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Art by David Wynne.\n\n\xa0\n\nIn which Louise Simonson's New Mutants run gets off to a rough start; drugs are not a reliable way to impress your space girlfriend; Magma gets a character arc; Tarot's powers are kind of iffy; it'll take more than a few illegal fish to stop Magik;\xa0and Bird Brain thoroughly\xa0fails to live up to his potential.\n\nX-PLAINED:\n\n \tSunspot's brushes with villainy\n \tThe de-aging of the New Mutants\n \tNew Mutants #55-58\n \tA memorable dress\n \tRaek\n \tA cautionary tale\n \tThe New Mutants as a Saturday morning cartoon\n \tBird Boy / Bird Brain\n \tJune Brigman\n \tA romantic dilemma\n \tSeveral alternative\xa0foci for Tarot's powers\n \tRedemption and humanization of villains in X-books\n \tUndignified birds\n \tThe best and worst of Bret Blevins\n \tNon-comics writers we'd like to see write X-books\n \tOther teen time travelers we'd add to All-New X-Men\n\nNEXT WEEK: Live in Las Vegas!\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\nWe'll have prints of this week's illustration up at our shop later this week.\xa0As always, you can\xa0contact David Wynne\xa0to inquire after the original!