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Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 9/20/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.\n\n\xa0\n\nIn which Franklin Richards is definitely a normal human meat child; Thing\u2019s code-name is delightfully ambiguous; your kids are probably robot sailors; it\u2019s always a Doombot; Rachel accidentally identifies with Reed Richards; all dramatic roads lead to Latveria; and superheroes are terrible at conflict resolution.\n\n\xa0\n\nX-PLAINED:\n\n \tFranklin Richards\n \tRachel & Miles at Rose City Comic Con\n \tRachel & Miles X-Plain the X-Men LIVE\n \tFantastic Four Versus the\xa0X-Men #1-4\n \tThe best hugs in the biz\n \tThe Fantastic Four\n \tMr. Fantastic (Reed Richards)\n \tInvisible Woman (Susan Richards)\n \tHuman Torch (Johnny Storm)\n \tThing (Ben Grimm)\n \tThe Fantasticast\n \tSpecial dreams (but not that kind)\n \tAlicia Masters (sort of)\n \tDubiously informative cover art\n \tThe doomed frenemyship of Reed Richards and Victor von Doom\n \tVaryingly competent parenting\n \tAn awful lot of incidental nudity\n \tEthics of super-science\n \tRobot sailors\n \tLatveriandroids\n \tAgency\n \tDubious conflict-resolution skills\n \tHuman Torch costume logistics\n \tDr. Doom\u2019s history with Magneto\n \tRelative roles and themes of Marvel teams\n\nNEXT WEEK: X-Factor\xa0still hasn't really gotten the hang of doors.\n\n\n\nYou can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog!\n\nFind us on\xa0iTunes\xa0or\xa0Stitcher!\n\nRachel and 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 prints of this week\u2019s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne\xa0for\xa0the original!