426 – A Gift from the Lower Regions

In which the Shi’ar have zero chill; Bishop and Deathbird do space opera; we travel to the far-future year of 2018; Alanna Nerimani stretches the definition of “bird”; Deathbird is the cool aunt; Bishop needs a break from dark futures; and Bishop and Sauron have an intimate encounter. X-PLAINED: The current number of Summers brothers Uncanny X-Men #358 Team X 2000 The Shi’ar Empire (more) (again) Shi’ar voices Parker Posey vs. Posie Parker Sexual dimorphism in art The Ursaa Organs The Chnitt Karel Several cameos Nullifier charges Tu The first appearance of Cyclops’s Captain America teddy bear 2018 Alan Smithee Gith Deathbird’s terrible childhood Shi’ar-occupied Earth Alanna Nerimani Your cool murder aunt Earth-9922 Deathbird’s war journals The Morlocks (but not those ones) Team X (but not that one) Bribery A very sexual encounter Explorations of disability and ableism in comics Beast’s long, slow heel turn NEXT EPISODE: Domino rejoins X-Force! 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!