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In which we venture forth into an age undreamed of, there are so many reasons to have Northstar on your team, Selene is the worst guest, Rachel X-Plains Conan, Cyttorak is the Mordenkainen of the Marvel Universe, Miles loves Doctor Strange, we have some fairly serious Captain America feelings, the X-Men completely fail at hide-and-seek, and we make more D&D references in one episode than in the previous 34 combined.

X-Plained

Northstar
Beard privilege
X-Men 189-192
Anachronistic timeline markers
Hounds
The Culture Shock Class
An Age Undreamed of
Conan disambiguation
Red Sonja vs. Red Sonya
Kulan Gath
Marvel Team-Up #79
Barbarian Avengers
Why we love Captain America
Several haircuts
WiFi sorcery
A really good inspirational speech
The inevitable cephalopod revolution
Why Hank Pym is the absolute worst
Claudication
Hide-and-seek
How Rachel Summers actually traveled back in time
Magus
Warlock, Adam Warlock, and their respective Magi
Politics, religion, and Nightcrawler

Edited to Add: In this episode, we answered a question from a listener looking for textual evidence that Nightcrawler isn’t homophobic (we pointed them to Amazing X-Men #13). We also discussed that question from a different angle--and at considerably more length--on the blog.

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