Episode Details

In which the Shi’ar have zero chill; Bishop and Deathbird do space opera; we travel to the far-future year of 2018; Alanna Nerimani stretches the definition of “bird”; Deathbird is the cool aunt; Bishop needs a break from dark futures; and Bishop and Sauron have an intimate encounter.

X-PLAINED:

• The current number of Summers brothers
• Uncanny X-Men #358
• Team X 2000
• The Shi’ar Empire (more) (again)
• Shi’ar voices
• Parker Posey vs. Posie Parker
• Sexual dimorphism in art
• The Ursaa
• Organs
• The Chnitt
• Karel
• Several cameos
• Nullifier charges
• Tu
• The first appearance of Cyclops’s Captain America teddy bear
• 2018
• Alan Smithee
• Gith
• Deathbird’s terrible childhood
• Shi’ar-occupied Earth
• Alanna Nerimani
• Your cool murder aunt
• Earth-9922
• Deathbird’s war journals
• The Morlocks (but not those ones)
• Team X (but not that one)
• Bribery
• A very sexual encounter
• Explorations of disability and ableism in comics
• Beast’s long, slow heel turn

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