203 – The X-Man’s Burden

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which the Morlocks used to have more agency, we have a surprising amount to say about the Rat King from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Archangel receives some exceptionally disturbing news, and 90s comics are all about finding the parts you love. X-PLAINED: Marrow’s internal organs The post-Image Exodus era Judging books by their covers Uncanny X-Men #291-293 Sexy dead girls (again) The Morlock leadership vacuum A significant Callisto personality retcon Failures of leadership due to own-death-faking The magical life and magical death of the Morlock Sewer Wizard Science Made Stupid Storm’s claustrophobia (again) MeMe, scourge of Miles’s childhood 90s Jean Grey: cartoon vs comic The Br’er Rabbit Technique Some unfortunate and significant continuity errors Professor Xavier’s impressive upper body strength Mikhail Rasputin’s genuinely terrifying mutant powers Bobby Drake’s potential Morlock organizational techniques Mikhail Rasputin’s very bad plan Jean Grey’s real talk The Home for Infinite Losers Piotr Rasputin, tragedy collector Copyright law and Fair Use Queer headcanon X-beards NEXT EPISODE: Hub from Titan Up the Defense joins Miles to talk Bronze Age X-weirdness! 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.)