140 Unto Us a Retcon Is Given (feat. Dennis Hopeless)

Published: Dec. 26, 2016, 10:06 a.m.

Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards\xa0available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.\n\nIn which writer Dennis Hopeless returns to the show\xa0for an informal introduction to the (first) mutant messiah; Cable is the best-case retcon scenario; Summerses don't get to retire; calculating relative character age remains functionally impossible; Cable is Marsha to Stryfe's Jan; and there's probably already a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta about all of this.\n\nX-PLAINED:\n\n \tThat one time Cable and Stryfe shared a body\n \tCable (Nathan Christopher Charles Summers)\n \tSpinning nonsense into gold\n \tCable and X-Force\n \tCable's controversial creative origins\n \tCollaborative character creation\n \tCable origins that might have been\n \tA whole lot of time travel\n \tA whole lot of Summers family nonsense\n \tProfessor (Ship)\n \tTyler Dayspring (Tolliver)\n \tHope Summers\n \tHow to make Cable interesting\n \tWhat to do after you save the world\n \tStill more time travel\n \tLook, there's a lot of time travel, okay?\n \tOld-man strength\n \tStryfe\n \tDavid Willis's theory of Batman humor (and Jay's derivative theory of Stryfe humor)\n \tMuscle March\n \tCable's role on teams\n \tStryfe vs. Hope\n \tCable's theoretical legal career\n \tQuantum operetta theory\n\nNEXT EPISODE: Cable's on-page debut!\n\n\n\nThere is no visual companion to this episode!\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!