This week, The Lunch is joined by Grantland.com staff writer Alex Pappademas; after dining at Guisado's on Sunset, Alex and I talked all things X-Men: Days of Future Past -- from plot holes to soap operatics, representation and vertical flying-styles, Marvel boardroom politics to the question of 'Peak Comic Book Movie," budgetary bloat and the metaphors of mutancy. You can find Alex on Twitter @Pappademas ...

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