Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men episodes

October 19, 2020311 – Love Makes a Super-Team
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which we decide to stop recognizing the nominal difference between X-Men and Uncanny X-Men; time travel may or may not wait for you; Mister Sinister has probably appeared in at least one Ed Wood film; we are a pro-Tingle podcast; X-Men is about family; the Braddock twins catch up; Sailor Moon > Shinobi Shaw; Generation X is inducted into the baseball tradition; and Storm does what she does with Morlocks in sewers.
X-PLAINED:
Franklin Richards’ impressive lineage
311
Yet another structure for annuals
X-Men Annual 1995
Uncanny X-Men #325
Serious academic discussions
Faye Livingstone
Mister Sinister’s Hollywood adventures
Tyler Dayspring / Tolliver / Genesis (again)
Teenage optimism
An absolutely nonsensical villainous plot
A Hank McCoy that might have been
Friendship
Fraternal correspondence
Romance
Morlocks
The first time Storm stabbed a Morlock leader in the heart
Gene Nation
A really excessive cover
An intergenerational baseball game
Another fairly nonsensical villainous plot
The second time Storm stabbed a Morlock leader in the heart
X-horror
Other media X-fans may enjoy reading, playing, or watching
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1 hr 5 min
October 12, 2020310 – Attack and Dethrone God
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In which we take a substantial detour; Minipax is no Raul Julia; Corsair tries (and fails) to retire; everything is cooler in space; vengeance is more of a vocation than a career; the Starjammers win an intergalactic war with a slide show; and we pitch some television.
X-PLAINED:
Mister Sinister’s X-Gene
A detour
Space Cabbie
Starjammers #1-4
The Starjammers (more) (again)
Magneto vs. Magento
Several major galactic powers
Shi’ar religion
Sharra and K’ythri
The Uncreated (again)
Cephied variables
Standing Still
T’Cahr/Minipax
Ship names
Mustache fights
Collapsars
Corsair’s garden
Chaff mirror throwers
Several character developments which later will be ignored
A frustratingly pat resolution
Longshot vs. Domino
X-books and teams we’d like to see adapted for television
NEXT EPISODE: Sewer Knife Fight: The Sequel
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58 min
October 04, 2020HAWK TALK – Hawktober
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about our current, and Jay’s favorite, season.
Topics, roughly:
Beatni(c)ks
Spoopiness vs. Spookiness
Fat bears
Seasons (and hemispheres)
Symbolism and secular ritual
Jay’s very specific Halloween costumes
Disappointing bats
Asymmetrically recognizable couples’ costumes
Inaccurate TMNT journalism
Over the Garden Wall
Costume Quest
MediEvil
Silent Hill playthroughs
The Adventures of Pete and Pete
Corn and/or mud mazes
Knitting
Ginger Snaps (and elaborate homages)
Curious chickens
Vincent Price
Internal hairdo buttresses
Flannel and layers and warm drinks
49 min
September 27, 2020309 – Excellent Turtle
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which ballistics get weird; Black Air is no W.H.O.; we have surprisingly mixed feelings about Pete Wisdom and Kitty Pryde as a couple; there is an actual creepy clown bar in Portland; blood eagles are excessively ostentatious; the Uncreated just want to be cool; and Rory Campbell continues his descent into supervillainy.
X-PLAINED:
The Forever Man
Turner D. Century
Excalibur #87-90
Excalibur (more) (again)
Genosha (more) (again)
Some extremely confusing bullets
Philip Moreau
Jenny Ransome
Black Air
Dream Nails
Spy bars
Foundations of Kitty Pryde and Pete Wisdom’s relationship
Captions
Work/life separation
A creepy clown bar
Easy Tiger
Blood eagles
Shrine
A virus and/or bacteria
The Uncreated
Gor the God-Butcher
Data security
Rory Campbell vs. Spoor
How the X-Men got their name
Terrigen toxicity
NEXT EPISODE: Starjammers!
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55 min
September 21, 2020308 – No Story Is the Whole Story
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which writing X-books requires a somewhat different approach to continuity than writing about them; time is weird; Jay overthinks fictional publications; Scott Summers is (at least sometimes) Autistic; Sinister is not subtle; and no story is the whole story.
X-PLAINED:
Marvels
Marvels Snapshots
X-Men: Marvels Snapshots #1
Why Cyclops is worth caring about
Collaboration
Fictional publications
Intent vs. ownership of characters
Research
The difference between writing X-books and writing about X-books
The irreconcilable continuity tangle of Scott Summers’s childhood
Limitations of plaid pants
What ended up on the cutting room floor
Parallels
Other pitches
Cyclops’s best outfit
NEXT EPISODE: Dream Nails
You can get X-Men: Marvels Snapshots #1 from your local comics shop–or online over here.
And listen to Thor: Metal Gods over at Serial Box!
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59 min
September 14, 2020307 – Ugly Mootants Only
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In which Cable has clearly inherited his father’s inability to go on a date that doesn’t end disastrously; Husk is a lightweight; we are very taken with a turtle; you really don’t want to run into the other Hemingway in an elevator, either; Jubilee can speak in logos; and Wolverine gives some fatherly advice.
