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- 317 – Acquaintances of HumanityIn which Nicholas Cage is more of a concept than a human being; Rogue’s angst-fueled road trip continues; Gambit and Sinister have complementary aesthetics; there are a lot of Guthries; the Trasks are never up to any good; and whether or not it is canon, Ghost Rider has definitely teamed up with Johnny Cash. X-PLAINED: * Ghost Rider (film) * Nicholas Cage * Rogue and Gambit * X-Men #45 * Uncanny X-Men #326 * Uncanny X-Men Annual 1995 * A gratuitous gatefold * Alliteration vs. consonance * Osmium * Fancy captions * Aesthetics * Shorts * Gambit vs. Sabretooth * Questionable medical policy * AIDS and the Legacy Virus, revisited * Humanity’s Last Stand * Guthries * Preacher * The evolution of killer robots * Superhero-musician team-ups * Otherworld vs. the M’Kraan crystal NEXT EPISODE: THE LEPRECHAUNS RETURN The visual companion to this episode will be up later this week. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!0 comments0
- 316 – Return to Megalopolis: At the Movies with the New MutantsIn which we review the New Mutants’ film debut. NEXT EPISODE: Rogue, Gambit, and feelings! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!0 comments0
- Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men Nov 29 · 53m HAWK TALK – Surviving the (Holiday) ExperienceThis 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 holidays, winter and otherwise. Topics, roughly: * Time, which used to make sense * Several holidays and feelings, media, and traditions related thereto * Flash Gordon * Mixed-faith families * A New York Christmas Wedding (the lesbian time travel gay dead baby angel movie) * Gingerbread * Secular rituals * Night in the Woods: Lost Constellation * The Dark is Rising (again) * The Spirit of Christmas (which is to say, exploding) * J. Michael Strazynski’s The Real Ghostbusters * Community‘s first three holiday specials * Justice League: Comfort & Joy * Passover and that time Moses gave Pharaoh a frog * Passover and Miles trying very hard to play it cool * Chocolate bunny funerals * Easter basket comics * Being excellent to each other and partying on Links and further reading: * In Defense of Humbug by Jay Smooth0 comments0
- 315 – Theater Is DeadIn which Jay and/or patriarchy ruin everything; Archangel is dubiously aspirational; we need a moratorium on Jack the Ripper stories; there are a lot of Masterminds; and Arcade is a whole bundle of psychosexual weirdness. X-PLAINED: * Tom Malverne (Jack the Ripper) * Lunch * Wolverine and Gambit: Victims #1-4 * Loeb & Sale * Jack the Ripper in fiction * Alexandra Davies * Fun on international flights * That one time Jay thought the NSA was going to come for him * Martinique Wyngarde (Mastermind II) * Mastermind, Mastermind, and Lady Mastermind disambiguation * Collateral damage * Various Dies Hard * Several heists * Several hallucinations * Variations on the death of Miss Locke * Problematic third brothers NEXT EPISODE: Hawk Talk! Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!0 comments0
- 314 – Feelings, AlaskaIn which Haven deserved better; Cyclops and Havok have a lot of feelings in Alaska; X-Factor is the cop team; breaking up with your girlfriend between issues is a massive faux pas; Haven got a bad deal; no one cares about Random’s feelings; Spiral is weird Twitter; and Alex Summers once again fails to finish his dissertation. X-PLAINED: * Chaos (Daniel Dash) * Pie * Power suits vs. power suits * X-Factor #115-118 * Haven (more) (again) * The Adversary (more) (again) * Naze (more) (again) * Several people who may or may not be holograms * One of Jay’s all-time-favorite single issues * Howard Mackie * Wally Wood’s 22 Panels * The Summers Family plane crash * Cyclops and Havok’s relationship * Havok’s Silver Age origins * Trans readings of Alex Summers * Shard (more) (again) * Canadian drama * A trap * The return of Random * Roma (again) * Mojoworlders on social media * Which X-teens should be audience surrogates in a new animated series NEXT EPISODE: Wolverine & Gambit! Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!0 comments0
- 313 – IguanafallIn which sky pirates are the best pirates; Wolverine eats chicken in the woods; Xavier’s area loses its status as our least favorite panel; Cable is suspiciously credulous; we search in vain for a consistent metaphor; Storm has a thing or two to learn about restorative justice; and this entire miniseries should probably just have been an annual. X-PLAINED: * Storm’s pirate adventures * Storm #1-4 * Mark Trail * The Morlocks (more) (again) * Unacceptable gradients * Butt murder * Fashion * Several memes of yesteryear * Product placement * The new Worst Panel * Several variations on the Ceremony of Light * How not to identify a body * The Hill (Limbo) * “Daddy” * The inconsistent portrayals of Mikhail Rasputin * Still more members of Gene Nation * A new costume * The most obscure stories we’ve covered * That time Wolverine at his own arm NEXT EPISODE: Jay’s favorite issue of X-Factor (and some others)! Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!0 comments0
