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Episode 183 - Mutant Death Factor

*David is on vacation this week! We hope you enjoy this substitute illustration of two gentlemen enjoying each other’s company.*

## Episode Description

In which Miles is almost caught up on *The Gifted* (but still hasn’t seen *The Prisoner* and should be very ashamed of himself); Omega Red is a cool action figure but a boring character; Professor Xavier definitely knows what you did last night; Fenris remains delightfully trashy; Weapon X had an improbably high survival rate; Sabretooth cleans up pretty well; we need to work some new rules for dividing up character voices; the Mojoverse has terrible employee benefits; and mongoose blood will definitely not give you superpowers.

## X-Plained:

* Refugees from the Age of Apocalypse
* Creative use of teleportation
* X-Modifiers
* Jay & Miles at Emerald City Comic Con
* *X-Men vol. 2 #4*-7
* The sitcom model of creative logistics
* One way to bring someone back to life
* Mutant Death Factor
* Omega Red (Arkady Gregorivich)
* Wolverine’s school pictures
* Gambit’s ponytail and the logistics thereof
* Sex at the X-Mansion
* Fenris fashion
* Ritualistic facepalming
* Moira MacTaggert’s nightmares
* Formalwear and motorcycle safety
* An elegantly choreographed cockblock
* Retracting tentacle logistics
* Carbonadium synthesizers
* Dr. Pepper Twizzlers
* Ponytails as moral compasses
* Sabretooth’s excellent taste in formalwear
* Ornithology
* Those big, weird tube handcuff things
* Cyclops and Wolverine’s eventual friendship
* The return of Longshot
* What would happen if you gave a human a transfusion of mongoose blood
* Some X-Cellent fanfiction
* X-details we’d change

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.

## Links & Further Reading

* COME SEE US AT EMERALD CITY COMIC CON! We’ll be at T-11 in Artist Alley all weekend; check back here for panel and party details!
* I’m fairly sure I’ve linked to “Class of ’64” before, but it’s one of the best-developed reimaginings of the X-Men I’ve found, in or out of canon.
* Unfortunately, R. Orion Martin’s “X-Men of Color” series no longer appears to be online, but you can learn more about it here and here. (Also worth reading: Darryl Ayo’s rebuttal to Martin’s article.)
Episode 006 - Days of Future Whatever

## Episode Description

In which we more or less prepare you for the upcoming feature film; Rachel Summers is a black hole of continuity; Kitty Pryde breaks the Danger Room; Earth 200500 is clearly the best earth; even the X-Men have no idea what’s going on; First Class Emma Frost is so boring that we forget she exists; wolverines are definitely not wolves; and you can have Rachel’s Community references when you pry them from her cold, dead hands.

## X-Plained

* Rachel Summers
* “Days of Future Past”
* Gravestone engraving standards of 2013
* The Mostly-New, Mostly-Different Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
* Another unfortunate hat
* Causality in the Marvel Multiverse
* Earths 811, 1191, 295, 311, and 200500
* Hall monitors with laser rifles
* How to fix a broken timeline
* The X-Men cinematic universe, and points of divergence from the comics
* The one thing X-Men: The Last Stand does right
* The Xavier Index of Cinematic Continuity
* The difference between Canis lupus and Gulo gulo
* A Days of Future Past cinematic cram course
* Fix-it fic
* Blink, Bishop, and dark-future mash-ups
* The enduring appeal of Earth-811
* The significantly less enduring appeal of Earth-242
* The Nazi Excalibur of Earth-597

## Listener Questions

* It's been 30 years since DoFP. Why does this storyline keep getting mined?
* What, in your estimation, is truly the DARKEST X-Men timeline and why? Show your work.
Episode 254 - Carry Each Other

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Nicole Miller is fashion designer to Earth-1218 *and* Earth-616, Jay rejects the word “bestest”, we kind of want to just read every word of *X-Men* #30 aloud, *One* is a perfect wedding song for Scott and Jean, and you save the last dance for who brought you.

## X-Plained

* The perils of animated weddings
* *X-Men: The Wedding Album*
* Nonstandard trim sizes
* Misattributed Oscar Wilde quotes
* Shatterstar’s favorite Olympic event
* Jean Grey’s short-lived modeling career
* Computo, Commander of the Robot Hive
* A most excellent wedding dress
* Cursive fonts in comics
* Jean Grey and Jubilation Lee, ambiguously excellent chosen family
* *X-Men #30*
* An event decades in the making
* Wolverine, Master of Penmanship
* Charles Xavier, reader stand-in
* The largely forgotten Madelyne Pryor
* The understandably tentative Rachel Summers
* The bow-tie scene
* A phenomenal two-page spread
* A set of perfect vows
* A bittersweet song for a bittersweet couple
* Victor Creed, vengeful kitty-cat
* Rogue and Gambit, best worst wedding guests
* Video albums vs. Instagram
* Beast and Banshee, jazz combo
* Scott and Jean as a couple vs. individuals
* The necessity of Scott and Jean’s relationship context

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Episode 250 - Minding the DNA, feat. Fabian Nicieza

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which writer Fabian Nicieza joins us to talk ‘90s crossovers, narrative legacies, and what Adam X’s word balloons really sound like!

Special thanks to Shatterstarologist Charlie of The Young Ones for lending their X-Pertise to the cold open!

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Episode 170 - Minor Punitive Heart Attacks

## Episode Description

In which Miles speculates about superheroes’ sex lives; Doctor Doom is an incorrigible scamp; the Lady of the Lake visits California; Captain Britain lacks basic superheroic social skills; Jay has strong feelings about doggerel; the warwolves know how to commit to a bit; and Excalibur and the X-Men continue to have terrible communication skills.

