BROADCASTS.com

In which we walk down X-Plain Memory Lane; everyone needs Bitch Planet; HoX/PoX wouldn't stay on shelves; we learn how to make sure a comic doesn't get canceled; Marvel should have kept publishing those Krakoa-era anthology TPBs; X-Men is indeed a soap opera; and you can jump in here 'cause we're all confused.\n\nX-PLAINED:\n\n \tThe most crowded X-year\n \tBooks With Pictures, official best comics shop in the world\n \tOur upcoming 10th birthday party\n \tKatie Pryde\u2019s X-history\n \tPrioritizing marginalized nerd identities\n \tLapsed X-readers\n \tX-sprawl\n \tThe Dawn of X books that worked (and the one that didn\u2019t)\n \tThe frustration of discontinued collection formats\n \tThe perfect number of X-books (again)\n \tDrama and kissing\n \tWhat we want after Fall of X\n \tReaders\u2019 single issue vs collection preferences\n \tThe power of the preorder\n \tKatie\u2019s (naming) origin story\n \tReaders versus speculators\n \tHow to organize a comic book store\n \tNon-X recommendations for X-fans\n \tThe glory of Judge Dredd\n \tX-Men who can be trusted to watch a comic book store\n\nNEXT EPISODE: Deviants, Christmas ghosts, and Magneto!\n\n\n\nLINKS AND FURTHER READING:\n\n \tBooks With Pictures in Portland, Oregon\n \tThe Books With Pictures Podcast\n\n\n\n\nRSVP to our birthday shenanigans!\n\nFind us on\xa0Apple Podcasts\xa0or\xa0Spotify!\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\nBuy rad swag at\xa0our TeePublic shop!