Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

By Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

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May 27, 2025 XplaintheXmen Live in Washington DC!
Join us for an X-beginner-friendly, mutant-metaphor-focused, live episode of Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men: presented by LC-GLOBE, the LGBTQ+ organization of employees of the Library of Congress!
When: 6:00 PM on Friday 06/06/25
Where: The Mumford Room (LM-649) in the James Madison Building of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC
If you’d like to join the staff in attending, you’d be very welcome – to reserve seats, please email us so we can get a headcount and make sure you’re on the list. Hope to see you there!
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1min
May 26, 2025488 – There Goes the Moon (Mutant X May, Part 3)
In which we reap the consequences of our choices; possession is 18/10 of the law; Sinister dresses for the occasion; Hank gets his groove back; Havok of Earth-1298 is a jerk; Hank loses his groove; Captain America blows up the moon; the Beyonder experiences a stirring; Dracula makes a deal; and Mutant X May comes to an end.
X-PLAINED:
The aftermath of Mutant X
Mutant X #19-32
Mutant X Annual 2001
The story so far
Character color coding
Some telepathic misdirection
Apocalypse of Earth-1298
Charles Xavier of Earth-1298
Professor X’s Juggernaut-fightin’ mullet
A whole lot of possession
Fake Galactus
Several fears
X-Man of Earth-1298
Child batteries
The worst place for a portal to the Negative Zone
How Hank McCoy became the Brute
Vampire problems
The Marauders of Earth-1298
The Outcasts of Earth-1298
Cloak & Dagger of Earth-1298
James Hudson of Earth-1298
The Avengers of Earth-1298
The Beyonder of Earth-1298 who is also kind of the Goblin Force
Several additional superheroes
A last stand
The appeal of alternate timelines
Earth-1298’s best glow-ups
NEXT EPISODE: Attack of the Meatspore Stormtroopers!
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1h 13min
May 19, 2025487 – The Only Well-Adjusted Cyclops in the Multiverse (Mutant X May, Part 2)
In which Mutant X May continues; the X-Men return from space; it’s okay not to fill in every detail of a world; Havok leans into parenthood; we meet the only well-adjusted Cyclops in the multiverse; in any universe, Forge has terrible judgment; and the Six get some new members.
X-PLAINED:
Several notable upcoming events in Mutant X
What’s happened so far
Mutant X #9-18
Mutant X Annual 2000
The Morlocks of Earth-1298
The Mole Man of Earth-1298
The Yancy Street Underground
Magneto of Earth-1298
Superhero costume color theory
Polaris of Earth-1298
The X-Men of Earth-1298
Magneto
Polaris
Nightcrawler
Rogue
Mystique
Quicksilver
The Goblin Entity
Doctor Doom of Earth-1298
Namor of Earth-1298
The origin of Bloodstorm
Dracula’s fellas
The Starjammers of Earth-1298
Cyclops
Binary
Nova
Lockheed
Silver Surfer
Space alien problems
A fairly literal deus ex machina
Captain America of Earth-1298
A terrible idea
The United Guild of Thieves and Assassins
Gambit of Earth-1298
Raven LeBeau
The origin of Vampire Gambit
Mister Sinister of Earth-1298
Jean Grey of Earth-1298
Where Scott Summers of Earth-1298 ranks on the Cyclops Has a Good Day scale
Where to put X-logos on a costume
NEXT EPISODE: Mutant X May concludes!
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1h 2min
May 12, 2025486 – Welcome to Earth-1298 (Mutant X May, Part 1)
In which we embark on a Great Work; it remains hard to be Alex Summers; and it’s also always Inferno on Earth-1298.
X-PLAINED:
Mutant X May
Mutant X #1-8
Mutant X Annual 1999
Havok (Alex Summers) (more) (again)
Earth-1298
The Six
The Brute (Hank McCoy)
Ice-man (Bob Drake)
Bloodstorm (Ororo Munroe)
The Fallen (Warren Kenneth Worthington III)
Marvel Woman (Madelyne Pryor)
Bannerman Castle
The original five X-Men of Earth-1298
S.H.I.E.L.D. of Earth-1298
Scotty Summers
Elektra of Earth-1298
The Swarms of Moot
The Fantastic Four of Earth-1298
Canada of Earth-1298
The Pack
Logan
Sabretooth
Wild Child
Demon problems
The Goblin Queen of Earth-1298
Kitty Pryde of Earth-1298
Forge of Earth-1298
Man-Spider
Some murders
Alligators of the Night
National politics
Cerebro of Earth-1298
Dr. Strange of Earth-1298
The Nexus of All Realities
Stingray of Earth-1298
Yellowjacket of Earth-1298
Doc Sampson of Earth-1298
Vendetta
Firestar of Earth-1298
A coincidence
Adam X and Vulcan of Earth-1298
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1h 2min
April 28, 2025485 – The House of Correction
In which we go back to the future of Generation X; Jay once again gets pedantic about lettering; Generation X takes on the carceral state; we take a deep dive into the late ‘90s; Jubilee does her best Nick Fury; and superpowers should be noisier.
X-PLAINED:
Earth-14042
Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers
Generation X #63-66
Revolution and Counter X (more) (again)
An evil Oyster
Warden Coffin
The Decency Defecit
Some shit we wish was fictional
Underpants
Souped up powers
Newsgroups
The Columbine school shooting
The Grid
Cable vs. ISDN Internet
Jonathan Somers
Generation X’s new costumes
The House of Correction
Hacking
Trophies
Baxter
‘90s X-Men outside of comics
