122 – Boom Boom Von Doom and the Ontology of Monsters
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2016
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In which the back-up stories of Atlantis Attacks are way better than the main event; the Serpent Society is hilarious; Longshot finds a rock; the S.U.R.F.E.R.S. are no Neutrinos; our volume of digressions is inversely proportional to our investment in this crossover; Jay overthinks sunglasses; and somehow we still aren’t entirely done with Inferno.
X-PLAINED:
- Leonard McKenzie
- Princess Fen
- Tiger Shark
- A dubious crossover event and three splendid backup stories
- The best thing in Marvel Puzzle Quest
- Skateman
- Atlantis Attacks
- Uncanny X-Men Annual #13
- New Mutants Annual #5
- X-Factor Annual #4
- Ghaur
- Llyra
- Homo mermanus
- The Serpent Society
- Boomslang
- Why snakes don’t wear vests
- The Maple Hill Farm books
- The Horn of Doom (again)
- Namorita
- Impractical swimwear
- Surf, or S.U.R.F.E.R.S., or whoever the hell they are
- Zak and the Neutrinos
- The trouble with mobile landmarks
- A case of mistaken identity
- The true meaning of something, probably
- Ralph Macchio, but not that Ralph Macchio
- Circumstances in which it is acceptable to throw a small child down an elevator shaft
- The definitive Boom Boom
- Eligible gentlemen of the Marvel Universe
- Boom Boom Von Doom
- A false dichotomy
- Sally Pashkow
- A really great outfit
- Presidencies rated by X-Books
- Best and worst moral inversions
NEXT WEEK: Mojo Mayhem!
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NOTE: In this episode, Jay briefly confused two Marvel villain teams: the Serpent Society (snake-themed villains); and the Sons of the Serpent, also known as the Serpent Men (hate group). We would like to offer our apologies to the Serpent Society, who are ridiculous but not, as far as we know, racist.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jay, you know about ocean stuff. |
| 0:02.4 | I guess, I mean some. |
| 0:05.8 | You know I didn't actually sell my voice to a sea witch, right? |
| 0:09.2 | That was just a joke. |
| 0:10.2 | Yeah, yeah, of course. |
| 0:11.9 | I totally knew that. But you know, ocean stuff. |
| 0:15.0 | Ocean stuff. Ocean stuff, like about Neymore. |
| 0:17.0 | Oh, okay. Yeah, I thought this was going to be like a kind of terms or something. |
| 0:21.0 | A kind of what? Are those the Atlantian vampires? What? No, Echinoderms are things like sea cucumbers and starfish. |
| 0:28.1 | The Atlantian vampires are the aqueos. Was that what you needed to know? No, I was wondering about |
| 0:34.3 | Namor's family. His dad's human, right? Yep. Leonard Mackenzie, Explorer, |
| 0:38.3 | ship's captain, and undersea Cassinova. So he hooked up with Nemo's mom in Atlantis? |
| 0:43.7 | No, she stood aboard his ship. |
| 0:45.5 | But Nemo grew up in Atlantis, right? |
| 0:47.5 | Kinda. |
| 0:48.5 | He was initially raised in exile, but he and his mom got to go back when he was a kid. |
| 0:52.2 | Not dad, then. No, no, he was a kid. Not dad then? |
| 0:53.2 | No, no, he was long since out of the picture. |
| 0:55.6 | So his name more's mom still around? |
| 0:57.3 | Mrs. Mackenzie? |
| 0:58.3 | What is her name anyway? |
| 0:59.7 | Princess Fen and no. |
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