Episode Details

In which the X-Men’s membership is a complicated subject; not all angels know each other; we need to talk about Beast’s Wasp costume; Cecilia Reyes speaks for all reasonable folk; Storm gets a mysterious package; and reading comics day-and-date may not be for everyone.

X-PLAINED:

• The variable loyalties of the N’garai
• X-Men #74-76
• A somewhat atypical team lineup
• A whole lotta backstory
• How to join the X-Men
• Warren Kenneth Worthington III as a religious figure
• Flechette clean-up
• Teenage drama
• Detective Jim Logan
• A lot of murder
• The N’garai
• Beast’s Wasp costume
• Explanatory captions for real life
• The Ru’tai
• Pilgrimm
• Mai’Keth the Undying One
• The Eye of Kierokk
• Maggott’s secret origins
• X-Men cartoons for a 7-year-old
• Reckoning with loss in comics

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