Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!\n\nIn which you should all come see us at FlameCon; all lizards are good lizards; we recap a recap; the Phoenix force is really complicated; Earth-99476 may or may not be the secret history of Earth-616; Alan Davis takes on continuity; the X-Men fail to save the day; the Phoenix says its piece; Rachel takes a vacation in space; Captain Britain doesn't like to be psychoanalyzed; and the Crazy Gang gets a happy ending.\n\nX-PLAINED:\n\n \tEvil Shadowcats\n \tJay & Miles at FlameCon\n \tExcalibur #51, 52, and 54\n \tA brief history of Excalibur\n \tThe Phoenix Force\n \tA recap of a recap\n \tWhat this episode isn't covering\n \tLizard Excalibur\n \tThe most meta t-shirt in the multiverse\n \tSeveral long-ago Halloween costumes\n \tDinosaurs of Earths-616 and -99476\n \tNational Lampoon Vacation apocrypha\n \tEarth-99476 and its Savage Land\n \tThe Fantastic Five\n \tA vow of vengeance\n \tFeron as an antecedent to Kubark\n \tAlan Davis's modern authorial counterpart\n \tA telepathic journey\n \tThe full history of the Phoenix Force (as established circa 1991)\n \tInherited vs. inherent mutant powers (and a No-Prize explanation thereof)\n \tThe rehabilitation of Rachel Summers\n \tSeveral retcons yet to come\n \tJean Grey's inconsistent relationship to the Phoenix Force\n \tA mysterious disappearance\n \tWhat the Crazy Gang has been up to\n \tThe nicest kind of twist\n \tA very easy way to make Kitty Pryde textually queer\n \tDifferentiating X-teams\n \tThe X-Plain Discord\n \tStrong Guy's new hobby\n\nNEXT EPISODE: Cable: Blood & Metal\n\n\n\nUPDATE: Not only can birds see color, but they can see a wider spectrum than humans. THE MORE YOU KNOW!\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.)