## X-Plained

* One aspects of doombot functionality
* *Excalibur* #37-41
* The Soul Sword’s origins and current status
* Promethium
* Semantic disambiguation with regards to Limbo
* The West Coast Avengers
* The Lady of the Swimming Pool
* Doctor Doom’s personal demons
* Several team-ups
* The heart of Limbo
* Phoenix science
* Darkoth the Demon (Desmond Pitt)
* The Trial of Lockheed
* A long-awaited reunion that isn’t actually a long-awaited reunion
* A theoretical Frost-Summers wedding
* What happened to Jen Askani post- “Endgame”

## Listener Questions

* Hey! Writing a fanfic and I thought I would ask the X-Perts this question. If back during the pre-Schism Utopia days Scott and Emma had gotten married, who would've been the bridesmaids and the groomsmen?
* Whatever happened to Jen Askani, anyway? Did she get retconned out after future Rachel got the credit for everything that happened with baby Nathan? Has she ever been mentioned in later iterations of Cable's backstory?
Episode 350 - The Xavier Protocols

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which we celebrate a milestone with a special collectible episode; there may already be a Charles Xavier in your basement; Onslaught lacks subtlety; Bill Watterson may or may not have changed his licensing policy on Earth-616; guns should not have hair; and Jay once again exercises his questionable lyrical skills.

## X-plained

* *Excalibur* #100
* *Fantastic Four* #415
* *X-Factor* #125
* *X-Men* #55
* Onslaught (more) (again)
* The Xavier Protocols
* The many secret subbasements of Charles Francis Xavier
* The Xavier Protocols
* An extremely poor file-retrieval system
* Onslaught vs. the Fantastic Four
* Li’l Charlie
* A circus, kind of
* Lang disambiguation
* Onslaught’s new look
* Onslaught vs. several Avengers
* An unlicensed rug
* The only thing Bill Watterson loves
* Metaphorical Turkish delight
* The Brand Corporation (more) (again)
* Dark Descendents
* Hairy guns
* *Caps for Sale*
* A really big fight
* A very dramatic EMP
* Why Onslaught looks like that

“Magneto’s Cape” lyrics by Jay Edidin, with apologies to Marsha Norman. Performed by Steve Pence and Adam Faruqi and produced by Adam Faruqi.

CORRECTION: *There are only three variant covers to this episode, not four; Jen Vaughn had to bow out due to other commitments.*

## Links & Further Choices

* *Caps for Sale* is a real and delightful book!
* “Magneto’s Cape” is based on “Lily’s Eyes” from the excellent Secret Garden musical.

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Episode 089 – Giant-Size Special 3

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

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

## 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
Episode 174 - Ed Piskor's Grand Design

## Episode Description

In which Jay sits down with cartoonist Ed Piskor to talk about the upcoming *X-Men:Grand Design*!

## Listener Questions

* Were Doug Ramsey and Kitty Pryde in on the phone freaking scene?
* If you had to recast the original five X-Men with hip hop artists, which five would you choose?
* Have you seen the Magneto Mural on Penn Avenue?
* When does the first issue of X-Men: Grand Design come out?
Episode 020 - The Brood They Carried

## Episode Description

In which Claremont levels up; the Brood are legitimately scary; Colossus is an ethical dude; Nightcrawler and Wolverine share beers in the face of certain death; Storm turns into a space whale; we are Carol Corps for life; New Mutants are really into Magnum, P.I.; Kitty meets a dragon; and Xavier dies (again).

## X-Plained

* Broo
* The Brood Saga (X-Men #161-167)
* Paul Smith
* Space fashion
* A really terrible awards ceremony
* Tim O’Brien’s X-Men
* The Brood
* How to tell a good Wolverine story
* Rocket sharks
* The single most badass magical-girl transformation sequence of all time
* Binary
* The X-Men’s Kobayashi Maru
* Friendship (more) (again)
* The Acanti
* Whether Cyclops watches Star Trek
* The New Mutants
* Cloning
* Our secret cold-open formula
* Cosmic crossovers

## Listener Questions

* Is there any topic you've tried to use an opening and found that it just doesn't work?
* Are there any notable crossovers between X-Men including cosmic folk (Starjammers, Shi'ar, etc.) and the rest of cosmic Marvel?
* Wolverine's famous for being the grumpiest lone not actually a wolf there is. But one of my favorite things about him is the adamantium strength BFF broship he has with Nightcrawler. Nightcrawler seems to be the one person out there that Wolverine busts out all the emotions for, from fearful concern to outright huggy joy. What's your take? How important do you feel this relationship is for both characters?
Episode 027 - NYCC 2014 Special with Kris Anka and Russell Dauterman

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which we sit down with two of our favorite X-artists for an hour of continuity, character design, and a lot of wine; Corsair is the coolest; Emma Frost is a secret viewpoint character; Bishop is the anti-Booster Gold; Adam X the X-Treme gets a new hat; and none of us know how to pronounce “Bachalo.”

## X-Plained

* The secret X-origins of Kris Anka and Russell Dauterman
* Definitive books and artists
* Favorite characters and series
* Mephistoid spacesuit logistics
* Emma Frost as a reader stand-in
* The secret origin of Psylocke’s pants
* Uncanny X-Men
* The best flashback montage ever
* Underappreciated / underdeveloped characters
* All the Rogues
* Plot twists
* Bishop
* Dream teams
* Sexy dudes with sexy abs
* How to update Adam X the X-Treme
Episode 080 – For the Mutant Who Has Everything

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which we go back in time to take a look at two annuals; everyone is really excited about Excalibur; Claremont ups his illusion game; Horde should probably not be allowed to dress himself; Rachel fires the X-Men; Havok needs better role models; Psylocke’s secondary mutation is femme power; Kyle X-Plains giant monsters; we check in with Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau; and you should totally come see us at Vegas Valley Comic-Book Festival on November 7!

