141 – Reason to Go to the Devil
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2017
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In which we ring in the new year with Cable’s on-page debut; it’s really the ’90s now; we enter the third major era of New Mutants; what Liefeld lacks in craft he makes up for in energy; we pitch a new “What if–” line; Rusty and Skids are terrible superheroes; X-Factor has probably given up on a lot of things; we speculate at gratuitous length on the content of Cable’s pouches; you have reason to go to the devil; and Cable makes a lot more sense when you realize he’s of, by, and for teenagers.
X-PLAINED:
- How the Legacy Virus got loose
- New Mutants #86-89
- Cable’s on-page debut
- Rob Liefeld
- The third major era of New Mutants
- A shift in the balance of power
- A comics shop to probably avoid if you time-travel back to the mid 1990s
- The stupid adventures of Rusty & Skids
- Yet another Acts of Vengeance tie-in
- Nitro
- An accidental prison break
- Cops, or maybe protestors
- The Mutant Liberation Front
- Feet
- A goody two-shoes man-stealing redheaded werewolf
- Wildside
- Reaper
- Strobe
- Thumbelina
- Tempo
- Forearm
- Zero
- Stryfe
- Stryfe’s armor
- Spooning with Cable
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| 0:00.0 | Miles, Miles, Miles, Miles, Miles. |
| 0:03.0 | Guess what week it is? |
| 0:04.0 | New years? |
| 0:05.0 | Well, that too, yeah. |
| 0:07.0 | But it's Cable Week. |
| 0:08.0 | Again, we just did a Cable episode. |
| 0:11.0 | I mean, we just did a Cable Spotlight. Now he he's in continuity and you know what that |
| 0:15.1 | means pouches for everyone it means it's only a matter of time before we get to my |
| 0:19.2 | very favorite dubious 90s arc you don don't mean. Executioners song. |
| 0:23.7 | Jay. |
| 0:24.7 | Miles, it's got everything. |
| 0:25.8 | Clones, ret cons, time travel, the moon, sinister, more summers family nonsense |
| 0:30.9 | than almost any other individual story and the legacy virus. |
| 0:34.8 | The wait that's not right the legacy virus was later. |
| 0:37.6 | No the legacy virus first shows up an executioner's song. |
| 0:40.8 | It doesn't have a name yet but that's how it ends up on earth. |
| 0:43.6 | Is it what Strife shoots Xavier with? |
| 0:45.8 | I thought that was something else. |
| 0:47.2 | No, no, no, that virus is a whole other thing. |
| 0:48.9 | The legacy virus is just in a test tube. |
| 0:51.4 | So how does it end up out of a test tube? |
| 0:53.4 | Oh, Strife swaps to sinister in exchange for Scott and Jean. |
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