296 – Hard Choices

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which Magneto doesn’t really do work/live divide; Amazing X-Men is a bit of a misnomer; Exodus is the lawful evil to Fabian Cortez’s chaotic evil; smoking is bad for you; moisture molecular inversion is fairly definitely not a real thing; Earth-295 Quicksilver and Earth-616 Cyclops would probably get along; OSHA would probably like a word with the Madrii; Gambit had ONE JOB; and there are no superheroes in the Age of Apocalypse. X-PLAINED: An unlikely team-up Relative amazingness Amazing X-Men #1-5 Color separations Comics credits The Brotherhood of Mutants and/or Chaos The Great Human Airlift Exodus (more) (again) Best Quicksilver (Earth-295) Abyss A dubiously aerodynamic cape One last job Several points of semantic distinction Lone Nanny & Cub The most punchable man on Earth-295 A difficult choice What it means to be X-Men Dick Valentine Jamie Madrox (Earth-295) A world without superheroes Universe numbering NEXT EPISODE: X-Man! CORRECTION: The line about fence-straddling that Jay attributed to Wonder Woman was in fact spoken by Hawkgirl. 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! This June, we’ll be donating all of the profits to Trans Lifeline!