recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
Resources

Haven & Hearth is filled with natural, depletable resources. Aside from food items and miscellaneous plant material, here is a list of usable naturally found resources

* Wood
	+ Branch
	+ Log
	+ Board
* Fibers
	+ Spindly Taproot
	+ Stinging Nettle
* Clay
	+ Ball Clay
	+ Note: Jorb has stated that other clay types are to be implemented at a future date
* Stone
	+ Basalt
	+ Bloodstone
	+ Chalcopyrite (Surface Iron?)
	+ Cinnabar (Surface Mercury?)
	+ Feldspar
	+ Flint
	+ Gneiss
	+ Granite
	+ Iron Ochre (Surface Iron?)
	+ Limestone
	+ Malachite (Surface Copper?)
	+ Marble
	+ Schist
	+ Stone Coal
Fishing

The Fishing skill allows you to craft a Fishing Pole and a Fishing Rod to fish for different types of fish.

After you've crafted a fishing pole you need to equip a line (any string), a hook (bone or metal) and a bait (intestines/entrails, grubs, bugs or ants). Then simply use the fishing skill found in the adventure tab on a water mass with a fishing node (if fishes are jumping in the water, there's a node there).

It seems like most fishes give int FEPs and/or another type of FEP in Hafen unlike Legacy Haven.

## In-Game Text

**Fishing**

**Cost: 200**

> *"The fathom give nothing,*
>
>

> *Yield not a single thing,*
>
>

> *But to the fishermens' snares"*
>
>

You have mastered some basic fishing techniques, and can craft rods, poles, hooks, and lures.

There are two types of fishing: Rod and pole. Pole fishing uses various forms of live or fleshy bait -- such as earthworms, entrails, or ants -- whereas Rod fishing uses lures. Fishing poles catch fish immediately whenever they bite, but the more demanding Rod fishing rather required you to actually land the Fish by figuring out the many riddles of the sport. The truly rare fish of the world are caught with rods.
Color

Percepció visual que es genera al cervell i que crea impulsos nerviosos. El color d'un cos es produeix quan s'il·lumina amb llum blanca (que conté totes les longituds d'ona o tots els colors). El cos absorbeix unes longituds d'ona mentres reflexa unes altres. Les reflexades són percebudes (a través dels ulls) pel cervell com un color determinat.

El color té a veure amb l'espectre visible de la llum. El color blanc es dóna com a conseqüència de la superposició de tots els colors (un prisma pot descomposar la llum blanca en l'espectre de colors, mentres que el negre es pot entendre com l'ausència de llum.
Episode 073 – Evolving Evolution

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Rachel holds down the fort; Robert N. Skir X-Plains several cartoons; teenagers are basically mutants; Southern goths are the best goths; and you should really just watch X-Men: Evolution already.

## X-Plained

* Bad parenting choices
* Rachel & Miles @ Rose City Comic Con
* Secret origins of Robert N. Skir
* The development of X-Men: Evolution
* The Unauthorized X-Men
* Point-of-view points of entry
* The Evolution series bible
* Spyke (Evan Daniels)
* Mutants in society
* Rogue variations
* Brushes with fandom

## Listener Questions

* X-Men fandom can be pretty intense. Do you have any stories, good or bad, about your brushes with it?
Itsy Bitsy Spider

Itsy Bitsy Spiders are a Curiosity that can be found on foragable items. They are rare but they give around 5000 learning points whilst only requiring 10 attention points and 45 experience points.

They can also be found while foraging grey clay and while foraging stalagooms inside caves.

The quality of the IBS is based on soil QL and softcapped by Survival.

Note: If you drop it you will not be able to get it back.

I found one with per 14 \* explore 16 (224).

I found one on a Stinging Nettle with Per. 10 and Exploration 8.

It is possible to find one with Per. 1 and Exploration 1, however very rare.
Gwazar

Le Gwazar ("satellite de communication" en Absalya) est l'organisme
chargé de permettre aux Conseillers de s'exprimer en toute tranquillité,
 de transmettre des colis et de voter à distance.
Le tout gratuitement.

Le Gwazar fonctionne sur l'intégralité du domaine Hyménéen
(Flyula et planète Terre comprises) et n'est utilisable que par les
Conseillers et les personnes ayant une autorisation spéciale (facilement
 délivrée dès que vous êtes de la famille d'un Conseiller, par exemple).

C'est un service extraordinairement utile et incroyablement
discret : sans lui, ce serait un bordel monstre pour communiquer entre
Conseillers à travers les mondes, pour prouver que tel message vient
bien d'untel, etc.

Jusqu'à présent, le Gwazar et le Norok ont été de parfaits
ennemis : le Norok a toujours essayé de forcer le Gwazar à lancer
quelques écoutes, à partager quelques infos et à faire quelques copies
de plusieurs messages... Mais sans résultat.
Depuis que l'ancienne Directrice du Gwazar a été assassinée lors de la Fusillade du Noël Sanglant
 (et Claos sait si le Norok a fait son possible pour la sauver...) et
depuis que Mark Stark a été placé à la tête du Norok, il semble que
toutes ces tensions se soient apaisées.
Episode 229 - Giant-Size Special 7

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

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
* *The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #1*-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

**CORRECTION:** In this episode, Miles states that Scott and Jean are cool. They are, in fact, categorically uncool. We regret the error.

Special thanks to carolers Tina Carleton, Matt Gardner, Peter Gresser, Erin Pence, and Steve Pence!

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode 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!
Chantrelle

Chantrelles are a type of edible mushroom found in forest biomes.

