Welcome Back Students! For today's lecture, your esteemed professors take a deep dive into a seminal text of The X-Men and a foundational reading of this podcast: Jonathan Hickman's 2019 dual-comic series House of X/Powers of X.

Topics in this episode include: How this comic plays with both the form and content of a superhero story, Moira McTaggert's lives and how this was the most radical change Hickman made, mutantkind as community, transhumanism, why we love this book so much to the point it makes us cry, and and more!

Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of genocide.

You can follow Mutant Studies 101 on Twitter @Mutant101POD and your hosts at @beakerbarnes and @Dean_of_X.

As always we would like to thank Ollie (@olliephresh) for their music and Hayden (@mcuwaititi) for her art.

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Class is in session! Welcome students to Mutant Studies 101, a podcast where Dean (@Dean_of_X) and Morgan (@beakerbarnes) answer the question, "does the world really need another X-Men podcast???" Join two of your fellow mutants as they break down everything they love (and some things they hate) about the X-Men.

ON THIS EPISODE: Our origin stories with the X-Men! How EVERYTHING is the X-Men! What's the status of Dazzler as a disco star?!?! All these and more in the introductory episode of Mutant Studies 101!!!

Special Thanks to Ollie (@olliephresh) for providing our theme music and Hayden (@mcuwaititi) for our graphic design work. You can follow Mutant Studies 101 on Twitter @Mutant101Pod.

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