## X-Plained

* Dazzler’s powers
* Uncanny X-Men Annual #11
* Uncanny X-Men Annual #7
* New Mutants Annual #3
* The Hostage, by Brendan Behan
* Wolverine vs. Historical Fiction
* Horde and his amazing outfit
* The Citadel of light and shadow
* The fantasy lives of X-Men
* Things to do with a shed human skin
* The secret origin of Wolverine’s overactive healing factor
* The Impossible Man (and how to defeat him)
* The Shogun Warriors
* What happened to Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau
* Powers we don’t like
* Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival

## Listener Questions

* Whatever happened to Peter Corbeau? Based on what I could find on Dr. Internet, it seems like he just faded into obscurity.
* You mentioned something you didn't like, but I'd like you to expand on it a but. What powers and characters are too "cutesy" or "obvious"?
Episode 165 - Pop Rocks

## Episode Description

In which Charles Xavier returns to the pages of *Uncanny X-Men*; Storm is out of our league forever; Miles would be a terrible president; Psylocke picks up the frequent-shower torch; everyone gets possessed; Gambit acts more Sinister than he is; and our NYCC panel is definitely on THURSDAY, not Friday.

## X-Plained

* The Pantheon
* *Uncanny X-Men* #275-277
* Dinosaurs in space
* A very impressive cover
* Several kinds of manacle
* Small children we’d like to see beat up Gladiator
* Varying levels of Evil Charles Xavier
* A nefarious plan
* Double death
* FailCat Logan
* Two bad, beautiful babes with really big guns
* Some excellent sound effects
* Awesome space fights
* Shopping with Deathbird
* Mall vs. maul
* X-archenemies
HAWK TALK - Video Renaissance

## Episode Description

This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about the movies we grew up on!

## Topics, roughly

* The glories of VHS
* Flight of Dragons
* Fantastic Planet
* Star(s), both Wars and Trek
* The Princess Bride, which is objectively perfect
* The Dark Crystal
* My Dinner With Andre (again)
* The Crow
* Barbarella, Queen of the Galaxy
* Help
* Yellow Submarine
* Wayne & Garth & Bill & Ted
* Defending Your Life
* Ghostbusters
* Various musicals
Episode 215 - Mon de Orb Uno

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which we finally emerge from the other side of X-Cutioner’s Song; rich people are different from us; Brian Braddock is probably not comfortable with menstruation; Dai Thomas cleans up pretty well; someone FINALLY remembers Sat-Yr-9; Psylocke knows how to defend herself from a man armed with a banana; the (non-Internet) trolls return; and we are fairly sure that Gambit does not actually speak French.

## X-Plained

* Winzeldorf
* *Excalibur* (so far)
* *Excalibur* #55-58
* Lip massage
* The death of Alysande Stuart
* A banana fight
* Alchemy (again)
* Many trolls
* A fairly joyous reunion
* The Brussels Sewer Museum
* A fake heel turn
* Our hopes and worries for the New Mutants movie
* Comics covers

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Episode 296 - Hard Choices

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Magneto doesn’t really do work/live divide; *Amazing X-Men* is a bit of a misnomer; Exodus is the lawful evil to Fabian Cortez’s chaotic evil; smoking is bad for you; moisture molecular inversion is fairly definitely not a real thing; Earth-295 Quicksilver and Earth-616 Cyclops would probably get along; OSHA would probably like a word with the Madrii; Gambit had ONE JOB; and there are no superheroes in the Age of Apocalypse.

CORRECTION: The line about fence-straddling that Jay attributed to Wonder Woman was in fact spoken by Hawkgirl.

## X-Plained

* An unlikely team-up
* Relative amazingness
* *Amazing X-Men* #1-~~5~~4
* Color separations
* Comics credits
* The Brotherhood of Mutants and/or Chaos
* The Great Human Airlift
* Exodus (more) (again)
* Best Quicksilver (Earth-295)
* Abyss
* A dubiously aerodynamic cape
* One last job
* Several points of semantic distinction
* Lone Nanny & Cub
* The most punchable man on Earth-295
* A difficult choice
* What it means to be X-Men
* Dick Valentine
* Jamie Madrox (Earth-295)
* A world without superheroes
* Universe numbering

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
HAWK TALK - Call Any Vegetable

## Episode Description

This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about vegetables. Kind of.

## Topics, roughly

* Vegetables. Like we said.
* Is Apocalypse a fruit?
* Ghost vs. slime trees
* Dwarves in the rutabagas
* Ramen mishaps
* How to be less terrible at cooking
* Cherimoya, that weirdo
Chris Claremont

## External links

Marvel Database: Chris Claremont (Earth-1218)

Wikipedia: Chris Claremont

Website: Chris Claremont

Instagram: Chris Claremont

**Chris Claremont** is a comic book writer and novelist, and the longest-serving writer on *Uncanny X-Men*, from 1975 until 1991.

## Selected X-Men related work

* *Uncanny X-Men #94*-279 (1975)
* *New Mutants* #1-54 (1983)
* Lots more

## X-Plain appearances

* Episode 100 – Unexpected Wonder, with Chris Claremont
* Episode 168 - Live at NYCC, feat. Chris Claremont & Louise Simonson

## Mentions

* Most episodes up until episode 180 or so.
Max Carleton

## ***Max Carleton***

### First podcast appearance

Episode 115 - So Many Teeth (feat. Max Carleton)

## External links

Twitter: @amadcartoonist

Tumblr: Waiting for the Trade

Website: Welcome to Television

**Max Carleton** makes comics about comics.

## Hosts

* Welcome to Storybrooke
* Welcome to Halliwell Manor
* Welcome to the Uncharted Territories

## X-Plain appearances

* Episode 115 - So Many Teeth (feat. Max Carleton)
* Episode 125 - Giant-Size Special 4
* Episode 239 - Rap and Rumble (feat. Max Carleton)
Retcon

**Retcon** is short for "retroactive continuity". A staple of long-running comics, it refers to any fact that is contradicted or altered by later material. An instance of this is known as a "retcon", and it can also be used as a verb ("they totally retconned that, she's actually still alive").

