Art by David Wynne. Contact David to purchase the original!\n\nIn which we hit the Empire Strikes Back of X-Tinction Agenda; it's hard to be Laura Kinney; the psychic knife makes its debut; Evil!Sexy Moira retains some moral high ground; if your society is built on slavery, your society deserves to crumble; words mean things; Havok would be a terrible housecat; the mutants do not have the patent on stupidity; the opposite of blades is cotton; we give Cameron Hodge's severed head a pep talk; and Cyclops goes full Peralta.\n\nX-PLAINED:\n\n \tUncanny X-Men #271, New Mutants #96, X-Factor #61\n \tLaura Kinney's brief babysitting career\n \tOur upcoming hiatus\n \tDramatis personae\n \tA figurative battering ram\n \tFocused totality\n \tBest insults of the 1990s\n \tA debate\n \tEthics of rhetoric\n \tHousecat Havok\n \tSkittering\n \tMutate numbering systems\n \tThe Prisoner vs. Les Miserables\n \tThe slow disintegration of reality as we know it\n \tSneaking with Cable\n \tA singularly anticlimactic cover\n \tA lushly illustrated report\n \tIncreasingly petty revenge\n \tS.H.I.E.L.D.'s most advanced bald cap\n \tA rising storm\n \tArt teams\n \tWhat we'd like to see out of an X-Men cinematic reboot\n\nNEXT EPISODE: Return of the Revenge of the X-Men\n\n\n\nYou can find the visual companion to this episode on 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.)