239 – Rap and Rumble (feat. Max Carleton)

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which we enter the era of bomber jackets; the covers are the cards; Genosha remains neither green nor pleasant; the A is for “Avengers,” not “A-list”; Henry Peter Gyrich is the straightest of men; Cyclops sets an important precedent; Exodus is a huge jerk; we speculate about movies we have definitely not seen; Stephen Strange is not a qualified OBGYN; the Avengers are really weird even by our standards; and Max manages to connect two of Marvel’s most complicated family trees. X-PLAINED: One way to name babies Blood Ties Infinite bomber jackets Avengers #368-369 X-Men #26 Avengers West Coast #101 Uncanny X-Men #307 Several very fancy covers A shadow government, but not that kind of shadow government Genosha (more) (again) The Avengers, as of 1993 A special delegation The Genoshan resistance U.S. Agent A time Cyclops told someone other than Dracula to follow their heart The many belts of Nicholas Fury Several members of the Maximoff family (more) (again) Black Knight (Dane Whitman) Sersi A very drawn-out fight Roy Thomas dialogue The racist icing on the racist cake Exodus (Bennet du Paris) Diplomacy, kind of Apolitical avenging Magneto’s dream A green and pleasant beverage Yet another energy-dome-enclosed crisis The giant, angry disembodied head of Charles Xavier What is definitely the actual plot of the Purge movies The surprisingly torrid private lives of the Maximoffs Scarlet Witch and Vision’s kids Master Pandemonium and his weird baby hands Damian Hellstrom How we’d handle Magneto’s family in modern Marvel Robopaternity A possible link between the Summers and Maximoff families NEXT EPISODE: Live at Emerald City Comic Con, with Vita Ayala, Seanan McGuire, and Leah Williams! 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!