231 – Life Bites

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which DC is out of our bailiwick; Random gets around; someone finally makes an explicit reference to disability politics; death has not improved the Chalkers; Strong Guy can’t catch a break; we’re all whole other people; Sienna Blaze has a crayon name; we totally want to play D&D with Evan Skolnick; a trading card does not a memorable character make; and we are 100% here for the mutant episode of Sesame Street. X-PLAINED: What happened to Fred Duncan Beastwriting Marvel’s 1993 Annuals The speculator boom X-Factor Annual #8 Uncanny X-Men Annual #17 Excalibur Annual #1 Charlie Ronalds (Charon) and his issues A protracted Batman reference How to string pearls A dubious twist on the danger room The pure joy of a child, but twisted and distorted like a shredded butterfly Cloot (Satannish) Howling Mad, by Peter David The greatest enemies of X-Factor (but not really) Cruel and arbitrary moralizing The other X-Cutioner (Carl Denti) A protracted illusion The Amazing Icemaster Metacommentary An accidental trap The death of Jason Wyngarde (Mastermind) Resolution versus forgiveness The other first appearance of Sienna Blaze More wizard stuff Khaos Khaos & Gritty 4 Lyfe Ghath Irth Mutants on Sesame Street Cycling in and out of comics NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur goes to space! CORRECTION: Chris Claremont did not in fact write Dragonlance comics. 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.)