How superpowers sound
NEXT EPISODE: Mutant X May begins!
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54min
April 21, 2025484 – Hell Tuba
In which the 2000 Magik miniseries is not a good comics series but is an excellent heavy metal concept album; Nightmare has a nightmare; and tubas work differently in Hell.
X-PLAINED:
Belasco: the early years
Magik (2000 series) #1-4
Magik (Amanda Sefton) (Jimaine Szardos) (more) (again)
Some art stuff
The realm of Nightmare
The Splinter Realms
The Soul Sword (Amanda Sefton version)
An Archfiend of the Pit
Nugent
Chekhov’s Hell computer (and its secretions)
Kurt Wagner’s short and bizarre career in the church
Vitchen
Several cool demon battles
The Dread Dormammu
Gleeg
A problem
Muspelheim
Twilight (sword)
Some Mephisto nonsense
Hades, maybe
Epithets
A convocation
Weird Hell guys
Duke Bleys
The Archenemy
The Hell Tuba
The most demonic brass instrument
Some time travel bullshit
Stories where Emma Frost is at her best
Villain reuse
NEXT EPISODE: Generation X gets new threads!
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54min
April 14, 2025483 – Piotr Lovely Locks
In which a lot has happened in the Six Month Gap (and we even get to learn about some of it); we’d missed Claremontian narration; Miles has questions about Colossus’s ponytail; the Soulsword is basically a Poké Ball; the Shadow Pope is cooler than the regular Pope; and Magik has a secret.
X-PLAINED:
Some big news
X-Men: Black Sun #1-5
Phoenix and Psylocke’s sorta-power-swap
Implied continuity
The N’Garai
Belasco
Limbo
Magik (Illyana Rasputin)
New costumes
Priests vs blood magic
An impressively overcomplicated evil plot
Chekhov’s skeleton
Body swaps and/or possession
Thunderbird (Neal Sharra)
Pilgrimm and the Ru’tai (again, surprisingly)
Astral meetups
Confusing bloodstone math
A Triple-Tech
Magik (Amanda Sefton)
Counting X-generations
Our favorite X-decades
NEXT EPISODE: More Magik!
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1h 2min
March 31, 2025482 – The Mutant Gene for Murder
In which Pete Wisdom canonically smells weird; we are inordinately entertained by a villain; everyone levels up their superpowers; and you probably shouldn’t shave the logo of your secret super team into the side of your head.
X-PLAINED:
Nasty Boys disambiguation
X-Force #106-109
Counter X (more) (again)
Shockwave (more) (again)
Turn-of-the-millennium cool
X-Force (more) (again)
How to dress for funerals, I guess?
How Pete Wisdom smells
Romany Wisdom (again)
Marcus Tsung
Mind bullets
Nightman
Our first audience challenge in a really long time
A bad nickname
X-Force’s new looks
A thing growing out of Domino’s back
Several enigmas shrouded in mystery
The worst birthday party
Abel, Baker, and Charlie
Fish
The Factory
Telepathic “voices”
The miracle of magnetism
NEXT EPISODE: The return of Chris Claremont!
LISTENERS! We want to hear your Marcus Tsung murder ballads! Send ‘em to [email protected] with the subject line MUTANT MURDER BALLAD, and we’ll stick ‘em on the web or play ‘em on the show!
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1h 1min
March 24, 2025481 – Chekhov’s Butt-Gun
In which Adrienne Frost is absolutely terrible (and so was Ronald Reagan); you should not put guns in your butt; Synch deserved better; and Jay and Miles inventory their favorite dangling plot threads of the ‘90s.
X-PLAINED:
Several potential origins of Havok’s stupid hat
Generation X #67-70
Revolution (more) (again)
Shockwave (more) (again)
Adrienne Frost (more) (again)
The New Xavier School and/or Massachusetts Academy (more) (again)
Possible necrophilia
Dorm life
How not to draw clothing
Rules of entry to Jubilee’s dorm room
The Rich Person Store
How to say the word “consigliere”
The ‘90s
Blackmail
Limits of telepathy
Arson
Ninja Boogie
Panic
How to keep Synch safe
Adultification
Failure to keep Synch safe
Where to pick up to follow along with us
Plot threads we’d like to see picked back up
NEXT EPISODE: X-Force goes Counter-X!
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58min
March 17, 2025480 – Cross-Time Tattoo Parlor
In which we check in on Nate Grey; yet another Madelyne Pryor is not what she seems; dead men tell tales; there are a lot of Canadians out there; and Nate gets a makeover.
X-PLAINED:
What happened to Nate Grey (short-term)
Counter X
Shockwave
Nate Grey (more) (again)
X-Man #67-70
Non-dildo futures
Madelyne Pryor (kind of)
A dubiously ethical relationship
The destruction of Quito, Ecuador
Earth-998
Mr. Scratch
Her Majesty Madelyne I, Resurrected Queen of Briton, High Protector of the Unified Commonwealths, Sacred Mistress of the Order of the Black Knights, and Absolute Empress of the North and the Breachlands (Jean Grey of Earth-9575)
Several other Nates Grey (particularly the Nate Grey of Earth-2098)
A distinctive tattoo
Inverted X-Men logos
Shamanism, kind of
A very nice dress
The Spiral / The Tree of Worlds
Forge of Earth-998
The Interscope
The Engine of the Gods
A plot twist that might have been
Magical brain damage
Dangerous Canadians
A complex ruse
A makeover
How best to support the comics you love
Some very X-Man-specific information
NEXT EPISODE: Shockwave comes to Generation X!
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54min

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