Rachel & Miles X-Plain The X-Men: Meet The New Mutants

Welcome back to Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men, a weekly podcast in which X-Perts Rachel Edidin and Miles Stokes explore the ins, outs, and retcons of fifty years of Marvel’s greatest superhero soap opera!

This week: Rachel and Miles return triumphant, the X-Men get a second ongoing series, we hit peak Moira MacTaggert, R-A-H-N-E is definitely pronounced “rain,” Sam Guthrie is the nicest henchman, Claremont is hit-and-miss on cultural diversity, and Bobby da Costa is the teenageriest teenager of them all.

X-Plained:

• Nova Roma
• The New Mutants and The New Mutants
• Marvel Graphic Novels
• Greenberg the Vampire
• call-backs
• Karma
• Wolfsbane
• Sunspot
• Cannonball
• Mirage
• Whitewashing in superhero comics
• The mercurial Guthrie family
• Xi’an the Obscure
• The Dr. Claw Effect (and why Dr. Doom and Arcade are exceptions)
• Donald Pierce
• Eras of New Mutants
• Lila Cheney
• The Hellions

Next Week: The X-Men do Barbarella.

More episodes of Rachel & Miles X-Plain The X-Men can be found on iTunes and Stitcher. For additional content, visual companions to episodes, video reviews of current series, and more, check out rachelandmiles.com, and follow us on Twitter at @XplaintheXmen.