155 – X-Tinction Event

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In which the X-Tinction Agenda begins in earnest; Jim Lee rocks our world; Cable doesn’t need any Mickey-Mouse schedules; Jean Grey is not paid by the word; Havok makes a heel turn; Boom Boom’s pretext of self-interest fools no one; Cameron Hodge is STILL the worst; and Jay and Miles make an announcement.

X-PLAINED:

• Warlock across the multiverse
• Uncanny X-Men #270, New Mutants #95, X-Factor #60
• X-Tinction Agenda
• The first modern crossover
• The creative state of the X-line
• Limitations of Marvel Unlimited
• Dramatis Personae
• Mickey-Mouse schedules
• The X-Men, who do not die the old-fashioned way
• One-way nude teleportation
• Magistrate Summers
• The return of Cameron Hodge’s angry severed head
• Wipeout (again)
• Mutates
• The death of Warlock
• The esoteric paraphernalia of war
• Silver Age misogyny
• What we’d do differently if we introduced the X-Men in 2017
• Our upcoming hiatus

NEXT EPISODE: It gets worse.

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