## How to aquire

Chantrelles can be found in forests. If you happen across one, and have the foraging skill, you can harvest it. There is no known way to purposely produce Chantrelles, so they can only be found by increasing exploration and perception skills until you begin to see them growing in the wild.
Episode 043 - It's Not a Secret If It's in the Title

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which we cover 21 issues in one episode; Secret Wars is a toy commercial; Jim Shooter’s X-Men are not the X-Men to which we are accustomed; Doctor Doom makes a surprisingly benevolent god; Secret Wars II is neither secret nor a war; The Beyonder learns to poop; and Boom-Boom is the best thing to come out of Secret Wars.

## X-Plained

* Secret Wars
* The not-particularly-secret origin of Secret Wars
* Binary morality
* Battleworld
* The Wrecking Crew
* Klaw
* The Beyonder
* Molecule Man
* Doki-Doki Universe
* Titania and Volcana
* Zsaji
* Secret Wars II
* The Passion of Jim Shooter
* Stewart Cadwall
* What people do
* Tie-ins
* Pooping
* What it means to be Spider-Man
* Boom-Boom (Tabitha Smith)
* The time a bunch of superheroes saved the universe by killing a baby

## Listener Questions

* Stuart Cadwell/Thundersword from Secret Wars II #1 - he's got to be based on someone Shooter had a beef with, right? His rant about writing pablum, censors, about what he'd so if he had some power and the things he'd straighten out...only to find that he's powerless without his "Shazam" award, and being in tears after realizing he'd destroyed the places that he'd worked. I mean, this all has to be some passive/aggressive meta-commentary about someone Shooter's worked with, I assume?
* What's the best thing and the worst thing to come out of Secret Wars?
* What major changes to the X-Men universe do you want to see happen in Secret Wars 2015?
Episode 198 - How to Destroy the Universe Without Really Trying

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which *Excalibur* goes 16-bit platformer; Alysande gets new threads; Shadowcat should probably just change her code name to Ripley; Captain Britain may or may not destroy the universe; Doctor Doom tries his hand at human resources; Excalibur is at home with weirdness; and no lizard needs breasts.

Note: according to the letter column from *Excalibur* #54, at least some of the art credits for Excalibur: XX Crossing were incorrect, so some of our descriptions of who drew what in this episode are wrong. See the comments below for more information!

## X-Plained:

* Invisible Boy
* Human heralds of Galactus
* *Excalibur* Special Editions
* *Excalibur: Air Apparent*
* *Excalibur: XX Crossing*
* Dr. Jonothon Cayre
* Norm the LMD
* Lava pits of Scotland
* Some dubious herpetology
* Eric the Cyborg (Coldblood-7)
* Robert Cop
* Special Man
* Air-Walker and/or Gabriel Lam
* A cosmic explosion
* Captain Britain’s extra costume
* Sidestep
* An exceptionally awkward job interview
* A counterintuitive plan
* The *other* time-displaced X-Men
* The best version of Angel
* Angel’s third-greatest nemesis
* Gladiator Hank
* A very fancy vest
* The best *Excalibur* Special Edition
* The Phalanx vs. the Technarchy
* Warlock vs. gender
* Our thoughts on *Avengers: Infinity War*

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Episode 115 - So Many Teeth (feat. Max Carleton)

*Art by David Wynne*

## Description

In which Jay and Max brave the X-Men anime; the problem isn’t in Wolverine’s pants; Xavier is for once *less* villainous than he seems; Emma Frost gets ruffly; Cyclops wasn’t even supposed to be here today; and we both really want to hang out with Scott Porter.

## X-Plained

* Billy Kaplan and Tommy Shepherd
* *Waiting for the Trade*
* The X-Men Anime
* Marvel Anime
* Scott Porter
* Jay’s ongoing attempts to assemble a coherent X-Men/Speed Racer conspiracy theory
* *Floating Hands Theater* Wolverine
* An unlikely T.A.
* Several recurring flashbacks
* The U-Men
* The other U-Men
* Armor (Hisako Ichiki)
* Emma Frost, but ruffly
* Evil Moira MacTaggert (Yui Sasaki)
* The Sasaki Institute
* The other Inner Circle
* Marsh
* Rat
* Neuron
* Takeo Sasaki
* Potluck night at the Hellfire Club
* Living vs. dead Jean Grey

## Listener Questions

* What would Hellfire Club Whist drive look like? What sort of prizes would they have in their Christmas raffle? How would Hellfire Club bingo nights work? What would the Lords Cardinal bring to a potluck dinner?
* Since the X-Men anime starts off with the end of The Dark Phoenix Saga, Jean functions as a ghost that haunts the team through the series. She has also served as such in the comics for a very long time in recent history, even with teen Jean in the present. Do you think Jean as a character functions best as a living character, or as a ghost that allows the X-Men to react to her legacy and help push the X-Men into the future and away from the past, where she has remained?
Dennis Hopeless

## External links

Marvel Database: Dennis Hopeless

Wikipedia: Dennis Hallum

Twitter: @HopelessDent

**Dennis "Hopeless" Hallum** writes comics.

## Selected X-Men related work

* *X-Men: Season One* #1 (2012)
* *Cable and X-Force* #1-19 (2013)
* *All-New X-Men* Vol 2 #1-19 (2016)

## X-Plain appearances

* Episode 081 - The Kids Are All Right
* Episode 104 – The Noodle Incident
* Episode 140 - Unto Us a Retcon Is Given (feat. Dennis Hopeless)
* Episode 150 - Live at ECCC, feat. Dennis Hopeless & Charles Soule

## Mentions

* Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 65
* Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 67
Episode 236 - Baggage of Traumas Past (Fatal Attractions, Part 3)

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

n which Decimation was kind of sketchy; you should definitely come see us in Seattle; Wolverine has a rough day; Colossus has *yet another* rough day; Excalibur plans for the future; and Fatal Attractions comes to a close.

