Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

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June 30, 2024454 – X-Men ’97, Part 2
SPOILER WARNING: ALL OF THEM, NONSTOP
In which Barry Windsor-Smith is too sexy for television; we know what happens when unstable molecules get struck by lightning; X-Men gets political and does it spectacularly; this Captain America would not sew the cape; Magneto continues to throw things into space; and they kissed and we missed it.
X-PLAINED:
Fabian Cortez’s name
X-Men ’97 episodes 6-10
Lifedeath I & II: a surprising adaptation
Varying levels of going in blind
A somewhat different and possibly better Forge
The Adversary vs. the Owl Queen
Stormiest and least-Stormy costumes
Professor Charles Xavier, Official Space Boyfriend
Colonialism vs. Identity
Delayed catharsis
The narrative power of altered opening credits
What makes allyship effective (and not)
Justified mutant anger
The worst version of Nina DaCosta
What makes Prime Sentinels scary
Summers family feels
The best damned fight scenes out there
Bastion, robo-avatar of conservative white patriarchy
Simultaneous crossovers
A psychic gay bar
A last boss arena
Acolyte equivalencies
Phoenix Ex Machina
Crying
Whether Magneto was right
Apoca-futures and Apoca-pasts
A bulletin board and our hopes for its contents
Soft Serve
Kitty Pryde’s coffee shop AU
X-Men ’97 as the perfect gateway
NEXT EPISODE: Skrulls!
LINKS AND FURTHER READING:
The Judgment of Magneto by Asher Elbein
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1 hr 7 min
June 24, 2024453 – X-Men ’97, Part 1
SPOILER WARNING: ALL OF THEM, NONSTOP
In which we put the comics on hold to take a look at X-Men ’97; it is still always Inferno in here; Wolverine is best used sparingly; a Marvel show finally embraces politics; Wolverine is best in small doses; Madeylne Pryor still always deserves better; Jubilee grows up; and we are all in on this series.
X-PLAINED:
“Beyond Good and Evil”
X-Men: The Animated Series and our respective feelings about it
X-Men ’97, episodes 1-5
Watching X-Men ’97 with and without context
Making animated Cyclops work
The Magneto’s-hair-length morality index
Politics
Voices
Adaptation pacing
Agency
Abcissa
Foreshadowing
Time compression
Horniest Rogue
Death in cartoons
A metaphor
Nonbinary identity in 1997
Character evolution
NEXT EPISODE: Episodes 6-10
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1 hr 9 min
June 10, 2024452 – Hot Nothing
In which Magneto is not full of mirth; nobody real or fictional likes Fabian Cortez; when you’re a speedster, every problem is a metaphorical nail; The Zealot makes some valid points; and when Quicksilver declares himself your conscience, it’s time to examine your life.
X-PLAINED:
How Magneto got his powers back
Morally ambiguous hair
Genosha (more) (again)
Magneto Rex #1-3
Magneto vs. Conan
Trish Tilby
Omniscient narrative condemnation
Magneto’s true archfoe
Magistrates (more) (again)
Mutates (more) (again)
Dr. Alda Huxley
Phillip Moreau (more) (again)
Jenny Ransome (more) (again)
Pipeline (Cormac Grimshaw)
Teleportational nudity
The Zealot
Fabian Cortez (more) (again)
Amelia Voght (more) (again)
Several of Magneto’s on-again-off-again children
The Bastille (but not that one)
Mutant numbering
When to use full frontal nudity in your comic
The X-books we’re not covering
The Amulet of Right vs the Sword of Might
NEXT EPISODE: X-Men ’97!
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1 hr 2 min
June 03, 2024451 – Meanwhile in Another Dimension
In which we remain fascinated by Magneto’s robot butler; murder is Logan’s love language; the Juggernaut punches a hole in reality; Professor Xavier makes it weird; and Storm lectures several gods.
X-PLAINED:
Silly mutant powers
Uncanny X-Men #368-369
X-Men #88
Alan Davis’s X-Men run
Magneto’s robot butler
Joseph’s funeral
Nun-sense
A voyage to another dimension
Eyebrow power
Ejulp
The Trion
The other Gem of Cyttorak that’s like the first one but somehow worse
Several comas
Juggernaut vs. Juggernaut
Evil, kind of
Vacationing with X-Men characters
Illyana Rasputin and Rachel Summers
NEXT EPISODE: Magneto Rex
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47 min
May 27, 2024450 – Live at the Clinton Street Theater
In which we celebrate our tenth anniversary by X-Plaining what may be the most reviled X-arc; you should not try this at home; Mystique is so much better than this story; Azazel is a really boring devil; Nightcrawler should probably be missing a hand; the Xavier School definitely does not have an HR department; and we would prefer that you not pee on Iceman.
