Episode 142 - The Monster at the End of This Comic

==Episode Description==
In which Jay and Miles make a personal announcement; moles (probably) don’t lay eggs; Angel is full of angst and flechettes; there’s always room for cello; and no matter how complicated our personal lives get, X-Factor’s will always be worse!
== X-Plained ==
* The Tanaka family business
* Jay & Miles vs. time travel
* Some personal stuff that’s going on
* Our definitive Iceman artist
* A whole lot of child endangerment
* Two reasons not to eat cereal from the 1980s
* -53 and 55
* Cable’s first word
* Slightly dubious zoning
* Charlotte Jones
* Opal Tanaka
* Mole
* Chicken Wings
* Grover, but not that Grover
* B-grade Sabretooth
* A double date
* Giant bugs
* The Locust (August Hopper)
* A walk in the park
* A failed proposal
* What we talk about when we talk about retcons
== Listener Questions ==
* In the cases of Psylocke and Cable, two characters with some of the most convoluted retconned and re-retconned backstories going, you've introduced the entire retcon when first covering the event that got retconned. So, with Psylocke's turning Asian, you immediately addressed that this was a body swap rather than a modification of her original body, and with Cable, you addressed his actual identity long before it was part of the actual stories. Is this a conscious choice? I wonder how different the coverage might have been if you had addressed the retcons only as they arose in storylines. 
* I have a theory that Grant Morrison's New X-Men's big plot twist would be better if it was a different villain like Apocalypse under Xorn's mask instead of Magneto. Does this theory check out?
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