- 312 – Something Amazing Had to Be Done, feat. Bob ProehlIn which author Bob Proehl joins Jay to discuss the Resonant Duology and what it means to write original work rooted visibly in the X-universe! More Bob: * Website * Twitter No visual companion this week, because we’re talking about word books! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!0 comments0
- 311 – Love Makes a Super-TeamIn 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 NEXT EPISODE: Bob Proehl X-Plains the Resonant Duology! Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!0 comments0
- Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men Oct 12 · 57m 310 – Attack and Dethrone GodIn 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 Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!0 comments0
- HAWK TALK – HawktoberThis 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 drinks0 comments0
- 309 – Excellent TurtleIn 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! Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!0 comments0
- 308 – No Story Is the Whole StoryIn 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! No visual companion this week; see above for links! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!0 comments0
- 307 – Ugly Mootants OnlyIn 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! Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!0 comments0
- HAWK 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!0 comments0
- Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men Aug 31 · 56m 306 – Between Here and ThereIn 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 Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!0 comments0
- 305 – The Sleep of the WickedIn 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! Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!0 comments0
- 304 – Explosive OpsIn 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 Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!0 comments0
- HAWK TALK – Video RenaissanceThis 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 the movies we grew up on! Topics, roughly: * The glories of VHS * Flight of Dragons * Fantastic Planet * Star(s), both Wars and Trek * The Princess Bride, which is objectively perfect * The Dark Crystal * My Dinner With Andre (again) * The Crow * Barbarella, Queen of the Galaxy * Help * Yellow Submarine * Wayne & Garth & Bill & Ted * Defending Your Life * Ghostbusters * Various musicals0 comments0
- 303 – No Simple Answers, feat. Laura HudsonIn which writer and editor Laura Hudson joins us as we take a break from X-Men comics to discuss the complicated ethics of consuming and covering comics by creators we’re not comfortable promoting. LINKS: * Read more of Laura’s work! * We were going to discuss this very germane Orwell essay but ran out of time. * CW: Description and discussion of abuse and harassment: * So Many of Us * An overview of some of the Lobdell allegations and Jay’s response to 2013 discussion of same. No visual companion to this one, for obvious reasons; see the links listed above. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!0 comments0
- 302 – Space JunkIn which you should probably not mess with space junk; Exodus is terrible at many things; Rusty Collins deserved better; X-Men #100 references are dirty (but effective) pool; Magneto goes through a lot of orbital bases; Nate Grey makes things worse; Frenzy is generally the most competent member of any team she’s on; and we sincerely regret not making more Satellite of Love jokes about Avalon. X-PLAINED: * Consequences * The foundations of Onslaught * X-Men #42-44 * The Acolytes (more) (again) and several members thereof * How not to toast * Milan * A teleportation incident * Juggernaut problems * A break-in * Several things not to do in space * Prioritizing problems * A very dramatic confrontation * X-Men #100 references * An extremely counterintuitive use of Amelia Voght’s powers * The return of Cyclops’s castaway uniform * A reluctant team-up * Cyclops as catalyst vs. focus * An unexpected reunion * Marrow * Determining characters’ ages * Dazzler’s powers NEXT EPISODE: The ethical tangle of creators, creations, consumers, and critics, with guest Laura Hudson Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!0 comments0
- Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men Jul 20 · 1h 8m 301 – Can’t Beat the Real ThingIn which we enter our fourth century of podcasting with brand new theme music; we have both Wolverine questions and wolverine questions; it is extremely rough to be Bishop; the creator of Garfield may or may not live in a sewer on Earth-616; Rogue needs better coping mechanisms; bigotry is depressingly timeless; and everything is Onslaught now. X-PLAINED: * Joseph’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants * Our new theme music * X-Men Prime #1 * A genuinely cool cover gimmick * What happened after the end of the world * Boundaries * War crimes vs. fashion crimes * Destruction of real landmarks in fiction * A mysterious assailant * Actual embodied chaos god Jim Davis and his Earth-616 namesake * Several memorable Garfield stories * Marrow (Sarah Rushman) * The secret origin of the Morlocks * A friendship we miss * Unhealthy coping mechanisms * The perennially dubious journalistic ethics of Trish Tilby * Dennis * The death of Dennis * Flaws of the mutant metaphor (more) (again) * Several refugees from Earth-295 * Mr. Summers and Mr. Summers * The secret origin of the Genoshan mutates * The Acolytes * The continuing relevance of the mutant metaphor (more) (again) * Cross-universe characterization NEXT EPISODE: The fall of Avalon! NOTE: The Garfield strips Jay mentions appeared in newspapers, on purpose, in October 1989. Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!0 comments0
