Episode 398 – Shanna the Wee Devil (Patreon)

In which the rest of the X-Men return from space; Maggott is the new cool; Gambit’s past catches up with him; Chris Bachalo takes over as regular artist on Uncanny X-Men; Deathbird flirts singularly aggressively; Eany and Meany eat a truck; dating a telepathic ninja is going to take some getting used to; and Havok predictably remains ABD.

X-PLAINED

• Motormouth (Harley Davis)
• Motormouth and Killpower
• Uncanny X-Men #347-349
• Grovel and Spat
• A horse guy who is actually a cat-frog-lizard guy
• An extraordinarily half-assed action figure
• Load-bearing backstory
• Landscape
• The other Nanny
• Elegant foreshadowing
• Beast’s appearance as a mutant power
• Gambit’s chest hair
• The end of playtime
• CCA-compliant foliage
• Deathbird and Bishop
• A vanity plate
• Eany and Meany
• One-off psychometry
• Psylocke vs. Maggott
• Decompression
• Havok’s enduring lack of a Ph.D.

NEXT EPISODE: X-Force hits the road!