149 Panning for Callbacks

Published: March 7, 2017, 9:38 a.m.

Art by David Wynne. href="http://particlefiction.bigcartel.com/">Contact David to purchase the original!\n\nIn which Old Man Logan is probably better than it deserves to be; Steve McNiven is magical; the post-apocalyptic future probably belongs to the LARPers; Miles's dad may or may not secretly be Hawkeye; all babies are supervillains; every movie should have a dinosaur chase scene; Emma Frost is our queen forever; and you should never trust a Hitler cosplayer.\n\nX-PLAINED:\n\n \tWolverine: Lord of the Vampires\n \tMark Millar\n \tWolverine vol. 3 #66-72\n \tGiant-Size Wolverine: Old Man Logan\n \tThe Hooded Man\n \t"Old Man Logan" vs. Old Man Logan\n \tThe difference between Logan and Wolverine\n \tOld-timey apocalypses\n \tThe Hulk Gang\n \tOld Man Hawkeye\n \tThe Spider-Buggy\n \tMoloids\n \tHammer Falls\n \tUltron-8\n \tSeveral generations of supervillains\n \tHow the world fell under darkness\n \tPresident Red Skull\n \tSome very cathartic violence\n \tNarrative functions of the rampage\n\nNEXT EPISODE: Live from Emerald City Comic Con, with Dennis Hopeless & Charles Soule!\n\n\n\nSpecial thanks to the Protomen.\n\n\n\nThe visual companion to this episode will be up when Jay has a working computer charger again.\n\nFind us on\xa0iTunes\xa0or\xa0Stitcher!\n\nJay\xa0and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to\xa0help support the podcast\u2013and unlock more cool stuff\u2013you can do that\xa0right here!\n\nWe\u2019re in the process of migrating our\xa0official shop to TeePublic!\xa0Click over to check it out!\xa0(You can still find the designs we haven\u2019t moved yet\xa0at Redbubble.)