Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 31 – Chekhov’s Raygun
In which there is a whole, whole lot going on; we continue to have no use for Michael Rossi; Wolverine should be an advice columnist; Forge makes bold fashion choices; the health of a timeline is directly tied to the awesomeness of Storm’s hair; and the X-Men get their first dark-future refugee.
X-Plained:
- Dire Wraiths
- ROM
- Tailoring
- Uncanny X-Men #182-188
- Just much story can be shoehorned into seven issues
- A dubious Silent Hill metaphor
- The people in Rogue’s head
- Inexorable momentum
- Several profoundly uncomfortable conversations
- Parallel narrative in comics
- Being friends with Wolverine
- Casual enmity
- Forge
- Miles’s X-doppelganger
- Tiny shorts
- Chekhov’s Raygun
- Rachel Summers (again)
- Timeline disambiguation
- Rachel disambiguation
- “Lifedeath: A Love Story”
- Feelings
- Storm, powers, and identity
- X-Men Mad-Libs
- Hound marks
- X-Men: The End
Next Week: THE DEMON BEAR SAGA!
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X-Plain the X-Men has now reached the point where I was reading these issues as they came out. This is a strange, wonderful nostalgia point for me.