Episode 464 - The Cigarettes of Damocles (Patreon)

In which X-Force is kind of silly; that really isn’t what “quantum” means; polite and lawful are two entirely different things, and Sam Guthrie is only one of them; Selene vogues; and the Hellfire Club plays the dead girlfriend card.

X-PLAINED:

• Blackheart

• The Damocles Foundation (more) (again)

• Lucas Bartholomew Guthrie

• The difference between prisons and jails

• X-Force #98-98

• Whether Dr. Octopus enjoys the literary stylings of Elmore Leonard

• One way to get out of prison

• The Glitterbox

• An unsuccessful heist

• Celestial cigarettes and/or golems

• Thomas and/or Tyler Zebulon and/or Zeke Guthrie

• Demon Bears as urban pests

• Selene, Always Voguing

• Gatherers

• Various evil scientists

• The Sword

• Junkyard life

• Lenny Delmonico

• Psychic rodeos

• Nightmare chambers

• Bat sex

• An offer Sunspot can’t refuse

• Hank McCoy’s villain arc

• New Mutant superlatives

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