Episode Details

In which Dazzler is not a team player; Longshot is the Zonker Harris of the X-Men; Juggernaut is That Guy; Rachel and Miles channel Statler and Waldorf; and Alex Summers is seriously never, ever going to finish grad school.

X-PLAINED:

• Mutant X
• The only well-adjusted Scott Summers in the Multiverse
• The Goblin Entity
• Uncanny X-Men #217-219
• The evolution of the X-Men’s lineup
• Standards for a good twist
• Doonesbury
• Several Dungeons & Dragons analogies
• A dubious literary allusion
• Flying jeeps
• CrimeBros
• The fundamental tragedy of Longshot
• Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and several homages thereto
• Geordie and Rupert
• Havok (more) (again)
• Car-wreck sex
• An unfortunate end to a camping trip
• The Plot Bus
• Several ways to stat Rogue up as a D&D character
• Narrative-friendly power sets

Special thanks to:

• The wonderful Adam Warrock, for letting us sample his song “Teamwork” in this episode! You can listen to the full track here, and find more of Adam’s work at adamwarrock.com.
• Harrison Barber for his X-Pert D&D advice (not to mention nearly fifteen years of tolerating our nonsense at the gaming table)!

NEXT WEEK: X-Men: Evolution with Robert N. Skir!

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