Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men episodes

March 21, 2018189 – How Do You Solve a Problem Like Nate Summers?
In which Jay’s mom broke the Internet; correct credits are important; everyone has a Danger Room; no one needs that many teeth; there are so many reasons to laugh at Stryfe; the Watcher is probably affiliated with Pepperidge Farm; Boom Boom is the Rogue of X-Force; and Cable’s pouches are definitely full of menstrual products.
X-PLAINED:
The Franklin Richards of Earth X
The One True Cable
X-Force #5-7
Pocket-Size Juggernaut
A novel approach to trauma surgery
A moment of intersectionality
Teeth of the early ’90s
Soft pink bags of rice-paper flesh
A villain speech
X-Force’s bathtub
Several Shel Silverstein poems that may or may not be about superheroes
Cooking with Boom Boom
Why the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants keeps the “Evil” in their name
Thornn (Lucia Callasantos)
Phantazia
Writers vs. Scripters
Sex Ed at the Xavier School
The Worst Twitter Thread
NEXT EPISODE: BLOODLUST! (But not inquiry.)
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59 min
March 12, 2018188 – Live from ECCC, feat. Bret Blevins, Rachelle Rosenberg, and Ramon Villalobos
In which Jay makes a sartorial switch; Hope Summers is less confusing than you might expect; we are very happy to present our first all-artist convention special; Ramon kills his idols; Rachelle deciphers the past; Bret (re)defines New Mutants; a long-time mystery is resolved; colorists deserve more respect; the Xavier School probably has an actual curriculum; and a lot of X-Men have really cool hair.
X-PLAINED:
The adventures of Hope Summers
Several Phoenix hosts
The time Quentin Quire became a Shi’ar god
Jay’s mom
Our panelists’ definitive X-Men
E for Extinction
Killing your idols
Coloring as archaeology
Visually defining the X-Men
New Mutants that might have been
Favorite costumes
The actual color of Storm’s ’90s costume
Editorial direction vs. editorial mandate
Practical considerations in costume design
Actual education at the Xavier School
Wolverine’s assorted children
The best hair in the X-Men
NEXT EPISODE: Cannonball dies (briefly)!
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58 min
March 05, 2018187 – Mermaids at the Center of Time
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which Lee Forrester deserved better; we have somehow made 187 of these; Bizarre Adventures is accurately named; the Grey sisters do not steal a yacht; trite jerks are doubly offensive; Black Panther is everything and you should go see it right now; Namor has a type; Attuma reads like an import from Game of Thrones; Florida is the Australia of North America; Iceman has a good weekend; half of the Vanisher materializes in Poughkeepsie; and Jay’s mom is the best Cable.
X-PLAINED:
What Lee Forester has been up to
How this happened
Bizarre Adventures #27
The not-particularly-secret lives of the X-Men
Jay’s Book of Irrelevant Headcanon
“The Brides of Attuma”
Sara Grey
Several incidents in the life of Jean Grey
A plan as ineffectual as it is dastardly
“Winter Carnival”
“Titan Up the Defense”
The peculiar predominance of ice sculpture in the Marvel Universe
Bubba
The Apple Profile
Festive bandits
A heist
A very fancy cane
“Show Me the Way to Go Home”
Nightcrawler’s favorite movie
The Count Duckula theme song
Some very friendly ladies
ECCC cosplay
Sev the Oracle
Whether Buffy is a Summers sibling
Whom we would merge with cosmic forces
The Queen of Nevers
NEXT EPISODE: Live at Emerald City Comic Con!
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1 hr 6 min
February 26, 2018186 – Right in the Melee
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which you are the wind beneath our wings; Sunfire doesn’t quit the team even once; the X-Men do “Judgment War,” kinda; Iceman’s clothes are mostly incidental; Mikhail Rasputin is a surprisingly accomplished vintner; Colossus has a bad day; Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau is a core value; and we are REALLY excited about our plans for Emerald City Comic Con!
