472 – Leave Room for Magneto (The Twelve, Part Two)

In which the Twelve should really be twelve chapters long; Archangel has issues; we continue to bemoan the absence of captions; the X-Men ditch their crossover event for a side quest; Magneto is Genosha’s official chaperone; and we would absolutely elect Emma Frost to a school board. X-PLAINED: What Cable does next The event so far Wolverine #146-147 Uncanny X-Men Annual 1999 Whether the Shadow King is moist Why tiny cavemen can’t have nice things Numerous flashbacks and allusions Archangel’s third-stage evolution The Philharmonic Gets Dressed Abraham Kieros (again) Apocalypse as a self-help guru Fully nude Wolverine X-51 #8 (briefly) Fabian Cortez (more) (again) A miracle of magnetism Scomp linking A big fancy machine Exodus (more) (again) Mutants we’d like to see in public office The (theoretical) Essex administration NEXT EPISODE: The Twelve concludes! Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog. Find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! 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!