Episode 412 - Yappin' and Scrappin' (Patreon)

In which Kelly and Seagle’s X-runs begin with immense promise; dark psychic residue gets just everywhere; Storm’s past is literally buried; Wolverine is just saying is all; Cecilia Reyes’s job doesn’t deserve her, and Cyclops and Phoenix are the worst at being normal.

X-PLAINED:

• The Grey family reunion
• X-Men #71-72
• What counts as an Uncanny X-Men #138 cover reference
• Baggage and also suitcases
• Steve Seagle’s (scuttled) Phoenix plans
• Bone whiskers
• Telemarketer power moves
• Cecilia Reyes
• Marrow (Sarah)
• Sam Guthrie’s tiny ponytail
• The ol’ wall-of-televisions trope
• The cost of one banana
• Sebastian Shaw vs the IRS (maybe)
• A mostly empty attic
• Wolverine’s etiquette lessons
• The dessert claw vs the salad claw
• The physicality of Carlos Pacheco’s art
• Cannonball, the grown-up in the room
• Magneto’s increasingly complicated past
• Magnus, Erik, and Max (again)
• Uncanny X-Men #351-352
• Cecilia Reyes’s return-to-office
• Intersectionality
• Pyro, forever dying of the Legacy Virus
• Daredevil vs Cecilia Reyes’s bedside manner
• Kevin, Lord of the Jungle
• Ending conversations by turning into a bird
• A.I.M.* (*Advanced Idea Mechanics)
• Crows of Ill Portent
• A Box of Entity
• Condors and Cockatoos
• Logan’s denim proclivities
• Arcade vs. Mojo

Special thanks to Dylan Higgins for edits and production assistance!

NEXT EPISODE: X-Force goes to Burning Man!