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episode 140: Unto Us a Retcon Is Given (feat. Dennis Hopeless)
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original. In which writer Dennis Hopeless returns to the show for an informal introduction to the (first) mutant messiah; Cable is the best-case retcon scenario; Summerses don't get to retire; calculating relative character age remains functionally impossible; Cable is Marsha to Stryfe's Jan; and there's probably already a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta about all of this. X-PLAINED: That one time Cable and Stryfe shared a body Cable (Nathan Christopher Charles Summers) Spinning nonsense into gold Cable and X-Force Cable's controversial creative origins Collaborative character creation Cable origins that might have been A whole lot of time travel A whole lot of Summers family nonsense Professor (Ship) Tyler Dayspring (Tolliver) Hope Summers How to make Cable interesting What to do after you save the world Still more time travel Look, there's a lot of time travel, okay? Old-man strength Stryfe David Willis's theory of Batman humor (and Jay's derivative theory of Stryfe humor) Muscle March Cable's role on teams Stryfe vs. Hope Cable's theoretical legal career Quantum operetta theory NEXT EPISODE: Cable's on-page debut! There is no visual companion to this episode! 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! We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.) Buy prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!