The Editor in Chief of Marvel Comics once did an elaborate deception, pretending to be a Japanese Manga writer named Akira Yoshida, in order to skirt internal rules and write some of the biggest weeb comics in Marvel's history. Everyone involved still gets mad when you bring it up because the consequence was more or less the dude taking a year off to write a comic about how much sex his always has. But look, what are you going to do but laugh? It's not like we live in a country trying to stifle free speech.

Ranked This Episode:

• Wolverine: Soultaker
• X-Men: Kitty Pryde: Shadow And Flame
• Astonishing Tales: Wolverine/Punisher

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Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto.

Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee

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We’re talking about X-stories from the mid-80s and early 90s that incorporate the incomprehensible idea that anything bad could ever happen to the Twin Towers.

Ranked This Episode:

• X-Force #3-4, Spider-Man #16 (Sabotage)
• Uncanny X-Men #189 (Two Girls Out To Have Fun)
• Marvel Graphic Novel #17 (Revenge of the Living Monolith)

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Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto.

Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee

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I wonder what M. Night Shyamalan thought about the X-Men character Marrow. I have to assume he knows about her. Perhaps he has thoughts. Ranked This Episode:

• X-Force vol 4 #1-6 (Dirty/Tricks)
• Spider-Man/Marrow #1
• X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic 75-79 (Unbreakable)

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Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto.

Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee

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Sometimes, we wonder if we should change the podcast to be something more palatable to general audiences. But listen, if the X-Men have taught us anything, it's to be weird little freaks, so we are going to continue to do an X-Men podcast that is increasingly about things you wouldn't normally get in an X-Men podcast.

Ranked This Episode:

• Spellbound #4
• Mutant Misadventures of Cloak and Dagger #4
• Ka-Zar the Savage #10-12

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Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto.

Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee

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Do you think I mind that Walter Disney doesn't approve of some of these comics? That his estate isn't entitled to the sweat of the worker's brow? None of these comics are officially sanctioned, and who cares? Ranked This Episode:

• John Allison's Kitty & Wolverine comic
• Valentine's Syrin comic
• Max Wittert Jean & Scott

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Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto.

Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee

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In which we understand how much Cable's favorite Everclear song is "Father of Mine" Ranked This Episode:

• X-Men v5 #1-2
• Uncanny X-Men #310
• Cable & X-Force #6-9

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Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto.

Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee

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Clowns are so cool, I wish they were real... Ranked This Episode:

• Obnoxio The Clown Vs The X-Men
• Marvel Two-In-One #76
• Wolverine & The X-Men #21-23

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Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto.

Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee

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400 episodes and nearly 8 years later, Zack and Adam return to some of their earliest episodes, Days of Future Past style, to right the wrongs that led them to this point. They also answer some listener questions. Re-ranked this episode:

• Uncanny X-Men #268 (Madripoor Nights)
• X-Men: Worst X-Man Ever
• Battle Of The Atom

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New content every week on ComicsXF.com

Follow Adam on Twitter @arthurstacy & never try to find Zack!

Our theme music is Junk Factory from the X-Men Arcade Game by Seiichi Fukami, Yuji Takenouchi, Junya Nakano, and Ayako Hashimoto.

Cover art is by Adam Reck after Dave Cockrum with logo design by Mikey Zee

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