## X-Plained

* How Professor X got his groove and/or powers back
* Jay & Miles at Emerald City Comic Con
* *Wolverine* #75
* *Excalibur* #71
* Psychic trauma
* High-stakes references
* The personal Ragnarok of a shattered soul
* A really effective sound effect
* The first day of the rest of Logan’s life
* Butterflies of the Xavier School
* Muir Island’s psychiatric ward
* Medical consent
* The worst bar, probably
* Professorial disambiguation
* What Micromax and Kyluun are probably definitely up to
* Several variably awkward Grey-Summers family reunions
* A betrayal
* Amelia Voght
* Unuscione
* Katu
* The future of *Excalibur*
* Proactive superheroism
* How not to make a White Russian
* Shadowcat’s recovery post-Mutant Massacre
* Our etymological destinies

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Episode 220 - On Your Bike

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which we approach the end of Alan Davis’s *Excalibur* run; “duopenultimate” is not actually a word; Captain Britain pops the question; we do in fact (kinda) get follow-up on Alysande Stuart’s death; Miles needs to get a little less credulous about bureaucrats’ good intentions; Shadowcat engages in espionage; Nightcrawler and Cerise are tactically saucy; and the sun definitely ought to set on the British Empire.

## X-Plained

* Warpies
* *Excalibur* #61-65
* The Jaspers Warp (more) (again)
* The RCX (more) (again)
* Agents Gabriel and Michael
* What happened to Jay’s mom’s Hypercolor™ T-shirt
* What not to do with a dead parrot
* Several *Hamlet* references
* Scott Wright (MicroMax)
* The Cherubim
* Cloud Nine
* Agent Peter (Nigel Orpington-Smythe)
* Warpie naming conventions
* Beetroot
* Screen tone
* An idiom
* Evasive makeouts
* A specific thing on *The Gifted*
* Why Kitty Pryde tends to go by her given name

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Episode 227 - Wolverine, Killing

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Cowboy Poet Wolverine is the best Wolverine; the Masters of the Universe basically had Internet Cat names; Miles has an Early Metallica moment; *Wolverine: Killing* is just ludicrously excellent; and the hawk joke somehow keeps going.

## X-Plained

* An eccentric approach to ecoterrorism
* *Wolverine: Inner Fury*
* *Wolverine: Killing*
* The narrative limits of Bill Sienkiewicz
* Various Terrors
* The Whale and/or Shark
* Microminibots
* A trap
* Mr. Big
* A sexy coffee cup
* Literary allusions
* Atmospheric narration
* Urban despair
* A peculiar community
* Cowboy Poet Wolverine
* A thematic meditation
* Depressingly exceptional representation of a lady in peril
* King Hiss
* The world according to Logan
* The theoretical microbrewery scene of an imaginary enclave
* Regional differences in IPAs
* Feelings and their various sources
* The symbolism of Wolverine’s costume
* Home
* How Archangel sleeps
* Adamantium vs. Vibranium

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Cellule Powers

Date de création : 29 Août 2005.

Mission : Surveillance, Désinformation, Délimitation, Gestion de l'Ordre Civil, Gestion Satellitaire.

Section : Bureau.

Chef de Cellule : Stanley Powers

Personnel : 5

1 CdC, 4 Agents polyvalents (Bruce Flynn, William Kelley, Bill Adams, Clyde Grey)
Ressources : Base-Opérative-Mobile (B-Burns), véhicule quatre roues furtif (B-Webster), 4
véhicules deux roues furtifs (B-Mueller), cinq drônes furtifs (B-Tolson).

Localisation : le B-Burns de la Cellule Powers est en mouvement permanent dans tout le secteur
Nord-Américain. Actuellement, le B-Burns parcoure le Kilomètre 66.

La Cellule Powers opère à partir du B-Burns : un long camion autoroutier banalisé que sa
structure interne (donc non visible) rend invisible aux radars de toutes sortes. L'intérieur du
camion comporte tous les éléments nécessaires à une base-opérative et permet à la Cellule d'opérer
rapidement et efficacement dans un rayon de cinquante kilomètres. Chacun de ses Agents, placé à
différents recoins stratégiques, peuvent prendre l'administration d'une capitale en moins d'une
heure.

Missions effectuées sous le commandement du Bureau : 1 425

Missions effectuées en collaboration avec le Laboratoire : 42

Missions effectuées en collaboration avec la Sainte-Vehme : 2

Missions remarquables :

Novembre 2006, Opération "Webb" : organisation des élections législatives des États-Unis
d'Amérique.

21 Janvier 2009, Opération "Gepetto" : protocole "MK-ULTRA" effectué sur Barrack Obama en un
temps, en une efficacité et en une discrétion records.

25 Juillet 2010, Opération "Rosenbourg" : prise d'administration de Wikileaks et utilisation de cette
dernière pour le Processus Psycho-Historique.

25 Octobre 2010, Opération "Mérapi" : effacement de 154 Dracos reliés à 154 Tulpas essentiels à la
civilisation de Métal (chercheurs, politiciens, économistes, espions, artistes et intellectuels).
Collaboration avec la Sainte-Vehme et la Cellule Sherwood.

7 Décembre 2010, Opération "Neltharion" : administration et développement de la logique Psycho-
Comportementale d'un large échantillon planétaire en vue d'une amélioration de la gestion du
Processus Psycho-Historique.

15 Juillet 2012-21 Décembre, Opération "Psymphonie" : mission en collaboration avec la Cellule
Sherwood. Aide à la mise en place, à l'échelle planétaire, de la nouvelle arme de défense antinaga.
Episode 288 - Cape Citadel Remix

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Magneto is a drama llama in any universe (but a remarkably decent parent in at least one); the soap opera hits the Age of Apocalypse; Weapon X is a man made of red flags; Gambit has an OT3; the better man wins; some blanks are better left unfilled; and we would probably not fare too well on Earth-295.

