285 – Immediately if Not Sooner

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which Goldballs is still a better name than Egg; we continue our progress towards Earth-295; Legion pulls a Stryfe; we’re still pretty shaky on how to pronounce “M’Kraan”; Xavier and Magneto were absolutely and unquestionably doing sex in the 1970s; it’s time time; the Watcher is watching you masturbate; and what happens immediately before the end of the world is often as important as what happens immediately after. X-PLAINED: Balls Legion (more) (again) Uncanny X-Men 320-321 X-Men #40 Establishing stakes Slang of the mid-1990s Time travel as a dick move Issues vs. episodes The M’Kraan Crystal (more) (again) Hebrew vowels Latent time travel abilities Charles Xavier’s “first” bar fight An exceptional caption A very bad narrative choice The death of Charles Francis Xavier A load-bearing moment in time Jahf the Guardian Waiting for the end of the world The best-drawn kiss in X-Men, ever The many Krakoas Integrating Legion into Dawn of X NEXT EPISODE: More Legion Quest! 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!