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Season 1
Join us for an X-beginner-friendly, mutant-metaphor-focused, live episode of Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men: presented by LC-GLOBE, the LGBTQ+ organization of employees of the Library of Congress! …
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
There Goes the Moon (Mutant X May, Part 3)
Season 1 Episode 488
In which we reap the consequences of our choices; possession is 18/10 of the law; Sinister dresses for the occasion; Hank gets his groove back; Havok of Earth-1298 is a jerk; Hank loses his groove; …
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Only Well-Adjusted Cyclops in the Multiverse (Mutant X May, Part 2)
Season 1 Episode 487
In which Mutant X May continues; the X-Men return from space; it’s okay not to fill in every detail of a world; Havok leans into parenthood; we meet the only well-adjusted Cyclops in the multiverse;…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Welcome to Earth-1298 (Mutant X May, Part 1)
Season 1 Episode 486
In which we embark on a Great Work; it remains hard to be Alex Summers; and it’s also always Inferno on Earth-1298.
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Mutant X May Mutant X #1-8 Mutant X Annual 1999 Havok (Alex Summers) (…Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The House of Correction
Season 1 Episode 485
In which we go back to the future of Generation X; Jay once again gets pedantic about lettering; Generation X takes on the carceral state; we take a deep dive into the late ‘90s; Jubilee does her be…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
Hell Tuba
Season 1 Episode 484
In which the 2000 Magik miniseries is not a good comics series but is an excellent heavy metal concept album; Nightmare has a nightmare; and tubas work differently in Hell.
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Belasco: the …Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Piotr Lovely Locks
Season 1 Episode 483
In which a lot has happened in the Six Month Gap (and we even get to learn about some of it); we’d missed Claremontian narration; Miles has questions about Colossus’s ponytail; the Soulsword is basi…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Mutant Gene for Murder
Season 1 Episode 482
In which Pete Wisdom canonically smells weird; we are inordinately entertained by a villain; everyone levels up their superpowers; and you probably shouldn’t shave the logo of your secret super team…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
Chekhov's Butt-Gun
Season 1 Episode 481
In which Adrienne Frost is absolutely terrible (and so was Ronald Reagan); you should not put guns in your butt; Synch deserved better; and Jay and Miles inventory their favorite dangling plot thread…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Cross-Time Tattoo Parlor
Season 1 Episode 480
In which we check in on Nate Grey; yet another Madelyne Pryor is not what she seems; dead men tell tales; there are a lot of Canadians out there; and Nate gets a makeover.
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What happened …Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago