Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men episodes

March 20, 2017151 – Czars of Kung Fu
Art by David Wynne. Contact David to purchase the original!
In which Laura easily is worth a dozen Old Mans Logan; Charlotte Jones is the EveryCop; Genosha remains a fairly versatile allegory; Hydra are totally Nazis; Jubilee gets the best sound effects; Rogue has a bad day; and it’ll take more than a sun to stop Lila Cheney.
X-PLAINED:
Graydon Creed
Logan oversaturation (more) (again)
Uncanny X-Men #264, 268, 269
A somewhat convoluted status quo
Death by Derrida
New York’s sewers (kind of) (maybe)
The Misty Knight rule
Jackets of the ’90s
Cap’s cape
Mustache metaphysics
The Press Gang (again)
VR.5
The Doctrine of Hot Pursuit
Dazzler, in handy grenade form
A prescient scenario
Jim Lee signature cocktail dresses
A dubious approach to first aid
Wolverine’s sexy friends
Nazi ducks
Seraph
Ivan Petrovitch
Sexy subversion
Rogue vs. Carol Danvers
Mutants vs. the Terrigen Mists
TaXonomy of ambiguously X-characters
NEXT EPISODE: Days of Future Present!
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1 hr 8 min
March 13, 2017150 – Live at ECCC, feat. Dennis Hopeless and Charles Soule
Art by David Wynne. Contact David to purchase the original!
In which writers Dennis Hopeless and Charles Soule join us for a live episode at Emerald City Comic Con, Age of X is the world’s worst morale boost; Charles and Dennis X-Plain the Marvel Universe; we still can’t get Hieronymus Bosch’s X-Men out of our heads; and apparently somehow we’ve recorded and posted 150 of these things.
X-PLAINED:
Age of X
Evil Moira MacTaggert Disambiguation
The post-Secret Wars Marvel Universe
Major X-Men turning points
ResurrXion
Planning events
A profoundly unexpected crossover
Namor’s definitive qualities
Our dream X-creators
Where to find Havok in current comics
Earned deaths
The pronunciations of several words
Teams we’d like to see revived or revisited
NEXT EPISODE: The road to X-Tinction Agenda continues!
No visual companion this week, but wait ’til you see our ECCC photos!
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50 min
March 07, 2017149 – Panning for Callbacks
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In which Old Man Logan is probably better than it deserves to be; Steve McNiven is magical; the post-apocalyptic future probably belongs to the LARPers; Miles’s dad may or may not secretly be Hawkeye; all babies are supervillains; every movie should have a dinosaur chase scene; Emma Frost is our queen forever; and you should never trust a Hitler cosplayer.
X-PLAINED:
Wolverine: Lord of the Vampires
Mark Millar
Wolverine vol. 3 #66-72
Giant-Size Wolverine: Old Man Logan
The Hooded Man
“Old Man Logan” vs. Old Man Logan
The difference between Logan and Wolverine
Old-timey apocalypses
The Hulk Gang
Old Man Hawkeye
The Spider-Buggy
Moloids
Hammer Falls
Ultron-8
Several generations of supervillains
How the world fell under darkness
President Red Skull
Some very cathartic violence
Narrative functions of the rampage
NEXT EPISODE: Live from Emerald City Comic Con, with Dennis Hopeless & Charles Soule!
Special thanks to the Protomen.
The visual companion to this episode will be up when Jay has a working computer charger again.
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1 hr 9 min
February 27, 2017148 – That’s So Ravens
Art by David Wynne. Contact David to purchase the original!
In which Archangel falls in with the LARP crowd; all yuppies are (probably) vampires; Beast is kind of a jerk; there are a lot of reasons to be mad at Forge; and you should totally come hang out with us at ECCC!
X-PLAINED:
A peculiar scheme
X-Factor #54, 56-59
Crimson
The Ravens
A gallery opening
Several varyingly tortured souls
Charlotte Jones (more)
Archangel vs. Archangel’s wings
Ethical reporting
An accidental bank robbery
The return of a long-lost villain
Timmy Jones
NEXT EPISODE: Old Man Logan!
Special thanks to Lillian Cohen-Moore!
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1 hr 7 min
February 20, 2017147 – The Beginning of the End of the Beginning
Art by David Wynne. Buy prints at Redbubble, or contact David to purchase the original!
In which the New Mutants get a new status quo (and new costumes); we have deeply mixed feelings about Rob Liefeld; Cable is the comprehensive sex-ed to Xavier’s staunch denial and Magneto’s abstinence-only; Rictor gets a new dad by right of arms; and you should totally come party with us at Emerald City Comic Con!
X-PLAINED:
Feral Wolverine
Jay & Miles at Emerald City Comic Con
New Mutants #90, 91, 93, and 94
Early Rob Liefeld
Caliban vs. Sabretooth
Vertical spreads
Stately Xavier Ruins
How to confuse Freedom Force
Imaginary fashions of the early ’90s
How Rictor’s father may or may not have died
The New Mutants’ new uniforms
A lovingly-rendered butt
Improv with Apocalypse
The mystery of Rictor’s shirt
Seismic weaving
The Japanese branch of the MLF (Kamikaze, Sumo, and Dragoness)
The Mutual Liberation Front
Diana, Warrior Princess (again)
Several kisses
Sleet
NEXT EPISODE: X-Factor Fights Yuppie LARPers or Something
CORRECTION: In this episode, Jay referred to Bob Harras as Editor-in-Chief of Marvel in 1990. Tom DeFalco was in fact Editor-in-Chief; Harras was the X-Men line editor.
The visual companion to this episode will be up later this week!
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1 hr 10 min
February 13, 2017146 – Asshole Factor (feat. Elisabeth Allie)
Art by David Wynne. Buy prints at Redbubble, or contact David to purchase the original!
In which Elisabeth plans for her reign as Omniversal Majestrix; Hulks and moons are two great tastes that go great together; Nightcrawler takes the lead; Alastair gets a new gadget; it’s just not a cosmic event without Alan Davis; Mastermind is still the absolute worst; Excalibur fixes problems by playing dress-up; Moira MacTaggert desperately needs to hire some staff; and Jamie Braddock is legitimately terrifying.
X-PLAINED:
M’gubgub
Nth Man
Excalibur #25-27
Nova (Frankie Raye)
The continually poor decisions of Brian Braddock
A convergence of cosmic forces
Lumberjack Death
Character growth both literal and metaphorical
A cosmic snit
Asshole Factor
A villainous ruse
Several rounds of reality warping
Definitive incarnations of characters
NEXT EPISODE: Rictor has issues!
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1 hr 15 min
February 06, 2017145 – Remy and ‘Ro
Art by David Wynne. Buy prints at RedBubble, or contact David to purchase the original!
In which Val Cooper remains the club queen of U.S. Intelligence; the Shadow King is a huge jerk; Storm is a badass at any age; Gambit gets off to a surprisingly good start; “flesh and spirit” is the new “body and soul”; and we are guardedly optimistic about an upcoming release.
X-PLAINED:
Unconventional evidence of nefarious influence
Uncanny X-Men #265-267
Storm’s early origins
The Shadow King
Deb Levin
A kind of pointless revenge plot
Trouble in space
A great deal of larceny
Counterintuitive costuming
The debut of Gambit
An unnecessarily complicated plan
Charm, and charm
Regrets
Our thoughts on the upcoming Legion series
NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur meanders, with guest X-Pert Elisabeth Allie!
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1 hr 7 min
January 30, 2017144 – Giant-Size Special #5 (feat. Kid Apocalypse)
Art by David Wynne. Buy prints at Redbubble, or contact David to purchase the original!
In which we get a visit from Kid Apocalypse and debut a track from his upcoming album; Jay No-Prizes Community; Rahne of Terra is pretty damn delightful; Cable is an armchair editor; we finally release the unexpurgated version of Dennis Hopeless’s version of the Noodle Incident; and you remain–to nobody’s surprise–the best listeners of any podcast, ever.
X-PLAINED:
Kid Apocalypse (Quinn Allan)
Portland Snowpocalypse 2017
“Return of the King”
Rapping in character
Beats in the gutters
A vehement defense of Nate Grey
Wolverine: Rahne of Terra
Earth-1991
Geshem
Many puns of varying quality
EiC Cable
A definitely 100% true and accurate explanation of the Noodle Incident
The Third Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
NEXT EPISODE: The debut of Gambit!
In retrospect, we should totally have made reference to the song “Beards Going Nowhere” during our discussion of surfing the timestream on glam hair. We regret the omission.
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1 hr 32 min
January 21, 2017 ***TO ME, MY X-MEN***
We got up to plan for the new episode and decided that if the X-Men stand for anything, it's fighting injustice.

