342 – Angry Birds

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which Miles does his best, birds are weird, some of the most dangerous villains are pink, and we are in the Onslaught Zone. X-PLAINED: Malibu Comics and Marvel Comics, sitting in a (multiversal) tree, KILLING Archangel: Phantom Wings Unorthodox artistic decisions Archangel (Warren Kenneth Worthington III) Angst, renewed Bird ichor Tuesday Bird and her Mad Max outfit How (not?) to flirt Uncanny X-Men #333 Various Roberts Kelly Graydon Creed, doin’ Mom proud Bastion, Nimrod, & Master Mold Operation Zero Tolerance X-Teams and their lanes A naked murder-uncle Pink villains Obscure callbacks Event synergy X-Men #53 Day to-day challenges of telepathy Super-Saiyan Magneto Phoenix (Jean Grey), actual adult Onslaught That scene from 1964’s X-Men #3 A surprisingly insightful look at Professor X’s dark side Logan’s assorted friendships with teen girls XMEN Disease NEXT EPISODE: X-Force gets, predictably, x-treme. 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!