## X-Plained

* The other Magnus
* Synchronicity
* Earth-295 (more) (again)
* *X-Men Chronicles* #1-2
* Selective backstory
* Magneto’s hair
* Wundagore Mountain
* Aesthetics of the Age of Apocalypse
* The X-Men of Earth-295
* Magneto’s pedagogy
* More miscellaneous horsemen
* Weapon X (Logan)
* Cape Citadel, revisited
* The death of the Scarlet Witch
* Disaster Bisexual Gambit
* Wolverine (but not that one)
* Punks who may or may not also be scrimshanders
* Emotionally well-adjusted Quicksilver
* Further miracles of magnetism
* The narrative power of evocation
* Age of Somebody Else
* Jay and Miles of Earth-295

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Cassandra Nova

Cassandra Nova is a mummdrai, Professor X’s evil disembodied psychic twin. While they were gestating, she tried to clone herself a body based on his, but fetus-X strangled her, so she was born as nothing but a malevolent consciousness. Decades later, she managed to produce an adult body, which she used to unleash the Sentinels on Genosha, decimating the mutant population; then made her way back to the Xavier school, switched bodies with Professor X without anyone knowing, leaving him trapped in her body, whose vocal cords Wolverine had severed. Disguised as X, she first outed the institute as a school for mutants, then went off to space, broke Lilandra’s mind, and generally beat the hell out of the Shi’ar empire.

## X-Plained In:

Cold open of Episode 009 - Leprechaun Surprise Party .

## Recommended Reading:

A place for the Xplain Nation to suggest the best stories featuring Cassandra Nova.
Exticia

Région aride de la planète Eteria sous contrôle flyul.

La ville la plus connue de cette région est sans aucun doute Péléani.

Le climat chaud et sec de cette région est dû à une accumulation d'anima
 plus importante quand dans la plupart des autres régions de ce monde.
Ces accumulations peuvent provoquer un réchauffement ou un
refroidissement de l'air ambiant. Il y a assez peu de villes dans cette
région.
Episode 133 - Feisty Little Fellow from the Stars (Judgement War, Part 2)

## Episode Description

In which the plot thickens; Jay and Miles fix *Avatar*; Ship is a good bro; you are in space *right now*; the Beginagains go full *This Island Earth*; Cyclops weaponizes love; voting is really important; and you’re listening to ten straight hours of soft jazz and subversion on ZZ-105

## X-Plained

* The other Dazzler (Bertram Worthington)
* Our newest t-shirt
* *X-Factor* #48-50
* A metaphor within a metaphor, in space
* The first half of Judgment War (briefly) (again)
* A prisoner exchange
* Hairstyles of the possessed and famous
* Proper use of Cable
* A case for retcons
* Iceman vs. Archangel
* A feisty little fellow from the stars
* The secret origin of Ship
* The Celestials
* The core of Iceman’s personality
* Several kisses
* Beast and the Rejects
* Some terrible hats
* An unfair fight
* A nefarious plot
* Contagious heroism
* Arishem
* The power of love
* Why we use the word “queer”
* Several theoretical and unlikely crossovers

## Listener Questions

* Hey, very sorry to ask/say this, but is there any way you could use a word other than queer when talking about LGBT stuff? I'm gay, and while I know a lot of people have reclaimed the word, for me it is always like a slap in the face. I have had people use it in violent ways. If not, I understand, it's just a very painful word for me to hear. Thank you.
* Over the years, the X-Men has had crossovers with a lot of odd comic book properties, such as Star Trek, and I was wondering which comic book property you'd cross them over with if you had the chance? And if you were to cross them with a newspaper comic, what would the plot be?
Cyclops

*Art by David Wynne*

## External links

Marvel Database

Wikipedia

Cyclops is Scott Summers, one of the original X-Men. His mutation gives him the power to unleash concussive force blasts from his eyes, but he is unable to control their power without the aid of a special visor made from ruby quartz. His romance with Jean Grey is pivotal to the series.

He may have a secondary mutation of "maths", or "having the worst life ever".

Cyclops is Jay's favourite X-Men character.

## X-plained In:

* Episode 001 - The Strangest Podcast of Them All
* Episode 003 - Cartoons, Lies, and Video Tape (why people who know Cyclops from the 90s cartoon hate him so much)
* Episode 007 - Cyclops Has a Good Day
* Episode 011 - Who Would Win in a Fight
	+ How did Cyclops find out ruby quartz glasses could save him?
	+ Who is better for Cyclops, Jean Grey or Emma Frost?
* Episode 012 - Inner Circle Jerk
* Episode 013 - Last Stand on the Moon (the end of the Dark Phoenix saga)
* Episode 021 - Kurt Busiek at the Coffee-a-Go-Go (Cyclops' career in journalism)
* Episode 022 - Through Death and Through Life
* Episode 024 - Ororo, Queen of the Galaxy
* Episode 025 - The Best at What He Does

## Recommended Reading:

A place for the X-plain Nation to suggest the best stories featuring [character]
Leather

Leather is used to produce a variety of equipment.

## How to aquire

1. Aquire any dried hide
2. Dry the hide by placing it in a Drying Frame
3. Wait for the hide to finish drying (it takes (?) ingame hours or (?) real life hours)
4. Take the dried hide and place it in a Tanning Tub
5. Fill a water container, such as a Bucket, using either a Well or open water source. Alternatively you can use a Wine Barrel.
6. Hold the full container on your mouse cursor and right-click the Tanning Tub to fill it (if you're using a Wine Barrel then lift it and right-click the Tub). The Tanning Tub must have (60L?) of water before it may be used. The Tanning Tub's sprite will change.
7. Obtain a piece of Tree Bark.
8. Place the bark into the tub using the same method as with the water. (One piece of bark?) is all that is needed per tub.
9. Wait (32?) hours for the hide to turn into leather.
10. Retrieve your finished leather.
Episode 095 – Earthfall

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which the X-Men finally follow up on a dropped plotline; you should probably not mess with abandoned star sharks; “Dawn of Blood” is a sometimes food; The Goblin Queen makes her first appearance; we debut a new podcast feature; and there may or may not be a frozen woman in the Xavier School basement.

