she says basically anything is permissible in a time of war.

And somebody turned around and says, since when are we at war?

And she says, since we were born.

X-Men, X-Men.

In the 21st century, people mutants, led by Magneto, aim to destroy the world.

The 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 Superior.

I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith, and with me today is Mike Carey,

a kame, M.R. Carey, a writer of comic books, novels,

films, known perhaps to the general public most for the book The Girl with All the Gifts,

which was adapted into a major motion picture for which he wrote the screenplay, as I recall.

Yes, correct, Mike? I think you did. Yeah, that's impressive to me. Adapting yourself is very hard.

But known to comics fans for his beloved. I don't know if you know, but people love this run.

We talk about it all the time. His run on the X-Men, starting with the adjective-less title in the lead-up to Messiah Complex, then through Messiah Complex when it became

X-Men Legacy for two lengthy arcs, one centered around Charles Xavier and one centered around

Rogue. There was supposed to be a third arc with Moonstar, is my understanding. I feel like

I've read that somewhere, but it didn't quite pan out.

We talked about a number of possible characters who could rotate into the spotlight, but

I left the book and obviously... Right. Sye took it and did Legion, which is an incredible run

in its own right. One of the characters who came to prominence in this run through the Age of X storyline, which

was an alternate reality storyline that ends up impacting our heroes back on Earth 616, as I insist

...