112 – Embers of Inferno (feat. Sam Humphries)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2016
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
In which we cover (almost) all of the Inferno tie-ins with the help of writer Sam Humphries; the Marvel Universe used to be really X-Centric; Jarvis is unstoppable; Daredevil fights a vacuum cleaner; it’s probably best not to ask about the whole Celestial Madonna thing; Power Pack gets incredibly upsetting; working in comics makes you appreciate crossovers on a whole new level; and we’d all really have liked to have seen Guy Davis’s Inferno.
X-PLAINED:
- Peter Quill’s brief music career
- Widget
- The Amazing Spider-Man #311-313
- Spectacular Spider-Man #146-148
- Web of Spider-Man #47-48
- Avengers #298-300
- Power Pack #42-44
- Daredevil #262, 263, 265
- Cloak and Dagger (vol. 3) #4
- Fantastic Four #322-324
- Inferno, as a whole
- The fate of Madelyne Pryor
- Jay’s Madelyne Pryor song
- How working in comics taught us to appreciate crossovers
- Our ideal Inferno artists
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| 0:00.0 | So much inferno. So much inferno. Which got me thinking about the secret war series, which got me thinking about Battleworld, which got me thinking about Star Lord and Kitty Pride because Widget. |
| 0:12.0 | Who's just shown up where we are in Excalibur? Yeah. me thinking about Star Lord and Kitty Pride because Widget |
| 0:12.6 | who's just shown up where we are in Excalibur. |
| 0:14.5 | Yeah, so do we know what Battleworld Widget's deal is? |
| 0:17.2 | Well, we know she's a version of Kitty Pride. |
| 0:19.3 | Wait, what? |
| 0:20.4 | Like the original. |
| 0:21.4 | Widget is Shadowcat. |
| 0:22.8 | Widget is Earth 811 Shadow Cat's consciousness partially merged with Sentinel. |
| 0:26.8 | Ah, okay, so what's she up to on Battle World? |
| 0:30.1 | Mostly helping Gambit thwart the Battle World version of Age of Apocalypse Shadowcat, and then getting briefly romanced by Star Lord. |
| 0:36.0 | Wait, AOA kitty? Or does Star Lord actually have a thing with widget? |
| 0:40.0 | You know what, Miles? I am actually going to let Sam Humphreys do the heavy lifting on this one, seeing as how it is his fault to begin with. |
| 0:46.4 | So hey Sam, what's up with Star Lord and Widget on Battleworld? |
| 0:50.1 | Hey gang, so it is my fault, I guess. what the deal is is that gambit used |
| 0:55.8 | widget against a away kitty in Starlord because it means that a away kitty wouldn't be able to phase through Widget, |
| 1:03.8 | but because Widget is a version of Kitty, |
| 1:06.6 | Starlord knew Widget's secret weakness, |
| 1:09.9 | which is seeing her a romantic Disney song which led to a near robot make out. |
| 1:15.4 | Whoa, okay, and so these characters, they're thieves, right? |
| 1:19.4 | Well, Kitty works for Dr. Doom. |
| 1:22.2 | She was a spy for Apocalypse that she got busted and then Doom and his daughter Valeria leaned on her to become one of Doom's secret spies. |
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