Episode 483 – Piotr Lovely Locks (Patreon)

In which a lot has happened in the Six Month Gap (and we even get to learn about some of it); we’d missed Claremontian narration; Miles has questions about Colossus’s ponytail; the Soulsword is basically a Poké Ball; the Shadow Pope is cooler than the regular Pope; and Magik has a secret.

X-PLAINED:

• Some big news

• X-Men: Black Sun #1-5

• Phoenix and Psylocke’s sorta-power-swap

• Implied continuity

• The N’Garai

• Belasco

• Limbo

• Magik (Illyana Rasputin)

• New costumes

• Priests vs blood magic

• An impressively overcomplicated evil plot

• Chekhov’s skeleton

• Body swaps and/or possession

• Thunderbird (Neal Sharra)

• Pilgrimm and the Ru’tai (again, surprisingly)

• Astral meetups

• Confusing bloodstone math

• A Triple-Tech

• Magik (Amanda Sefton)

• Counting X-generations

• Our favorite X-decades

NEXT EPISODE: More Magik!