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Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!\n\nIn which Miles has a Dracula problem; we are really, really excited about FlameCon; Fabian Nicieza is the unsung hero of the early '90s; Jay doesn't explain the Iranian Hostage Crisis; Cable does not have a good history with trademark disputes; Cable: Blood and Metal is secretly an allegory for the X-books of the early 1990s; friendship and explosions don't have to be mutually exclusive; and history evokes but doesn't quite repeat itself.\n\nX-PLAINED:\n\n \tDracula disambiguation\n \tOne way to stop a vampire invasion\n \tWang beams\n \tCable: Blood and Metal #1-2\n \tThe continuing miracle that is Fabian Nicieza\n \tCable (as established in 1992)\n \tStryfe\n \tThe Wild Pack and/or Six Pack\n \tThe ongoing evolution of John Romita, Jr.\n \tTolliver\n \tSeveral heists of varying quality\n \tNumerous patches and their contents\n \tHow the Wild Pack became the Six Pack\n \tAn idiom, examined\n \tA total dick move\n \tMuscles-and-guns power creep\n \tGuns of tomorrow\n \tThe McNinja point\n \tA brief flirtation with Magic: The Gathering\n \tA typo that became canon\n \tThe new She-Ra\n \tThe new, improved Garrison Kane\n \tEuropean nipple lasers\n \tMr. Richter\n \tThe evolution of Cable\n\nNEXT EPISODE: X-Factor gets political.\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.)