Episode 089 – Giant-Size Special 3

==Episode Description== __NOTOC__
In which Jay and Miles finally X-Plain some Excalibur; Kyle interviews the X-Perts; Logan gets up-close and personal with the X-Men; Elle casts Excalibur; Chris X-Plains Santa Claus; and you are still the best listeners of any podcast, ever.
==X-plained==
*Excalibur: The Sword Is Drawn
*Christmas at the X-Mansion
*The best hair in the Marvel Universe
*The not particularly secret origins of Excalibur
*Mojoverse anxiety dreams
*Warwolves
*Meggan
*Captain Britain (Brian Braddock)
*Sexiest Nightcrawler
*Technet (and several of its members)
*Gatecrasher
*Yap
*Omniversal Majestrix Opal Luna Saturnine
*The Special Executive
*Mutant intersectionality
*Why we chose the X-Men
*Favorite X-Spinoffs
*Our podcast-guest wish list
*The theoretical cast of an Excalibur movie
*Our ideal X-lineups
*Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
*The Second Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence in X-Cellence
*Marvel Holiday Special 1991
*Santa Claus
*The true meaning of Christmas
==The 2015 Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence in X-Cellence==
Award 	Winner
Best X-Writer 	Dennis Hopeless
Best X-Artist 	Mike Norton
Best X-Colorist 	Jordie Bellaire
Best Soap Opera 	Inferno
Irene Adler Award for Most Anticipated Upcoming Book or Series 	X-Men ’92 ongoing
Harvey and Janet Award for Best Walk-On 	Falcon Pirate (Wolverines #1)
About Damn Time 	Iceman comes out (All-New X-Men #40 and Uncanny X-Men #600)
Cyclops Has a Good Day Award 	Uncanny X-Men #600
Shameless Pandering 	X-Men ’92
MetaCorbeau for Exemplary Use of Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau in a Comic Book 	Al Ewing (Mighty Avengers #8)
Best Ongoing X-Series 	X-Force (w: Si Spurrier; a: various)
Rising Star 	Wolverine (Laura Kinney)
Best Withering Sneers* 	Kristafer Anka
The Didn’t-Fit-Into-Any-Other-Categories-and-Isn’t-Technically-an-X-Book-but-We-Wanted-to-Give-It-an-Award-Anyway Award	Siege (w: Kieron Gillen, a: Filipe Andrade)
Still the Best Listeners of Any Podcast, Ever 	YOU. Again.**
Classic Corbeaus (for older X-material covered in the podcast during 2015) 	Classic Corbeaus (for older X-material covered in the podcast during 2015)
Buried Treasure 	Fallen Angels
You Tried 	Magneto (New Mutants)
Jack Kirby Award for Best Intersection of Weird and Epic in a Single Character Design 	Walter Simonson (Archangel, X-Factor)
Improbably Endearing Moppet 	Franklin Richards
High Bar Award 	Bill Sienkiewicz (New Mutants)
Most Heroic Hair 	Alan Davis
Most Organized Supervillain 	Cameron Hodge
==Links and Further Reading==
*Episode 037 - Giant-Size Special 1
*Episode 062 – Giant-Size Special #2
*Secrets Behind the X-Men: Cosmic Comedy with Excalibur
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