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

In which 1991 runs right into 2010, X-Factor: Endgame (and everything after it) never happened, Jay covets the hell out of Cyclops's X-Factor: Forever jacket, Apocalypse’s alternative universe motives are actually pretty fascinating, and Miles will never call his junk Traitorous Unit.

X-PLAINED:

The Strucker siblings (and the Strucker siblings)

X-Factor Forever #1-5

Earth-TRN237

What makes a good Forever comic

The best jacket in the X-universe (and some other redesigns)

MaXimum pants

Ship the ship

The Celestial Host

Dan Panosian’s Smug Apocalypse

The Master Meld variations

Force versus heat (and art versus word balloons)

En Sabah Nur, thoughtful employer

Gammenon the Gatherer and honey-related implements

Combat (and podcasting) maneuver names

The Apocalypse Journal

Eternals versus Deviants versus Inferior, Shitty Humans

Slow, crappy science and adorable mutant rats

Mutant fertility

Arishem the Judge and his magic space-thumb

Definitive versions of characters and their relationships

En Sabah Nur and Your Changing Body

That time X-Factor threw a baby at a robot to save the world

DC Comics’s Hellfire Club

Trans X-Men

But no seriously that jacket

NEXT EPISODE: The Muir Island Saga, part 1

You can find the visual companion to this episode on our blog.

Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!

Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!

We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)