141 Reason to Go to the Devil

Published: Jan. 2, 2017, 3:49 a.m.

b'Art by David Wynne. No print this week, but you can contact David to purchase the original!\\n\\nIn which we ring in the new year with Cable\'s on-page debut; it\'s really the \'90s now; we enter the third major era of New Mutants; what Liefeld lacks in craft he makes up for in energy; we pitch a new "What if--" line; Rusty and Skids are terrible superheroes; X-Factor has probably given up on a lot of things; we speculate at gratuitous length on the content of Cable\'s pouches; you have reason to go to the devil; and Cable makes a lot more sense when you realize he\'s of, by, and for teenagers.\\n\\nX-PLAINED:\\n\\n \\tHow the Legacy Virus got loose\\n \\tNew Mutants #86-89\\n \\tCable\'s on-page debut\\n \\tRob Liefeld\\n \\tThe third major era of New Mutants\\n \\tA shift in the balance of power\\n \\tA comics shop to probably avoid if you time-travel back to the mid 1990s\\n \\tThe stupid adventures of Rusty & Skids\\n \\tYet another Acts of Vengeance tie-in\\n \\tNitro\\n \\tAn accidental prison break\\n \\tCops, or maybe protestors\\n \\tThe Mutant Liberation Front\\n \\tFeet\\n \\tA goody two-shoes man-stealing redheaded werewolf\\n \\tWildside\\n \\tReaper\\n \\tStrobe\\n \\tThumbelina\\n \\tTempo\\n \\tForearm\\n \\tZero\\n \\tStryfe\\n \\tStryfe\'s armor\\n \\tSpooning with Cable\\n\\nNEXT EPISODE: X-Factor kicks it Silver Age.\\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\\nNo prints this week.\\xa0Contact David Wynne\\xa0to purchase the original illustration!'