## X-plained

* The Providian Order
* Uncanny X-Men #232-234
* The Brood (again)
* Several ill-fated campers
* Harry Palmer
* The Brood as horror antagonists
* Why John Doggett is the best X-Files agent
* Psylocke’s armor
* Why Nestor Carbonell should play Gambit
* Some deeply dubious codenames
* Red Bee
* Michael the Bee
* Reverend William Conover and his Glory Day Crusade
* The Mile High Diner
* The strange case of Hannah Conover
* One hell of a nightmare
* A deal with a devil
* The direct market
* Ways to approach an endless serial

## Inferno Watch

* Madelyne meets and strikes a deal with S’ym
* First appearance of the Goblin Queen costume

## Correction

In this episode, Jay recalled the direct market as having been conceived in significant part by Carol Kalish. It was, in fact, the brainchild of Phil Seuling.

## Listener Questions

* I love reading comics and big trades, but I very much dislike buying floppies. In the same way I can't watch shows week to week (my heart can't take it), I adore getting to snuggle up with a big collection of content. However, I'm afraid this buying habit hurts the actual comic writers and artists by making it seem like people aren't interested when it's quite the opposite. Does waiting for trades hurt creators financially? If I want to support smaller comics, do I just have to buy floppies?
* How do y'all deal with the never ending aspect of the X-Men line? I keep thinking I might like the X-books for the long running character based narratives, but long running doesn't mean endless, and lack of endings weirds me out, especially when the endings you do get are almost always upended somewhere down the line. Does that bother y'all? Or is it part of the fun of comics?
Episode 140 - Unto Us a Retcon Is Given (feat. Dennis Hopeless)

## Episode Description

In which writer Dennis Hopeless returns to the show for an informal introduction to the (first) mutant messiah; Cable is the best-case retcon scenario; Summerses don’t get to retire; calculating relative character age remains functionally impossible; Cable is Marsha to Stryfe’s Jan; and there’s probably already a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta about all of this.

## X-Plained

* That one time Cable and Stryfe shared a body
* Cable (Nathan Christopher Charles Summers)
* Spinning nonsense into gold
* *Cable and X-Force*
* Cable’s controversial creative origins
* Collaborative character creation
* Cable origins that might have been
* A whole lot of time travel
* A whole lot of Summers family nonsense
* Professor (Ship)
* Tyler Dayspring (Tolliver)
* Hope Summers
* How to make Cable interesting
* What to do after you save the world
* Still more time travel
* Look, there’s a lot of time travel, okay?
* Old-man strength
* Stryfe
* David Willis’s theory of Batman humor (and Jay’s derivative theory of Stryfe humor)
* *Muscle March*
* Cable’s role on teams
* Stryfe vs. Hope
* Cable’s theoretical legal career
* Quantum operetta theory

## Listener Questions

* I recently realized that a solid percentage of Cable's rogues gallery are either related to him, like Stryfe or Genesis, or have been written as maybe related to him, such as Finality or Apocalypse. Do you think there's a reason for this, or is simply an amusing statistical anomaly?
* According to *X-Force* #30, Cable graduated from Harvard undergrad or law school, it's not clear, and then passed the New York state Bar Exam a year later. Have we ever found out what area of law is his specialty, or why he would have studied it in the first place?
Episode 203 - The X-Man’s Burden

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which the Morlocks used to have more agency, we have a surprising amount to say about the Rat King from *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles*, Archangel receives some exceptionally disturbing news, and 90s comics are all about finding the parts you love.

## X-Plained

* Marrow’s internal organs
* The post-Image Exodus era
* Judging books by their covers
* *Uncanny X-Men* #291-293
* Sexy dead girls (again)
* The Morlock leadership vacuum
* A significant Callisto personality retcon
* Failures of leadership due to own-death-faking
* The magical life and magical death of the Morlock Sewer Wizard
* *Science Made Stupid*
* Storm’s claustrophobia (again)
* MeMe, scourge of Miles’s childhood
* 90s Jean Grey: cartoon vs comic
* The Br’er Rabbit Technique
* Some unfortunate and significant continuity errors
* Professor Xavier’s impressive upper body strength
* Mikhail Rasputin’s genuinely terrifying mutant powers
* Bobby Drake’s potential
* Morlock organizational techniques
* Mikhail Rasputin’s very bad plan
* Jean Grey’s real talk
* The Home for Infinite Losers
* Piotr Rasputin, tragedy collector
* Copyright law and Fair Use
* Queer headcanon
* X-beards

## Listener Questions

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Episode 103 – Warwolves of London

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Excalibur is x-tra x-ceptional; we once again gush at length about Alan Davis; Kurt Wagner is reliable with the ladies; nothing in Excalibur is ever perfectly normal; Warwolves are regular folks; Brian Braddock still doesn’t get to take a bath; Jay overthinks a question; and there’s more where that came from!

