161 Do You Even Howl, Bro?

Published: Aug. 28, 2017, 3:41 a.m.

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!\n\nIn which we return to Excalibur, and Excalibur returns to form; "Girls' School from Heck" is way better than we remembered; Jay has strong feelings about penmanship; we examine the semantics of field hockey; the band gets back together; Dai Thomas has no time for your comic-book bullshit; and you should never, ever install a good/evil switch in your technological abominations.\n\nX-PLAINED\n\n \tThe first appearances of Colonel Vazhin\n \tPerks of home recording\n \tFlameCon 2017\n \tJay & Miles at Rose City Comic Con\n \tExcalibur #32-36\n \t"Girls' School from Heck!"\n \tSt. Searle's School for Young Ladies\n \tSt. Trinian's and a large number of references thereto\n \tRegional variations in boarding school hijinks\n \tMiss Rutherford\n \tA poorly staged panel\n \tPhoebe Huntsman\n \tKitty Pryde's penmanship\n \tMargaret Thatcher's weirdly wholesome fantasies\n \tThe kinda-reformation of Mesmero\n \tThe end of Chris Claremont's run on Excalibur\n \tSome complicated contradictions related to the ethics of consumption\n \tAn abduction\n \tThe ethics of psychic interrogation (kinda)\n \tMariner disambiguation\n \tA rescue\n \tAn unlikely partnership\n \tDarkmoor Research Center\n \tDr. Walshe\n \tA somewhat convoluted plot\n \tWhether the Danger Room could function as a bathroom\n \tThe physics of Asteroid M\n\nNEXT EPISODE: Weapon X!\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\nSpecial thanks to Gavia Baker-Whitelaw for helping us assemble the\xa0St. Searle's marginalia!