Art by David Wynne. Contact David to purchase the original!\n\nIn which Franklin Richards makes everything more complicated; Reed Richards is a terrible parent; Days of Future Present is a surprisingly good ghost story; Valeria Richards is awesome (but does not appear in this crossover); everyone's got hounds these days; Banshee is your sad cyborg dad; Phoenix has a lot of feelings; and X-Factor once again manages to up the ante for child endangerment.\n\nX-PLAINED:\n\n \tNightcrawler's brief clerical career\n \tDays of Future Present\n \tAnnuals, in general\n \tSome extraordinarily specific Namor headcanon\n \tFantastic Four Annual #23\n \tNew Mutants Annual #6\n \tX-Factor Annual #5\n \tUncanny X-Men Annual #14\n \tFranklin Richards\n \tSeveral statuses quo\n \tThe reproductive potential of Doombots\n \tMs. Marvel (Sharon Ventura)\n \tAhab\n \tA Code Red Time Emergency\n \tOne of Jay's dream pitches\n \tYour sad cyborg dad\n \tThe worst tea party\n \tOne hell of a kiss\n \tRobocop vs. Terminator\n\nNEXT EPISODE:\xa0Excalibur gets eclectic!\n\n\n\nThe visual companion to this episode will be up later this week.\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.)