Perhaps the most (in)famous example of a major X-Men retcon is the death of Jean Grey, as X-plained (primarily) in episodes 021 and 053.

As mentioned way back in Episode 001 - The Strangest Podcast of Them All, retconning is the X-Men's second mutant power.

## X-Plained in:

Episodes that X-plain major retcons in the X-Men universe:

### Retcons in general

* Episode 001 - The Strangest Podcast of Them All

### The "death" of Jean Grey

* Episode 021 - Kurt Busiek at the Coffee-a-Go-Go
* Episode 053 - Sometimes They Come Back

## Recommended reading:

Storylines featuring retcons recommended by listeners.
Episode 320 - The Accountability Wagon

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Pete Wisdom is the guy you love to glare at; Nightcrawler is right (and a delightfully complex individual); Colossus has a lot of issues; and Wolfsbane gets the confrontation we’ve been waiting for since the *New Mutants* graphic novel.

## X-plained

* Wolfsbane’s powers
* *Excalibur* #91-93
* The somewhat nebulous age of Kitty Pryde
* Betrayal
* What’s been up on Muir Isle
* Organized sports, Excalibur-style
* Pubs and what happens in them
* Drinking with Excalibur
* Shovel talks
* Phonetic accents, redeemed
* A fairly one-sided fight
* Colossus’s issues (more) (again)
* Anatomy and physiology of organic steel
* Accountability, trauma, and their intersections
* An exceptionally cathartic confrontation
* A hoodie Jay desperately wants
* Where cold opens come from
* Whether and how Gambit passes for human

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Sina Grace

## External links

Marvel Database: Sina Grace

Wikipedia: Sina Grace

Twitter: @SinaGrace

Website: Sina Grace

**Sina Grace** writes comics.

## X-Men related work

* *Iceman* Vol 3 #1-11 (2017)
* *Iceman* Vol 3 #1-4 (2018)
* *Merry X-Men Holiday Special* #1- (2018)

## X-Plain appearances

* Episode 154 - Leaning into the Metaphor (feat. Sina Grace)
* X-TRA - FlameCon 2017 Sofa Special, feat. Sina Grace, James Tynion IV, and Niki Johnson
* Episode 213 - Live from FlameCon, feat. Sina Grace, Magdalene Visaggio, and Leah Williams
Episode 297 - Blood Is Compulsory

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Nate Grey is a drama kid; Forge-295 is the hero we need; Mister Sinister is a graduate of the Danielle “Moonstar” Moonstar school of secret identities; and we really, really, really wish that the theater troupe had gotten the ongoing series.

## X-Plained

* Just how powerful Nate Grey is
* X-Man’s somewhat baffling ongoing appeal
* *X-Man* #1-4
* A theater company
* The Best Forge (Earth-295)
* Toad (Earth-295)
* Sauron (Earth-295)
* Brute (Earth-295)
* An extended Tom Stoppard allusion
* “Essex”
* Domino (Earth-295)
* Theater in and as resistance
* An ineffectual ruse
* A lot of death
* Caliban (Earth-295)
* A family reunion
* The story we really wanted out of this series
* The *X-Man* ongoing series
* Chronically missing New Mutants
* X-arcs we’d like to see animated

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Greg Rucka

## External links

Marvel Database: Greg Rucka (Earth-1218)

Wikipedia: Greg Rucka

Twitter: @ruckawriter

Website: Greg Rucka.com

Greg Rucka writes comic books and novels.

## Selected X-Men related work

* *X-Men Unlimited* #38 (2002)
* *Elektra and Wolverine: The Redeemer* #1-3 (2002) (novella with illustrations by Yoshitaka Amano)
* *Wolverine* Vol 3 #1-19 (2003-2004)
* *Cyclops* Vol 3 #1-5 (2014)

## Appears in

* Episode 007 - Cyclops Has a Good Day
* Episode 028 - What’s New, Shadowcat?
* Episode 085 – Secret Convergence on Infinite Podcasts (as the voice of the Beyonder)

## Mentioned in

* Episode 016 - The Official Unofficial Not-at-SDCC (Rachel and Miles X-Plain the) X-Men Panel
HAWK TALK - Hawktober

## Episode Description

This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about our current, and Jay’s favorite, season.

## Topics, roughly

* Beatni(c)ks
* Spoopiness vs. Spookiness
* Fat bears
* Seasons (and hemispheres)
* Symbolism and secular ritual
* Jay’s very specific Halloween costumes
* Disappointing bats
* Asymmetrically recognizable couples’ costumes
* Inaccurate TMNT journalism
* Over the Garden Wall
* Costume Quest
* MediEvil
* Silent Hill playthroughs
* The Adventures of Pete and Pete
* Corn and/or mud mazes
* Knitting
* Ginger Snaps (and elaborate homages)
* Curious chickens
* Vincent Price
* Internal hairdo buttresses
* Flannel and layers and warm drinks
Jay and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 81

## Episode Description

In which Extraordinary X-Men finally lives up to its name; Jay and Miles accidentally wear matching shirts (but don’t bother to change); and Jay fails to come up with something exciting to put in the video-description copy.

## Reviewed

* Extraordinary X-Men #9 (Pick of the week)
	+ Written by Jeff Lemire
	+ Pencils by: Humberto Ramos
	+ Inks by: Victor Olazaba
	+ Colors by: Edgar Delgado
Episode 228 - Thinkin’ Shorts

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which it *still* sucks to be a Rasputin; John Romita Jr. has a solid, if muscular, grasp of anatomy; Jay and Miles are better exes than Forge and anyone; and Cannonball’s many younger siblings have *almost* prepared him for running X-Force.

