Jordan, of course, was like, who? What's going on?

And I'm like, you know, Nanny and Orphan Maker,

those awesome characters that everyone loves.

X-Men, X-Men.

In the 21st century, evil mutants, led by Magneto,

aim 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 Superior.

I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith, and with me today for the season two finale, episode 75, is Marvel's

own Zeb Wells, most recently for X-Fans, the writer of Hellions, also the writer of the noted

New Mutants Volume 3 run that I talk about a lot on this podcast to the point where some of you put the phrase

Zeb Wells New Mutants on your Cerebro bingo cards, which I found endearing.

Zeb is now writing Amazing Spider-Man, which is one of the biggest gigs in Big Two comics.

So Mazel to Zeb. Zab, how are you today? Thank you so much for being my guest.

I'm doing very good. I'm glad to finally

be here after you sent all your minions after me. I did. I sent lots. I sent teeny after you.

I sent Ben Percy after you. I did. I was forceful. Because here's the thing. You were on your way

out of the office and I was like, this is the perfect

opportunity to talk about Helions, which is my favorite, I mean, maybe my favorite Marvel book

at a last, like, decade. I mean, it's really, I really loved this book. Awesome. I love to do that.

You know, Helions and Excalibur were really my two favorite Kirk Cohen. I love everything that's coming out right now. But those two books were sort of made for me in a lab. And then the way, I'm a lifelong Betsy Braddock fan. But I also, I often joke about this. And Fabian Eusey thought it was very funny. But as a 13 year old gay kid on uncannyxman.net's forums in like 2000, my username was revanche. So, you know, the long complex history

between X-M Canon is the real big thing for me. So the way that those two characters intersected

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