Art by David Wynne

 

In which the X-Men finally follow up on a dropped plotline; you should probably not mess with abandoned star sharks; "Dawn of Blood" is a sometimes food; The Goblin Queen makes her first appearance; we debut a new podcast feature; and there may or may not be a frozen woman in the Xavier School basement.

X-PLAINED:

The Providian Order

Uncanny X-Men #232-234

The Brood (again)

Several ill-fated campers

Harry Palmer

The Brood as horror antagonists

Why John Doggett is the best X-Files agent

Psylocke's armor

Why Nestor Carbonell should play Gambit

Some deeply dubious codenames

Red Bee

Michael the Bee

Reverend William Conover and his Glory Day Crusade

The Mile High Diner

The strange case of Hannah Conover

One hell of a nightmare

A deal with a devil

InfernoWatch

The direct market

Ways to approach an endless serial

INFERNO WATCH:

Madelyne meets and strikes a deal with S'ym

First appearance of the Goblin Queen costume

NEXT EPISODE: Evolutionary War

CORRECTION: In this episode, Jay recalled the direct market as having been conceived in significant part by Carol Kalish. It was, in fact, the brainchild of Phil Seuling.

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