82 – Birds and Boys
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2015
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In which Louise Simonson’s New Mutants run gets off to a rough start; drugs are not a reliable way to impress your space girlfriend; Magma gets a character arc; Tarot’s powers are kind of iffy; it’ll take more than a few illegal fish to stop Magik; and Bird Brain thoroughly fails to live up to his potential.
X-PLAINED:
- Sunspot’s brushes with villainy
- The de-aging of the New Mutants
- New Mutants #55-58
- A memorable dress
- Raek
- A cautionary tale
- The New Mutants as a Saturday morning cartoon
- Bird Boy / Bird Brain
- June Brigman
- A romantic dilemma
- Several alternative foci for Tarot’s powers
- Redemption and humanization of villains in X-books
- Undignified birds
- The best and worst of Bret Blevins
- Non-comics writers we’d like to see write X-books
- Other teen time travelers we’d add to All-New X-Men
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, do you know what happened to Bobby DeCosta? I remember him going villain at some point. |
| 0:04.4 | You mean the Rainfire thing? No, not that. I try to repress that. |
| 0:08.0 | Well, I mean he did join and later lead the Hellfire Club for a while, but at this point I'm not sure who hasn't. |
| 0:13.4 | Oof, following in his father's footsteps, huh? |
| 0:15.4 | Well, briefly, but he left and came back. |
| 0:17.4 | God, why? Nothing good ever comes out of joining the Hellfire Club. |
| 0:20.6 | Well, they seem to have pretty good room service. |
| 0:22.2 | You know what I mean. |
| 0:23.2 | Yeah, and Bobby was really resistant, especially after the first time, but they made him an |
| 0:27.4 | offer he couldn't refuse. They left a horsehead in his bed? |
| 0:30.3 | What? No, no, they offered to bring back his dead girlfriend, |
| 0:33.3 | Juliana. |
| 0:34.0 | The one who died way back in the new mutants graphic novel? |
| 0:36.3 | Yep, that's the one. |
| 0:37.5 | Anyway, Bobby was supposed to be Black King, but then Shaw got redeposed, |
| 0:41.5 | which allowed Bobby to ascend briefly to the rank of Lord Imperial. |
| 0:44.3 | Is he still with the Hellfire Club? |
| 0:45.8 | Nah. |
| 0:46.8 | So what's he doing these days? |
| 0:47.8 | Uh, you know, saving the world, hanging out with Sam Guthrie. |
| 0:50.3 | It's nice to know he's learned his lesson about not paling around with super villains. |
| 0:53.2 | Oh, and he bought aim. |
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