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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

28 – What’s New, Shadowcat? (Featuring Greg Rucka)

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Books, Visual Arts, Arts

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2014

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Art by David Wynne.
Art by David Wynne.

In which we welcome back Greg Rucka, Rachel makes a valiant effort to read Secret Wars, Earth-200500 is still the best Earth, Kitty Pryde and Wolverine is kind of dodgy, Ogūn is low-rent Mister Sinister, Miles talks about empathy, Greg has an Edna Mode moment, and we all love Kitty Pryde.

X-Plained:

  • X-Men #153
  • Kitty’s Fairy Tale
  • Earth-5311
  • Earth-200500 (again)
  • Kitty Pryde and Wolverine #1-6
  • Samurai eyefucking
  • Ogūn
  • Special cuddles
  • Some really dodgy stuff
  • The best Kitties Pryde
  • Professor K.
  • Smart kids in fiction
  • Why we love Shadowcat
  • Point-of-entry characters and gender
  • Costume theory
  • Our favorite new podcast

Next Week: Cyclops is the worst at vacations.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey Rachel, is Wolverine dead yet?

0:02.0

Pretty much, Miles.

0:03.0

I mean, as of last week, he was still cranking along an amazing X-Men,

0:06.0

but that seems sort of divorced from general continuity,

0:08.0

so I think it's fair to say that he's dead for all practical purposes.

0:11.0

I mean, at least for now.

0:12.0

Okay, so how do you kill a guy with a healing factor?

0:15.1

Well, the Xavier protocols indicate decapitation,

0:17.5

but in the case of the death of Wolverine,

0:18.8

they just bypassed the issue entirely

0:20.2

by getting rid of his healing factor first.

0:21.8

How do you lose it?

0:22.7

Virus from the microverse.

0:24.1

The microverse.

0:25.4

It's where the micronauts toys come from.

0:27.0

It's the subatomic universe plus a bunch of Star Wars stuff with a serial numbers filed off.

0:30.7

I don't, don't go into it.

0:32.3

Okay, but I want to go back to the Xavier protocols though because that's bugging me.

0:35.8

I mean, would decapitation actually kill him, you know, with his healing factor and all?

0:39.1

Unlikely, I mean, at this point he survived not only ground zero at an atomic explosion but

0:44.2

having literally all of his soft tissue burned off by solar radiation I mean how can

0:48.4

he even survive that well he doesn't always and he was in hell for a while

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