Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men episodes

August 08, 2022381 – If We Told You, We’d Have to Kill You
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which real life sucks; Havok may or may not be a bad enough dude to rescue mutantkind; X-Factor quits; CD-ROMs were never THAT cool; subtlety is for suckers; Val Cooper hates nothing more than she hates the U.S. government; and Jamie Madrox wants nothing to do with your nonsense.
X-PLAINED:
One way to end a wedding
X-Factor #130-133
Malice (again)
A thumb (and the biting thereof)
Barnes (and her hair)
The relative versatility of plasma
The Brotherhood
A ruse and/or retcon
Lighting design
A CD-ROM
The time Jay wrote some Captain America comics
The last time you’re gonna see these
Trevor Chase (more)
One thing that might’ve inspired Jamie Madrox’s heel turn
The nature of Jamie Madrox’s relative mortality
Brand names
Many faked deaths
Agent Bowser
A very fancy haunted house
X-Factor’s true calling
The X.S.E. (again)
Mutant shifts in adaptations
‘Nuff said
NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur vs. Crimson Dawn!
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53 min
August 01, 2022380 – Arbor Day
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which no one wants to be compared to Chris Bachalo; it’s always a holiday for Generation X; you may already be a Guthrie; M is a fascinating mystery; and Black Tom Cassidy (finally) makes his move.
X-PLAINED:
What Black Tom Cassidy is up to these days
Generation X #23-25
Generation X (again)
Seasons
Visual representations of Banshee’s powers
Several holidays
The Blue Ridge Mountains
A slumber party
Emplate (somewhat)
Bad times with Black Tom Cassidy
The apparent death of Emma Frost
What we do and don’t cover when
Leech on Krakoa
NEXT EPISODE: X-Factor Quits
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52 min
July 25, 2022 HAWK TALK – Joy
This would usually be a skip week, but thanks to some generous donors to Equality Florida, Hawk Talk is back! This week’s topic was chosen by Blindseer0.
38 min
July 18, 2022379 – Stardate: Today
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which what happens in space stays in space; a horse is imperiled; Joseph does some dubious science; Gladiator’s name is absolutely not Gary; everybody gets new costumes; and we learn where babies come from.
X-PLAINED:
Shi’ar taxonomy, sort of
The Shi’ar (again)
The Phalanx (again)
Uncanny X-Men #341-344
A whole bunch of callbacks to X-Men #98
A carriage ride
The Z’noxx chamber (again)
One way to have safer sex
FAO Schwarz
The Shi’ar Imerial Guard (again)
Diplomacy, kind of
Space outfits
Trademarks
Pure Phalanx
Dinosaur Kingdom 2
Where Shi’ar babies come from
Flirting
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl vs. Isca the Unbeaten
Characters we would happily voice if invited to do so
NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk
NEXT EPISODE: Generation X vs. Black Tom Cassidy!
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56 min
July 11, 2022378 – The Unstoppable Huggernaut
In which our favorite(?) fear lord returns; Sirocco Sprawl is an extremely unpleasant fictional town; the Juggernaut is not a subtle man; we really need to get our hands on the Generation X novels; Tarot gets a logo font; and Banshee is menaced by spectral leprechauns.
X-PLAINED
Several Juggernauts
Soap Operas
D’Spayre (again)
D’Spayre vs. Nightmare
Juggernaut #1
Generation X Annual 1997
Magical pants
Juggernaut (Cain Marko) and what he’s been up to lately
Incidental reptiles
Sirocco Sprawl, NM
Marvin T. Rocksalt
A spree of cartoonish destruction
Spite (again)
Black Tom Cassidy (again)
A really cool skeleton
Generation X novels
Several episodes we should probably do someday
A very poorly-drawn butt
The Hellions (more) (again)
One way to put out a fire
Garden Plots with Skeletor
Several nightmare scenarios
Alex Summers’s adoptive family
What would happen if Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau met Cameron Hodge
NEXT EPISODE: Space!
