X-DAY IS A TRADITIONAL PART of the Church of the SubGenius, a religion formed as a parody of cults and extreme religious groups, and that sect's Sacred Books, VHS tapes, comic books, recordings, DVDs, Cassettes, CDs, various pamphlets and claims. X-Day fell, falls or is to fall on July 5, 1998, the scheduled "End of the World", and has been celebrated on July 5 each year since then. [But major changes are afoot.] From its inception in 1980, the Church has prophesied that an army of Alien invaders (known as the "X-ists" or "Space Babes From Planet X") will land on the planet Earth and destroy the non-Sub-G world of "Normals", "Pinks", and "Glorps," while the Members of the Church of the SubGenius shall be rescued by the Aliens and taken away into space. Argument within the Church presently rages over whether or not "the real 1998" has, in fact, actually taken place...