38 – Welcome to Murderworld (Feat. Chris Sims)

Art by David Wynne. Prints and travel mugs available until 1/11/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

In which we welcome back Emergency Backup Co-Host Chris Sims; comics writers are basically supervillains; Cyclops is not here to have fun; Spider-Man flirts with objectivism; Murderworld is probably not financially sustainable; you should totally cosplay the Proletarian; Arcade may or may not secretly be the Archie Andrews of Earth-616; and Doctor Doom remains absolutely delightful.

X-Plained

• Captain Britain
• Arcade
• Francisco Scaramanga
• The vastly inferior Arcade of Earth-1610
• Uncanny X-Men #123-124, 146-147, 197
• Chris’s first X-Men
• A really sweet truck
• Spider-Man’s brief flirtation with objectivism
• What the X-Men do on their night off
• Hella nipples
• Murderworld
• Miss Locke
• Mr. Chambers
• Marvel comics in the Marvel Universe
• A large number of elaborate deathtraps
• Soviet Nick Fury
• The Proletarian
• Hostage-wrapping
• Phil and Tobe
• One way to celebrate your birthday
• Avengers Arena
• Miss Coriander
• The best non-X Arcade stories
• The end of Axis Sixis
• Arcade at the Arcade

NEXT WEEK: Cloak and Dagger!

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