523 – This World of Liars

About this episode

In this episode, Wolverine learns to fly while the hosts discuss various X-Men storylines and characters.

Illustration by David Wynne In which Wolverine learns to fly; pants are a basic human right; we decide to cherry-pick our Xorn retcons; Xavier’s eyebrows follow his mind; and the first year of New X-Men ends with a bang. X-PLAINED: The origin of the Shi’ar Imperial Guard New X-Men #124-126 The current state of Charles Xavier’s body G-Type Neosaurus Plutonia Schism Oracle Stuf Gladiator (more) (again) Angel disambiguation Several plans Mutant justice Several miracles of magnetism Mummudrai Horror movie shit Subtle visual foreshadowing A ruse Education Long-lost family members What may or may not come after this NEXT EPISODE: Fantomex! Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog . Find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify ! 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 Dashery shop !

People in this episode

Hosts: Jay Edidin, Miles Stokes

Topics covered

• Wolverine
• X-Men
• Shi’ar Imperial Guard
• New X-Men
• Charles Xavier
• mutant justice
• visual foreshadowing

Keywords

• Wolverine
• Xorn
• Charles Xavier
• New X-Men
• Shi’ar Imperial Guard
• mutant justice
• visual foreshadowing
• Fantomex

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Shi’ar Imperial Guard

Books & works: New X-Men #124-126

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