416 – The Screaming Room

In which we are incapable of X-Plaining the Great Lakes Avengers; Pete Wisdom evolves; Douglock hacks the island; Nightcrawler cosplays Nightcrawler; and we find ourselves bafflingly defensive of the Bamfs. X-PLAINED: How to recruit Unus the Untouchable to your super-team What Excalibur has been up to Excalibur #118-120 An excellent use of danger room technology Some fairly deft metacommentary Colossus vs. another tree Bamfs and the character assassination thereof Nightmare Characterization via lettering Several nightmare scenarios Pete Wisdom vs. Nightmare Meggan’s true form (again) A poorly conceived romantic gesture Foreshadowing Relative Bamf quality Other Marvel villains we’d like to see menace the X-Men Our thoughts on Legion and The Gifted NEXT EPISODE: A pterodactyl with a gun! 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!