131 – The Reaver Bunch

Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original. In which Jubilee is the sassiest Xenomorph; Lady Deathstrike is way too good for the Reavers; Wolverine gets a sidekick; Forge arm wrestles the Shadow King; Moira takes a cavalier approach lab safety; Magneto’s motives get kind of reconciled; Legion is a chaos gamer; Mystique and Destiny break our hearts; queer erasure in fiction reflects erasure in life; and the Shadow King is not even a little bit subtle. X-PLAINED: That one time Donald Pierce pretended to be Cyclops for like a year The post X-Men X-Men What may be our deepest cut yet Uncanny X-Men #252-255 Where’s Wolverine? The Reaver Bunch Major-League lumpoids Robot dingoes A prescient vision Trouble at sea Several significant deaths Subtext and queer erasure The key of agony Smile noises Non-mutants we’d team up with the X-Men NEXT WEEK: Back to Asgard! You can find a 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 prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!