101 – Not Bad, Just Drawn That Way
podcasts – Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men · Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
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Show Notes
In which it’s pretty much always terrible to be Magik; Y is a sometimes vowel; Wolfsbane is a secret Disney Princess; feelings ruin everything; and Gossamyr may or may not be an allegory (but is pretty interesting either way).
X-PLAINED:
- What Lila Cheney is up to these days
- New Mutants #67-70
- Gratuitous space spelling
- Gossamyr
- Spyder
- The Accountants
- Magneto’s ongoing slide into supervillainy
- A few fairly specific elements of teen-girl social dynamics
- Wolfsbane’s greatest desire
- Practical logistics of teleporting aliens into a sun
- Approaching the X-books as a new writer
- Who we’d put on an all-X-Men trivia team
NEXT EPISODE: BabyRace 2000; and Archangel vs. Cameron Hodge
Special thanks to Kieron Gillen for the X-pert consult; and to Arvin Bautista for the use of “I Will Steal Your Heart.”
InfernoWatch:
- Illyana’s descent continues
- S’ym gains near-complete control of Limbo
- First instances of possessed machinery and architecture
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