I'm Jay Editing, and I am Chris Feroman, in for Milestones.

And we are here to explain the X-Men, because someone has to.

Welcome to episode 420, make of that what you will, of Jay and Mil's explain the X-Men

where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the retcons of comics, greatest superhero

soap opera, and welcome Chris to the show.

I'm so excited to have you here.

Thank you. I'm really excited to be here. I really appreciate the invitation.

So if you are unfamiliar with Chris's work, which you may be if you're coming in

primarily from a fan and comics reading perspective,

Chris is a professor at Kent State University, and he's a comic scholar, and he recently published

a book called Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fan Fiction, a fastball special, which in addition

to having a really, really excellent subtitle is extremely precisely my jam, in terms of just

being, being just at the really, really toothy intersection of queer theory and comics reading

and fan studies, and Wolverine being extremely queer. I am so excited to have you on the show.

Welcome. Thank you. Thank you for having me. I appreciate it.

So is there anything that I missed in the intro? I feel like I'm going through this awfully fast.

That's right. That's a perfect intro.

All right. So because we tend to look at comics from primarily a critical and a narrative angle,

and you're really looking at, when you're talking about Queering Wolverine in this book,

you're talking about queering him in an academic context, and specifically the context of queer

literary theory. I was wondering if you can give the really, really cliffs notes 101 intro to

sort of what that means for listeners to make non-appearance familiar. Sure. So queer theory comes

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