Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which Lisa Winters pinch-hits for Jay, we take a trip to the newspaper funnies and back, Spider-Man and Beast are natural BFFs, nothing good ever happens at the Brand Corporation, and “mutant” can be a pretty fuzzy concept. X-PLAINED: Bessie the Hellcow Spider-Man: Mutant Agenda (the newspaper strip storyline) Spider-Man: Mutant Agenda (the comic book miniseries) Spider-Man: Mutant Agenda (the cartoon episodes) Four-color hoards Three-panel newspaper comic structure Sunday strips (and their Mark Trail deceptions) Hero Jaws – a breakfast-based theory Spider-Man (Peter Parker) The Brand Corporation The Beast (Henry McCoy) Narratively convenient Spider Sense Hobgoblin (Jason Macendale Jr.) Goblin gliders Picket signs (*air horn sound*) Finger blasters (heh) Laser cages Arcade’s superpower flowcharts Mutants: newspaper versus comic continuity Coming home to the 90s Lisa’s favorite X-Man Beast’s versatile character design Spider-to-X ratios Dark, tortured heroes Herbert Landon’s selective memory Confirmation bias Anti-mutant cancer goo Ironic reversals Wolverine, the most marketable mutant Evil British accents The most adaptable Spider-Man / X-Men crossovers The X-Men and the newspaper funnies NEXT EPISODE: X-Factor mourns and moves on. Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!

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