192 – Meet the N-Men

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which Alan Davis’s Excalibur is a spiritual sibling to The Muppet Show; Captain Britain gets a Captain Britain lesson; Opal Luna Saturnyne has no time for your nonsense; Meggan and Rachel take a brief detour into a Hammer film; Earth-148 is extra heroic; no member of Excalibur will ever use a bathroom in peace; Cerise joins the team; Technet embraces the future; and the end of the world is nigh. X-PLAINED: Pixie’s powers and parentage Several eccentricities of Jay’s apartment Excalibur #45-47 Earth-148 (Ee’rath) Comics pacing vs. podcast pacing Technet (more) (again) Amelia Witherspoon and several references related thereto The N-Men How to Captain Britain The multiversal significance of the lighthouse A portentous chess game A particularly aggressive retcon The return of the Neuri The real Meggan Necrom A heroic death The true curse of Excalibur Some very specific citations A reunion Kylun (Colin McKay) A blessed event Cerise Whether Rogue can control Cyclops’s powers Laura Kinney’s upcoming reversion to X-23 NEXT EPISODE: Bishop joins the X-Men! ENTIRELY IRRELEVANT UPDATE: The wall on which Jay was attempting to mount a desk turned out to be plaster over sheetrock. Office plans are being revised accordingly. 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.)