Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

435 – Giant-Size Special #12 (feat. Kieron Gillen)

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In which we have had an eventful year; Longshot is a classic folk hero; writer Kieron Gillen makes a triumphant and mildly terrifying return to the show; and you remain the best listeners of any podcast, ever.

X-PLAINED:

  • Our tenth birthday party!
  • 2023
  • Longshot vol. 2 #1
  • Longshot as a folkloric archetype
  • Longshot (more) (again)
  • Dismal Nitch, Washington
  • The Thingee
  • Baum, Kansas
  • Corn
  • Betty
  • Barrie, Kansas
  • The Albony Avenue Sanitarium and several of its residents
  • Innocence, broadly
  • The Wuggly Ump, by Edward Gorey
  • Love
  • Immortal X-Men
  • Nathaniel Essex and several significant clones thereof
  • Defining Mister Sinister
  • Making Charles Xavier sympathetic
  • Reset phrases
  • Eternals
  • The 10th Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
  • Many people to whom we are grateful

    • NEXT EPISODE: X-Men: Liberators

    NOTE: If you want to avoid Immortal X-Men spoilers in our interview with Kieron Gillen, you can skip to 01:38:50 for the Corbeau Awards!

    Special thanks to:

    • Matt Hunter
    • Dylan Higgins
    • Al Kennedy
    • Max Carleton
    • Kieron Gillen
    • Tea Fougner
    • Anna Stokes
    • All of our patrons
    • All of you listening, always <3

      • “Sinister Is Cloning This Town” performed by Steve and Erin Pence

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