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In which Lisa Winters pinch-hits for Jay, we take a trip to the newspaper funnies and back, Spider-Man and Beast are natural BFFs, nothing good ever happens at the Brand Corporation, and “mutant” can be a pretty fuzzy concept.
Bessie the HellcowSpider-Man: Mutant Agenda (the newspaper strip storyline)Spider-Man: Mutant Agenda (the comic book miniseries)Spider-Man: Mutant Agenda (the cartoon episodes)Four-color hoardsThree-panel newspaper comic structureSunday strips (and their Mark Trail deceptions)Hero Jaws – a breakfast-based theorySpider-Man (Peter Parker)The Brand CorporationThe Beast (Henry McCoy)Narratively convenient Spider SenseHobgoblin (Jason Macendale Jr.)Goblin glidersPicket signs (*air horn sound*)Finger blasters (heh)Laser cagesArcade’s superpower flowchartsMutants: newspaper versus comic continuityComing home to the 90sLisa’s favorite X-ManBeast’s versatile character designSpider-to-X ratiosDark, tortured heroesHerbert Landon’s selective memoryConfirmation biasAnti-mutant cancer gooIronic reversalsWolverine, the most marketable mutantEvil British accentsThe most adaptable Spider-Man / X-Men crossoversThe X-Men and the newspaper funniesNEXT EPISODE: X-Factor mourns and moves on.
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