143 – Seduction of the Innocent

In which the Cross-Time Caper has finally outstayed its welcome; we bid a reluctant farewell to Alan Davis; Inferno may or may not finally actually be over; Evil Doug Ramsey rocks our socks; the Shadow King is not a particularly nuanced villain; Kitty Pryde celebrates a birthday; and Courtney Ross represents an awful lot of dangling plot threads. X-PLAINED: * Nocturne * Excalibur #21-24 * The end of the Cross-Time Caper * Post-Alan Davis Excalibur * Chris Wozniak * Crusader X * Earth-2122 * How to track Excalibur * Phoenix-related telepathic idiosyncracies * Our general indifference to the Shadow King * An alternate history of Earth-811 * Earth-23238 * An extended Judge Dredd riff * Puberty * Another John Byrne cameo * Several variations on Courtney Ross * Kitty Pryde’s 15th birthday * Nightcrawler’s beard * The Siege Courageous NEXT EPISODE: Giant-Size Winter Special, featuring Kid Apocalypse & Dennis Hopeless! The visual companion will be up later this week, because moving sucks. 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.)