44 – Assembling Legion, with Si Spurrier

Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and travel mugs available until 2/22/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

In which Legion grows from setting to protagonist; Rachel is a master of narrative rationalization; “Claremont” is a verb; Warlock befriends an airplane; Xavier owns a significant mistake; New Mutants does a deep dive into power dynamics; you should go read X-Men: Legacy already; and Si reveals the true secret nature of reality.

X-PLAINED:

• Blindfold (Ruth Aldine)
• Luca Aldine
• Legion (David Haller)
• Mental illness in fiction
• New Mutants #26-28
• Socialized medicine
• Appropriate gym apparel
• Rachel’s favorite scene from any X-book, ever
• Claremonting
• Jack Wayne
• Cyndi
• Jemail Karami
• Roughly 20 years of condensed continuity
• The Age of Apocalypse
• Age of X
• X-Men: Legacy vol. 2
• Father issues
• David Haller’s accent
• The Origamist
• Santi Sardina
• A visual metaphor
• The true secret nature of reality
• Professor Y
• The Franklin Richards Universe Hypothesis

NEXT WEEK: Spotlight on Storm

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