120 – Observed by a Family of Lizard People
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2016
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In which everything is worse with Nazis; Excalibur gets its groove back; Meggan has an identity crisis; Kitty gets a crush; a dragon gets interdimensional sanctuary; and the Cross-Time Caper starts not with a bang, but a foomp.
X-PLAINED:
- The death of Lilandra Neramani
- Excalibur #8-11
- The best name in Hollywood
- Still more of Inferno’s aftermath
- A basketball game
- Blackbird disambiguation
- Several long-delayed reunions and one subsequent resolution
- Alastaire Stuart (and his banana)
- Tourists who are also lizards
- Lightning Force
- A number of unfortunate encounters
- The difference between Errol Flynn characters and Errol Flynn
- The fall of Nigel Frobisher
- The switch that turns the engine invisible
- What may be the world’s least subtle euphemistic use of the term “roommate”
- How the discourse around comics has changed since the ’80s
- Jubilee vs. power creep
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jay, what have the Shiar been up to lately anyway? |
| 0:03.0 | Ah, rebuilding post-Valkin, mostly. |
| 0:06.0 | Is Londra back in charge? |
| 0:07.0 | Miles, Londra's super dead. |
| 0:10.0 | Gladiators impaired her these days. |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, he's not Shiar though, is he? |
| 0:14.0 | No, he's Strancien. |
| 0:15.0 | Strancien, what's their deal? |
| 0:16.0 | Largely moot, since there are like three of them left, and they're all closely related, |
| 0:20.0 | so I don't really see a lot of future for that species. |
| 0:22.0 | That's unfortunate. |
| 0:23.4 | Right? |
| 0:24.4 | So Gladiator killed the Londra and took over the empire. |
| 0:27.6 | What? No, no, no. |
| 0:29.1 | He assumed power after a massive war of succession. |
| 0:31.4 | There was a whole crossover event dude it was called |
| 0:33.4 | war of kings then who did kill a laundra was it cusandronova I sort of remember that |
| 0:38.5 | no landra had tried to kill Xavier thinking that he was still possessed by Cassandra Nova, not the other way around. |
| 0:45.0 | Okay, well that makes more sense than who killed Lelandra? |
| 0:49.0 | Darkhawk. |
| 0:50.0 | The 90s dude? |
| 0:51.0 | Sorta. |
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