Episode 082 – Birds and Boys

==Episode Description==
In which Louise Simonson’s New Mutants run gets off to a rough start; drugs are not a reliable way to impress your space girlfriend; Magma gets a character arc; Tarot’s powers are kind of iffy; it’ll take more than a few illegal fish to stop Magik; and Bird Brain thoroughly fails to live up to his potential.
==X-Plained==
*Sunspot’s brushes with villainy
*The de-aging of the New Mutants
*New Mutants #55-58
*A memorable dress
*Raek
*A cautionary tale
*The New Mutants as a Saturday morning cartoon
*Bird Boy / Bird Brain
*June Brigman
*A romantic dilemma
*Several alternative foci for Tarot’s powers
*Redemption and humanization of villains in X-books
*Undignified birds
*The best and worst of Bret Blevins
*Non-comics writers we’d like to see write X-books
*Other teen time travelers we’d add to All-New X-Men
== Listener Questions ==
* If you could pick one non comics writer to head up an X-Men series, who would it be?
* If you could add the teenage version of another X-Man to the All-New team, who would it be?
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