- HAWK TALK – Attack of the Franchise CartoonsThis 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 the television shows we grew up on (and a few current ones)! Topics, roughly: * Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood * Masters of the Universe * She-Ra * The Real (vs. non-Real) Ghostbusters * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles * Little Shop of Horrors * Beetlejuice * Toxic Crusaders * Attack of the Killer Tomatoes * The Adventures of Pete & Pete (and the not-so-secret origin of this podcast) * Les Schtroumpfs (and the time they maybe fought Satan) * Batman: The Animated Series * X-Men: The Animated Series * X-Men: Evolution * Wolverine & the X-Men * The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour * The X-Files * Star Trek: Voyager * Earth 2 * VR5 * M.A.N.T.I.S. * The Simpsons * Daria * Tuca & Bertie * Gravity Falls * Over the Garden Wall You can check out Waiting for October, our zine based on The Adventures of Pete & Pete, on Gumroad!0 comments0
- 300 – GötterdämmerungIn which the Age of Apocalypse comes to an end; Angel briefly lives up to his potential; Bishop was sometimes right; It’s not a climactic ending without an X-Men #137 reference; Colossus breaks our hearts; X-Men: Marvels Snapshot will be out in September; and somehow we have made 300 of these things. X-PLAINED: * Beast vs. Dark Beast * X-Men: Omega * The entirety of the (first) Age of Apocalypse * Potpourri vs. incense * Dramatic hair * Many, many errors * Unforeseen consequences * A long-anticipated team-up * Many deaths * Art as artifact * Narration that has haunted Jay for 20 years * One of the more persistent deaths of David Haller * Blast Attack * The end of a world * Refugees from the Age of Apocalypse * Our favorite X-milestone issues * Theoretical teams * Orphans * When X-Men: Marvels Snapshot is actually coming out * Our favorite show bits * How Jay’s chickens-in-law are doing NEXT EPISODE: X-Men Prime Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!0 comments0
- 299 – Toaster Ovens of the GodsIn which some universes are more pleasant than others; Havok is basically a Care Bear; Wolverine is a P.R. nightmare; Nate Grey tries; stealth is not among the Silver Surfer’s strengths; Night Thrasher ascends to godhood; Jay and Miles dive down the What If rabbit hole. X-PLAINED: * Earth-200500 (again) * Earth-42409 * What If? vol. 2 #77 * What If? Featuring X-Men: Age of Apocalypse * What If? vol. 2 #81 * Earth-77995 * Fashion editorials * One of the worse versions of Forge * Superheroes x fashion * Care Bears vs. X-Men * The Hellfire Club of Earth-77995 * A surprisingly normal Grey-Summers family * Several uses for the Phoenix Force * Worst-case scenarios * Earth-93074 * Savage Land home ec * Bad choices * The Defenders of Earth-93074 * How to manipulate Nate Grey * Narrative benefits of omnipotence * A time loop * Earth-9601 * A meeting on the moon * What the Watcher watches * Galactus * The Silver Surfer * Grandpa Magneto * Some remarkable technology * A heavy-handed metaphor * Our takes on What If scenarios * The Corbeau-Grey scale of decision making * Storm’s eyes * Our character voices NEXT EPISODE: X-Men Omega Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop! This June, we’ll be donating all of the profits to Trans Lifeline!0 comments0
- 298 – Unlikely AvengersIn which the moments of X-Universe are better than the whole; the code name “Dirigible” carries some inherent risks; Tony Stark is often more interesting without Iron Man; Clint Barton is no James Rhodes; there is somehow a Matt Murdock who makes even worse choices than the one from Earth-616; nobody should ever trust Mikhail Rasputin; and the baby’s name really doesn’t matter. X-PLAINED: * J. Jonah Jameson’s stance on mutants * A way to get cool stuff AND support Trans Lifeline * X-Universe #1-2 * Gwen Stacy (Earth-295) * Some really obnoxious white savior tropes * The Marauders (Earth-295) * How to waste Arcade * Spider-nostalgia * Owl noises * Tony Stark (Earth-295) * Clint Barton and/or James Rhodes (Earth-295) * Dr. Donald Blake (Earth-616) * Dr. Donald Blake (Earth-295) * Blark * Mikhail Rasputin (Earth-295) * Ship, but not Ship * Ben Grimm (Earth-295) * Sue Storm (Earth-295) * Bruce Banner (Earth-295) * A great many overplayed references * Matt Murdock (Earth-295) * Manuel de la Rocha (Earth-295) * Victor Von Doom (Earth-295) * Marte and Rafe McGuffin * The Upscale Program * A very hazardous plan * The Stryfe Force * The dreams of Donald Blake * A red herring named Frankie * Augmented humans in a mutant-centric world * How Wolverine communicates with animals * How Professor X lost his hair NEXT EPISODE: What-ifs and might-have-beens! Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! 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! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop! This June, we’ll be donating all of the profits to Trans Lifeline!0 comments0
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