484 – Hell Tuba

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

In which the 2000 Magik miniseries is not a good comics series but is an excellent heavy metal concept album; Nightmare has a nightmare; and tubas work differently in Hell.

X-PLAINED:

• Belasco: the early years
• Magik (2000 series) #1-4
• Magik (Amanda Sefton) (Jimaine Szardos) (more) (again)
• Some art stuff
• The realm of Nightmare
• The Splinter Realms
• The Soul Sword (Amanda Sefton version)
• An Archfiend of the Pit
• Nugent
• Chekhov’s Hell computer (and its secretions)
• Kurt Wagner’s short and bizarre career in the church
• Vitchen
• Several cool demon battles
• The Dread Dormammu
• Gleeg
• A problem
• Muspelheim
• Twilight (sword)
• Some Mephisto nonsense
• Hades, maybe
• Epithets
• A convocation
• Weird Hell guys
• Duke Bleys
• The Archenemy
• The Hell Tuba
• The most demonic brass instrument
• Some time travel bullshit
• Stories where Emma Frost is at her best
• Villain reuse

NEXT EPISODE: Generation X gets new threads!

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