Episode Details

In which we are incapable of X-Plaining the Great Lakes Avengers; Pete Wisdom evolves; Douglock hacks the island; Nightcrawler cosplays Nightcrawler; and we find ourselves bafflingly defensive of the Bamfs.

X-PLAINED:

• How to recruit Unus the Untouchable to your super-team
• What Excalibur has been up to
• Excalibur #118-120
• An excellent use of danger room technology
• Some fairly deft metacommentary
• Colossus vs. another tree
• Bamfs and the character assassination thereof
• Nightmare
• Characterization via lettering
• Several nightmare scenarios
• Pete Wisdom vs. Nightmare
• Meggan’s true form (again)
• A poorly conceived romantic gesture
• Foreshadowing
• Relative Bamf quality
• Other Marvel villains we’d like to see menace the X-Men
• Our thoughts on Legion and The Gifted

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