435 – Giant-Size Special #12 (feat. Kieron Gillen)

podcasts – Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Illustration by David Wynne

In which we have had an eventful year; Longshot is a classic folk hero; writer Kieron Gillen makes a triumphant and mildly terrifying return to the show; and you remain the best listeners of any podcast, ever.

X-PLAINED:

• Our tenth birthday party!
• 2023
• Longshot vol. 2 #1
• Longshot as a folkloric archetype
• Longshot (more) (again)
• Dismal Nitch, Washington
• The Thingee
• Baum, Kansas
• Corn
• Betty
• Barrie, Kansas
• The Albony Avenue Sanitarium and several of its residents
• Innocence, broadly
• The Wuggly Ump, by Edward Gorey
• Love
• Immortal X-Men
• Nathaniel Essex and several significant clones thereof
• Defining Mister Sinister
• Making Charles Xavier sympathetic
• Reset phrases
• Eternals
• The 10^th Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
• Many people to whom we are grateful

NEXT EPISODE: X-Men: Liberators

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NOTE: If you want to avoid Immortal X-Men spoilers in our interview with Kieron Gillen, you can skip to 01:38:50 for the Corbeau Awards!

Special thanks to:

• Matt Hunter
• Dylan Higgins
• Al Kennedy
• Max Carleton
• Kieron Gillen
• Tea Fougner
• Anna Stokes
• All of our patrons
• All of you listening, always <3

“Sinister Is Cloning This Town” performed by Steve and Erin Pence

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