169 – Bad Kansas

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

In which Justin Thyme is a forgotten superstar of comics; Nazis should pretty much never be used as a metaphor; Charles Xavier is somehow even worse than usual; Excalibur may lack object permanence; Phoenix defeats Hitler with the power of gayness; we may have hit Peak Nocenti; Brett Blevins should draw Boom Boom forever; and the New Mutants get a taste of media theory.

X-PLAINED:

• The exact nature of Shatterstar and Longshot’s relationship
• Excalibur: Weird War III
• New Mutants Summer Special: A Mutant in Megalopolis
• Justin Thyme
• Bad Kansas
• Nazi Charles Xavier
• Kinda-Nazi Moira MacTaggert
• The Reichsmen
• Lightning Squad (again)
• Naked Space Xavier
• Largely unsuccessful denouement
• The Wobbly Sneaker Gang
• Megalopolis
• Media theory and several of its anthropomorphic personifications
• Socially conscious comics
• The Gifted
• The New Mutants trailer

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