About this episode
In which we attempt an all-Cyclops Winter special; X-Men are bad at processing grief; writer Alex Paknadel X-Plains his upcoming Cyclops miniseries; every character (except Cameron Hodge) is someone’s favorite; and you remain the best listeners of any podcast, ever.
X-PLAINED:
Clones of Cyclops
Gwen Warren
Our year in review
X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #1-4
Ahmed and his mustache
Emotional support boats
A monkey
Apoca-lips
Anias
Boxes of fire
One way of coping with trauma
Ozymandias (more) (again)
The relative criminality of a trail of questions
Cat lady problems
Twice as many cat ladies named Anias as you’d expect
Terrible logic
Caliban (more) (again)
Several unpleasant reunions
Alex Paknadel’s definitive Cyclopses
Fun with minor characters
Proxy characters and “highly polished surfaces”
Characters to revisit
Sentinels
Cyclops vs. his own powers
Cyclops’s powers vs. continuity
Who Scott Summers is when he’s alone
The punch dimension
The 11th Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
Many people to whom we are profoundly grateful
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