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episode 434: Return to Cape Citadel
In which the X-Men turn 35; we pause to celebrate the death of Henry Kissinger; Jay is a space nerd; Marrow hang-dries her delicates; space shuttles are not rockets; the band gets back together; and the Danger Room isn’t the first piece of X-tech to get sentience and a robot body. X-PLAINED How Excalibur got a Blackbird Uncanny X-Men #360 X-Men #80 Many callbacks The Benassi Rocket The Cassini Probe The All-New, Slightly Off X-Men The Grey King (Addison Falk) Chaos and/or Xhaos (Dan Dash) Mercury Rapture (Sister Joy) Crux (Cristal Lemiuex) Landslide (Lee Broder) The Founder Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau (again) The Mutant Defense Net Heroic narration Lack of spacefaring continuity Friendship Technology Costumes All-New All-Different Dungeons & Dragons NEXT EPISODE: GIANT-SIZE WINTER SPECIAL #10 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!