Episode Details

In which author Sarah Kuhn joins us to talk about Asian-American and Asian-British representation in superhero comics; Psylocke is the literal embodiment of British imperialism; Jubilee speaks for us all; representation isn’t a Boolean state; Wolverine fails at pop culture references; and somewhere there’s probably a really dark alternate universe where Betsy teamed up with Jamie instead of Brian.

X-PLAINED:

• Crimson Dawn
• Sarah Kuhn
• Uncanny X-Men #256-258
• A proactive approach to career advancement
• Matsuo Tsurayaba
• The Mandarin
• A highly symbolic dream sequence
• A controversial transformation
• Kwannon
• What badass looked like in 1990
• Several varyingly successful Batman references
• Rose Wu
• A fairly novel approach to hallucination
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