Episode Description[]
In which “Cross-Time Caper” is something of a misnomer; Excalibur is an awful lot of fun to summarize; none of us will ever live up to Oscar Wilde’s expectations; Captain Britain secretly derives his powers from genre; sometimes things turn out to be simple; Kitty Pryde is better at everything than you; manipulation and murder are the new flowers and candy; context may or may not ruin everything; Meggan gets a new outfit; Technet takes Brighton; and some universes are just too silly to survive.
X-Plained[]
- Rick Jones, Sidekick Supreme
- The Cross-Time Caper
- Excalibur #12-15
- Three love triangles
- Jay’s mom’s late iguana
- Captain Marshall, Lord Champion of the Realm
- Prince William
- Butch the ogre
- Princess Kate
- Fisticuffs
- Instant air conditioning, Excalibur-style
- Bagpipe Vader
- An anticlimactic solution to a protracted problem
- Sorcery 101
- Several profoundly unethical ways to initiate a relationship
- Arrested Excalibur
- The Campsite Rule of relationships
- The logistics and social history of tarring and feathering
- A protracted parody
- A very large number and several names for it
- A theoretical team-up
- Ultimate Hunger
- An unidentified comic that is not Ultimate Hunger
- Some less-than-ideal creative choices
- A multiversal montage
- Jamie Braddock (more) (again)
- A duck
- The unenviable fate of Doctor Crocodile
- Pairing mutants with metal genres
- Inconsistent flight safety measures
Listener Questions[]
- My favorite is Nightcrawler, both swashbuckler and priest. My favorite New Mutant is Magik. Given that information, Miles, what sub-genre or sub-genres of metal should I explore? Who would be a great entry band for said genre?
- Has it ever been explained why there was only one working parachute available when Scott and Alex Summers were tossed out of their parents plane?
- Favorite romantic motions from X-Men?