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

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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