137 Kicky Kinko Killers (feat. Sarah Kuhn)

Published: Dec. 5, 2016, 7:28 a.m.

Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and coffee mugs available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.\n\nIn which author Sarah Kuhn joins us to talk about Asian-American and Asian-British representation in superhero comics; Psylocke is the literal embodiment of British imperialism; Jubilee speaks for us all; representation isn't a Boolean state; Wolverine fails at pop culture references; and somewhere there's probably a really dark alternate universe where Betsy teamed up with Jamie instead of Brian.\n\nX-PLAINED:\n\n \tCrimson Dawn\n \tSarah Kuhn\n \tUncanny X-Men #256-258\n \tA proactive approach to career advancement\n \tMatsuo Tsurayaba\n \tThe Mandarin\n \tA highly symbolic dream sequence\n \tA controversial transformation\n \tKwannon\n \tWhat badass looked like in 1990\n \tSeveral varyingly successful Batman references\n \tRose Wu\n \tA fairly novel approach to hallucination\n \tSome high-quality invective\n \tPsylocke as a villain\n\nNEXT WEEK: What (almost) everyone else is up to!\n\n\n\nYou can find the visual companion to this episode\xa0on our blog!\n\nFind us on\xa0iTunes\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\nWe\u2019re in the process of migrating our\xa0official shop to TeePublic!\xa0Click over to check it out!\xa0(You can still find the designs we haven\u2019t moved yet\xa0at Redbubble.)\n\nBuy prints of this week\u2019s illustration\xa0at our shop, or\xa0contact David Wynne\xa0for\xa0the original!