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    Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

    Because It’s About Time Someone Did

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    422 – Cairn Touch This Aug 28, 2023
    Show notes

    In which the X-Men’s membership is a complicated subject; not all angels know each other; we need to talk about Beast’s Wasp costume; Cecilia Reyes speaks for all reasonable folk; Storm gets a mysterious package; and reading comics day-and-date may not be for everyone.

    X-PLAINED:

    • The variable loyalties of the N’garai
    • X-Men #74-76
    • A somewhat atypical team lineup
    • A whole lotta backstory
    • How to join the X-Men
    • Warren Kenneth Worthington III as a religious figure
    • Flechette clean-up
    • Teenage drama
    • Detective Jim Logan
    • A lot of murder
    • The N’garai
    • Beast’s Wasp costume
    • Explanatory captions for real life
    • The Ru’tai
    • Pilgrimm
    • Mai’Keth the Undying One
    • The Eye of Kierokk
    • Maggott’s secret origins
    • X-Men cartoons for a 7-year-old
    • Reckoning with loss in comics

    NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur rushes toward its conclusion

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    421 – Dudleyworld or Bust Aug 21, 2023
    Show notes

    In which one letter can make a big difference; it’s just not Arcade without giant pinballs; Colossus is nobody’s fool; Margali Szardos is not a relative you want to stay in touch with; Nightcrawler turns to the jerk side; and Jay and Miles pitch an X-Men kids’ show.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Elisabeth Wilford vs. Elizabeth Wilford
    • Colossus #1
    • X-Men Unlimited #19
    • How to name a miniseries or one-shot
    • The destructive potential of happiness
    • A clock
    • An inaccurate duplicate of Avalon
    • The return of the Proletarian
    • Costumes with characters’ faces on them
    • Death by irony
    • A journey to Limbo
    • Several blasts from the past
    • Margali Szardos’s head
    • Foreshadowing that we desperately wish had panned out
    • Cold open curation
    • A hypothetical X-Men show for five-year-olds

    NEXT EPISODE: The secret origin of Maggott

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    420 – The Legendary House of Wolverine, feat. Christopher Michael Roman Aug 14, 2023
    Show notes

    In which Jay sits down with scholar Christopher Michael Roman to discuss his recent book, Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction: A Fastball Special; alongside queer theory, porous bodies, and nontraditional mentorship.

    CONTENT NOTE: This episode includes graphic discussions of physical trauma as well as consensual if weird fictional sex.

    NEXT EPISODE: Colossus and Meggan finally go to Dudleyworld, sort of!

    No visual companion this week, but if you want to pick up Chris’s book, you can do that here!

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    419 – Stuff Happens Jul 30, 2023
    Show notes
    Run, Penance! The retcons are coming for you! (Generation X #40)

    In which the St. Croix family is constructed largely of retcons; Generation X adjusts surprisingly quickly to a massive status quo shift; Psi-War is coming soon to a podcast near you; Snow White – I mean, Bianca LaNeige – has an intriguing but exceptionally minimal backstory; and if you die in this podcast episode, you die in real life.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Hellfire Club history
    • Generation X #40-43
    • MillXnials
    • Mercy General Hospital vs Our Mother of Mercy Hospital
    • Ambiguous psionic overlap
    • Nicole & Claudette & Monet & Marius St. Croix
    • The Downtown Stomp
    • Synch, agreeable and bland (for now)
    • Vincent Adultman
    • The nature of Penance
    • A glacial but effective pace
    • Bianca LaNeige, evil Snow White from space
    • Warpy, Stinky, Spiky, Windy, Greasy, Brainy, and Blurry
    • The Enchanted Forest of Oregon
    • Claremont:Body Swaps::Hama:Getting Stuck In Other Dimensions
    • Jay vs. Accents
    • Terminal Dream Syndrome
    • A surprisingly gruesome fill-in
    • An underrated era for Emma Frost
    • Betty & Veronica, presenting like mandrills
    • Zak the Neutrino
    • Albert & Elsie-Dee (briefly)
    • The Dodsons vs Mike Allred
    • Dr. Bronner’s uncredited Marvel career
    • Our coverage of Ultimate X-Men (or lack thereof)
    • Dr. Phil Zimbardo’s xplainthexmen study

    NEXT EPISODE: Queering Wolverine with Dr. Christopher Michael Roman!

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    418 – Reignfirefighters Jul 24, 2023
    Show notes

    In which S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are scarier in suits; Reignfire is the new Erik the Red; “background assets” would be a very funny euphemism; it’s always either time travel or clones; and you should probably not get a corporate logo tattooed on the side of your head.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Crimes of Dark Beast
    • X-Force #77-80
    • The Mutant Liberation Front
    • Reignfire (repeatedly)
    • Video Renaissance
    • Almost Reno, NM
    • The inversion of several common tropes
    • Small towns
    • Different kinds of mutants
    • X-Force Fun Facts
    • Skids (Sally Blevins)
    • Several continuity errors
    • Some kidnappings
    • Sexiness without prurience
    • Background assets
    • Dr. Joshua (again)
    • (Henry Wallinger)
    • Psychic shenanigans
    • Las Vegas
    • Word-balloon disambiguation
    • X-Force’s new HQ
    • Historical X-Men we’d like to see

    NEXT EPISODE: Generation X and the Seven Dwarves

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    417 – Pterodactyl with a Gun Jul 17, 2023
    Show notes

