49 – Of Mullets and Miracles
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In which we meet Miles’s favorite X-Man; Longshot is Secret Wars II done right; we are fairly committed to the idea of Ann Nocenti as a post-apocalyptic daredevil superhero; Longshot is patient zero of the ‘90s; Ricochet Rita is the best; luck is a zero-sum commodity; Mojo is legitimately terrifying; and nuance is Longshot’s secret weakness.
X-PLAINED:
- Spiral
- The Body Shop
- Several ill-advised body swaps
- Longshot
- Longshot
- Rachel Summers Syndrome
- The evolution of Art Adams
- The metaphysics of luck
- The secret origin of pouches
- A large number of pop culture allusions
- Glam survivalists
- Psychometry
- Moral complexity
- Gog’n’Magog
- Ricochet Rita
- The social economics of jetpacks
- A whole lot of social satire and commentary
- Star Slammers
- Mojo
- The Mojoverse
- Luck as a zero-sum commodity
- Arize
- Quark
- Longshot and Dazzler’s star sigils
- Finding (or creating) your comics community
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| 0:00.0 | So Rachel, reading the Longshot Mini got me thinking, |
| 0:02.4 | how much do you know about Spiral's timeline? |
| 0:04.5 | Honestly, her name covers it pretty well. |
| 0:06.5 | She's literally a continuity spiral. |
| 0:08.3 | Kind of a self-contained version of the Longshot Shatterstar Paradox, actually. |
| 0:11.4 | The thing were Shatterstar's long shot son, |
| 0:13.0 | and the long shot is Shatterstar's clone? |
| 0:14.8 | Right, but kind of inverted. |
| 0:16.5 | As spiral, she sets up and kidnaps her own past self, Ricochet Rita, |
| 0:19.9 | whom she helps set on the path to becoming spiral, |
| 0:21.9 | because by then spiral has been so warped by Mojo that she hates the self she was almost as much as she hates him. |
| 0:27.0 | So the extra arms, what's up with that? I mean I can see where they'd come in handy. |
| 0:31.0 | God damn it, you actually said that. |
| 0:32.7 | I regret nothing. |
| 0:34.1 | But they also tie into Spiral's main tragic theme, the perpetuation of those cycles, because |
| 0:38.0 | she's going to end up running this thing called the body shop, which is all about... |
| 0:41.4 | Auto repair? |
| 0:42.4 | Cybernetic and cosmetic modification. |
| 0:44.0 | Huh. |
| 0:45.0 | Yeah, see, everyone's forgotten because of the striker stuff in the second movie, |
| 0:47.0 | but she was actually the one who originally souped up Lady Death |
| 0:50.0 | Strike in the Reavers before Pierre Scott Redcon did. |
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