429 – Slightly Sticky

Dracularmy (X-Men Unlimited #21)

In which you should stop hatin’, there’s a big difference between fill-ins and filler, Snow Valley needs higher Ferris wheel standards, Todd DeZago must really hate video rental clerks, and we’re all monsters - some of us just smell better than others.

X-PLAINED:

Strong Guy’s hellacious history

The nature and purpose of X-Men Unlimited

X-Men Unlimited #20-21

Rock Trolls (Chambliss, Nettles, and Munson)

What Asgard was up to in 1998

Magik vs magic

The Snow Valley Harvest Festival

Jubilation Lee, one of the guys

Eagles vs Hats

Fatman, Beardlady-o, Stickman-o, & Frogman-o

Tic Tac Toe fundamentals

Angry mobs

Paige Guthrie, Angry Mom

The many potential applications of Husk’s powers

Falls Edge, VA vs Eagle Ridge, WV

Payphones & video rental stores

X-friends

Rutland, VT (again)

Melvin J. Weals

Helen Back

The Donnybrook Country Club

Cat Fancier & Motorcycle Conventions

The Shi’ar Wardrobe Transmogrifier

Steel (the Shaq one)

The worst pun we’ve ever seen in a comic

Earth: the Hipster Planet

Which X-Men throw the best and/or wildest Halloween parties

Fan-casting X-voices

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