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Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.\n\nIn which Nextwave is both canon and not-canon; Inferno officially begins; X-Terminators is basically a cartoon; Bill Gaines cannot catch a break; Artie and Leach are superbabies; Takeshi Matsuya is fantastic; you should probably never take our advice about anything; Boom Boom is pretty good at superhero costume design; Walter Peck was right; Miles still won't stop saying that one line about stealing a baby; N'astirh is no pigeon; and "No Mutant Is an Island" is a patently inaccurate statement.\n\nX-PLAINED:\n\n \tThe Beyond Corporation\n \tThe Defilers\n \tX-Terminators #1-4\n \tThe first 35 issues of X-Factor, briefly\n \tTwo teams with the same name\n \tFredric Wertham\n \tBill Gaines\n \tCrotus\n \tBabies\n \tA boarding school that may or may not be Phillips Exeter Academy\n \tMuffy\n \tSaint Simon's Academy\n \tWiz Kid (Takeshi Matsuya)\n \tNuprin\n \tMedical advice from goblins\n \tThe Goblin Buster\n \tMetareferential snack food\n \tRadSport Sport Fashion Outfitters\n \tAn exceptionally specific Ghostbusters reference\n \tHelen and Tim\n \tDubious spell semantics\n \tHow not to incorporate a crossover into a miniseries, and vice versa\n \t"No Mutant Is an Island"\n \tA brief history of Magneto's helmet\n \tDefinitive Magnetos\n\nNEXT WEEK: The fall of Magik.\n\n\n\nSpecial thanks to multiversal metacontinuity wizard Al Ewing for the last-minute assist on the cold open!\n\n\n\nYou can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog!\n\nFind us on\xa0iTunes, Google Play,\xa0or\xa0Stitcher!\n\nJay\xa0and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to\xa0help support the podcast\u2013and unlock more cool stuff\u2013you can do that\xa0right here!\n\nBuy prints of this week\u2019s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne\xa0for\xa0the original!