207 – Blood and Metal

In which Miles has a Dracula problem; we are really, really excited about FlameCon; Fabian Nicieza is the unsung hero of the early ’90s; Jay doesn’t explain the Iranian Hostage Crisis; Cable does not have a good history with trademark disputes; Cable: Blood and Metal is secretly an allegory for the X-books of the early 1990s; friendship and explosions don’t have to be mutually exclusive; and history evokes but doesn’t quite repeat itself.
X-PLAINED:

* Dracula disambiguation
* One way to stop a vampire invasion
* Wang beams
* Cable: Blood and Metal #1-2
* The continuing miracle that is Fabian Nicieza
* Cable (as established in 1992)
* Stryfe
* The Wild Pack and/or Six Pack
* The ongoing evolution of John Romita, Jr.
* Tolliver
* Several heists of varying quality
* Numerous patches and their contents
* How the Wild Pack became the Six Pack
* An idiom, examined
* A total dick move
* Muscles-and-guns power creep
* Guns of tomorrow
* The McNinja point
* A brief flirtation with Magic: The Gathering
* A typo that became canon
* The new She-Ra
* The new, improved Garrison Kane
* European nipple lasers
* Mr. Richter
* The evolution of Cable

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