454 – X-Men ’97, Part 2

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

SPOILER WARNING: ALL OF THEM, NONSTOP

In which Barry Windsor-Smith is too sexy for television; we know what happens when unstable molecules get struck by lightning; X-Men gets political and does it spectacularly; this Captain America would not sew the cape; Magneto continues to throw things into space; and they kissed and we missed it.

X-PLAINED:

• Fabian Cortez’s name
• X-Men ’97 episodes 6-10
• Lifedeath I & II: a surprising adaptation
• Varying levels of going in blind
• A somewhat different and possibly better Forge
• The Adversary vs. the Owl Queen
• Stormiest and least-Stormy costumes
• Professor Charles Xavier, Official Space Boyfriend
• Colonialism vs. Identity
• Delayed catharsis
• The narrative power of altered opening credits
• What makes allyship effective (and not)
• Justified mutant anger
• The worst version of Nina DaCosta
• What makes Prime Sentinels scary
• Summers family feels
• The best damned fight scenes out there
• Bastion, robo-avatar of conservative white patriarchy
• Simultaneous crossovers
• A psychic gay bar
• A last boss arena
• Acolyte equivalencies
• Phoenix Ex Machina
• Crying
• Whether Magneto was right
• Apoca-futures and Apoca-pasts
• A bulletin board and our hopes for its contents
• Soft Serve
• Kitty Pryde’s coffee shop AU
• X-Men ’97 as the perfect gateway

NEXT EPISODE: Skrulls!

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LINKS AND FURTHER READING:

• The Judgment of Magneto by Asher Elbein

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