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Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!\n\nIn which Justin Thyme is a forgotten superstar of comics; Nazis should pretty much never be used as a metaphor; Charles Xavier is somehow even worse than usual; Excalibur may lack object permanence; Phoenix defeats Hitler with the power of gayness; we may have hit Peak Nocenti; Brett Blevins should draw Boom Boom forever; and the New Mutants get a taste of media theory.\n\nX-PLAINED:\n\n \tThe exact nature of Shatterstar and Longshot's relationship\n \tExcalibur: Weird War III\n \tNew Mutants Summer Special: A Mutant in Megalopolis\n \tJustin Thyme\n \tBad Kansas\n \tNazi Charles Xavier\n \tKinda-Nazi Moira MacTaggert\n \tThe Reichsmen\n \tLightning Squad (again)\n \tNaked Space Xavier\n \tLargely unsuccessful denouement\n \tThe Wobbly Sneaker Gang\n \tMegalopolis\n \tMedia theory and several of its anthropomorphic personifications\n \tSocially conscious comics\n \tThe Gifted\n \tThe New Mutants trailer\n\nNEXT EPISODE: Lockheed X-Plains Excalibur!\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.)