## X-Plained

* Peters Parker
* *The Merry X-Men Holiday Special*
* Comic book release schedules vs. *J&MXPtXM*
* *Uncanny X-Men* #301-302
* Trevor F\*\*king Fitzroy, possibly the worst Upstart
* Comics Code Authority closeting versus real-life closeting
* 21st Century Torture Devices
* Risky mood fonts
* Robert’s Rules of Upstart Order (this week)
* Gamesmaster vs. the Isolationist
* Shinobi Shaw: Good At Sex
* Russian tragedy (more, again)
* Charles Xavier and his poor decisions
* Shi’ar tech support
* Pants and villainy
* Racist jerks vs. rhetorical questions
* TIME PARADOX
* Weirdly specific contingencies
* Piotr Rasputin and his justified fury
* *X-Force* #24
* Meaningless (but fun!) timestamps
* The Friends of Humanity (who are not our friends)
* Rusty and Skids’ latest arrest
* Disappointed Dad Sam Guthrie
* Action vs. public perception
* Vinz Clortho
* Domino’s continuing quest to figure out what exactly an X-Force is
* The dramatic return of… well, you know
* Spacesuit logistics
* Numerical universe designations
* Plastic Warlock

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Episode 336 - Serpents in Eden, feat. Si Spurrier

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which writer Si Spurrier joins us to talk Nightcrawler, the unsustainability of Krakoa, bringing back Legion, the stuff growing on Dr. Nemesis’s head, Welsh accents, founding (and not founding) a mutant religion, and—yes—Onslaught.

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 27

==Episode Description==
In which Miles once again holds down the fort, and Rachel is too tired to come up with more engaging copy than this.

## Reviewed

* All-New X-Men #38
* Spider-Man and the X-Men #3
* Amazing X-Men #17
* Wolverines #8
* Uncanny Avengers #2
* Avengers World #17 (Pick of the week)

## Jay's Addendum

I kind of love Miles’s vague implication that I’m cooling my heels in Mexico until things blow over.

Here are my very short and sleep-deprived addenda to the reviews:

*All-New X-Men #38*

Often, “very Bendis” is a compliment. This is not one of those times: the cleverness comes at the expense of characters’ voices. Not exactly bad, but frustrating. I’m pretty damn excited about Teen Space Pirate Cyclops to the rescue, though; and the fact that that probably means a more organic end to the Cyclops ongoing than the abrupt cancellation I was sort of expecting.

*Spider-Man and the X-Men #3*

This is the ideal use of this team, and I feel really good about it and also about Ernst busting down walls. The first few issues were fun but kind of flailing; here, it feels like the book is really finding its voice and catching its stride.

*Amazing X-Men #17*

Too busy cracking up at the return of one of my favorite dumb Silver-Age villains to objectively review this.

*Wolverines #8*

***Um, actually, Miles, both Fang’s debut and the incident in which Wolverine stole his costume took place during the M’Kraan Crystal storyline, not the Dark Phoenix Saga.***

That said, there is literally nothing about this issue that I did not enjoy immensely. Also, I really hope that Fang and Volstagg turn out to be buddies, because they obviously should be.

*Uncanny Avengers #2*

Meh. I’m having trouble caring about this storyline. I recognize that Acuña is objectively good at what he does, but at the same time, his art completely fails to hold my attention, which sort of sums up my feelings on this series in general.
Episode 359 - Meanwhile in Britain

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Excalibur has a lot going on; Margali Szardos is never up to any good; Nightcrawler grows into leadership; we delve into the politics of superheroism; Pete Wisdom earns his keep; Miles catches a *Prisoner* reference; and we reach the end of Warren Ellis’ *Excalibur*.

## X-plained

* John the Skrull
* *Excalibur* #100-103
* The current state of Excalibur
* Black Air (again)
* The Hellfire Club (London Branch)
* Australia
* Margali Szardos (more)
* Demonic ethernet
* Captain Britain’s new-old suit
* Emma Steed
* *Dune*
* Several fights
* Combat IT
* Boolean definitions of madness
* The Department
* Laserdisks
* Patriotism
* Many doppelgangers
* Nightcreeper
* Another reference to Dante’s *Inferno*

## Links & Further Backstory

* We covered the preceding events in Excalibur in Episode 337 - Wild Genes and Old Magic!

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Episode 348 - Onslaught Continues

## Episode Description

In which all the heroes fight each other, a lot.

## X-plained

* Teenage Iron Man
* Onslaught thus far
* What Onslaught wants
* *Uncanny X-Men* #335
* *X-Men Unlimited* #11
* *Avengers* #401
* The rebirth of Apocalypse
* The Apocalocophagous
* The Age of Wonders
* X-Man vs. Professor X
* Nate Grey-sitting
* Humanity’s Last Stand
* Simon Trask
* Bastion
* Rogue and Joseph
* Avengers fashion
* Assumptions
* Other characters who could merge Onslaught-style
* Origins of the Angry Claremontean Narrator

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Kurt Busiek

## ***Kurt Busiek***

### First podcast appearance

Episode 021 - Kurt Busiek at the Coffee-a-Go-Go

## External links

Marvel Database: Kurt Busiek (Earth-1218)

Wikipedia: Kurt Busiek

Twitter: @KurtBusiek

Website: Busiek.com

Kurt Busiek writes comic books.

## X-Men related work

* *Marvels* #1-4 (1993)
* *Spider-Man and X-Factor: Shadowgames* #1-3 (1994)

## Appears in

* Episode 021 - Kurt Busiek at the Coffee-a-Go-Go
The Drinking Game

Certain tropes recur far too often to not commemorate them. Jay and Miles do this by telling the listeners to "Take a Drink!" These tropes include Kitty Pryde and bad costumes, ruined costumes, and repetition of various Claremontisms.

