220 – On Your Bike

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which we approach the end of Alan Davis's Excalibur run; "duopenultimate" is not actually a word; Captain Britain pops the question; we do in fact (kinda) get follow-up on Alysande Stuart's death; Miles needs to get a little less credulous about bureaucrats' good intentions; Shadowcat engages in espionage; Nightcrawler and Cerise are tactically saucy; and the sun definitely ought to set on the British Empire. X-PLAINED: Warpies Excalibur #61-65 The Jaspers Warp (more) (again) The RCX (more) (again) Agents Gabriel and Michael What happened to Jay's mom's Hypercolor™ T-shirt What not to do with a dead parrot Several Hamlet references Scott Wright (MicroMax) The Cherubim Cloud Nine Agent Peter (Nigel Orpington-Smythe) Warpie naming conventions Beetroot Screen tone An idiom Evasive makeouts A specific thing on The Gifted Why Kitty Pryde tends to go by her given name NEXT EPISODE: Space Fight! 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.)