Episode 156 - Genosha Strikes Back

==Episode Description==
In which we hit the Empire Strikes Back of X-Tinction Agenda; it’s hard to be Laura Kinney; the psychic knife makes its debut; Evil!Sexy Moira retains some moral high ground; if your society is built on slavery, your society deserves to crumble; words mean things; Havok would be a terrible housecat; the mutants do not have the patent on stupidity; the opposite of blades is cotton; we give Cameron Hodge’s severed head a pep talk; and Cyclops goes full Peralta.
== X-Plained ==
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* Laura Kinney’s brief babysitting career
* Our upcoming hiatus
* Dramatis personae
* A figurative battering ram
* Focused totality
* Best insults of the 1990s
* A debate
* Ethics of rhetoric
* Housecat Havok
* Skittering
* Mutate numbering systems
* The Prisoner vs. Les Miserables
* The slow disintegration of reality as we know it
* Sneaking with Cable
* A singularly anticlimactic cover
* A lushly illustrated report
* Increasingly petty revenge
* S.H.I.E.L.D.’s most advanced bald cap
* A rising storm
* Art teams
* What we’d like to see out of an X-Men cinematic reboot
== Listener Questions ==
* Could you please explain the roles of pencils and artists and inkers and colorists? Are they all different jobs to speed up production? Does the artist dictate the colors? Is it a collaborative relationship like writer and artist? I love Andrea Sorrentino from the 2015 X-Men annuals, and I will point out from most of the Old Man Logan ongoing series, and the ways panels have blocked green and red colors, but is that actually the responsibility of colorist Marcello Maiolo? Do you have a favorite artist and colorist team?
* Assuming we are on the verge of an X-Movie reboot (I sincerely hope) what would be your ideal approach to this? Start with another building the team movie with a new lineup? Or more of an in medias res approach where they dive right in to adapting a classic X-Storyline? Personally, I'd love it if more superhero movies skipped past the origin story. What would you like to see out of an X-Reboot, more story wise than character wise?
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