Episodes and Drinks:

24: 5

29: 2

33: 1 (steal)

36: 5 (but they say ignore a few)

41: 2

48: 1

63: 1

74: 5 (and a half)

79: 1 (another from bottle)

89: 1

99: 2 (and a beer back)

101: 1 (and one from a previous episode)

107: 1 (and then continue)

109: 1

114: 2 (bad vodka and continue)

120: 2

124: 1

129: 1
Episode 343 - The Water Cooler of Violence

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which X-Force carries on the New Mutants’ tradition of property damage; a *lot* of people have infiltrated Helicarriers; G.W. Bridge makes it weird; Gamesmaster returns to no particular end; and we go back in time to cover the origins of Chris Bradley.

## X-plained

* The deaths of several Worthingtons
* *X-Force* #55-56
* *X-Men Unlimited* #8
* A legacy of explosions
* *Uncanny X-Men* #333 (briefly) (again)
* A heist
* Several of the many characters who had successfully infiltrated Helicarriers as of 1996
* Dum Dum Dugan
* Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine
* The glory days off LASER tag
* Church fights
* Subtext
* The Weisman Institute for the Criminally Insane (more) (again)
* How to pronounce “Risque”
* Chris Bradley
* Hans Jensen
* Nostalgia goggles and their absence
* Civilian awareness of cosmic Marvel
* Asgard, Oklahoma
* Annalee

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 17

==Episode Description==
In which we face another eight-book week, Miles makes Nauck faces, and Leverage-but-in-the-1940s-and-starring-Mystique-and-Destiny is Rachel’s favorite imaginary TV show.

## Reviewed

* X-Men #22
* Axis #7
* Spider-Man and the X-Men #1
* X-Force #13
* Nightcrawler #9
* Amazing X-Men #14 (Pick of the week)
* Death of Wolverine: The Logan Legacy #6
* Uncanny X-Men Annual #1
Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau

Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau (his full name, as far as this wiki is concerned) is the greatest character in the Marvel Universe. There's absolutely nothing he can't do. He has his own jaunty sailor theme that usually plays whenever he is discussed by Jay and Miles.

The Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence in X-Cellence are named in his honour.

## X-Plained in:

* Episode 017 - The Island of Dr. Corbeau

## Mentioned in:

* Episode 026 - The Other Team America
* Episode 037 - Giant-Size Special 1
* Episode 080 – For the Mutant Who Has Everything (listener question)

## Marvel Encyclopedia

* Peter Corbeau at the Marvel Universe wiki.
Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 25

==Episode Description==
In which Rachel is out sick, Miles perseveres in the face of adversity, and X-Force goes out with a bang.

## Reviewed

* Guardians of the Galaxy #24
* X-Men #24
* Nightcrawler #11
* All-New X-Men #36
* Cyclops #10
* Wolverines #6
* X-Force #15 (Pick of the week)

## Panel of the Week

Miles' Panel from All-New X-Men #36

Panel of the Week from X-Men #24
Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 50

==Episode Description==
In which it’s a pretty good week across the board; Dennis Hopeless is the wind beneath our wings; X-Men ’92 is the wind beneath our jetpacks; and we have somehow made fifty of these.

## Reviewed

* House of M #1
* Inferno #4
* X-Tinction Agenda #3
* Secret Wars Journal #4
* X-Men ’92 (Infinite Comic #7) (Pick of the week)
Episode 238 - Meet Them Where They Are

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which X-Force is the new New Mutants; Professor is what Cable has instead of a burn book; Cable develops emotional literacy; Jay has a lot of feelings about Shatterstar; Cowboys can be wizards, too; you really shouldn’t call adult people “child”; privilege is truly the greatest superpower; Cameron Hodge remains improbably difficult to kill; Candy Southern gets to write the ending to her own story; and Emerald City Comic Con is coming up REALLY fast!

## X-Plained

* Reignfire
* Jay & Miles at Emerald City Comic Con
* Some new merch
* *X-Force* #26
* *Uncanny X-Men* #305-306
* The evolution of Tabitha Smith’s code name
* X-Force and its members (more) (again)
* Professor’s narrative function
* A sudden mustache and its potential implications
* A lot of things about Shatterstar
* Cable as a leader
* Armor full of skin
* Louis St. Croix and/or Mark Twain
* An inappropriate nickname
* The first Xavier school prom
* Inflatable erotic accessory semantics
* The return of Candy Southern
* The return of Cameron Hodge
* Moral event horizons and how to handle them in comics
* Pros and cons of dating telepaths

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Underwear

Clothing typically worn concealed beneath outer garments, touching the skin.

* Characters in X-Men Evolution frequently wear their shirts tucked into their boxers, with the waistband of the boxers exposed.
* For women in the Hellfire club, underwear is acceptable, even expected, to be worn as outerwear.
Jay Edidin

## External links

Marvel Database: Jay Edidin

Twitter: @NotLasers

Website: Jay Edidin

Jay spent seven years as an editor at a major comics publisher until leaving in 2013 to pursue a freelance career. As a pop-culture journalist, Jay sometimes gets paid actual, legal tender to explain the X-Men, which you can tell your parents next time they ask how knowing that Cyclops’s eyes shoot concussive force beams will help you find a job.

## Other appearances:

* *Fan Bros*
* *Into It with Elle Collins*
* *Journey Into Misery*
Sam Humphries

## ***Sam Humphries***

### First podcast appearance

Episode 112 - Embers of Inferno (feat. Sam Humphries)

## External links

Marvel Database: Sam Humphries

Twitter: @samhumphries

Website: SamHumphries.Com

Tumblr: Sam Humphries

**Sam Humphries** writes comics.

## Selected X-Men related work

* *Uncanny X-Force* Vol 2 #1-17 (2015)
* *Guardians of the Galaxy & X-Men: Black Vortex Alpha* #1 (2015)

## X-Plain appearances

* Episode 112 - Embers of Inferno (feat. Sam Humphries)
Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 15

==Episode Description==
In which we really want a Nightcrawler-and-Northstar road-trip buddy movie and are guardedly optimistic about Cyclops.

