180 – Lawful Badass

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which Jay is deeply invested in The Gifted; Trevor Fitzroy is generally inexcusable; there are a lot of reasons to be uncomfortable in the Hellfire Club; the mix just got altered in this little clambake; Jean Grey (kind of) dies (again); Earth-1191 gives the Age of Apocalypse some glam competition; Lucas Bishop is a pretty decent metaphor for fan culture; everyone is probably Kang the Conqueror; and now Miles really has no excuse for not watching The Prisoner. X-PLAINED: The Chronomancer and his Chronobots The Gifted Lucas Bishop's creative origins Trevor Fitzroy Goatee Theory X-Factor #67 Uncanny X-Men #281-283 Dapper Lesbian Shinobi Shaw A briefly useful mnemonic Cybernetic fuckboys The return of Warren Kenneth Worthington III's hair Beef and Bevatron The deaths of the Hellions Warhammer Some of the challenges of X-Plaining the '90s Bringing a knife to a Sentinel fight Bantam A bunch of bad guys from the future Bishop Randall Malcolm Earth-1191 The Gamemaster X-Men we'd like to see come out as trans (revisited) Whether either or both of us are Kang the Conquerer NEXT EPISODE: Pouches and Guns Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)