414 – Blackwater Boy Band

podcasts – Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

In which Wild Child makes an unlikely Santa Claus; Sabretooth champions continuity; Random’s last name should’a been Violence; Forge doesn’t have to like you; and Mackie’s X-Factor run gets interesting—right before its untimely end.

X-PLAINED:

• Another X-Factor
• X-Factor #142-145
• Unrealized anticipation
• Deadline
• What Val Cooper wants for Christmas
• The evolutionary symbolism of noses
• Several breeds of dog
• The secret history of Val Cooper and Wild Child
• Wildheart
• The Secret Empire
• The X.U.E. (more) (again)
• Ice skating, interrupted
• Another cool way to draw Havok’s powers
• A clever retcon
• The X-Factor that might have been
• Greystone’s origins
• Micah
• A temple of doom
• The hierarchy of cool skulls
• Branching timelines and the implications thereof
• An Alex Summers / Moira MacTaggert chimera

NEXT EPISODE: Gambit, again.

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