Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men episodes

July 19532 – No Regrets (feat. Matt Hunter)
Illustration by David Wynne
In which we wrap things up.
X-PLAINED:
Krakoa (mostly)
The True Secret History of Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
The True Secret History of Matt Hunter
Live shows
The “WHAT”s
Audio production through transition
Adapting to long-distance recording
Proximity
Our retirement plans
The means of production
Our favorite voice effects
Sound design considerations for Dazzler’s shows
What we’ve learned from making Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Regrets
Where to find Matt online
Our evolving feelings about the X-Men
Stories we would’ve liked to have covered
The evolving podcasting landscape
X-Men analogues
Our theoretical Magic: The Gathering mechanics
What X-Men is really about
How to read like Jay and Miles
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1 hr 24 min
July 13531 – Here Comes Tomorrow
Illustration by David Wynne
In which we wrap up the continuity portion of the podcast along with our coverage of Grant Morrison’s New X-Men; Wolverine poses dramatically; Cyclops breaks the timeline; Wolverine poses dramatically; we are deeply intrigued by Brian and his magic car; Wolverine poses dramatically; Sublime extends his reach; Phoenix heals the timeline; Wolverine poses dramatically; change is important; and somewhere Wolverine is probably still posing dramatically.
X-PLAINED:
X of Swords (somewhat)
Endings
Varying opinions on the same art
Earth-15104
‘Crawlers
Tom Skylark
Rover (in several media)
The Beast (Hank McCoy) (sort of)
The evolution of EVA
An evocative quotation
Several recognizable oracles
Where the timeline broke
The Proud People
Apollyon the Destroyer
Mer-Max
A somewhat robotic love triangle
Tito Bohusk
How to hatch a Phoenix egg
The White Hot Room
The Termids
Several atrocities
An unfortunate costume choice
John Sublime (for real this time)
Yet another origin of life on Earth
Evil science
Kick (more) (again)
Weapon XIV
The X-Men’s last stand
An unlikely Phoenix host
Breaking cycles
Aspects of Earth-15104 we’d like to see explored further
Where we’d conclude the X-Men
NEXT EPISODE: The end.
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1 hr 15 min
July 06530 – Not for Beginners
Illustration by David Wynne
In which we remain frustrated with Morrison’s Magneto; Esme Cuckoo’s hat game is lacking; and the status quo dies with Jean Grey.
X-PLAINED:
Dubious X-relationships
Some excellent songs from an excellent show
New X-Men #149-150
Various atrocities and catastrophes
The resistance, such as it is
Magneto’s limits
A rebirth
Neutron warheads
The cavalry
Yet another death of Magneto
Yet another death of Jean Grey
A peculiar epilogue
A legacy of retcons
A miasma of bleakness and futility
The Xorn retcon
Disability in “Planet X”
Miracles of Magnetism
NEXT EPISODE: The future!
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1 hr 2 min
June 29529 – Magneto Was Wrong
Illustration by David Wynne
In which many plot threads come together; Charles Xavier is a catastrophically bad listener; you should probably not live in the Marvel Universe; bridges are really important; there’s nothing sexy about dying of heat exhaustion; and we judge Morrison’s Magneto and find him wanting.
X-PLAINED:
What Xorn did after dying
The story so far
New X-Men #146-148
Beast’s typing gloves
Several innovative ways to type loudly
Doomed plans
A manufactured confrontation
A trap
Magneto reimagined
Visual depictions of sweat
“New Genosha”
Death and rebirth
Whether Magneto has a place in New X-Men; and if so, what
A name for an era
NEXT EPISODE: Yet another death of Magneto
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1 hr 3 min
June 22528 – Welcome to the Slippery Slope
Illustration by David Wynne
In which friends don’t let friends drink sparkling wine at the Hellfire Club; Cyclops is a Silent Hill protagonist; Fantomex is a cool dude; John Sublime has his grubby little fingers in everything; and three men do a lot of things to avoid going to therapy.
X-PLAINED:
What happened to the World
Weapon XVI
New X-Men #142-145
Fantomex (more) (again)
The Weapon Plus program
A large number of things men will do instead of going to therapy
How to murder a nice, romantic mood
The Hellfire Club, the rest of the time
Jake Danials Whisky
A drinking contest
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
The World
Weapon XV
A series of B&Es
Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.)
Car cops
Weapon XV’s feelings
Weapon Plus’s secret space headquarters
Education at the Xavier School
Gender-swapped superheroes and heirs to superheroes
NEXT EPISODE: Magneto, unmasked!
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59 min
June 08527 – Whodunnit?
