196 The Power Is Yours

Published: May 7, 2018, 4:49 a.m.

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!\n\nIn which space bugs break time; you may already be a member of Excalibur; Earth-616 remains somewhat baffled by basic telecommunications technology; you should absolutely not order monkeys from an ad in a comic book; Widget gets a new look; Excalibur gets a new logo; Merlin X-Plains everything; and Rachel gets in touch with her roots.\n\nX-PLAINED:\n\n \tThe Timebroker\n \tExcalibur #48-50\n \tWhat "fair use" doesn't mean\n \tPenis bones, revisited\n \tFeron\n \tProphylactic levitation\n \tSeveral inaccurate flashbacks\n \tSomeone who is neither a Nazi nor Charles Xavier\n \tNecrom (again)\n \tThe art of heroic exposition\n \tMonastic population maintenance\n \tMail-order monkeys\n \tWidget's new look\n \tKylun's mutant power\n \tSeveral alternate Excaliburs\n \tThe True Secret Purpose of Excalibur\n \tThe new Excalibur logo\n \tFighting weird with weird\n \tA whole lot of history\n \tPhoenix vs. Anti-Phoenix\n \tSome very epic thwarting\n \tThe end of an era\n \tAlan Davis's Excalibur\n \tHow we work alternate timelines into coverage\n \tBishop and Deathbird as a couple\n\nNEXT EPISODE: Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure and Bloody Choices!\n\n\n\nUPDATE: Apparently the dead mail-order monkeys were apocryphal, although we were able to dig up some fairly nightmarish accounts of live mail-order monkeys. ...Yay?\n\n\n\nCheck out 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.)