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In which we enter our fourth century of podcasting with brand new theme music; we have both Wolverine questions and wolverine questions; it is extremely rough to be Bishop; the creator of Garfield may or may not live in a sewer on Earth-616; Rogue needs better coping mechanisms; bigotry is depressingly timeless; and everything is Onslaught now.

X-PLAINED:

• Joseph’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
• Our new theme music
• X-Men Prime #1
• A genuinely cool cover gimmick
• What happened after the end of the world
• Boundaries
• War crimes vs. fashion crimes
• Destruction of real landmarks in fiction
• A mysterious assailant
• Actual embodied chaos god Jim Davis and his Earth-616 namesake
• Several memorable Garfield stories
• Marrow (Sarah Rushman)
• The secret origin of the Morlocks
• A friendship we miss
• Unhealthy coping mechanisms
• The perennially dubious journalistic ethics of Trish Tilby
• Dennis
• The death of Dennis
• Flaws of the mutant metaphor (more) (again)
• Several refugees from Earth-295
• Mr. Summers and Mr. Summers
• The secret origin of the Genoshan mutates
• The Acolytes
• The continuing relevance of the mutant metaphor (more) (again)
• Cross-universe characterization

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NOTE: The Garfield strips Jay mentions appeared in newspapers, on purpose, in October 1989.

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