Twelve should really be twelve chapters long; Archangel has issues; we continue to bemoan the absence of captions; the X-Men ditch their crossover event for a side quest; Magneto is Genosha’s official chaperone; and we would absolutely elect Emma Frost to a school board.

X-PLAINED:

• What Cable does next
• The event so far
• Wolverine #146-147
• Uncanny X-Men Annual 1999
• Whether the Shadow King is moist
• Why tiny cavemen can’t have nice things
• Numerous flashbacks and allusions
• Archangel’s third-stage evolution
• The Philharmonic Gets Dressed
• Abraham Kieros (again)
• Apocalypse as a self-help guru
• Fully nude Wolverine
• X-51 #8 (briefly)
• Fabian Cortez (more) (again)
• A miracle of magnetism
• Scomp linking
• A big fancy machine
• Exodus (more) (again)
• Mutants we’d like to see in public office
• The (theoretical) Essex administration

NEXT EPISODE: The Twelve concludes!

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Survival of the Toothiest (Cable #75)

In which we begin our coverage of The Twelve; Scott and Jean get sucked back in AGAIN; Apocalypse probably doesn’t tip; and we have become awfully fond of Cable.

X-PLAINED:

• A codename that deviates from common patterns
• The story so far
• Uncanny X-Men #376
• Cable #75
• X-Men #96
• Fiz the Skrull (again)
• The Twelve
• Foreshadowing, both accurate and otherwise
• The Living Monolith (more) (again)
• That one font
• Time-travel logic
• Cable vs. eyes
• Fabian Cortez (more) (again)
• A trap
• Why the Twelve are the Twelve
• The evolution of Cable

NEXT EPISODE: The Twelve continues!

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In which Cable may or may not have been a spokesperson for AT&T; it’s impossible to draw a CD dramatically; Wolverine gets his adamantium back; Apocalypse says the thing; and we probably can’t keep putting off The Twelve forever.

X-PLAINED:

• One way to dispose of a corpse
• Cable #73-74
• Wolverine #145
• Cable (more) (again)
• Poor font choice
• Sarcophagus nipples
• Caliban (more) (again)
• Impromptu tailoring
• A cliched vignette
• People talking on couches
• A compact disc
• Unpleasant reunions
• An impressive outfit
• Prior generations of horsemen of Apocalypse
• Wolverine (more) (again)
• How Wolverine ended up a horseman of Apocalypse
• Apocalypse’s aesthetic
• Wolverine vs. Hulk (yet again)
• Which version of Magik was on Krakoa
• An X-Men pitch in the style of Spidey and his Amazing Friends

NEXT EPISODE: The Twelve begins!

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In which the Shattering officially concludes; you can’t swoop over the phone; toddlers are engines of pure chaos; the X-Men do some processing; and we are mildly scandalized by the absence of footnotes.

X-PLAINED:

• Rama-Tut
• Evan Sabahnur
• Uncanny X-Men #375
• X-Men #95
• X-Men Unlimited #25
• Skrull problems
• One very upsetting way to identify a traitor
• Skrullverine
• Fiz and Jaq
• The Ally
• A ruse
• Death’s mask
• A dramatic revelation
• Processing
• The unrealized potential of Spirit Halloween
• Wolverine memories
• Rogue’s temporary tattoos
• Yet another time loop

NEXT EPISODE: We segue into solo series!

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In which St. Croix History reminds us of a Martian with a big butt; Penance’s escape is ambiguous; Avengers Academy Infinity Comic successfully reinvents Emplate; you should not learn to flirt from Vanilla Ice; Jubilee fires two fireworks blasts into the air whilst going aaahhh; and we go in through the ears.

X-PLAINED:

• Apocalypse’s influence
• The Big House (about which we are confused)
• Generation X #58
• Cartier and/or Louis St. Croix
• Our college’s Dean, naked jogger
• Things that are sharp in the woods
• HUMP
• Penance (Hollow)
• Emplate, spoiled teenager
• Generation X Annual 1999
• Epistolary fonts
• Jubilee’s pre-X past
• Round Wolverine
• Hunter Brawn (again, sigh)
• Recognizing random dudes from pictures
• Dad Things and Dad Pipes
• Juggernaut and Black Tom as a relationship model
• Jubilee, competent veteran
• A murder mystery
• Legault, cosplaying bodyguard
• Taking notes on comics
• Magneto’s telepathy-blocking (or not) helmet

NEXT EPISODE: Wolverine’s dead! And Wolverine’s back!

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In which Nightcrawler has a type; the Hill is a bad place to raise your kids up; Colossus introduces Marrow to art; we come out against autotrepanation; Mikhail Rasputin never learns; Destiny leaves clues from beyond the grave; and The Twelve looms.

X-PLAINED:

• That one universe where Mystique raised Nightcrawler in an attic
• An event in name only
• Some shit that went down a while ago
• The Hill (more) (again)
• Uncanny X-Men #373-374
• X-Men #93-94
• Marrow as a child soldier
• Rural Boston
• Some asshole
• Mikhail Rasputin (more) (again)
• How to prove that you’re a god
• The souls of furniture and some other things
• The green psychic entity who’s been secretly controlling Mikhail Rasputin, I guess?
• Ninja problems
• B. Byron Biggs
• Ronnie Lake
• A Conspiracy
• How Rogue and Destiny met
• Compulsory heterosexuality
• Destiny’s diaries
• Prognostication vs. agenda-setting
• Skrullverine’s power mimicry
• How the Mannites could’ve been used in the Krakoan era

NEXT EPISODE: Secrets of Jubilee’s past!

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In which Lenore Zann joins us to talk Rogue, Canadian politics, and her upcoming memoir!

Lenore’s memoir, A Rogue’s Tale, will be out November 1! You can preorder it here.

 

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In which “Astonishing X-Men” is something of a misnomer; Death has a good look; sometimes you just need a guy who swoops; Miles stops worrying and learns to love Nate Grey; Telekinesis is silly looking; “Wolverine” dies; and nothing really changes.

X-PLAINED:

• Astonishing X-Men (miniseries)
• Ambience
• Nina (again)
• Mannites (again)
• The third-best way to get out of awkward conversations
• The Hulkbuster base
• Bastion (again)
• Bastion’s worst nightmare
• Death (a new one)
• Fiddly bits
• Cable’s Psimitar
• Telekinetic snowboarding
• Headcase
• Darco
• Glub
• Beautiful Dreamer
• Grace
• Totem
• Things to do with a severed head
• The Changing
• The (apparent) death of Wolverine
• How to salvage this miniseries
• Hypothetical X-crossovers

NEXT EPISODE: Lenore Zann joins us to talk all things Rogue!

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In which X-Force is kind of silly; that really isn’t what “quantum” means; polite and lawful are two entirely different things, and Sam Guthrie is only one of them; Selene vogues; and the Hellfire Club plays the dead girlfriend card.