## Reviewed

* Cyclops #7
* Amazing X-Men #13 (Pick of the week)
* Death of Wolverine: The Logan Legacy #5
* Wolverine and the X-Men #12

## Panel of the Week

No Panel of the Week

See comments on the episode page for viewer suggestions.
Episode 334 - Genetic Nonsense

## Episode Description

In which William Stryker is exceptionally difficult to kill; the terminology around Emplate’s powers is absolute nonsense even by comic-book standards; inkers deserve more credit; we would totally read comics about Murmur the Softpoken Mummy; Bishop comes to the rescue; and nothing really resolves.

## X-plained

* What happened to William Stryker
* Gratuitous use of the adjective “genetic”
* Emplate (again)
* *Generation X* #12-14
* Inks
* Penance’s original backstory
* Pining
* A really unpleasant reunion
* Accent problems
* Gayle Edgerton
* Vincente
* Bulwark
* D.O.A.
* A somewhat chaotic victory
* Mutant teams from non-anglophone countries
* X-characters Miles would like to write

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Secret Convergence on Infinite Podcasts

The **Secret Convergence on Infinite Podcasts** is a crossover event in which hosts from nine different popular comic book podcasts appear on each other's shows. The event starts on October 29, and culminates in an episode of *Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men*.

## Episode Guide

* Episode One - *Fan Bros*: "Who Would Win In A Fight?" Hosted by DJ BenHameen with guests Graeme McMillan, Jay Edidin and Chris Sims.
* Episode Two - *Into It with Elle Collins*: "Comic Book Movies". Hosted by Elle Collins with guests Helena Hart, Jay Edidin and Matt Wilson.
* Episode Three - *SILENCE!*: "Are Things Better Or Worse?" Hosted by Gary Lactus with guests Al Kennedy, Chico Leo and Kieran Shiach.
* Episode Four - *Less Than Live with Kate or Die*: "The Comics We Share". Hosted by Kate Leth with guests The Beast Must Die, Elle Collins and Al Kennedy.
* Episode Five - *Journey into Misery*: "D-List Heroes and Villains". Hosted by Kieran Shiach with guests Graeme McMillan, Jay Edidin and The Beast Must Die.
* Episode Six - *Wait, What?*: "Characters We Used To Love (Or Hate)". Hosted by Jeff Lester and guests Paul O’Brien, Chico Leo and Gary Lactus.
* Episode Seven - *House to Astonish*: "Guilty Pleasures". Hosted by Al Kennedy with guests Helena Hart, Jeff Lester and Elle Collins.
* Episode Eight - *War Rocket Ajax*: "Comics Characters We Identify With". Hosted by Chris Sims and Matt Wilson with guests Elle Collins and DJ BenHameen.
* Episode Nine *Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men*: "Complex Continuity". Hosted by Miles Stokes with guests Paul O’Brien and Kieran Shiach.

## External links

* Secret Convergence of Infinite Podcasts on Tumblr
Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 30

==Episode Description==
In which Magneto remains magnificent, Cyclops pretty much ends, some very important canon is confirmed, and we can’t believe we’ve done THIRTY of these.

## Reviewed

* All-New X-Men #39
* Guardians Team-Up #3
* Magneto #16 (Pick of the week)
* Wolverines #11
* Cyclops #11
* Storm #9

## Panel of the Week

Panel #1 from Wolverines #11

Panel #2 from Captain America and the Mighty Avengers #6
Episode 365 - A Whole Year of This Nonsense

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which you can now listen to a unique episode of Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men every day for a year; Shi’ar tech support leaves something to be desired; Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau does not appear in a story; it’s Deathbird, not Dueprocessbird; Zenn-La gets destroyed a lot; and we shall never speak of this incident again.

## X-plained

* Where babies come from
* The Shi’ar (again)
* *Cable/X-Force Annual* 1996
* *X-Men Unlimited* #13
* Organs
* Shi’ar ship names
* Pulse
* Unconventional use of the Danger Room
* Butt-first framing
* Interplanetary extradition
* The word “contemplative”
* Binary (again)
* More Shi’ar ship names
* Zenn-La
* Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd)
* The Inciters
* A giant metal space skull
* Junction, NY
* A metaphor for America
* Marie Cavendish
* Mutants with synthetics-based powers
* Literary intersections

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Episode 360 - Charging Forward

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which history gets rewritten (again); Shatterstar *definitely* knows how to dance; and everyone gets extremely grumpy about Loeb’s final *X-Force* arc.

## X-plained

* What happened to Reverend Craig
* X-Force (again)
* The Mojoverse (again)
* *X-Force* #59-61
* Shatterstar vs. Benjamin Russell
* The Weisman Institute for the Criminally Insane (again)
* Subtext
* Help, sort of
* The dick ship
* Darth Vader’s penis or lack thereof
* The difference between Jay and Miles
* Violently decompressed storytelling
* Gog and Gog’n’Magog (again)
* Prior (or possibly future) events in the rebellion
* Longshot outside his miniseries
* Longshot and Shatterstar
* *TV Guide*
* Ineffective brainwashing
* A large number of continuity errors
* Mojo V
* Genre hopping
* A stylistic shift
* A body swap
* Benjamin Russell vs. the Leprechauns
* Personally resonant comics
* Wolverine’s sense of smell

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 67

## Episode Description

In which All-New X-Men is the best at what it does (and what it does is awesome), Deadpool and Cable Split Second Infinite Whatever finally realizes that it’s digital, and Jay flirts with a new iMovie transition.

## Reviewed

* **All-New X-Men #2 (Pick of the week)**
	+ Written by Dennis Hopeless
	+ Pencils by Mark Bagley
	+ Inks by Andrew Hennessy
	+ Colors by Nolan Woodard
* Deadpool & Cable Split Second (Infinite Comic) #5
	+ Written by Fabian Nicieza & Reilly Brown
	+ Pencils by Reilly Brown
	+ Inks by Jay Leisten & Jeremy Freeman
	+ Colors by Jim Charalampidis
Episode 065 – The Mutant Massacre, Part 1

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which we hit the first big X-centric crossover; a lot of Morlocks die; X-Factor is a dark farce; Kitty Pryde talks down a mob without using racial slurs; when Doug Ramsey tells you there’s a problem, you listen; and Callisto should be one of the iconic leaders of the Marvel Universe.

