Episode 049 – Of Mullets and Miracles

==Episode Description== __NOTOC__
In which we meet Miles’s favorite X-Man; Longshot is Secret Wars II done right; we are fairly committed to the idea of Ann Nocenti as a post-apocalyptic daredevil superhero; Longshot is patient zero of the ‘90s; Ricochet Rita is the best; luck is a zero-sum commodity; Mojo is legitimately terrifying; and nuance is Longshot’s secret weakness.
==X-Plained==
*Spiral
*The Body Shop
*Several ill-advised body swaps
*Longshot
*Longshot
*Rachel Summers Syndrome
*The evolution of Art Adams
*The metaphysics of luck
*The secret origin of pouches
*A large number of pop culture allusions
*Glam survivalists
*Psychometry
*Moral complexity
*Gog’n’Magog
*Ricochet Rita
*The social economics of jetpacks
*A whole lot of social satire and commentary
*Star Slammers
*Mojo
*The Mojoverse
*Luck as a zero-sum commodity
*Arize
*Quark
*Longshot and Dazzler’s star sigils
*Finding (or creating) your comics community
== Listener Questions ==
* Has the similarity in Dazzler and Longshot's star symbols ever been addressed? I've been reading Excalibur for the first time and have been loving it, and in a couple of flashback scenes Alan Davis draws them essentially having the same symbol. I just assumed it was because they're in love and it's cute, but I wonder if there's some Claremont-ian explanation lurking somewhere?
* Hi! I really love your show and I was wondering if you had any advice on how to meet and make friends with other X-Men fans? I know it's a strange question, but I'm in high school and I don't have anyone to discuss the comics with, and I want to make some more friends. Any advice? Thanks!
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