I must be an X-Men legend because the book is called X-Men.

Right. Did you see what I did there? Right, exactly.

It could have been called X-Men Has-Bings. It would have been great.

I would have loved it. I would have jumped on board.

X-Men, X-Men.

In the 21st century, evil mutants led by Magneto aimed to destroy the world.

Only hope is X-Men.

Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of Homo's superior.

I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith, and with me today is Fabian Nisieza, legendary X-Men writer

of the 90s, architect of so many iconic stories in that early 90s period, and currently

the writer of the first arc on X-Men Legends, which revisits some of the

events of his tenure on the book. Fabian, thank you so much for joining me. This is a real thrill.

How are you today? I'm doing very well. Thank you for having me, Connor. Thank you, again,

for being here. You know, I've said this on the podcast before,

but when I was a tween on uncannyXmen.net,

20 years ago, my username on the forums was revenge.

So you've been influencing me since I was very small,

not to make you feel old.

You're a dumb kid, is what you're...

I was a very gay kid, is what I'll say. Listen, is that... I'm a huge Betsy Braddock fan, and my dad is a collector, so I had read the 80s stuff first before I was reading the stuff that was coming out currently when I was a kid in the 90s. So I loved Silo in her original form. What was it about her that appealed to you at such a young

age? I liked that she wasn't as capable of fighting as the other characters. I liked that she was

smart. I thought she was pretty and the design was cool. I loved the outback armor that she wore

...