Friend who is not an X-men fan, but her late wife was: Okay, I know Maddie is Cable's mom, but what happened to her after that? I know Scott got back with Jean at some point... Me: Do you want Summers Family Story Time? Friend: Not until my headache goes away.
Well, yes, at least I don't have to argue about robot paternity and Oedipus complexes, and the fact that gets into the Maximoff twins via marriage and then we get to play 'who is their bio dad this year?'.
I had a neighbor who worked for scholastic and one day they gave me I guess advance copies of the novelizations of "Cyclops and Phoenix" and "The Phalanx Covenant" right in time for me to drink deep and get in on the ground floor of Generation X