X-PLAINED:
Nightcrawler’s (most recent) parentage
Uncanny X-Men #428-434
X-Men Blue: Origins #1
The X-Men, like, in general
Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)
Some narrative choices
Mystique
Baron Christian Wagner
Marvel Europe
Azazel
Church sex
Nightstreaker
Isla des Demonas
Foibles of Warren Kenneth Worthington III
Annie and Carter Ghazikhanian
Abyss
Kiwi Black
The Cheyarafim and Neyaphem
Bad times with psychic therapy
Post-traumatic supervillainy
Uncool Hell
A miracle of magnetism
The only cool thing in Uncool Hell
A very elegant retcon
X-Muppets
Characters who deserve more page space
Miles’s favorite X-Person
What the Worthington Corporation does
A character who could reasonably be Azazel’s kid
NEXT EPISODE: Back to X-business as usual!
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1 hr 26 min
May 13, 2024449 – Dressing the X-Men, with Russell Dauterman
In which artist Russell Dauterman joins us to discuss super-powered costume design!
X-PLAINED:
Why it’s important to get a professional to design your superhero costume
Why Miles doesn’t trust the government
Russell’s history at Marvel
Designing for the Hellfire Gala
Mutant fashion
The word “fashionize”
Iconic looks
Modernizing superhero costumes
Powers vs. personality
Punk goddess Storm
Designing for drawability
Magic hair
Russell’s influences
Definitive Rogue costumes
X-Men ‘97
Best X-team costumes
Jay’s holy grail cosplay
Magic hair, cosplayed
Costume retrospectives
Where to find Russell online
Evil twin trends of the 1990s
Fuck You Pink
NEXT EPISODE: Jay & Miles Live at the Clinton Street Theater!
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1 hr 1 min
May 06, 2024448 – Skamageddon
Feral’s back – just in time to wreck Jay’s voice again! (And Siryn’s, but we’ll get to that later.) (X-Force #88)
In which timeline math is almost never worth it; Tarot comes back from the dead (kind of) (maybe); Magma makes a heel turn; “King Bedlam” would be a great name for a ska band; not every nude man can turn into a bear; and you don’t have to talk to your supervillain relatives.
X-PLAINED:
The Triune Understanding
Birthday party follow-up
X-Force #87-90
Legacy and continuity
Bedlam (Jesse Aaronson)
Tarot (Marie-Ange Colbert)
Goat Simulator
King Bedlam (Christopher Aaronson)
The New Hellions
Perils of body-swapping
Linear time
Science
Armageddon Man
Paradigm
Senator Owen Danville
Family
A fancy hat
Madame Web
Many natural disasters
Early Genoshan history
Longshot as a villain
NEXT EPISODE: Dressing the X-Men with Russell Dauterman!
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56 min
April 29, 2024447 – Minor Altercation of the Mutants
In which everything is an event these days; Skin may or may not have a skeleton; everyone has a crush on Synch; we are intrigued by Integer; and it’s hard to be Emma Frost.
X-PLAINED:
War of the Mutants
Generation X #50
X-Man #50
Nate Grey (again)
Adrienne Frost
Science
Dark Beast (again)
Gene Nation
Vessel
Hemingway
Membrain
Fever Pitch
Dark Opsidian
Iron Maiden
Wynter
Tattoos
More science
Integer
Trauma
Multiversal designations
The Morlock Tunnels
NEXT EPISODE: X-Force vs the New Hellions
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45 min
April 15, 2024446 – Live at the Magnetosphere
Ah, the age-old question: would you scissor your clone while yelling? (Uncanny X-Men #367)
In which the Magneto War comes to a close.
X-PLAINED:
X-Men #86-87
Uncanny X-Men #367
Quite a few other things, which we’ll add to this post tomorrow!
NEXT EPISODE: Nate Grey meets Generation X!
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52 min
April 08, 2024445 – Dick War
In which not every story needs to be an event; Alan Davis returns to the X-line; X-mansion security is not what it once was; Rogue needs some new fantasies; and Magneto wants a country.
X-PLAINED:
A poor governance decision
X-Men: The Magneto War #1
Uncanny X-Men #366
Astral demerits
A very dramatic dream
The yolk of oppression
Several Acolytes
Nightcrawler’s nightcap
Our standards for advertisers
Suburban Magneto
Ferris
Magnet problems
Forged DNA
Mutants from Georgia, Florida, and Indiana
Flying with Storm
NEXT EPISODE: Magneto wins.
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50 min