398 – Shanna the Wee Devil

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

In which the rest of the X-Men return from space; Maggott is the new cool; Gambit's past catches up with him; Chris Bachalo takes over as regular artist on Uncanny X-Men; Deathbird flirts singularly aggressively; Eany and Meany eat a truck; dating a telepathic ninja is going to take some getting used to; and Havok predictably remains ABD.

X-PLAINED

Motormouth (Harley Davis)

Motormouth and Killpower

Uncanny X-Men #347-349

Grovel and Spat

A horse guy who is actually a cat-frog-lizard guy

An extraordinarily half-assed action figure

Load-bearing backstory

Landscape

The other Nanny

Elegant foreshadowing

Beast's appearance as a mutant power

Gambit's chest hair

The end of playtime

CCA-compliant foliage

Deathbird and Bishop

A vanity plate

Eany and Meany

One-off psychometry

Psylocke vs. Maggott

Decompression

Havok's enduring lack of a Ph.D.

NEXT EPISODE: X-Force hits the road!

NOTE: In this episode, Miles theorized Grovel's voice as sounding halfway between Cable and Kermit the Frog without realizing that he was in fact just describing Sweetums. -Jay

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