Episode 258 - True Believers, Opportunists, and Crooks (feat. Lisa Winters)

== Episode Description ==
In which Lisa Winters pinch-hits for Jay, we take a trip to the newspaper funnies and back, Spider-Man and Beast are natural BFFs, nothing good ever happens at the Brand Corporation, and “mutant” can be a pretty fuzzy concept.
== X-Plained ==
* Bessie the Hellcow
* Spider-Man: Mutant Agenda (the newspaper strip storyline)
* (the comic book miniseries)
* Spider-Man: Mutant Agenda (the cartoon episodes)
* Four-color hoards
* Three-panel newspaper comic structure
* Sunday strips (and their Mark Trail deceptions)
* Hero Jaws – a breakfast-based theory
* Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
* The Brand Corporation
* The Beast (Henry McCoy)
* Narratively convenient Spider Sense
* Hobgoblin (Jason Macendale Jr.)
* Goblin gliders
* Picket signs (*air horn sound*)
* Finger blasters (heh)
* Laser cages
* Arcade’s superpower flowcharts
* Mutants: newspaper versus comic continuity
* Coming home to the 90s
* Lisa’s favorite X-Man
* Beast’s versatile character design
* Spider-to-X ratios
* Dark, tortured heroes
* Herbert Landon’s selective memory
* Confirmation bias
* Anti-mutant cancer goo
* Ironic reversals
* Wolverine, the most marketable mutant
* Evil British accents
* The most adaptable Spider-Man / X-Men crossovers
* The X-Men and the newspaper funnies
== Listener Questions ==
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