Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

By Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men episodes:

June 08, 2026527 – 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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50min
June 01, 2026526 – 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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1h 2min
May 25, 2026525 – 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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1h 7min
May 11, 2026524 – 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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May 04, 2026523 – 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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52min
April 27, 2026522 – Fetus Fight
Illustration by David Wynne
In which Marvel goes wordless; Cassandra Nova breaks space; none of the X-Men have media training; and Gus was the best dog ever.
X-PLAINED:
Erik the Red (more) (again)
Kin Crimson
A big messy bag of mutant glory
New X-Men #121-123
‘Nuff Said
A journey into Charles Xavier’s mind
What Emma is drinking
A fetus fight
The criminal culpability of a fetus
Space problems
A cosplay challenge
Space
Charles Xavier’s weird last wish
A press conference
Teen romance
The Stepford Cuckoos
Gus
Charles Xavier’s age
Nanosentinels
Stuf
Pre-ride safety announcements from the X-Men
Whether Cassandra Nova should’ve been a component of Onslaught
NEXT EPISODE: Cassandra Nova vs. the X-Men (Round 2)!
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51min
April 14, 2026521 – Snowflakes
Illustration by David Wynne
In which John Sublime sucks; Angel Salvatore rules; trauma does not justify evil; and you should never, ever, ever mess with Jean Grey.
X-PLAINED:
A horrifying revelation
The universe where Jay and Miles work for Cassandra Nova
New X-Men #118-120
John Sublime (more) (again)
The U-Men
Psychic energy, gender-reveal party-style
The Stepford Cuckoos
One way to disperse a mob
An uncivil conversation
The death and/or discomfort of many U-Men
An awakening of sorts
Squaring the phoenix
Hank McCoy’s “coming out”
NEXT EPISODE: The Shi’ar invade!
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52min
April 06, 2026520 – Head Like a (Black) Hole
Illustration by David Wynne
In which several individuals are not what they seem; John Sublime sucks; Cyclops talks Xorn down from a cosmic ledge; we meet the inimitable Beak; and Cassandra Nova makes herself (limitedly) known.
X-PLAINED:
John Sublime
Marvelscope™
New X-Men 2001 Annual
New X-Men #117
Xorn
X-Corporation
The U-Men
Ao Jun (and his super gross mutant power)
Synchronized heists
Psychometry vs. telepathy
A big eventual twist
Beak (Barnell Bohusk)
A kiss
Some really fucked up use of telepathy
Some Moira MacTaggert continuity nonsense
NEXT EPISODE: U-Men vs. X-Men
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46min
March 30, 2026519 – Beautiful People With Incredible Powers
Illustration by David Wynne
In which we start the Morrison Run; Professor X gets his hands on Chekhov’s gun; Cassandra Nova raises X-villains to a new level of weird; and humanity is running on borrowed time.
X-PLAINED:
No-Girl
New X-Men #114-116
Grant Morrison and their approach to the X-Men
Superhero fashion
Cerebra
Beast’s new look
Ugly John
Interpersonal dynamics
Cassandra Nova (somewhat)
Donald Trask
Master Molds
Wild Sentinels
Emma Frost (more) (again)
Negasonic Teenage Warhead (the original)
The fall of Genosha
Secondary mutations
The most strapless bra of all time
The Black Bug Room
Summers problems
Official X-Men and the designation thereof
Wonder Man and mutants
NEXT EPISODE: Beast has a bad day
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1h 7min
March 16, 2026518 – Mapping the X-Gene
In which Dr. Jey McCreight joins us to discuss all things X-Genetics!
X-PLAINED:
The genetics and taxonomy of Marvel’s merry mutants
NEXT EPISODE: The Morrison run begins!
Follow Dr. Jey on Bluesky, and check out Beyond X and Y!
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57min

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