Episode 229 - Giant-Size Special 7

==Episode Description== __NOTOC__
In which we are beset by festivity; Scott Summers still can’t take a vacation; the Daysprings are a really good family; “G’journey” is a really good greeting; Stryfe is his own namesake; retcons have served Cable well; illustrator David Wynne makes his X-Plain podcast debut; and you should probably go ahead and get a shelf for all these awards.
==X-plained==
* The Hayes family
* The Grey-Summers Family circa 1993
* -4
* Summers/Sommers disambiguation
* Gene Ha
* Time travel
* Earth-4935
* Mother Askani
* Prelate Ch’vayre
* What “Askani” means
* When and whether Cable sleeps
* The passage of time
* Slym and Redd Dayspring
* A biblical allusion
* A very good greeting
* Prior Turrin
* “Old” English
* Li’l Stryfe
* Some constraints of superhero comics
* Parenting
* Rachel Summers’s self-image
* The origin of Cable’s codename
* David Wynne and his art
* “Strontium Dogs”
* The X-Fandom starter pack
* The Fifth Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
* D&D with the Blue Team
* All-New staying power
* Fictional intersectionality
* Change, in general
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CORRECTION: In this episode, Miles states that Scott and Jean are cool. They are, in fact, categorically uncool. We regret the error.
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Special thanks to carolers Tina Carleton, Matt Gardner, Peter Gresser, Erin Pence, and Steve Pence!
==The 2018 Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence in X-Cellence==
Award 	Winner
Best Writer 	Tom Taylor for All New Wolverine & X-Men: Red
Best Line Artist 	German Peralta for Cable: Past Fears
Best Colorist 	Felippe Sobreiro for Generation X
Best Ongoing Solo Series 	Iceman by Sina Grace, Nathan Stockman, and Federico Blee
Best Ongoing Duo Series 	Mr. and Mrs. X by Kelly THompson, Oscar Bazaldua, and Frank D'Armata
Best Ongoing Team Series 	X-Men:Red by Tom Taylor and Mahmud Asrar
Best Oneshot 	X-Men Holiday Special by everyone and their uncle
How-Was-This-So-Good? Award for a Premise That Shouldn’t Have Worked But Did 	Infinity Warps: Weapon Hex by Acker & Blacker, Gerarso Sandoval, and Israel Silva
Cyclops Has a Good Day 	Extermination #5
Best Callback 	Chip Zdarsky for X-Men Holiday Special
About Damn Time 	Seanan McGuire is finally, finally writing X-Books
Phoenix Award for Best Resurrection 	Jean Grey
The Hero We Need 	Adam Gorham for tireless championing of Shatterstar's butt and Leah Williams for making everything gay
One Day This Will Be a Cold Open 	Multiple Man by Matthew Rosenberg, Andy MacDonald, and Tamra Bonvillain
May Parker Memorial Scholarship for Superheroes Based in Queens 	Shatterstar
False Foreshadowing 	Wang Beams
Orison Award for Most Awkwardly Blatant Euphemism 	Hand holding as a stand-in for incest on TV show The Gifted
It’s Complicated Award for Intriguing but Uncomfortable Story Elements 	Psylocke going back to her original body in a side mini-series in a sort of awkward way
Irene Adler Memorial Award for Most Anticipated Upcoming Series 	Astonishing Nightcrawler
Best Non-X Marvel Comic 	West Coast Avengers by Kelly Thomspon and Stefano Caselli
We Just Really Wanted to Give This an Award Award 	Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Best Listeners of Any Podcast Ever, Forever 	You! All of you! Every single one of you!
Classic Corbeaus (for older X-material covered in the podcast during 2018) 	Classic Corbeaus (for older X-material covered in the podcast during 2018)
Buried Treasure 	Wolverine: Killing
ABD Award for Why Havok Still Hasn't Finished His Dissertation 	The Government
Turbine Manacle Award for Things That Are Totally Normal in Earth 616. 	Fixing broken jaws by gluing random bits of tech to their outsides
This is How We Live Now Award for Most Pervasive Memetic or Lexical Contribution 	Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure for introducing the word "honkers" to our vocabularies
Christopher Summers Award for Most Awkward Family Reunion 	Dracula and his daughter Lilith
Erik the Red Award for Justifying the Existence of this Podcast 	X-Cutioner's Song
Future Past Award for Most Anticipated Upcoming Series Coverage 	Generation X
Body and Soul Award for Furthering the Narrative Evolution of the X Line 	Fabian Nicieza
Thank God it's Not The Thundercats Award for Beloved Childhood Character or Concept that Actualy Holds Up Decades Later	Lucas Bishop
All That for Nothing Award for Willfully Forgotten Retcons 	Fabian Nicieza for Nova Roma retcon in New Warriors #31
Dear Diary Award for Character Who Know None of You Will Ever Understand the Depth of His Pain 	Stryfe
In Your Face-Turn Award for Most-Improved Comic 	X-Force
Layla Miller Award for Most Improved Character 	Cable
Picture in the Tapestry Award for Elegant Resolution of Dropped Continuity Threads 	Alan Davis for Excalibur
For Me it was Tuesday Award for Most Casual Murder in an X-book 	Trevor Fitzroy for offing the Hellions mostly just to look cool
Do You Have a License for That Award for Most Dubious Professional Performance 	Leonard Sampson
Utopia Award for the Homeland We Have Dreamed of for So Long 	Flame Con
They Don't Make 'em Like That Anymore Award for Very Bronze-Agey Bit of the Bronze Age 	Magneto's intense feelings about the smallest man in the world as portrayed in Captain America Annual #4
Jay Just Came Here to Have a Good Time and He is Feeling So Attacked Award for Uncomfortably Relatable Failure 	Cyclops running away to Alaska to get out of an awkward conversation in X-Men #20
==Listener Questions==
==Links and Further Festivity==
* David Wynne is awesome! Here’s where you can find him on the Internet:
** Tumblr
** Twitter
** David’s Comics:
*** Space Escape
*** Unsworn
*** Ideasman
*** Particle Fiction
*** On Comixology
** Josh & Jamie Do Daredevil
* The Apocrypals pretty much do what we do, but for the bible!
* The Fantasticast pretty much does what we do, but for the Fantastic Four!
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