Tag: nudity
153 – Mermaid Parade
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | RSS
![](https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/X153-1024x576.jpg?resize=480%2C270&ssl=1)
In which Miles gets an etymology lesson; Nightcrawler is the most dateable guy in the X-Universe; Meggan is basically all the cryptids; Michael Higgins must be stopped; Alistair Stuart is terrible at adulting; we really hope Brian wasn’t too attached to that airplane; and in retrospect, there probably should have been a Spalding Gray joke in there somewhere.
X-PLAINED:
- The Montesi Formula
- Excalibur #28-31
- The Gilded Lady
- The quintessential post-college experience
- The word “cooter”
- Relative gullibility
- A generally unacceptable issue
- Loungewear
- Vampires, kind of
- Some uncomfortably colonial imagery
- Krakoa, Jr.
- The Vega Men
- The aftermath of Axis
- Colossus’s probable politics
NEXT EPISODE: Talking Iceman with Sina Grace!
You can find a 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!
We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)
As Mentioned in Episode 120 – Observed by a Family of Lizard People
Listen to the episode here.
![1_sightseers Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.](https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1_sightseers.jpg?w=296&h=296&crop=1&ssl=1)
LINKS & FURTHER READING:
120 – Observed by a Family of Lizard People
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | RSS
![Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.](https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/XPTXM120_sightseers-1024x576.jpg?resize=480%2C270&ssl=1)
In which everything is worse with Nazis; Excalibur gets its groove back; Meggan has an identity crisis; Kitty gets a crush; a dragon gets interdimensional sanctuary; and the Cross-Time Caper starts not with a bang, but a foomp.
X-PLAINED:
- The death of Lilandra Neramani
- Excalibur #8-11
- The best name in Hollywood
- Still more of Inferno’s aftermath
- A basketball game
- Blackbird disambiguation
- Several long-delayed reunions and one subsequent resolution
- Alastaire Stuart (and his banana)
- Tourists who are also lizards
- Lightning Force
- A number of unfortunate encounters
- The difference between Errol Flynn characters and Errol Flynn
- The fall of Nigel Frobisher
- The switch that turns the engine invisible
- What may be the world’s least subtle euphemistic use of the term “roommate”
- How the discourse around comics has changed since the ’80s
- Jubilee vs. power creep
NEXT EPISODE: Deadpool v Gambit, with Ben Acker!
You can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog!
Find us on iTunes, Google Play, 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 prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!