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50 min
July 04, 2022377 – Sam Hill
In which Domino’s miniseries earns a grade of “present”; Miles gets to know Sam Hill; Domino trades pouches for boots; and we would prefer that you not sexualize Lady Deathstrike.
X-PLAINED:
Halloween Jack
Domino (Neena Thurman)
Domino #1-3
Milo Thurman
The idiomatic Sam Hill
Lady Deathstrike (again)
The Reavers (again)
Pico
Boot pouches
Puck (Eugene Judd)
Dante’s Beatrice
Several Skullbusters
Robot tits
The E.T. Atari game
One way to get out of saying “I love you”
Our unpopular favorites
NEXT EPISODE: Giving in to D’Spayre!
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57 min
June 27, 2022 HAWK TALK – The Voyage of the Mimi
This would usually be a skip week, but thanks to some generous donors to Equality Florida, Hawk Talk is back! This week’s topic was chosen by Chuck Reynolds.
31 min
June 20, 2022376 – Moore of This
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which we begin John Francis Moore’s run on X-Force; Latveria is less fun without Doctor Doom; there may still be a tiny clone of Meltdown running around; Forearm is a good pal; Marvel Asgard is a realm of crossover fan fiction; and you should totally watch both Our Flag Means Death and Doom Patrol.
X-PLAINED:
Blackbeard, somewhat
X-Force #63-64
X-Force & Cable Annual 1997
Life after Onslaught
Dimitri Fortunov
Dr. Doom’s time podium
New costumes
Liddleville
Latveria, 1941
Sturmfanger
Valkyrie (Brunhilde)
Aragorn (but not that one)
The Mutant Liberation Front (again) (briefly)
A large dog who may or may not have eaten a horse
Valkyries (more) (again)
What all the former New Mutants are up to
Yggdrasil and the Nine Realms (again)
Malekith the Accursed
Kindra the Dwarf (again)
Skadi the Frost Giant
Hela (again) (briefly)
Doctor Who analogs
What we miss about the Silver Age
NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk
NEXT EPISODE: Domino goes solo!
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55 min
June 13, 2022375 – One Thousand Kicks to the Face
In which there is definitely a wrong way to enjoy your comics; Storm could probably use a more secure storage system; the Externals need more camp; and Joseph makes some valid points.
X-PLAINED
What Storm’s up to
X-Men Unlimited #7 (again) (briefly)
X-Men #60-61
X-Men Unlimited #14
Karima
Jamil
Candra (again)
A surprising absence of Howard Mackie
Candra’s heart
Some excessively complex psychic powers
Phylacteries
The origin of Storm’s romance with T’Challa
Kicks to the face as a unit of pain
Undercloaks
The alternate universe where the McCoys live in Indiana
The moppet squad (again)
Dunfee, IN
Yet another angry mob
Multiverse-variable powers
Favorite X-relationships
Correction: The Brandalorian let us know that “Phylacteries (tefillin) are not Chasidic; they’re a ritual object mentioned by the Torah, used by Jews of all sorts.” Apologies for our error, and we appreciate the correction!
NEXT EPISODE: X-Force goes to Asgard!
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54 min
June 06, 2022374 – SMEK
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which Frank Punisher is not a role model; Carl the X-Cutioner is not very good at secret identities; Miles tries his hand at poetry; and everything’s funny with a sidecar.
X-PLAINED:
Frankencastle
Frank Punisher and his cultural context
Punisher #12-16
Carl the X-Cutioner
S.H.I.E.L.D.
The New Mutant Liberation Front and several members thereof
William Connover (again)
Agynt Kymberly Taylor
Optimal sidecar use
Simon Trask
What it’s like to kiss Frank Punisher
Poor management technique
How we choose what to reveal when
The timeline where Magik is textually queer
NEXT EPISODE: The actual X-Men!
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54 min