203 The X-Mans Burden

Published: July 1, 2018, 4:52 p.m.

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!\n\nIn which the Morlocks used to have more agency, we have a surprising amount to say about the Rat King from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Archangel receives some exceptionally disturbing news, and 90s comics are all about finding the parts you love.\n\nX-PLAINED:\n\n \tMarrow\u2019s internal organs\n \tThe post-Image Exodus era\n \tJudging books by their covers\n \tUncanny X-Men #291-293\n \tSexy dead girls (again)\n \tThe Morlock leadership vacuum\n \tA significant Callisto personality retcon\n \tFailures of leadership due to own-death-faking\n \tThe magical life and magical death of the Morlock Sewer Wizard\n \tScience Made Stupid\n \tStorm\u2019s claustrophobia (again)\n \tMeMe, scourge of Miles\u2019s childhood\n \t90s Jean Grey: cartoon vs comic\n \tThe Br\u2019er Rabbit Technique\n \tSome unfortunate and significant continuity errors\n \tProfessor Xavier\u2019s impressive upper body strength\n \tMikhail Rasputin\u2019s genuinely terrifying mutant powers\n \tBobby Drake\u2019s potential\n \tMorlock organizational techniques\n \tMikhail Rasputin\u2019s very bad plan\n \tJean Grey\u2019s real talk\n \tThe Home for Infinite Losers\n \tPiotr Rasputin, tragedy collector\n \tCopyright law and Fair Use\n \tQueer headcanon\n \tX-beards\n\nNEXT EPISODE: Hub from Titan Up the Defense joins Miles to talk Bronze Age X-weirdness!\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.)