7 – Cyclops Has a Good Day

With guest Greg Rucka!

In which death is a revolving door, we really liked Days of Future Past, space pirates are the best pirates, Vulcan is (still) the worst, Miles has a Corsair costume, Lilandra has lovely plumage, no one knows how to pronounce “M’Kraan,” we studiously avoid discussing the Phoenix force, Saurids speak Hebrew, Raza Longknife’s name is a bit on the nose, Rachel is the worst at hugs, Greg has a ‘ship, and we all kind of identify with Cyclops.

X-Plained:

• The Starjammers (and how to pronounce their names)
• The Shi’ar
• The Neremani Dynasty
• Plumage
• Apostrophe abuse
• Corsair
• The secret origins of the Starjammers
• Why Hepzibah talks like that
• The Rule of Cool
• Visor iterations
• Summerstaches
• Cyclops’s dubious deductive skills
• Hugs
• The All-New, All-the-Same X-Men
• Teenagers, again
• Cyclops #1
• Cyclops vs. Scott
• Space-parenting
• Rachel’s convention sketchbook
• Greg’s Kitty Pryde feelings
• An exceptionally vivid threat
• Intergalactic fashion
• Corsair’s pecs
• Key parties in space
• The greatest romance of the Marvel Universe

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