Episode 473 - The Baker's Dozen (Patreon)

In which you know it’s serious business when a logo gets smashed; the prophecy of the Twelve is an elaborate prank; we have a lot of Summers family feelings; Apocalypse is not a very good planner; and the Twelve reaches its conclusion.

X-PLAINED:

• Who Madelyne Pryor’s psychic ghost really is

• The story so far

• Uncanny X-Men #377

• Cable #76

• X-Men #97

• Perks of immortality

• A slightly gratuitous way to destroy an airplane

• Several doppelgangers

• Apocalypse’s big, stupid plan

• A fancy science machine

• The Atomium

• The Twelve

• The three elements

• The best issue of the Twelve

• Orb action

• Cable’s knowledge of history

• Summers feelings

• How to establish stakes

• Potato storms

• The mutant Skrulls (more) (again)

• Cadre K

• Categories of mutants

• How to beta test an Armageddon machine

• Alpha nerd Charles Xavier

• Weaponized continuity

• The color(s) of Cyclops’s eyes

• How to evoke Uncanny X-Men #137

• An unfortunate twist

• Mundane uses of superpowers

• The Altar

• What would have improved the Twelve

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