153 – Mermaid Parade

Art by David Wynne. Contact David to purchase the original!

In which Miles gets an etymology lesson; Nightcrawler is the most dateable guy in the X-Universe; Meggan is basically all the cryptids; Michael Higgins must be stopped; Alistair Stuart is terrible at adulting; we really hope Brian wasn’t too attached to that airplane; and in retrospect, there probably should have been a Spalding Gray joke in there somewhere.

X-PLAINED:

• The Montesi Formula
• Excalibur #28-31
• The Gilded Lady
• The quintessential post-college experience
• The word “cooter”
• Relative gullibility
• A generally unacceptable issue
• Loungewear
• Vampires, kind of
• Some uncomfortably colonial imagery
• Krakoa, Jr.
• The Vega Men
• The aftermath of Axis
• Colossus’s probable politics

NEXT EPISODE: Talking Iceman with Sina Grace!

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