92 – Living in Ship
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2016
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In which X-Factor loves press conferences, Archangel provides many opportunities for terrible puns, Cyclops gets to be happy for a whole five pages, X-Factor learns how doors work, the X-kids are generous (except Boom Boom), Infectia makes monsters to fight the patriarchy, Ship is your cool aunt, and Destiny accidentally predicts Cable.
X-PLAINED:
- Apocalypse versus Ed Wood
- X-Factor #27-31
- Superhero mortality
- Star-crossed mugger romance
- Marvel Girl as, and not as, Team Mom
- The greatest line in all of X-Factor
- Ship’s anatomical resemblances
- Combat and relationship discussion multitasking
- X-Men Evolution Syndrome
- Iceman as joker-by-necessity
- Infectia and the Anti-Bodies
- Rambo Nukes Commando In Nicaragua
- Wacky sitcom humor
- Warren Worthington, PI
- Earth 13122 and LEGO optic blasts
- Musical careers of the X-Men
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| 0:00.0 | So I was thinking after last episode, what's with Wolverine and Clowns? |
| 0:04.0 | I will answer your question with another question, which is, do you ever feel like you're coming into a joke after the punchline? |
| 0:10.0 | Well, but it's a thing, though, right? |
| 0:12.0 | No, why would that be a thing? |
| 0:14.0 | I mean, Wolverine 1, Logan, not Laura. |
| 0:17.0 | Okay. |
| 0:18.0 | Look, I'm just saying, Wolverine has dressed up as more than one clown. |
| 0:22.0 | I suppose that is technically true. There's the |
| 0:24.9 | masquerade one we talked about last episode and the murder circus one. |
| 0:28.6 | Right, right from Wolverine and the X-Men. What was this name? |
| 0:31.2 | Obnoxio? Rovolto. Obachio? Revolto. |
| 0:33.0 | Obnach show was another guy entirely. |
| 0:35.0 | He's only Wolverine on Earth 28857. |
| 0:37.0 | What's his deal? |
| 0:38.0 | Wolverine, Wilburine Wille's got a healing factor, Edim and him Claws. |
| 0:41.0 | Obnoxio. |
| 0:42.0 | Well, he was the host of Marvel's Mad magazine Knock Off crazy. |
| 0:45.0 | Because I swear I know him from something with the X-Men. |
| 0:47.5 | Oh, well, the X-Men guest starred in the first and only issue of Obnoxio the Clown's own comic book. |
| 0:51.5 | That'd do it. |
| 0:53.0 | What happened? |
| 0:54.0 | Xavier hired him to perform at Kitty's |
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