## X-plained

* The Unstoppable Juggernaut
* Earth-10724
* Jay & Miles at Emerald City Comicon
* *Excalibur* #1-3
* Fun
* The Crazy Gang (again)
* The somewhat ignominious death of Ray Mulholland
* Warwolves
* Nigel Frobisher
* A somewhat dubious ploy
* Bathroom etiquette
* Widget
* A kid named Colin
* Rupert Holloway
* Friendship, kind of
* The Lighthouse
* Courtney Ross
* Excalibur vs. the Juggernaut
* Kitty’s powers
* An exceptionally specific theoretical crossover

## Listener Questions

* In the Dark Phoenix Saga, Kitty Pryde accidentally phases through the room's floor. Does that mean she could accidentally phase through the Earth forever?
* Sergeant Terry Jeffries of the Brooklyn Nine-Nine is hosting a Marvel themed birthday party for his daughters. He has invited the entire squad, but they must dress up as Marvel characters. Who would they show up as?
Episode 063 – Wildways

*Art by Ryan Hill*

## Episode Description

In which cartoon logic is terrifying; it’s immensely frustrating to be Doug Ramsey; Psylock gets evil robot eyes; queer subtext is not just for the ladies; Danger Room cold opens are the new Kitty’s costume changes; Mojo predicts reality TV; Longshot joins the X-Men; and we answer what may be the best question we have ever gotten.

## X-Plained

* Captain Britain Corps
* Alan Davis
* New Mutants Annual #2
* X-Men Annual #10
* Captain Britain (Brian Braddock)
* Psylocke (Betsy Braddock)
* Slaymaster
* Mojo
* Why cartoon logic is terrifying
* Animal Man vol. 1 #5, “The Coyote Gospel” (Incorrectly described as “The Ballad of Wile E. Coyote” in episode)
* Wildways
* Robot eyes
* Template
* Snitch
* Straight Arrow
* Jubilee (but not that Jubilee)
* The trouble with determining character ages in superhero comics
* The stated mission of the New Mutants
* The proto-X-Babies
* Longshot’s X-Men debut
* The New Mutants’ graduation costumes
* A really charged costume choice
* Tonal shifts in New Mutants
* X-Men vs. geese

## Art Challenge

Design a new graduation costume for one or more of the New Mutants!

## Listener Questions

* For every dark, strange, and sometimes pretty frightening arc, New Mutants almost seems to rubber band its way into a very broad, silly story. And sometimes, ostensibly silly stories will have very dark underpinnings. Whereas the other 80s X-books are more easily divided by Claremont's phases in his tenure, The New Mutants feels less bound by the limits of genre. It almost feels like New Mutants existed to buck the notion that comics had to be one thing. Was the book considered a playground for narrative experimentation in its time? Or was this simply the result of the book functioning in tandem with various other major titles of the day, as well as 80s trends?
* Which X-Man would be most likely to accidentally anger a goose, or perhaps a flock of geese? Geese are rage filled hellspawn, and would be formidable enemies.
Episode 128 - A Stupid Way to Die (Judgment War, Part 1)

## Episode Description

In which X-Factor goes to space; Miles gets judgmental about spelling; Paul Smith returns to an X-title; Celestials are a pain; Judgment War is the Star-Trekkiest story that doesn’t actually involve Star Trek; monster ladies are super important; if you can be a green dude, you should be a green dude; and Cyclops gears up to fight some gods.

## X-Plained

* One way to kill a Celestial
* Judg(e)ment War
* Drunk Mark Trail
* *X-Factor* #43-46
* Walls you should maybe not bust through even if you’re X-Factor
* A completely inappropriate show pitch
* Celestials
* The true secret purpose of Ship
* The Chosen
* The Rejects
* Dualers
* Perfect Seera
* Rask
* Zarka
* Monster ladies in cultural context
* Lev
* A stupid way to die
* Jammers
* Plot-relevant amnesia
* The Most Perfect
* ZZ-105
* Baby theft (more)(again)
* Ryest
* The Beginagains
* Whether and when there’ll be another all-question episode
* The current status of the Jean Grey school

## Listener Questions

* Will there ever be another X-Plain the X-Men episode entirely of listener questions?
* Do the X-Men even have a school anymore? I haven't followed the comics in a while, but there doesn't seem to be a school anymore.
Episode 155 - X-Tinction Event

## Episode Description

In which the X-Tinction Agenda begins in earnest; Jim Lee rocks our world; Cable doesn’t need any Mickey-Mouse schedules; Jean Grey is not paid by the word; Havok makes a heel turn; Boom Boom’s pretext of self-interest fools no one; Cameron Hodge is STILL the worst; and Jay and Miles make an announcement.

## X-Plained

* Warlock across the multiverse
* *Uncanny X-Men* #270, *New Mutants* #95, *X-Factor* #60
* X-Tinction Agenda
* The first modern crossover
* The creative state of the X-line
* Limitations of Marvel Unlimited
* Dramatis Personae
* Mickey-Mouse schedules
* The X-Men, who do not die the old-fashioned way
* One-way nude teleportation
* Magistrate Summers
* The return of Cameron Hodge’s angry severed head
* Wipeout (again)
* Mutates
* The death of Warlock
* The esoteric paraphernalia of war
* Silver Age misogyny
* What we’d do differently if we introduced the X-Men in 2017
* Our upcoming hiatus

## Listener Questions

* I've been reading through the Silver Age, and Jean's danger room sessions keep sticking out to me. They're consistently much simpler and less dangerous than anything the male members of the team are doing - threading a needle for example. While I get that this is supposed to emphasize finesse with her powers, the constant choice to have the lone woman focus on tasks that are notably not strength based, they easily could have had her try to lift heavy objects, stop incoming missile based attacks, etc, this seems deliberate. There's even a moment in issue #9 in which the X-Men are going in to battle, and each character gets a little moment to show off their powers as they charge in, but Jean's introduction is just moving a log over a hole so she doesn't step in to it. Am I reading too much in to this, or is this something you've noticed as well?
* If you were introducing the X-Men in 2017, what would you do differently?
Episode 106 – The X-Terminators

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

}In which *Nextwave* is both canon and not-canon; Inferno officially begins; *X-Terminators* is basically a cartoon; Bill Gaines cannot catch a break; Artie and Leach are superbabies; Takeshi Matsuya is fantastic; you should probably never take our advice about anything; Boom Boom is pretty good at superhero costume design; Walter Peck was right; Miles *still* won’t stop saying that one line about stealing a baby; N’astirh is no pigeon; and “No Mutant Is an Island” is a patently inaccurate statement.

