***NOTE: We're aware of the audio issues in this episode. We're still troubleshooting our cross-country setup. Thank you for your patience!***\n\nArt by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!\n\nIn which Stryfe is the Jan Brady of the Summers family; Miles's dreams are trampled beneath tiny, delicate feet; Rictor goes on an unnecessary rescue mission; Cable is Washington to Cannonball's Hamilton; the New Mutants may or may not time travel; Boom Boom scarfs up some chow for the bohunk; you should definitely not mess with Feral's pigeons; Liefeld fights are pure rule-of-cool; Jay is absolutely not qualified to give legal advice; and we bid a bittersweet goodbye to New Mutants.\n\nX-PLAINED:\n\n \tZero\n \tProduction transitions\n \tThe end of New Mutants\n \tNew Mutants #98-100\n \tPlotting vs. scripting\n \tThe most valuable issue of New Mutants\n \tGideon\n \tLiefeld butts (more) (again)\n \tThe very dramatic death of Emmanuel da Costa\n \tTolliver\n \tSome Spider-Man looking jerk\n \tDomino (Neena Thurman)\n \tA specific and likely inaccurate timeline\n \tFeral (Maria Callasantos)\n \tThe signature Liefeld Kick\u2122\n \tThe Tavern on the Green\n \tFive or six kinds of mutants\n \tA sad goodbye\n \tShatterstar (Gaveedra Seven)\n \tCadre Alliance\n \tNesting habits of the urban bohunk\n \tSome rad moves\n \tA prologue that is also an epilogue\n \tThe Stryfe that might have been\n \tHow Logan fits into the X-Men movie timeline\n \tX-Men mostly likely to watch Yuri!!! On Ice\n \tJay at FlameCon!!\n\nNEXT EPISODE: Beast has a sexistential crisis!\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.)