    In which you, too, can use Cerebro; Jubilee is here, for some reason; the Xavier School should absolutely not be accredited; Hulk Hands would solve many of Rogue’s problems; Sauron gets a gun; Psylocke pulls a Lois Lane maneuver; you really shouldn’t spring a Phoenix costume on anybody; Joseph has (another) identity crisis; and Canada has problems.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Miles at SDCC
    • Uncanny X-Men #353-355
    • X-Men #73
    • A running motif
    • Wolverine’s sons
    • Margaret Stone
    • “fun”
    • The location of the original X-jet
    • A red herring
    • Sauron (more) (again)
    • Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy… in space!
    • How to ship a pterodactyl
    • Mighty appendages
    • The Agee Institute
    • Boundaries
    • Wallpaper
    • Joseph (more) (again)
    • New Year’s Resolutions
    • Sebastian Shaw and his wraith buddy (again)
    • The X-Men’s answering machine
    • What Wolverine does
    • Alpha Flight
    • Canada problems
    • A crossover
    • Phoenix problems
    • Jean Grey’s ‘90s costume
    • Found families
    • What makes the Dark Phoenix Saga an X-Men story

    NEXT EPISODE: Reignfire, resolved!

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    416 – The Screaming Room Jul 03, 2023
    Show notes

    In which we are incapable of X-Plaining the Great Lakes Avengers; Pete Wisdom evolves; Douglock hacks the island; Nightcrawler cosplays Nightcrawler; and we find ourselves bafflingly defensive of the Bamfs.

    X-PLAINED:

    • How to recruit Unus the Untouchable to your super-team
    • What Excalibur has been up to
    • Excalibur #118-120
    • An excellent use of danger room technology
    • Some fairly deft metacommentary
    • Colossus vs. another tree
    • Bamfs and the character assassination thereof
    • Nightmare
    • Characterization via lettering
    • Several nightmare scenarios
    • Pete Wisdom vs. Nightmare
    • Meggan’s true form (again)
    • A poorly conceived romantic gesture
    • Foreshadowing
    • Relative Bamf quality
    • Other Marvel villains we’d like to see menace the X-Men
    • Our thoughts on Legion and The Gifted

    NEXT EPISODE: A pterodactyl with a gun!

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    415 – Stardust Jun 26, 2023
    Show notes

    In which Gambit does Stardust; Wilbur Weston holds no one’s redemption; Gambit is unequivocally bisexual; Lucifer is kinda goofy; and we still don’t know what’s in the box.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Family businesses
    • Gambit vol. 2 #1-4
    • What Gambit’s been up to
    • Some peculiar parallels
    • Father Miguel Bonavita
    • Sister Katrina
    • Father Marcelo
    • A box
    • Tante Mattie Baptiste
    • Olivier Stoker and/or Lucifer
    • Fancy captions
    • The Cross of Redemption
    • Anielle, who may or may not Hanael and may or may not also be a fallen star and/or angel
    • Gambit’s subconscious
    • Octopus Gambit
    • The Grigori
    • Sibyl
    • Cerberus
    • Wormwood
    • Pew surfing
    • CyberFork
    • Spitting locusts, sadly
    • A bad take on the trolley problem
    • An ambiguous ending
    • A pecular transition
    • Genre displacement
    • Warlock as a form of art
    • Elon Musk’s closest X-villain analog

    NEXT EPISODE: Dark night of the Bamf!

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    414 – Blackwater Boy Band Jun 19, 2023
    Show notes

    In which Wild Child makes an unlikely Santa Claus; Sabretooth champions continuity; Random’s last name should’a been Violence; Forge doesn’t have to like you; and Mackie’s X-Factor run gets interesting—right before its untimely end.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Another X-Factor
    • X-Factor #142-145
    • Unrealized anticipation
    • Deadline
    • What Val Cooper wants for Christmas
    • The evolutionary symbolism of noses
    • Several breeds of dog
    • The secret history of Val Cooper and Wild Child
    • Wildheart
    • The Secret Empire
    • The X.U.E. (more) (again)
    • Ice skating, interrupted
    • Another cool way to draw Havok’s powers
    • A clever retcon
    • The X-Factor that might have been
    • Greystone’s origins
    • Micah
    • A temple of doom
    • The hierarchy of cool skulls
    • Branching timelines and the implications thereof
    • An Alex Summers / Moira MacTaggert chimera

    NEXT EPISODE: Gambit, again.

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    413 – Convergence (feat. Douglas Wolk) Jun 05, 2023
    Show notes

    In which X-Force goes to Burning Man Exploding Colossal Man; Douglas Wolk may or may not have superpowers; Karma gets girlfriends; we are already tired of Reignfire; Meltdown and Sunspot initiate a love triangle; and Jay is writing some more X-Men.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Road trips
    • X-Force #75-76
    • New Mutants vol. 4 #30
    • A gatefold and a half
    • Burning Man
    • Exploding Colossal Man
    • Karma’s name
    • Echidna Faire
    • Text
    • Selene (more) (again)
    • Crowd scenes
    • Various character relationships
    • Callbacks
    • Mud
    • A magic box and a fancy stick
    • Eitri the Dwarf
    • A grand conjunction
    • A big, silly fight
    • Peak late ‘90s queer culture
    • Echidna Faire
    • Bowling
    • Etienne Rousseau
    • Updating Bastion’s facial hair
    • Wolverine’s mentees

    NEXT EPISODE: The beginning of the end of X-Factor

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