Episode 319 - Giant-Size Special 9 (feat. Vita Ayala, Tini Howard, & Leah Williams)

==Episode Description== 
In which Jay and Miles receive a mysterious missive and are visited by three of our favorite X-writers; Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix is a pleasant surprise; Nathaniel Essex is the most dramatic man in the Marvel Universe; the sewers of Victorian London were a happenin’ place; Apocalypse isn’t even French; Beast is the flip-side of Sinister; community is for everyone; the Internet is (kind of) Krakoa; and death is fixable, but trauma might take a little more work.
==X-plained==
* A quotation
* -4
* A closed loop
* Time travel with Scott Summers and Jean Grey
* Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex)
* A somewhat excessive visual aid
* Beards
* Cootie Tremble
* The cultural context of sideshows
* The first Marauders and/or Nasty Boys
* Victorian Apocalypse
* Strained allegories
* Sanctity
* Apocalypse vs. the Hellfire Club
* Oscar the Somewhat Less Nasty Boy
* Varyingly anachronistic costuming
* The secret origin of ruby quartz
* A very vague objective
* A makeover
* A closed time loop
* Actual Cat Wizard Jonathan Hickman
* Something Jay is not in fact going to pitch to Marvel
* Creative dynamics and processes in the current X-line
* Revolutionary joy
* What’s cooler than one sword
* The Sixth Annual* Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
* Ed. note: Actually seventh
==The 2020 Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence==
==Links and Further Adventures==
* Follow our guests on Twitter!
** Vita Ayala
** Tini Howard
** Leah Williams
* How to Be a Mutant
==Listener Questions==
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