X-PLAINED:
Colossus vs. Breakworld
Jay & Miles at Emerald City Comic Con
Uncanny X-Men #284-286
“Judgment War”-Lite
Byrne burns
The collective noun for Edidins
Sunfire’s new threads
The evolution of Whilce Portacio
Emma Frost’s dropped plot threads
Iceman fashion (or lack thereof)
Sha-har-a-zath
The Savior
A mysterious vintner
Archangel’s hair
Mikhail Rasputin
Space-Person disambiguation
Peril and the vanquishing thereof
The continuing adventures of the XSE
Chuck Cherkle
Sara Gray’s unrealized potential
The Great Excalibur Bake-Off
NEXT EPISODE: Bizarre Adventures #127
COME SEE US AT EMERALD CITY COMIC CON, MARCH 1-4, IN SEATTLE!
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59 min
February 19, 2018185 – Becoming Wolverine (feat. Tom Taylor)
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which All-New Wolverine and X-Men Red writer Tom Taylor joins us to talk friendship, heroism, pelican statues, and how to build on legacy without being bogged down by it.
X-PLAINED
The epic awesomeness of Gabrielle Kinney
All-New Wolverine
The evolution of Best Wolverine
Character-first story
Family
X-Men Red
Finding Jean Grey’s voice
Gentle (Nezhno Abidemi)
Transcending the Silver Age
Laura Kinney in Logan
Wolverine-style brain surgery
Editing down to the bones
Tom’s comfort reads
Secret origins of Tom Taylor
Writing like a street performer
Koalas vs. reavers
NEXT EPISODE: The Boringest Rasputin
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1 hr 2 min
February 12, 2018184 – Sweetcakes
David is still on vacation. Please enjoy this reasonable gentleman and his fancy accoutrements!
In which the 616 was inside Age of X all along; everyone is very sassy; an attempt at political commentary falls very flat; Wolfsbane kills a straw man; everything is better with Larry Stroman; the Rule of Cool is not transitive; X-Factor Quicksilver is the best Quicksilver; and some allegories are subtler than others.
X-PLAINED:
How to hide a universe
Bees
“War and Pieces”
X-Factor #76-78
The Incredible Hulk #390-392
Open-ended vs. trade pacing
Rick Jones, professional tag-along
Trans-Sabal
The Eisenhower Doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine
The ethics of cannibalism
Fictional pigeon aficionados
As story that isn’t about abortion but is definitely about abortion
X-Factor vs. due process
A very hazardous game of tug-of-war
Gratuitous X-planation
An unnecessary but well-intended rescue attempt
The death of Vic Chalker
Irresponsible parenting
The second generation of mutants
NEXT EPISODE: Tom Taylor talks X-Men Red and All-New Wolverine!
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1 hr 13 min
February 05, 2018183 – Mutant Death Factor
David is on vacation this week! We hope you enjoy this substitute illustration of two gentlemen enjoying each other’s company.
In which Miles is almost caught up on The Gifted (but still hasn’t seen The Prisoner and should be very ashamed of himself); Omega Red is a cool action figure but a boring character; Professor Xavier definitely knows what you did last night; Fenris remains delightfully trashy; Weapon X had an improbably high survival rate; Sabretooth cleans up pretty well; we need to work some new rules for dividing up character voices; the Mojoverse has terrible employee benefits; and mongoose blood will definitely not give you superpowers.
X-PLAINED:
Refugees from the Age of Apocalypse
Creative use of teleportation
X-Modifiers
Jay & Miles at Emerald City Comic Con
X-Men vol. 2 #4-7
The sitcom model of creative logistics
One way to bring someone back to life
Mutant Death Factor
Omega Red (Arkady Gregorivich)
Wolverine’s school pictures
Gambit’s ponytail and the logistics thereof
Sex at the X-Mansion
Fenris fashion
Ritualistic facepalming
Moira MacTaggert’s nightmares
Formalwear and motorcycle safety
An elegantly choreographed cockblock
Retracting tentacle logistics
Carbonadium synthesizers
Dr. Pepper Twizzlers
Ponytails as moral compasses
Sabretooth’s excellent taste in formalwear
Ornithology
Those big, weird tube handcuff things
Cyclops and Wolverine’s eventual friendship
The return of Longshot
What would happen if you gave a human a transfusion of mongoose blood
Some X-Cellent fanfiction
X-details we’d change
NEXT EPISODE: X-Factor Meets the Hulk!
