135 – Kurt Wagner, Warlord of Mars (Cross-Time Caper, Part 2)

Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original. In which the Cross-Time Caper continues; alliteration is awesome; someone else’s geopolitical conflict is not an appropriate place to play out your pirate fantasies; we are definitely not actually going to eat Alan Davis’s brains; Jamie Braddock is Evil Rex Racer; Widget eats a car; Rick Leonardi is the definitive fill-in artist; the problem is patriarchy; and everything’s sticky in Madripoor. X-PLAINED: X-Manga Excalibur #16-19 Crosstime A John Carter riff A mysterious and dubiously reliable narrator A terrible pick-up line Kymri Anjulie Gender-neutral fantasy armor Implicit fellatio in several media Space Fred Savage An alternate Jean Grey (and her untimely demise) Tullamore Voge A grand tourney A deeply disappointing pastiche ORZ-1 Dirty Pair (and a sustained riff thereon) What makes a train sexy Wolverine’s table manners Jim Jaspers vs. Jamie Braddock vs. Jamie Jeffers NEXT EPISODE: Fill-In Frenzy! 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!