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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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I’m so glad to hear that I agree with Brevoort about Scott’s powers being powered by the sun. I swear they’ve literally said it in comics before during the Claremont era.
Hearing Alex Paknadel’s description of Cyclops being defined by the limitations of his powers, it tried to make me think of other characters where they fits (not situations where the character is defined by his limits, like Daredevil). The most obvious choice was Black Bolt. Black Bolt can’t speak without destroying everything, Scott has to wear his visor (or can’t see) without destroying everything. Both are very stoic characters who hold back. Both like redheads (OK, the last isn’t really the point).