Episode Details

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Drop him a line!

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In which Stryfe is the Jan Brady of the Summers family; Miles’s dreams are trampled beneath tiny, delicate feet; Rictor goes on an unnecessary rescue mission; Cable is Washington to Cannonball’s Hamilton; the New Mutants may or may not time travel; Boom Boom scarfs up some chow for the bohunk; you should definitely not mess with Feral’s pigeons; Liefeld fights are pure rule-of-cool; Jay is absolutely not qualified to give legal advice; and we bid a bittersweet goodbye to New Mutants.

X-PLAINED:

• Zero
• Production transitions
• The end of New Mutants
• New Mutants #98-100
• Plotting vs. scripting
• The most valuable issue of New Mutants
• Gideon
• Liefeld butts (more) (again)
• The very dramatic death of Emmanuel da Costa
• Tolliver
• Some Spider-Man looking jerk
• Domino (Neena Thurman)
• A specific and likely inaccurate timeline
• Feral (Maria Callasantos)
• The signature Liefeld Kick
• The Tavern on the Green
• Five or six kinds of mutants
• A sad goodbye
• Shatterstar (Gaveedra Seven)
• Cadre Alliance
• Nesting habits of the urban bohunk
• Some rad moves
• A prologue that is also an epilogue
• The Stryfe that might have been
• How Logan fits into the X-Men movie timeline
• X-Men