Guest art by Ryan Hill!

In which cartoon logic is terrifying; it’s immensely frustrating to be Doug Ramsey; Psylock gets evil robot eyes; queer subtext is not just for the ladies; Danger Room cold opens are the new Kitty’s costume changes; Mojo predicts reality TV; Longshot joins the X-Men; and we answer what may be the best question we have ever gotten.

X-PLAINED:

Captain Britain Corps

Alan Davis

New Mutants Annual #2

X-Men Annual #10

Captain Britain (Brian Braddock)

Psylocke (Betsy Braddock)

Slaymaster

Mojo

Why cartoon logic is terrifying

Animal Man vol. 1 #5, “The Coyote Gospel” (Incorrectly described as “The Ballad of Wile E. Coyote” in episode)

Wildways

Robot eyes

Template

Snitch

Straight Arrow

Jubilee (but not that Jubilee)

The trouble with determining character ages in superhero comics

The stated mission of the New Mutants

The proto-X-Babies

Longshot’s X-Men debut

The New Mutants’ graduation costumes

A really charged costume choice

Tonal shifts in New Mutants

X-Men vs. geese

NEXT WEEK: APOCALYPSE NOW!

ART CHALLENGE: Design a new graduation costume for one or more of the New Mutants! Send your designs to xplainthexmen(at)gmail(dot)com, with the subject line GRADUATION, and we’ll collect ‘em on the blog at the end of the week!

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Special thanks to Ryan Hill for this week's art, and to Claire Miller for the research X-Pertise!