Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

In which it’s rude to eat in a helmet; Cable does his best villain bit; Bishop is clearly unfamiliar with early X-Force; we’re pretty sure clones still count as people; and Stryfe is the surprise MVP of Gambit & Bishop: Sons of the Atom.

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Another time Stryfe and Bishop teamed up

Gambit & Bishop: Sons of the Atom #3-6

Some of the Witness’s fancy swag

An extremely awkward meal

Stryfe in four pages

Unsubtle foreshadowing

The relative ethics of killing Stryfe

A visual representation of time

Somewhat logical consequences

Bad clone ethics

Future uncertainty

Le Bête Noir

Hell-lord / anti-Phoenix disambiguation

A fancy t-shirt

The appropriate amount of mean to be to Stryfe

When Gambit and Bishop: Sons of the Atom takes place relative to The Search for Cyclops (more) (again) (inconclusive)

Reasons not to live under a crypt in New Orleans

Betty Noir’s

Relative (fictional) body counts

Business-casual Stryfe

Lucas Bishop, kitten guy

Relitigating the X-traitor

NEXT EPISODE: Eve of Destruction (and some bonus Summers family bullshit)

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In which we unapologetically ship Gambit and Bishop; pelicans are deeply alarming birds; Charles Xavier watches your sex dreams; the Witness is a Whole Continuity Thing; and the T’ieves Guild is really just here to steal your stuff.

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Destiny’s frequently retconned diaries

Midi series

Gambit (more) (again)

Bishop (more) (again)

Gambit and Bishop: Sons of the Atom Alpha

Gambit and Bishop: Sons of the Atom #1-2

When Gambit and Bishop: Sons of the Atom takes place relative to The Search for Cyclops

Some things pelicans get up to

An upsetting dream

Ethics of telepathy (more) (again)

Night science

Some of what Stryfe has been up to

French nouns

A theoretical Orphan Black video game

The Witness (LeBeau) (more) (again)

The Witness Cave

How to make Bishop a more central X-character

The relative importance of T’ieves Guild continuity

NEXT EPISODE: Stryfe in a diner!

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In which we attempt an all-Cyclops Winter special; X-Men are bad at processing grief; writer Alex Paknadel X-Plains his upcoming Cyclops miniseries; every character (except Cameron Hodge) is someone’s favorite; and you remain the best listeners of any podcast, ever.

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Clones of Cyclops

Gwen Warren

Our year in review

X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #1-4

Ahmed and his mustache

Emotional support boats

A monkey

Apoca-lips

Anias

Boxes of fire

One way of coping with trauma

Ozymandias (more) (again)

The relative criminality of a trail of questions

Cat lady problems

Twice as many cat ladies named Anias as you’d expect

Terrible logic

Caliban (more) (again)

Several unpleasant reunions

Alex Paknadel’s definitive Cyclopses

Fun with minor characters

Proxy characters and “highly polished surfaces”

Characters to revisit

Sentinels

Cyclops vs. his own powers

Cyclops’s powers vs. continuity

Who Scott Summers is when he’s alone

The punch dimension

The 11th Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence

Many people to whom we are profoundly grateful

NEXT EPISODE: Gambit & Bishop: Now Kiss Sons of the Atom

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In which Marrow just want to be left alone; Spider-Man remains hapless; S.H.I.E.L.D. is unhelpful; Colossus dies; Shadowcat leaves the X-Men; and we are all on board for Mutants to Watch Out For.

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How Magik caught the Legacy Virus

Marrow (again)

Spider-Man and Marrow #1

Uncanny X-Men #390

X-Men #110

A fancy club

A terrible plan

The Legacy Virus (more) (again)

Some deeply contrived “science”

A life-affirming display of social interaction

The death of Colossus

A very silly sound effect

Acceptable handwriting

Nostalgia

A double send-off

Closure

Mortality in Otherworld

Imaginary crossovers

NEXT EPISODE: Winter Special!

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In which Professor Xavier is a jock; all of Shadowcat’s friends are dead; Storm recruits a team; Bishop makes new pals; and everyone gets festive.

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Some of Mystique’s secret kids

Uncanny X-Men #389

X-Men #109

Charles Xavier’s workout routine

Two funerals

Rave (the drug)

The wrong necklace

Destiny’s doodles

A large knife

Charles Xavier/Moira MacTaggert backstory

A snowball fight

A very sketchy circus

A break-up

“Christmas cheer”

A mysterious package

An X-Men nativity

Sage (Tessa)

Origins of X-Treme X-Men

Several gifts, some more mysterious than others

Charles Xavier’s legacy

Warwolves (more) (again)

Archangel’s color vision

NEXT EPISODE: Colossus dies!

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