214 – Stryfe’s Burn Book

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which “wolves” proves a remarkably broad category in the 616; we at least nominally wrap up X-Cutioner’s Song; Stryfe could really use a style guide; we issue our first-ever music challenge; Jubilee is an agent of chaos; Gambit’s powers are a metaphor; Charles Xavier has a complicated relationship to disability; the quality of Jay’s penmanship is a matter of official record; Boom Boom is a remarkably good costume designer; Cannonball comes into his own as a leader; and every “WHAT?!” you hear on this show is fresh and original. X-PLAINED: Wolves, to a very limited extent Jay & Miles (kinda) at NYCC Transcripts X-Cutioner’s Song Stryfe’s Strike File Uncanny X-Men #297 X-Force #19 A gentle bird caught in a swirling tornado of lust and desperation Shades of me Shades of you Shades of them Our first-ever music challenge Some foreshadowing Nostalgia A very nice hug The one good side effect of Stryfe’s technoorganic virus Charles Xavier vs. disability politics Several practical jokes in very poor taste Teacher-student bonding An excellent epithet Some lettering choices An extended Hail Caesar riff The Clooney Scale An enduring mystery Clone powers Exclamatory logistics NEXT EPISODE: Hey, remember Excalibur? MUSIC CHALLENGE: Write and record a song based on or using text from Stryfe’s Strike File (or any of his rants from X-Cutioner’s Song)! Send your masterpieces (or links to ’em) to xplainthexmen(at)gmail(dot)com, with the subject STRYFE SONG! 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.)