Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

528 – Welcome to the Slippery Slope

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In which friends don’t let friends drink sparkling wine at the Hellfire Club; Cyclops is a Silent Hill protagonist; Fantomex is a cool dude; John Sublime has his grubby little fingers in everything; and three men do a lot of things to avoid going to therapy.

X-PLAINED:

  • What happened to the World
  • Weapon XVI
  • New X-Men #142-145
  • Fantomex (more) (again)
  • The Weapon Plus program
  • A large number of things men will do instead of going to therapy
  • How to murder a nice, romantic mood
  • The Hellfire Club, the rest of the time
  • Jake Danials Whisky
  • A drinking contest
  • The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
  • The World
  • Weapon XV
  • A series of B&Es
  • Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.)
  • Car cops
  • Weapon XV’s feelings
  • Weapon Plus’s secret space headquarters
  • Education at the Xavier School
  • Gender-swapped superheroes and heirs to superheroes

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