Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.\n\n\xa0\n\nIn which everyone's got Inferno issues; Brett Blevins makes it work; Belasco is conspicuously absent from Inferno; you should never go into Hell barefoot; the greatest X-Men stories are about loss; and Illyana Rasputin finally gets a fairy tale ending.\n\nX-PLAINED\n\n \tTempus (Eva Bell)\n \tStorm and Illyana: Magik #1-4 (briefly)\n \tThe two major Inferno plotlines\n \tNew Mutants #71-73\n \tThe best of Brett Blevins\n \tThe rise and fall of Magik\n \tThe ethics of time-travel interventions\n \tA weaponized retcon\n \tN'astirh Guy\u2122\n \tA chair that is also a moral event horizon\n \tA significant soul-armor upgrade\n \tSeveral variations on a chapter title\n \tPossessed New York\n \tAn overly complex conspiracy theory\n \tA bittersweet reunion\n \tThe Kobayashi Maru scenario as applied to X-Men\n \tAn even more bittersweet victory (of sorts)\n \tThe eventual return of Magik (sort of)\n \tWhy it's really irresponsible to affiliate your school with a superhero team\n \tOur favorite versions of Wolfsbane's transitional form\n\nNEXT WEEK:\n\nThe Rise of the Goblin Queen!\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!