167 – Full Circle

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

In which things are not as they were; “yaybopunk” is definitely our aesthetic; Cable is officially foreshadowed; and the NYCC live show did in fact go really well!

X-PLAINED:

• Cable’s childhood
• Some ECCC plans
• X-Factor #65-68
• The Riders of the Storm
• “Riders on the Storm”
• Some X-Factors that might have been
• Babies as drawn by Whilce Portacio
• Medieval cats
• Yaybohunk vs. yaybopunk
• A red herring
• Jen Askani
• A kidnapping
• Visual representations of hacking
• How to effectively evoke the Dark Phoenix Saga
• The plural of “Apocalypse”
• Rad fights on the moon
• Something you should definitely cosplay
• Cyclops narration
• A psychic duel
• A choice
• Resets vs. returns
• The Apocalypse Manifesto
• The Crafters of Apocalypse

NEXT EPISODE: Live at New York Comic Con, with Chris Claremont & Louise Simonson!

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