<figure id="attachment_24050" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-24050" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/X526.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-24050" src="https://www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/X526.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="618" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/X526.jpg?w=1024&#38;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/X526.jpg?resize=300%2C181&#38;ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/X526.jpg?resize=768%2C464&#38;ssl=1 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-24050" class="wp-caption-text">Illustration by David Wynne</figcaption></figure> <p>In which you should use drugs only with caution; a famous shirt makes its debut; Wolverine is the new Mary Worth; and you were never Quentin Quire’s age (unless you were).</p> <p>X-PLAINED:</p> <ul> <li>What Quentin Quire’s been up to since discorporating</li> <li><em>New X-Men</em> #135-138</li> <li>The Special Class</li> <li>Basilisk</li> <li>Ernst</li> <li>Dummy</li> <li>No Girl</li> <li>Whether the Xavier School should admit human students</li> <li>Quentin’s new look</li> <li>Kick (more) (again)</li> <li>The Omega Gang</li> <li>That one t-shirt</li> <li>How to punch up your Power Point presentation</li> <li>A somewhat fraught camping trip</li> <li>The Special Class vs. U-Men</li> <li>A secret</li> <li>Some kind of weird affair</li> <li>A riot, of sorts</li> <li>Wolverine’s unfortunate soul patch</li> <li>What actually happened to Jumbo Carnation</li> <li>Telepathic deconstruction</li> <li>The Cuckoos vs. Emma Frost</li> <li>A somewhat mysterious secondary mutation</li> <li>Denouement</li> <li>The subsequent evolution of Quentin Quire</li> <li>What’s happening to xplainthexmen.com when the show ends</li> <li>The telepathy-telekinesis overlap</li> </ul> <p>NEXT EPISODE: Murder!</p> <hr /> <p>Check out the visual companion to this episode <a href="https://www.xplainthexmen.com/2026/05/as-mentioned-in-episode-526/">on our blog</a>.</p> <p>Find us on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jay-miles-x-plain-the-x-men/id862258051">Apple Podcasts</a> or <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/3dB4KyeOeylfiIVImshFY2?si=ee5e912a53114820">Spotify</a>!</p> <p>Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that <a href="https://www.patreon.com/xplainthexmen">right here</a>!</p> <p>Buy rad swag at <a href="https://xplainthexmen.dashery.com/">our Dashery shop</a>!</p>