40 – Give Them Something to Punch (With G. Willow Wilson)

Art by David Wynne. Prints available until 1/25/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

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In which writer G. Willow Wilson joins us to talk about her new run on X-Men; the Future is really confusing; we consider the many iterations of Rachel Grey; Storm probably has strong feelings about climate change; and writing for a shared universe takes some seriously fancy footwork.

X-Plained:

• Jubilee
• Shogo (a little)
• The future vs. the Future
• X-Men vols. 1-4
• The logistics of stepping into a book mid-series
• Pigeonholing and “girl” books
• The proper pronunciation of Kamala
• Storm (again)
• Psylocke
• M
• Rachel Grey (again)
• Cross-title coordination
• Writing in a shared universe
• Super-powered ecology
• The gender politics of telepathy
• Writing and dialogue across media
• Marginalization, intersectionality, and the mutant metaphor

Next Week: Pink robots from the future!

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