Special thanks to consulting X-Pert and Actual Scientist Dr. Lauriel Earley!
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1 hr 14 min
January 29, 2018182 – Lunch With Technet
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which Alan Davis spins dangling plot threads into gold; comics artists are storytellers; Technet is a feature, not a bug; Brian Braddock’s issues reach their boiling point; if you’re going to learn about Earth from TV, you should probably stick with PBS; and our Lila Cheney t-shirts are officially canon!
X-PLAINED:
An unlikely alliance
Jay & Miles at Emerald City Comic Con
Alan Davis’s return to Excalibur
Excalibur #42-44
Breakfast with Excalibur
Hard-Boiled Henry
Horatio Cringebottom
Bert
Earth-148 (Ee’rath)
Kylun (Colin McKay)
Unlikely houseguests
A romance
A fracas
The trial of Captain Britain
Multiversal moral relativity
Micromax (Scott Wright)
Lunch with Technet
Why public television funding is important
How Shadowcat’s phasing interacts with extreme temperatures
Our opinions on X-Men: Gold Annual #1
NEXT EPISODE: Omega Red!
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57 min
January 22, 2018181 – Badgers Everywhere
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which X-Force is the cotton candy of comics; Jay & Miles overanalyze; eye spots are not the new domino masks; Feral is all about some murder; Black Tom and Juggernaut remain a delightful criminal power couple; Siryn’s costume is on point; over the edge is where we live; Jay gets briefly and intensely into Todd McFarlane; nothing will convince us that Fabian Nicieza did not know exactly what he was doing; and Kelly Thompson is a national treasure.
X-PLAINED:
Rumekistan
X-Force #1-4
Spider-Man #16
Leaping, both literal and metaphorical
Cannonball
Boom Boom
Cable
Domino
Warpath
Feral
Shatterstar
Siryn (Theresa Cassidy) (again)
MLF
The second and third-best-selling issues of all time
The Profit$
A very violent catchphrase
Chalet Shwartzkopf
Power Poses™ with Gideon™
The All-New, All-Different Weapon X (Garrison Kane)
6-Pack
Good vs. Awesome
George Washington Bridge
A moment so dramatic that it produces a second Shatterstar in a single panel
Some sports stuff, kind of
Uncomfortable anachronism
The stylistic necessity of healing factors
Marvel Unlimited view options
Rogue and Gambit
NEXT EPISODE: The not remotely triumphant return of Technet!
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1 hr
January 15, 2018180 – Lawful Badass
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which Jay is deeply invested in The Gifted; Trevor Fitzroy is generally inexcusable; there are a lot of reasons to be uncomfortable in the Hellfire Club; the mix just got altered in this little clambake; Jean Grey (kind of) dies (again); Earth-1191 gives the Age of Apocalypse some glam competition; Lucas Bishop is a pretty decent metaphor for fan culture; everyone is probably Kang the Conqueror; and now Miles really has no excuse for not watching The Prisoner.
X-PLAINED:
The Chronomancer and his Chronobots
The Gifted
Lucas Bishop’s creative origins
Trevor Fitzroy
Goatee Theory
X-Factor #67
Uncanny X-Men #281-283
Dapper Lesbian Shinobi Shaw
A briefly useful mnemonic
Cybernetic fuckboys
The return of Warren Kenneth Worthington III’s hair
Beef and Bevatron
The deaths of the Hellions
Warhammer
Some of the challenges of X-Plaining the ’90s
Bringing a knife to a Sentinel fight
Bantam
A bunch of bad guys from the future
Bishop
Randall
Malcolm
Earth-1191
The Gamemaster
X-Men we’d like to see come out as trans (revisited)
Whether either or both of us are Kang the Conquerer
NEXT EPISODE: Pouches and Guns
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1 hr 6 min