254 – Carry Each Other

In which Nicole Miller is fashion designer to Earth-1218 and Earth-616, Jay rejects the word “bestest”, we kind of want to just read every word of X-Men #30 aloud, One is a perfect wedding song for Scott and Jean, and you save the last dance for who brought you.
X-PLAINED:

* The perils of animated weddings
* X-Men: The Wedding Album
* Nonstandard trim sizes
* Misattributed Oscar Wilde quotes
* Shatterstar’s favorite Olympic event
* Jean Grey’s short-lived modeling career
* Computo, Commander of the Robot Hive
* A most excellent wedding dress
* Cursive fonts in comics
* Jean Grey and Jubilation Lee, ambiguously excellent chosen family
* X-Men #30
* An event decades in the making
* Wolverine, Master of Penmanship
* Charles Xavier, reader stand-in
* The largely forgotten Madelyne Pryor
* The understandably tentative Rachel Summers
* The bow-tie scene
* A phenomenal two-page spread
* A set of perfect vows
* A bittersweet song for a bittersweet couple
* Victor Creed, vengeful kitty-cat
* Rogue and Gambit, best worst wedding guests
* Video albums vs. Instagram
* Beast and Banshee, jazz combo
* Scott and Jean as a couple vs. individuals
* The necessity of Scott and Jean’s relationship context

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