So, Jay, whatever happened to Banshee after Generation X went their separate ways?

Did he go back to Cassidy Keep to hang out with his leprechaun pals?

If only, Banshee ended up founding a paramilitary organization called X-Corp, then lost his powers

when he got his throat slit by a supervillain.

Oh, like happens that one time with his daughter, Siren.

Exactly. And then he got hit by an airplane and died.

Oh, man. Poor guy. What a ridiculous way to go.

It's okay. I mean, this is comics. He got better.

Yay. So he rejoined the X-Men and got to be awesome again?

Well, not for a while. He got temporarily resurrected by Celine, temporarily resurrected by the Chaos King, and then permanently resurrected by Apocalypse's No Good Kids as a new horseman of death. And then he died again and got resurrected on Crocoa. Hooray! Oh, and then his ex-girlfriend killed him and wore his skin like a suit, so Banshee made a deal with a magical clone of Mr. Sinister and transformed it to a flying ghostwriter obsessed with a concept of change.

What?

I'm Jay Editedon.

And I'm Miles Stokes.

And we are here to Explain the X-Men.

Because it's about time someone did.

Welcome to episode 504 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men,

where we walk you through the ins, the outs,

and the retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera.

And welcome back to Generation X. Um, side note, it was just announced that there's going to be a Generation X 23 series starring Laura and Gabby Kinney, and I'm so glad they get their own book, and that name is not a name I would have expected. No, that's a really silly name. Yes. Well, we'll see what it's like. I like those characters. So, all of that to say, Generation X.

So we are in, I think, 2001 at this point, or at least very close to it.

Something like that.

Yeah, and we're in the counter-X era of X-Men, which is, of course, a subset of the

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