## X-plained

* The Beyond Corporation
* The Defilers
* X-Terminators #1-4
* The first 35 issues of *X-Factor*, briefly
* Two teams with the same name
* Fredric Wertham
* Bill Gaines
* Crotus
* Babies
* A boarding school that may or may not be Phillips Exeter Academy
* Muffy
* Saint Simon’s Academy
* Wiz Kid (Takeshi Matsuya)
* Nuprin
* Medical advice from goblins
* The Goblin Buster
* Metareferential snack food
* RadSport Sport Fashion Outfitters
* An exceptionally specific *Ghostbusters* reference
* Helen and Tim
* Dubious spell semantics
* How not to incorporate a crossover into a miniseries, and vice versa
* “No Mutant Is an Island”
* A brief history of Magneto’s helmet
* Definitive Magnetos

## Special Thanks

Special thanks to multiversal metacontinuity wizard Al Ewing for the last-minute assist on the cold open!

## Listener Questions

* What is the deal with Magneto's helmet? When did it exactly get the psychic blocking magic that is such a mcguffin, especially in the X-films?
* What would you say the definitive version of Magneto is? Scene chewing silver age Dick Dastardly, the more antagonistic foil to Xavier like in God Loves Man Kills, the New Mutants teacher, the separatist leader of the Acolytes, every X-fans source of alcoholism Xorn, or some other iteration?
Episode 263 - The Oldest Teens of Them All

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Cable and Domino may or may not be very old teenagers; disguises are not Dani Moonstar’s strong suit; Empath remains awful; Shatterstar probably talks exactly like a telenovela; X-Force needs an office manager; Mothra is larger than most things; and if you get to choose between being an External or a Guthrie, always be a Guthrie.

## X-Plained

* Bastion, to some extent
* *X-Force* #34-37
* Optical disambiguation
* Moonstar
* Face tentacle semantics
* Sandwiches (again)
* The Richter family
* An entirely avoidable fight
* Some time-travel bullshit
* Hannigan Electronics
* An insecurity system
* Nimrods
* Things neural networks would probably do instead of murdering you
* Defining traits of the Externals
* Adoption, X-Factor style
* *Wolverine: The Long Night*

## Listener Questions

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Episode 281 - Memories

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Warpath and Colossus should start a support group; X-Force gets a new HQ; we make an unprecedently large number of musical-theater references; Cable is a highly qualified individual; tranq darts don’t work like that; Emma Frost gives fairly decent advice; the malls of Boston will never be the same again; and we need mutant body diversity now.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode involves discussion of child sexual abuse, murder, and cruelty to animals. If you want to skip that part, head to 34:42 for happier times!

## X-Plained

* An early adventures of the brothers Proudstar
* The new *New Mutants* trailer
* *Starlight Express*
* *X-Force* #40-42
* Feral (Maria Callasantos) (more) (again)
* X-Force’s new digs
* Little Shop of X-Force
* Thornn (Lucia Callasantos)
* Code Blue
* Cable’s law degree
* How tranq darts (don’t) work
* A lot of murder
* Several family reunions
* A terrifying team-up
* Body diversity and fat representation in X-books
* Feral’s Jellicle name
* *Cats*, kind of, I guess

## Listener Questions

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Episode 239 - Rap and Rumble (feat. Max Carleton)

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which we enter the era of bomber jackets; the covers *are* the cards; Genosha remains neither green nor pleasant; the A is for “Avengers,” not “A-list”; Henry Peter Gyrich is the straightest of men; Cyclops sets an important precedent; Exodus is a huge jerk; we speculate about movies we have definitely not seen; Stephen Strange is not a qualified OBGYN; the Avengers are *really weird* even by our standards; and Max manages to connect two of Marvel’s most complicated family trees.

## X-Plained

* One way to name babies
* Blood Ties
* Infinite bomber jackets
* *Avengers* #368-369
* *X-Men* #26
* *Avengers West Coast* #101
* *Uncanny X-Men* #307
* Several very fancy covers
* A shadow government, but not that kind of shadow government
* Genosha (more) (again)
* The Avengers, as of 1993
* A special delegation
* The Genoshan resistance
* U.S. Agent
* A time Cyclops told someone other than Dracula to follow their heart
* The many belts of Nicholas Fury
* Several members of the Maximoff family (more) (again)
* Black Knight (Dane Whitman)
* Sersi
* A very drawn-out fight
* Roy Thomas dialogue
* The racist icing on the racist cake
* Exodus (Bennet du Paris)
* Diplomacy, kind of
* Apolitical avenging
* Magneto’s dream
* A green and pleasant beverage
* Yet another energy-dome-enclosed crisis
* The giant, angry disembodied head of Charles Xavier
* What is definitely the actual plot of the Purge movies
* The surprisingly torrid private lives of the Maximoffs
* Scarlet Witch and Vision’s kids
* Master Pandemonium and his weird baby hands
* Damian Hellstrom
* How we’d handle Magneto’s family in modern Marvel
* Robopaternity
* A possible link between the Summers and Maximoff families

## Listener Questions

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Episode 124 - The Cruelest Planet

## Episode Description

In which everyone dies (or something); every Summers is miserable in their own way; we are pretty done with Nanny and the Orphanmaker; Lady Deathstrike is a surprisingly astute art critic; the X-Men’s digital invisibility does not extend to the White Pages; we venture into slightly less charted territory; Wolverine has a *really* bad day; and you should totally come hang out with us at Rose City Comic Con!