Illustration by David Wynne
In which Jean Grey crosses several lines; Emma Frost is killed; Bishop and Sage visit from X-Treme X-Men; mutants are weird; the plot thickens; Emma Frost is resurrected; and we learn several secrets of fly reproduction.
X-PLAINED:
The brothers Xorn
A question of reading order
New X-Men #139-141
Cosmic force problems
A showdown
A brief tour through the mind of Emma Frost
A murder most foul
Bishop (briefly) (again)
Sage (briefly) (again)
Many suspects
One way to get drugs, I guess?
A mysterious shack and its mysterious contents
Perils and advantages of being a living computer
A murder weapon
Angel and Beak’s excellent babies
A resurrection
A subtly remarkable taxicab
The advent of mixed-case lettering in Marvel comics
How Angel and Beak’s reproductive cycle corresponds to actual fly reproduction
NEXT EPISODE: Assault on Weapon Plus
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50 min
June 01526 – Vengeful Mutants on Drugs
Illustration by David Wynne
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).
X-PLAINED:
What Quentin Quire’s been up to since discorporating
New X-Men #135-138
The Special Class
Basilisk
Ernst
Dummy
No Girl
Whether the Xavier School should admit human students
Quentin’s new look
Kick (more) (again)
The Omega Gang
That one t-shirt
How to punch up your Power Point presentation
A somewhat fraught camping trip
The Special Class vs. U-Men
A secret
Some kind of weird affair
A riot, of sorts
Wolverine’s unfortunate soul patch
What actually happened to Jumbo Carnation
Telepathic deconstruction
The Cuckoos vs. Emma Frost
A somewhat mysterious secondary mutation
Denouement
The subsequent evolution of Quentin Quire
What’s happening to xplainthexmen.com when the show ends
The telepathy-telekinesis overlap
NEXT EPISODE: Murder!
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1 hr 2 min
May 25525 – Beyond This Death
Illustration by David Wynne
In which Warren Kenneth Worthington III is a terrible teacher; we are all Magneto’s children; Sooraya Qadir deserves a better origin story; teenagers have a lot of feelings; and we meet one of the modern age’s most controversial mutants.
X-PLAINED:
The destiny of Quentin Quire
New X-Men #131-134
An underattended funeral
How to fly? Kinda? I guess?
A kiss
A friendship
Another bit of ruby quartz marginalia that will never be mentioned again
A somewhat ill-founded psychic metaphor
Emma Frost’s Dark Phoenix costume
Some kind of weird affair
Echoes of 9/11/2001
Genosha, a year later
Ghosts
Polaris’s paternity
Shocker (the mutant one)
The last words of Genosha
Islamophobia post 9/11
Sooraya Qadir (Dust)
An attempted hijacking and the aftermath thereof
Some Shi’ar nonsense
X-Corporation Mumbai
Jumbo Carnation
Telepathy class
An artist’s interpretation of the fate of mankind if mutants are not driven out, as predicted by Bolivar Trask
Accountability
Professor X’s weird little paintings
X-adjectives
Best and worst X-Men with whom to share a psychic rapport
NEXT EPISODE: Quentin Quire’s teen angst bullshit gets a body count!
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1 hr 7 min
May 11524 – House in a House
Illustration by David Wynne
In which Xorn goes out on the town; silverware is morally neutral; Cyclops pursues dubious counsel; the X means ten; and Fantomex is eminently enjoyable.
X-PLAINED:
The parentage of Hope Summers
New X-Men #127-130
Mutant Town
A monster who is not a monster but is, perhaps, a metaphor
X-Corporation Paris
The whole Phoenix situation
Fantomex
Weapon XII
A gene-hazard
Corporal Animal
E.V.A.
The Weapon Plus program (somewhat)
The World (somewhat)
The Shi’ar Empire vs. Earth
Xorn variations
NEXT EPISODE: A Memorial of Magnetism
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1 hr
May 04523 – This World of Liars
Illustration by David Wynne
In which Wolverine learns to fly; pants are a basic human right; we decide to cherry-pick our Xorn retcons; Xavier’s eyebrows follow his mind; and the first year of New X-Men ends with a bang.
X-PLAINED:
The origin of the Shi’ar Imperial Guard
New X-Men #124-126
The current state of Charles Xavier’s body
G-Type
Neosaurus
Plutonia
Schism
Oracle
Stuf
Gladiator (more) (again)
Angel disambiguation
Several plans
Mutant justice
Several miracles of magnetism
Mummudrai
Horror movie shit
Subtle visual foreshadowing
A ruse
Education
Long-lost family members
What may or may not come after this
NEXT EPISODE: Fantomex!
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52 min