196 – The Power Is Yours

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which space bugs break time; you may already be a member of Excalibur; Earth-616 remains somewhat baffled by basic telecommunications technology; you should absolutely not order monkeys from an ad in a comic book; Widget gets a new look; Excalibur gets a new logo; Merlin X-Plains everything; and Rachel gets in touch with her roots. X-PLAINED: The Timebroker Excalibur #48-50 What “fair use” doesn’t mean Penis bones, revisited Feron Prophylactic levitation Several inaccurate flashbacks Someone who is neither a Nazi nor Charles Xavier Necrom (again) The art of heroic exposition Monastic population maintenance Mail-order monkeys Widget’s new look Kylun’s mutant power Several alternate Excaliburs The True Secret Purpose of Excalibur The new Excalibur logo Fighting weird with weird A whole lot of history Phoenix vs. Anti-Phoenix Some very epic thwarting The end of an era Alan Davis’s Excalibur How we work alternate timelines into coverage Bishop and Deathbird as a couple NEXT EPISODE: Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure and Bloody Choices! UPDATE: Apparently the dead mail-order monkeys were apocryphal, although we were able to dig up some fairly nightmarish accounts of live mail-order monkeys. …Yay? 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.)