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In which Deadpool and X-Men ’92 artist Scott Koblish joins us to present the Summers Family Tree as you’ve never experienced it before; the X-Men go to Dante’s Hell; Dr. Strange gets his Virgil on; Wolverine sniffs snakes; Iceman has probably killed a lot of people; and X-Men fans have remained remarkably consistent over the years.

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• The Summers family
• Birthdays at the Xavier mansion
• A package as sinister as it is stylish
• Uncanny X-Men King-Size Annual #4
• One version of Hell
• A demon who is also a sorting hat
• Another X-Men crossover conspiracy theory
• The X-Men’s religious affiliations and lack thereof
• Nuance of self-narration
• Snakes with arms, and the vocalizations thereof
• Dangers of encasing people in ice
• The death of Stefan Szardos
• An overly complex revenge plot
• The origin of that one angry mob from Giant-Size X-Men #1
• Kinda-incest
• Reader responses to the Dark Phoenix Saga
• X-Men vs. board games
• The appeal of the Outback X-Men
• Artist-character associations

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DEAR MISTER SINISTER lyrics by Jay Edidin & music by Tea Fougner. Performed by Scott Koblish.

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