Episode 279 - Giant-Size Special 8

==Episode Description== 
In which Jay would absolutely fight Christmas; we welcome guest X-Perts Christina Strain and Chip Zdarsky; a gift arrives; we consider the relationship of Generation X to Generation X; it is really not okay to leave your discarded skins lying around; D.O.A. is inordinately delightful; Chamber is the punk Shadow; Gateway goes to school; the Generation X TV movie is very, very bad; telepathy is free; the grown-ups are all right; home sucks; freedom rocks; Mondo deserves better; Matt Frewer did most things first; Kevin McNulty has appeared in literally everything; and you remain our favorites, ever.
==X-plained==
* Mutation, for some value of the term
* Holidays and the observation thereof
* December 9
* Jay’s ideal Christmas
* How Chris Bachalo’s name is pronounced (more) (again) (sorry)
* Several promotions
* Generation X
* Generation X #1-4
* Generation X
* Husk (Paige Guthrie)
* M (Monet St. Croix)
* Skin (Angelo Espinosa)
* Synch (Everett Thomas)
* Chamber (Jonothon Starsmore)
* The New Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters
* Counting Genises
* The housekeeping implications of body horror
* The M retcon
* Continuity in costume design
* The Danger Grotto
* Emplate (somewhat)
* D.O.A.
* Penance (not that one)
* Scrabble burns
* An alternate take on power duplication
* Mondo ()
* The return of Nanny and the Orphanmaker
* Eliot ()
* A tentative friendship
* How the Age of Apocalypse comes to Generation X
* A movie that never fails to disappoint
* The vagaries of adaptation
* The best on-screen Emma Frost
* Gang emails of the 1990s
* Refrax
* Buff
* William Castle
* The comedic genealogy of Max Headroom
* Hatley Castle
* The 2019 Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
==The 2019 Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence in X-Cellence==
Award 	Winner
Writing 	Jonathan Hickman for House of X & Powers of X, X-Men, & New Mutants
Best Line Artist 	Pepe Larraz for House of X
Best Colorist 	Marte Gracia for House of X & Powers of X
Best Solo Series 	Shatterstar by Tim Seeley, Carlos Villa, Gerardo Sandoval, & company
Best Team Series 	Age of X-Man: X-Tremists by Leah Williams, George Jeanty, & company
Cyclops Has a Good Day Award 	X-Men #2
How Was This So Good? 	Age of X-Man
Best Callback 	Storm and Jean in House of X #5
About Damn Time 	History of the Marvel Universe #2
Ms. Lion Award for Best X-Pets 	Glob Herman's chickens in Age of X-Man: Next Gen
Live Your Best Life 	Captain Kate Pryde in Marauders
Where Have You Been All Our Lives 	Fred Dukes
Making Us Earn It 	Jonathan Hickman for House of X, Powers of X, and basically everything else
This Changes Everything 	House of X #2
One Day This Will Be a Cold Open 	Powers of X
Quentin Quire Award for Deeply Relatable Avatars of Rage Against the Establishment 	Northstar, in X-Tremists
You Tried 	Dark Phoenix
Irene Adler Memorial Award for Most Anticipated Upcoming Series 	Moira X
It's My Damn Podcast Award for Non-X Comic that Miles Liked 	Thor by Jason Aaron
Jay's Mutant Metaphor Award for Best Engagement with Current Political Themes in a Work of Fiction	Jojo Rabbit
Best Listeners of Any Podcast Ever 	You! All of you! Every single one of you! Even the ones who aren't actually listening to this episode.
Classic Corbeaus (for older X-material covered in the podcast during 2019) 	Classic Corbeaus (for older X-material covered in the podcast during 2019)
Buried Treasure 	Sabretooth: Death Hunt
ABD Award for Why Havok Still Hasn't Finished His Dissertation 	Dinosaurs... Again
Best Improbable Stowaway 	The giant squid in the very shallow water of the Morlock tunnels in Uncanny X-Men Annual #18
Fringe Curtain Award for Dangling Plot Threads 	Adam X, the Extreme
Christopher Summers Award for Most Awkward Family Reunion 	Siryn and Black Tom Cassidy in X-Force #31
Sarasota with Mountains Award for Baffling Re-invention of an Actual Place 	Earth-616 New Orleans
Heartbreak Hotel Scholarship for Intriguing But Underdeveloped Side Characters 	OG Askani in X-Men: Phoenix: Askani Rising
Erik the Red Award for Justifying the Existance of this Podcast 	Excalibur Soul Sword trilogy
All That for Nothing Award for Willingly Forgotten Retcons 	Revanche
Future Past Award for Most Anticipated Upcoming Series Coverage 	Age of Apocalypse
So Good We Covered It Twice and We'd Do it Again 	X-Men #30
You'll Laugh About This Later Award for Inadvertantly Hilarious Suversion of Tragedy 	Magneto for crashing Ilyana Rasputin's funeral in Uncanny X-Men #304
Best at Sex 	Shinobi Shaw
Chutzpah as a Superpower Award 	Evan Skolnick
It's Always Inferno Award for Most Granularly Constructed Debut or Event 	The Foounding of the New Xavier School and Generation X
Worst Makeover Award 	Time-stream be-mulletted Britanic
It Could Have Been Great Award for Unrealized Narrative Potential 	Haven
Layla Miller Award for Most Improved Character 	Shatterstar, Gaveedra-Seven
Lucy's Football Award for Something the X-Men Should Really See Coming at this Point 	Imprisoned Sabretooth trying to kill the X-Men like every ten seconds
Nathaniel Essex Award for Scenery Chewing Villainy 	Gravemoss
X-Factor Memorial Award for a Continuation That Should Have Been a Re-launch 	Excalibur
Katherine Pryde Award for Queer Subtext 	Bobby Drake in Uncanny X-Men #318
They Don't Make 'em Like That Anymore Award 	The dial-up Phalanx
Darmok Award for Best Addition to Our Allegorical Lexicon 	Shatterstar's remote control in X-Force #26
Calvin and Hobbes Award for Best Fictional Friendship 	Wolfsbane and Strong Guy in X-Factor
==Listener Questions==
==Links and Further Festivity==
* Jay Smooth’s timeless “In Defense of Humbug” turns 10 years old this year!
* The movie with the hipster fuckghost is The Spirit of Christmas, which involves disappointingly little ghostfucking but surprisingly accurate 19th-century bartending.
* Otterness’s “Life Underground” statues in NYC’s 14th St./8th Ave. Subway station have a lot in common with Bachalo’s marginalia.
* For more on the intersection of mutant and real-world politics, check out our 2017 RCCC special, Welcome to the Mutant Revolution!
* Follow Christina Strain on Twitter…
* …and check out her upcoming Netflix original movie, Finding Ohana!
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