## X-Plained

* Origins of Lady Deathstrike
* Jay & Miles at Rose City Comic Con
* X-Ray party etiquette
* *Uncanny X-Men* #248-251
* The precise inverse of an anticlimax
* The Siege Perilous (more) (again)
* Dramatic parallels
* Summers tragedy disambiguation
* Jim Lee’s first X-issue
* The apparent death of Storm (this time)
* The merged Reavers
* What it takes for Jay to play a sidescroller
* An X-band
* Longshot’s departure
* A really ineffective rescue
* Art-critic Deathstrike
* Administrative assistant Jubilee
* Zaladane
* An unconventional approach to genealogy
* The ickiest method of mind control
* Dark Claw

## Listener Questions

* My brother says Wolverine is the Batman of the Marvel Universe. Is this true? And if so, what should I do with that knowledge?
* Who would be the top 5 mutants to get high with?
Episode 029 - Mutant in a Box

## Episode Description

In which Cyclops is the worst at vacations, Mystique is your favorite MurderMom™, Havok is eternally ABD, Kitty Pryde does science, Callisto doesn’t give a damn about her bad reputation, Xavier has a Troy Barnes moment, Miles may be the only person with fond memories of Secret Wars, and Rachel finally gets to make Spalding Gray references.

## X-Plained

* Fantomex
* Uncanny X-Men #176-181
* Reset issues
* Scott Summers’s second-worst honeymoon
* Cephalopod disambiguation
* Project Wideawake (more) (again)
* Valerie Cooper
* Foreshadowing
* Public displays of affection
* Leech
* How X-Men age
* A sewer wizard
* Doug Ramsey
* Secret Wars
* Japan
* Mystique’s kids
* Douglock
* Mystique’s powers
* The other X-Men Forever

## Listener Questions

* Just how many kids does Mystique have (that we know of)?
* What's the deal with Douglock? He was one of my favorites, but I heard he was retconned into being Warlock. That's kind of an awful thing to do! I like that Warlock and Cypher had sort of a son.
* So, when Mystique takes on another mutant's form, she also apparently takes on their weapons (Wolverine's claws, Cyclops' optic blasts, etc.) So his kind of begs the question - why not just morph into Thanos, Dark Phoenix or some other overpowered entity?
Episode 084 – The Fourth Horseman

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Franklin Richards is the center of a disproportionate number of X-Men specials; Quicksilver without powers is comedy gold; Luna is the best little girl on the moon (but it’s kind of a low bar); Jay accidentally cares about the Inhumans; Jean Grey may or may not be the Wesley Willis of X-Factor; Cameron Hodge’s exit interview is weirdly professional; Boom Boom is the best reluctant hero; and Archangel makes his debut.

## X-Plained

* Quicksilver’s team associations
* Knights of Wundagore
* Chthon
* X-Factor Annual #2
* X-Factor #21-23
* The Inhumans
* Black Bolt
* Medusa
* Crystal
* Lockjaw
* QWOP Quicksilver
* Leech’s wildly inconsistent powers
* Gorgon
* Luna
* Headbutting ghosts, or, why sentence structure matters
* Maximus
* Several methods of mind control
* A really terrible place for a date
* Cameron Hodge: Bureaucrat Supervillain
* The last will & testament of Warren Worthington III
* Another superpower pet peeve
* A theoretical team-up we would love to see
* The Arlington Interactive Museum of (evil) Science
* Some really dumb armor
* Archangel
* Our preferred third Summers brothers

## Listener Questions

* Are the characters in the post Secret Wars titles the ones from Earth-616 or Earth-1610? Or are they native to this new universe?
* Who is your preferred third Summers brother?
Episode 143 - Seduction of the Innocent

## Episode Description

In which the Cross-Time Caper has finally outstayed its welcome; we bid a reluctant farewell to Alan Davis; Inferno may or may not finally actually be over; Evil Doug Ramsey rocks our socks; the Shadow King is not a particularly nuanced villain; Kitty Pryde celebrates a birthday; and Courtney Ross represents an awful lot of dangling plot threads.

## X-Plained

* Nocturne
* *Excalibur* #21-24
* The end of the Cross-Time Caper
* Post-Alan Davis *Excalibur*
* Chris Wozniak
* Crusader X
* Earth-2122
* How to track Excalibur
* Phoenix-related telepathic idiosyncracies
* Our general indifference to the Shadow King
* An alternate history of Earth-811
* Earth-23238
* An extended Judge Dredd riff
* Puberty
* Another John Byrne cameo
* Several variations on Courtney Ross
* Kitty Pryde’s 15th birthday
* Nightcrawler’s beard
* The Siege Courageous

## Listener Questions

* How can Nightcrawler grow a beard if he's already covered in fur?
* I have a question about the Siege Courageous. I know that the Siege Perilous was made by either Roma or Merlin and it let the X-Men get new destinies. In *Avengers vs X-Men* the Phoenix Five use the Siege Courageous to get around. Was this Siege also made by Roma? Are there other Sieges besides the two?
Episode 302 - Space Junk

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which you should probably not mess with space junk; Exodus is terrible at many things; Rusty Collins deserved better; *X-Men* #100 references are dirty (but effective) pool; Magneto goes through a lot of orbital bases; Nate Grey makes things worse; Frenzy is generally the most competent member of any team she’s on; and we sincerely regret not making more Satellite of Love jokes about Avalon.

## X-Plained

* Consequences
* The foundations of Onslaught
* X-Men #42-44
* The Acolytes (more) (again) and several members thereof
* How not to toast
* Milan
* A teleportation incident
* Juggernaut problems
* A break-in
* Several things not to do in space
* Prioritizing problems
* A very dramatic confrontation
* X-Men #100 references
* An extremely counterintuitive use of Amelia Voght’s powers
* The return of Cyclops’s castaway uniform
* A reluctant team-up
* Cyclops as catalyst vs. focus
* An unexpected reunion
* Marrow
* Determining characters’ ages
* Dazzler’s powers

## Listener Questions

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