Episode Description
In which we hit the Empire Strikes Back of X-Tinction Agenda; it’s hard to be Laura Kinney; the psychic knife makes its debut; Evil!Sexy Moira retains some moral high ground; if your society is built on slavery, your society deserves to crumble; words mean things; Havok would be a terrible housecat; the mutants do not have the patent on stupidity; the opposite of blades is cotton; we give Cameron Hodge’s severed head a pep talk; and Cyclops goes full Peralta.
X-Plained
- Uncanny X-Men #271, New Mutants #96, X-Factor #61
- Laura Kinney’s brief babysitting career
- Our upcoming hiatus
- Dramatis personae
- A figurative battering ram
- Focused totality
- Best insults of the 1990s
- A debate
- Ethics of rhetoric
- Housecat Havok
- Skittering
- Mutate numbering systems
- The Prisoner vs. Les Miserables
- The slow disintegration of reality as we know it
- Sneaking with Cable
- A singularly anticlimactic cover
- A lushly illustrated report
- Increasingly petty revenge
- S.H.I.E.L.D.’s most advanced bald cap
- A rising storm
- Art teams
- What we’d like to see out of an X-Men cinematic reboot