58 – Miniseries Mayhem

Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 5/31/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

In which Nightcrawler does Weird Tales; Iceman does Back to the Future; we want a vacation home in Dave Cockrum’s brain; Bamfs are terrible; the 1983 Iceman miniseries is straight-up bananas; parents just don’t understand; and Rachel will take literally any excuse to talk smack about John Ruskin.

X-PLAINED:

• Vanisher
• Nightcrawler #1-4
• Bizarre Adventures #27
• Iceman #1-4
• The Well at the Center of Time
• The downside to hanging out with pirates
• A shark wizard in a tiny loincloth
• Better living through sound-effect awareness
• Boggies
• The key to a classic Nightcrawler story
• Earth-5311
• Bamfs
• The full extent of Rachel’s Smurfs knowledge
• Cretaceous Sam
• Sehv
• Illyana Rasputin’s porn collection
• The Drake family
• An exceptionally unlikely girl next door
• The definitive Miles’s Mom anecdote
• Marge Smith / Mirage
• White Light
• Idiot
• Kali (but not that one)
• Two generations of Officers Ratchit
• Pornography no one wants to see
• Death by time travel
• Oblivion
• Night Man (kinda)
• Our ideal cross-media adaptations

NEXT WEEK: X-Men ’92, with Chris Sims and Chad Bowers!

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