Episode 017 - The Island of Dr. Corbeau

==Episode Description== __NOTOC__
In which we make our Comics Alliance debut, Cyclops makes a startling discovery, Carol Danvers joins the team (sort of), Chris Claremont calls out some bullshit, Havok still has terrible taste in hats, and Peter Corbeau gets his own theme music.
==Content Note==
In this episode, we spend a lot of time talking about a rape that occurs in a previous Avengers arc, the community and narrative response thereto, and the larger landscape and ethics of portrayals of sexual violence in superhero comics.
==X-Plained==
*Mystique’s mercurial alliances
*Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men
*Uncanny X-Men #154-158
*Avengers Annual #10
*Bollywood Starjammers
*The dread Psi-Scream
*Shi’ar Fashion Technology
*Dr. Peter Corbeau (more) (again)
*Rogue
*Carol Danvers
*The Whole Marcus Thing
*Chris Claremont vs. rape culture
*Computers
*Gender politics of the Dark Phoenix Saga
*Next week: Dracula!
==Clarification==
Since we neglected to specify in the episode: Avengers #200 was written by James Shooter, George Pérez, Bob Layton, and David Michelinie; Avengers Annual #10 was written by Chris Claremont.
== Listener Questions ==
* Question about Rogue's powers: When she touches someone and gains an ability she didn't have before, say for instance kung­fu, when that wears off will she continue to have that kung fu knowledge or would that go away too? I understand if absorbing another mutant's power would go away but if she learns kung­ fu or how to build car after touching someone and uses that knowledge shortly after, should not she be able to keep that knowledge?
* Several of the defining Bronze Age stories have a major moment that involves the death of a prominent female character. Gwen Stacy in Spider­Man, Supergirl in Crisis on Infinite Earths. These events often typified the Woman in Refrigerators trope. Do you think that the death of Jean/Phoenix in 137 is another of these moments or is there something intrinsically different?
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