## X-Plained

* Death by intellectual-property dispute
* The Mutant Massacre
* Mutant Massacres that might have been
* Uncanny X-Men #210-213
* New Mutants #46
* The Marauders
* The best way to guarantee the New Mutants’ involvement in a storyline
* Limbo fashion
* The responsibility of leadership
* Wolverine vs. Sabretooth
* Psylocke vs. Sabretooth
* The evolution of crossovers
* Characters we’d like to see more of post-Secret Wars

## Listener Questions

* Do you feel that the late 80s crossovers, starting with Mutant Massacre, directly lead to the culture of crossover bloat that would become a hallmark of the X-universe? Or is it just a symptom of how the comics industry business model evolved?
* Who are some X-characters that are not appearing in already announced All-New All-Different Marvel books you'd like to see in the next wave of announcements? Personally, I hope Jubilee, Monet, and Rachel Grey show up somewhere. It's also been too long since we've seen Dani Moonstar and Nate Grey show up anywhere.
Episode 337 - Wild Genes and Old Magic

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Excalibur is beset by shady organizations; Nightcrawler gets a new look; nobody hates Pete Wisdom as much as Lockheed hates Pete Wisdom; Brian Braddock should not be allowed to dress himself; Excalibur invades Black Air; and Onslaught continues to lurk.

## X-plained

* Some countries Magneto has invaded
* *Excalibur* #96-99
* Black Air (more) (again)
* The London branch of the Hellfire Club
* Nightcrawler’s new look
* Meggan’s new look
* The return of Alistaire Stuart
* How not to dress for the Hellfire Club
* The Shadow Cabinet (a little)
* Hacking
* Agent Scratch
* Avengers vs. Avengers
* Addiction recovery
* Accreditation of the Xavier School
* Developing a library X-collection

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Episode 201 - Pump Up the Jam

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which we begin our third podcast century; Cyclops is bi-inclusive; we have high standards for Mojoworld; Dazzler can survive your big-budget horror show; Jim Lee makes his exit; video games that involve Protomen are better than video games that don’t; and plasma is the new magnetism.

## X-Plained

* Carter Ryking and his Very Durable Underpants
* Fontanelle
* Jay & Miles Town Cry ye X-Men
* An upcoming event
* *X-Men #10*-13
* A somewhat disappointing *Wizard of Oz* pastiche
* Those who like to go both ways
* A mysterious, shadowy figure; revealed
* Several of Cyclops’s uncoolest Dad moments
* Zima
* Moist Alley
* Mojo II: The Sequel
* The Image exodus
* Mojonium™
* An announcement
* Longshot in the Mojoverse vs. Longshot in the 616
* A Maverick adventure
* Alexander Ryking
* The *other* Xavier File
* Warhawk
* The Ryking Hospital for Paranormal Research
* A poorly defined power set
* Technicolor skeletons
* When and where paper was invented
* A likely-irrelevant pattern
* The devil who haunts Stryfe’s dreams
* Some non-X Marvel recommendations
* Rusty Collins’s codename

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
As One

A multi-author anthology of erotic fiction and poetry with a ménage theme, edited by Alessia Brio and with an introduction by the one and only Samantha Kane, mistress of ménage. ALL proceeds from the sale of this volume will benefit ONE, the campaign to end global poverty.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

* Introduction (Samantha Kane)
* Doing Shelly's Dishes (Will Belegon)
* Double the Pleasure (Victoria Blisse)
* The Hunt (Annabeth Leong)
* The Rapture (C. Sanchez-Garcia)
* Ménage à Denim (Jeremy Edwards)
* May the Best Man Win (Skylar Kade)
* My Heroes (Annemarie Hartnett)
* Sleeper Car (Maximilian Lagos)
* The Things That Go on at Siesta Time (Saskia Walker)
* Poets (Daniel Burnell)
* Daring Hearts (Leigh Ellwood)
* Cunning Little Vixens (Giselle Renarde)
* Farmer's Market Surprise (Jolene Hui)
* Neapolitan (Allison Wonderland)
* Tailor Made (DC Juris)
* Cold Turkey (Heidi Champa)
* Detente (Lisabet Sarai)
* *Euphoria* + *Threesome* + *When Three Become One* (Angeleque Ford)
* One (Ramona Thompson)
* The Actress (Lily Harlem)
* *The Equinox Inside Her* + *Guys, Like Gelato* + *Light to Share* (L.A. Mistral)

poetry is *italicized*

ebook ISBN 978-1-4523-7064-4

paperback ISBN 978-1-4515-3504-4

eroticanthology.com/asone.htm
Episode 340 - Retconaganda

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which the *X.S.E.* miniseries is future copaganda; Earth-1191 has no room for moral ambiguity; Bishop pulls a Marty McFly; Malcolm and Randall get distinct personalities; and you really shouldn’t give officers a symbol of authority that there’s no way to revoke.

## X-plained

* Some of Bishop’s further adventures
* *X.S.E.* #1-4
* The future, sort of
* Earth-1191 (more) (again)
* The X.S.E. (more) (again)
* Lucas Bishop (more) (again)
* Shard Bishop (more) (again)
* Grandmother (who may or may not be Storm)
* Hancock (who may or may not be Cyclops)
* The deeply baffling Bishop family tree
* The fallability of childhood memory
* Exhumes
* Dubious reclamation
* Heca’te
* The Witness (more) (again)
* Trevor Fitzroy (more) (again)
* Several potential continuity errors
* Malcolm and Randall (more) (again)
* Emplates
* Shirley
* Mexican-American mutants
* A cross-media quote

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.