199 Space, Geeks, and Gaveedra Seven

Published: May 28, 2018, 5:38 a.m.

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!\n\nIn which Shattershot is definitely better than the Cold War; Beast X-plains the X-teams; Cyclops is a tired babysitter; sustenance is not frivolous; Jim Henson is the hero that Mojoworld needs; Shatterstar is not a great head of state; it's hard to be Val Cooper; and Cable has definitely figured out how to take you (yes, YOU) out.\n\nX-PLAINED:\n\n \tAstra\n \tContent-to-story ratio\n \tThe Mojoverse (more) (again)\n \tLongshot\n \tShatterstar (Gaveedra Seven)\n \tSpiral (Ricochet Rita)\n \tArize\n \tX-Men Annual #1\n \tUncanny X-Men Annual #16\n \tX-Factor Annual #10\n \tX-Force Annual #1\n \tA pivotal battle\n \tMujahideen\n \tA callback\n \tSeveral denizens of Mojoworld\n \tX-Team disambiguation\n \tThe Death Sponsors\n \tA dubious solution to the Kobayashi Maru scenario\n \tWhether Arize is a mutant\n \tTelepathic favoritism\n \tSpiral's origin story\n \tA new regime\n \tEarth-84309\n \tPowerpax (Frankie Power)\n \tDarkchild\n \tCyberlock\n \tA metasingularity\n \tA large number of back-up features\n \tThe X-Men's top ten enemies\n \tAmalgam (but not that one)\n \tDarick Robertson's juvenilia\n \tThe return of Taki\n \tThe Cable Protocols\n \tBrazilian Marvel characters\n \tOur feelings about Laura Kinney's backstory\n\nNEXT EPISODE: Louise Simonson\n\n\n\nCORRECTION: BonziBuddy was not released until 1999. We regret the error.\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.)