406 – The Most Dangerous Mini-Game

In which we disagree about the value of Stan Lee intros; everybody wants Wolverine; Mister Sinister lurks; Haley Blanding deserves better; Thunderbird fights a tiger; and Xavier and Magneto do their usual thing. X-PLAINED: The Circus of Crime Stan Lee intros Wolverine #-1 X-Factor #-1 X-Force #-1 X-Men #-1 Proust vs. Sartre How Logan joined Alpha Flight The secret origin of the word “canucklehead.” USDA, Annex B Myron MacLain Logan’s cigars Yet more continuity errors Sabretooth’s ridiculous car The balance of scary and silly Wolverine’s cowboy hat Summers family bullshit The Blandings and/or Masterses Vince The Proudstar family One or more cats named Coyote The origin of Thunderbird’s totem Edwin Martynec (again) Chondu the Magician Ringmaster Yet more Xavier and Magneto flashback drama The bottom of the resurrection queue Good car-trip episodes NEXT EPISODE: X-Factor continues to make poor decisions 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!