X-PLAINED:
One way to get your powers back
Cable #15
Generation X #5-6
X-Men: Marvels Snapshots #1 (Coming September 16)
Cable, in general
A date
“Sheer” fabrics
What we’d bring to desert islands
Sarah (Marrow)
The Ceremony of Light
Several generations of mutant teenagers
Generation X and its members (more) (again)
Chamber’s socks
Gateway’s taste in television
Husk’s extremely low alcohol tolerance
Some cool lettering
Banshee is to Chris Bachalo as Nightcrawler is to Alan Davis
Fridge wolves
NYC celebrity encounters
The ongoing legacy of X-kids with gross powers
Teenagers
Hemingway, but not that Hemingway
The return of Artie and Leech
Bones
How we would incorporate the X-Men into the MCU
NEXT EPISODE: Snapshots!
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1 hr 9 min
September 07, 2020HAWK TALK – Playing With Super Power (feat. Matthew Hunter)
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, our producer Matthew Hunter subbed in for Jay and he and Miles talked about the video games they grew up on!
Topics, roughly:
Crystalis
Power Blade
Fighting robots (in general)
Super Mario World
F-Zero
Final Fantasy II (which is to say IV)
Street Fighter II
Rockin’ Kats
Shatter Hand
Battletoads
Lemmings
The Incredible Machine
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Turtles in Time
Mario Paint
Doom
Secret of Mana
Mega Man X
Disney adaptations
Final Fantasy III (which is to say VI)
Donkey Kong Country
Super Punch Out
Illusion of Gaia
BioForge
DWANGO (Dial-up Wide-Area Network Game Operation)
Full Throttle, Quest For Glory, Gabriel Knight…
Wild ARMs
Wipeout
Stun Runner
Resident Evil
Final Fantasy VII
Fallout
Parasite Eve
Xenogears
Baldur’s Gate
Tetris DX
Pokémon (Blue)
LUNAR
Silent Hill
You can find Matt on Twitter and his music on Bandcamp!
1 hr 30 min
August 31, 2020306 – Between Here and There
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which we continue our ongoing tour of the post-Age of Apocalypse X-Universe; Onslaught gets a name; nobody’s sure what Noah Dubois is doing there; Iceman gets to be the practical one, for once; T&A should not generally appear on the same visual plane; someone needs to talk to Cannonball about kink safety; and Emma Frost lets a call go to voicemail.
X-PLAINED:
Tarzan fandom
X-Man, summarized
Uncanny X-Men #322-324
Color as a narrative tool
The evolution of Storm’s shower etiquette
How not to relax with Lucas Bishop
Seat-of-the-pants plotting
Parenting
Noah Dubois, sort of
A road trip
Sexiness vs. sexualization
Emma Frost as Caprica Six
How not to walk a supervillain
Cannonball’s uniform
Sack
Vessel
Greycrow (more) (again)
The worst morgue and/or disco ever
Edna and Norton McCoy
Times Rogue has absorbed Colossus’s powers
X-Men: Marvels Snapshot
NEXT EPISODE: Generation X
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57 min
August 24, 2020305 – The Sleep of the Wicked
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which X-Factor gets its own roster shakeup; most bartenders will look at you funny if you order a flight of superheroes; Kaboom is a great name for a nightclub; we lack significant feelings about the clone saga; Yukio probably sends love to everyone’s girlfriends; Forge has terrible coping mechanisms; and Jay’s current life is not conducive to consistent acoustics (sorry!).
X-PLAINED:
Mystique’s powers
X-Factor’s new roster
X-Factor #112-114
The word “wreak”
The issue that made Miles stop reading X-Men
Wild Child (Kyle Gibney)
Wolverine as a role
Cyburai (more) (again)
Unethical management practices
One way to be drunk on power(s)
Scarlett McKenzie (again)
Club Kaboom
Yukio (again)
Fatale
Summers Problems(TM)
Marvel’s 1996 reader survey
A bondage harness that may or may not be made out of dryer tubing
Alex Summers vs. his own powers
Sugar Man in the 616
Several potential but unexplored story hooks for Scarlett
An implausible implant
Mystique’s new costume
A deeply dysfunctional but narratively plausible ship
A Random tangent
RPF on Earth-616
Forge vs. Tony Stark
NEXT EPISODE: Things get Uncanny!
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1 hr
August 17, 2020304 – Explosive Ops
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which Jay discovers a continuity loop; phonetic spelling reaches a new level of implausibility; it’s always already Onslaught; X-Force’s roster gets shaken up; Siryn goes undercover; and the Upstarts remain vaguely plot-relevant despite our fervent wishes.
X-PLAINED:
Mimic (Calvin Rankin)
Wing problems
X-Force #45-47
One of Adam Pollina’s more remarkable non-Marvel art credits
One of many homages to the cover of X-Men #138
X-Force, its members, and its recent history
Phonetic spelling
Warpath’s hair
Baffling managerial decisions
Whether Reed Richards is machine washable
Many pouches
An unlikely friendship
Sabretooth’s state of mind
Rutland, VT
The Weisman Institute for the Criminally Insane
Dr. Rachel Weisman
Jeremy Stevens
Part of why we like following X-books over time
Character redesigns
CORRECTION: In addition to being the setting of a number of 1970s Marvel and DC stories, Rutland, VT is actually a real place with a famous annual (and largely superhero-themed) Halloween parade!
NEXT EPISODE: What X-Factor’s been up to
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1 hr 8 min