This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, our producer Matthew Hunter subbed in for Jay and he and Miles talked about the video games they grew up on!



Topics, roughly:

 	Crystalis
 	Power Blade
 	Fighting robots (in general)
 	Super Mario World
 	F-Zero
 	Final Fantasy II (which is to say IV)
 	Street Fighter II
 	Rockin' Kats
 	Shatter Hand
 	Battletoads
 	Lemmings
 	The Incredible Machine
 	The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
 	Turtles in Time
 	Mario Paint
 	Doom
 	Secret of Mana
 	Mega Man X
 	Disney adaptations
 	Final Fantasy III (which is to say VI)
 	Donkey Kong Country
 	Super Punch Out
 	Illusion of Gaia
 	BioForge
 	DWANGO (Dial-up Wide-Area Network Game Operation)
 	Full Throttle, Quest For Glory, Gabriel Knight...
 	Wild ARMs
 	Wipeout
 	Stun Runner
 	Resident Evil
 	Final Fantasy VII
 	Fallout
 	Parasite Eve
 	Xenogears
 	Baldur's Gate
 	Tetris DX
 	Pokémon (Blue)
 	LUNAR
 	Silent Hill

You can find Matt on Twitter and his music on Bandcamp!

HAWK TALK – Playing With Super Power (feat. Matthew Hunter)

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Ah, the age-old question: would you scissor your clone while yelling? (Uncanny X-Men #367)

In which the Magneto War comes to a close.

X-PLAINED:

 	X-Men #86-87
 	Uncanny X-Men #367
 	Quite a few other things, which we'll add to this post tomorrow!

NEXT EPISODE: Nate Grey meets Generation X!



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446 – Live at the Magnetosphere

In which not every story needs to be an event; Alan Davis returns to the X-line; X-mansion security is not what it once was; Rogue needs some new fantasies; and Magneto wants a country.

445 – Dick War

In which it’s difficult to flee with soup; Miles may or may not be haunting the X-Men; Colossus collaborates involuntarily; Marrow is full of surprises; Magneto is a dick; Jay continues to carry a torch for Secret Wars: Siege; and you should totally come to our birthday party.

X-PLAINED:

 	Several rather pointed allusions
 	X-Force #86
 	Uncanny X-Men #365
 	X-Men #85
 	Almost Reno, NM
 	Where mutants come from
 	The Aguilar Institute (more) (again)
 	Abandoned towns
 	Mary the telepathic moppet (more) (again)
 	Odysseus Indigo
 	The Damocles Foundation
 	Sibling names
 	The Fundamental Attribution Error
 	A haunting
 	Christmas beer
 	Christmas ghost exquisite corpse
 	Bill Jones
 	A rescue mission
 	Essential stories of the ‘90s
 	Our weird favorites
 	Siege
 	Our upcoming 10th birthday party (more) (again)

NEXT EPISODE: Magneto War begins!



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444 – Damnit, Magnus

Jay is dealing with an ongoing family medical emergency, so episode releases may be somewhat unpredictable for the next few weeks. Thank you for your patience!

A Brief Update

In which we walk down X-Plain Memory Lane; everyone needs Bitch Planet; HoX/PoX wouldn't stay on shelves; we learn how to make sure a comic doesn't get canceled; Marvel should have kept publishing those Krakoa-era anthology TPBs; X-Men is indeed a soap opera; and you can jump in here 'cause we're all confused.

X-PLAINED:

 	The most crowded X-year
 	Books With Pictures, official best comics shop in the world
 	Our upcoming 10th birthday party
 	Katie Pryde’s X-history
 	Prioritizing marginalized nerd identities
 	Lapsed X-readers
 	X-sprawl
 	The Dawn of X books that worked (and the one that didn’t)
 	The frustration of discontinued collection formats
 	The perfect number of X-books (again)
 	Drama and kissing
 	What we want after Fall of X
 	Readers’ single issue vs collection preferences
 	The power of the preorder
 	Katie’s (naming) origin story
 	Readers versus speculators
 	How to organize a comic book store
 	Non-X recommendations for X-fans
 	The glory of Judge Dredd
 	X-Men who can be trusted to watch a comic book store

NEXT EPISODE: Deviants, Christmas ghosts, and Magneto!



LINKS AND FURTHER READING:

 	Books With Pictures in Portland, Oregon
 	The Books With Pictures Podcast




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