The Winter Special will go up on Sunday, January 29, at which point we'll resume the normal posting schedule.

Meanwhile, we'll see you at the Portland Women's March on Washington.

Love,
J&M
1 min
January 16, 2017143 – Seduction of the Innocent
Art by David Wynne.
In which the Cross-Time Caper has finally outstayed its welcome; we bid a reluctant farewell to Alan Davis; Inferno may or may not finally actually be over; Evil Doug Ramsey rocks our socks; the Shadow King is not a particularly nuanced villain; Kitty Pryde celebrates a birthday; and Courtney Ross represents an awful lot of dangling plot threads.
X-PLAINED:
Nocturne
Excalibur #21-24
The end of the Cross-Time Caper
Post-Alan Davis Excalibur
Chris Wozniak
Crusader X
Earth-2122
How to track Excalibur
Phoenix-related telepathic idiosyncracies
Our general indifference to the Shadow King
An alternate history of Earth-811
Earth-23238
An extended Judge Dredd riff
Puberty
Another John Byrne cameo
Several variations on Courtney Ross
Kitty Pryde’s 15th birthday
Nightcrawler’s beard
The Siege Courageous
NEXT EPISODE: Giant-Size Winter Special, featuring Kid Apocalypse & Dennis Hopeless!
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Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!
We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)
1 hr 3 min