Episode 158 - No Focus, Less Direction

== Episode Summary ==
==Episode Description==
In which we return triumphant from hiatus; it’s still always Inferno in here; no one should ever under any circumstances date Cameron Hodge; Kenneth is a fundamentally hilarious name; Magneto’s family gets retconned to death; Pterosaurs are still the absolute worst; and Magik totally deserves a sidekick.
== X-Plained ==
* Ka-Zar’s real name
* Shanna the She-Devil
* Our new production set-up
* What we did on our summer vacations
* Previously on X-Men
* Further limits of the mutant metaphor
* -275
* A crisis of leadership
* A comic that is a metaphor that is also a comic
* Cable’s OkCupid profile
* Changing creative dynamics on the X-line
* Archangel’s middle name
* Gambit vs. Wolverine
* Censorship Steam
* The protean X-bathroom
* Magneto’s retconned family
* Colonel Semyanov
* A perhaps ill-conceived team-up
* The Self-Styled Mistress of Magnetism
* Some remarkably lucky timing
* The semantics of heel turns
* Gender and sidekicks
* Mr. Sinister’s powers
== Cold Open ==
Zaladane, Ka-Zar and Shanna the She-Devil.
== Listener Questions ==
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