Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!\n\nIn which Abs-lantis will not be denied; "slightly traumatized" is basically the default state of Xavier's original students; we pick up the slack for Nicieza; Banshee and Moira MacTaggert probably have an active and varied love life; Xavier miscounts the X-Men; we look back over the Claremont/Simonson era of the X-Universe; and Jay makes a case for the re-resurrection of Jean Grey.\n\nX-PLAINED:\n\n \tX-Men: Red\n \tNamor's beard\n \tThe conclusion of the Muir Island Saga\n \tUncanny X-Men #280\n \tX-Factor #70.\n \tCool orange spacesuits that make you immune to telepathy\n \tOff-brand Magneto hats\n \tLiterary terrors of our childhoods\n \tAgents DeMarco & Heacock (R.I.P.)\n \tCasual use of nuclear weaponry\n \tThe cavalry\n \tThe end of the Shadow King\n \tThe most dysfunctional timeline\n \tUncanny X-Men #200-278\n \tThe case for an eclectic X-Universe\n \tX-Campus\n \tResurrections, and when they do and don't work\n\nNEXT EPISODE: Ed Piskor's Grand Design\n\n\n\nThe visual companion to this episode will be up sometime before the end of 2017, by which point Jay's lungs will hopefully be working again. Yay?\n\n(Seriously, though, fuck this cold. Fuck this cold so much.)\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.)