158 No Focus, Less Direction

Published: Aug. 7, 2017, 2:24 a.m.

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!\n\n\xa0\n\nIn which we return triumphant from hiatus; it's still always Inferno in here; no one should ever under any circumstances date Cameron Hodge; Kenneth is a fundamentally hilarious name; Magneto's family gets retconned to death; Pterosaurs are still the absolute worst; and Magik totally deserves a sidekick.\n\nX-PLAINED:\n\n \tKa-Zar's real name\n \tShanna the She-Devil\n \tOur new production set-up\n \tWhat we did on our summer vacations\n \tPreviously on X-Men\n \tFurther limits of the mutant metaphor\n \tUncanny X-Men #273-275\n \tA crisis of leadership\n \tA comic that is a metaphor that is also a comic\n \tCable's OkCupid profile\n \tChanging creative dynamics on the X-line\n \tArchangel's middle name\n \tGambit vs. Wolverine\n \tCensorship Steam\n \tThe protean X-bathroom\n \tMagneto's retconned family\n \tColonel Semyanov\n \tA perhaps ill-conceived team-up\n \tThe Self-Styled Mistress of Magnetism\n \tSome remarkably lucky timing\n \tThe semantics of heel turns\n \tGender and sidekicks\n \tMr. Sinister's powers\n\nNEXT EPISODE: The end of New Mutants!\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.)