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episode 124: The Cruelest Planet
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original. In which everyone dies (or something); every Summers is miserable in their own way; we are pretty done with Nanny and the Orphanmaker; Lady Deathstrike is a surprisingly astute art critic; the X-Men's digital invisibility does not extend to the White Pages; we venture into slightly less charted territory; Wolverine has a really bad day; and you should totally come hang out with us at Rose City Comic Con! X-PLAINED: Origins of Lady Deathstrike Jay & Miles at Rose City Comic Con X-Ray party etiquette Uncanny X-Men #248-251 The precise inverse of an anticlimax The Siege Perilous (more) (again) Dramatic parallels Summers tragedy disambiguation Jim Lee's first X-issue The apparent death of Storm (this time) The merged Reavers What it takes for Jay to play a sidescroller An X-band Longshot's departure A really ineffective rescue Art-critic Deathstrike Administrative assistant Jubilee Zaladane An unconventional approach to genealogy The ickiest method of mind control Dark Claw NEXT EPISODE: GIANT-SIZE SUMMER SPECIAL! You can find a 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 prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!