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    Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

    Because It’s About Time Someone Did

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    403 – Sneaky-Peeky Stuff Mar 06, 2023
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    Did the Astral Plane used to be this cramped? (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #3)

    In which Shadowcat gets a new miniseries; people don’t talk that way (but probably should); holograms are magic; the Helicarrier gets possessed; Wolverine fights a computer; and Miles and Al pitch live-action X-series.

    X-PLAINED:
    • Possession
    • Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde) (more) (again)
    • Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1-3
    • A surprising helicopter
    • Frictionless bed sheets
    • S.H.I.E.L.D. vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. vs. S.H.I.E.L.D.
    • The word “obstreperous”
    • The nefarious doings of nasty transom peekers, envelope steamers, and door kickers
    • Larry Hama dialogue
    • Rigby Fallon
    • Yet another return of Ogūn
    • One way to get from the Brooklyn Bridge to a Helicarrier
    • Yet another fight on the astral plane
    • Wolverine vs. technology
    • The intrinsic power of life, I guess
    • Visibility of psychic powers
    • Live-action X pitches
    NEXT EPISODE: Death’s Head II!

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    402 – What the Damn?! Feb 27, 2023
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    Captain Mustache, Part the Second. (Excalibur #115)

    In which Marvel UK was a wild ride; everyone has a definitive Kitty Pryde; Sari St. Hubbins studies her X-Men; Moira MacTaggert discovers contagion theory; ideas do not stories make; Meggan is the heart of the team; and Excalibur inches towards its finale.

    X-PLAINED:
    • Marvel UK
    • Digitek
    • Excalibur #114-117
    • What Excalibur’s been up to
    • Tunnels vs. sewers
    • An unexpected callback
    • Slang
    • The mutability of Kitty Pryde
    • Friendship
    • Sari St. Hubbins
    • Fashion
    • One way to get around a power inhibitor
    • A frosted tips outline
    • Viruses
    • Phalanx love
    • Greebling
    • A substantial retcon
    • Excalibur vs. the Sidri
    • Marvel characters’ musical associations
    • Whether there have been more X-Men or Avengers
    NEXT EPISODE: Kitty Pryde goes to work for The Man

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    401 – True Tales of Double-Entry Bookkeeping Feb 13, 2023
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    And now for something completely different. (Generation X Holiday Special #1)

    In which Santa Claus makes problematic choices; we make good on a promise; Sebastian is the new Deadpool; Skrulls get stuck as animals more than you’d think; Nanny and Orphan-Maker celebrate; and Jubilee stops worrying and learns to love Christmas.

    X-PLAINED

    • Santa Claus’s flirtations with villainy
    • A new direction for Generation X
    • Larry Hama
    • Al vs. U.S. geography
    • Generation X #32-33
    • Generation X Holiday Special
    • New Mutants #92
    • Thing One & Thing Two St. Croix
    • The Circus of Crime
    • The Pirates of Dark Water (somewhat)
    • Hacker T. Dog
    • Why Wolfsbane is scared of clowns
    • Skrull Kill Crew
    • Carnie Voltron
    • Chief Authier
    • Phat beats
    • A reality biscuit
    • Emplate’s pocket dimension
    • Chimera and Dirtnap
    • Variant interiors
    • Nanny & Orphan-Maker (more) (again)
    • Santa Claus (in general)
    • Benefits of inconsistent characterization

    NEXT WEEK: Break week

    NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur!

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    400 – Loud Noises Feb 06, 2023
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    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In which legacy numbering is best left alone; all roads lead to the Antarctic; we finally learn Gambit’s big secret; Erik the Red gets yet a third identity; no one soils the Juggernaut; Maggott saves the day; and we have somehow made (technically more than) 400 of these things.

    X-PLAINED

    • Spat
    • The tragic loss of the Cyber Comics
    • How not to back up your work
    • Uncanny X-Men #350
    • X-Men #70
    • A shambles
    • What’s been happening since Operation Zero Tolerance
    • A very fancy cover
    • Insufficient outerwear
    • Senses
    • Justice as a decorating theme
    • Baffling statuary
    • The return of Erik the Red
    • Erik the Red (again)
    • Ferris
    • Gambit’s big secret
    • A large number of continuity errors
    • A total dick move
    • De-icing
    • Untitled Marrow Game
    • A big fight
    • Living room surgery
    • Legal documents
    • Favorite anniversary issues
    • Dangling plot threads

    NEXT EPISODE: Generation X vs. Christmas

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    399 – The Cybertronic Spree Jan 29, 2023
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    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In which the X-Force road trip era begins; Team X takes on a new dimension; Dani Moonstar gets her subtext back; pointing out a stereotype doesn’t excuse using it; Tabitha Smith generally deserves better; platypuses are underrepresented in the superhero genre; Hell becomes Stryfe; and Domino gets back in the game.

    X-PLAINED

    • A dastardly plot
    • X-Men 2099
    • Road trips
    • X-Force #71-74
    • Team X
    • A Love & Rockets reference
    • Stan and Ollie
    • The Triplets of Belleville
    • How not to fund your film
    • Michael Whitecloud
    • Project Stepladder
    • Colossal Man
    • Several references to X-Force -1
    • Platypuses
    • Edwin Martynec
    • Weaponized humming
    • The death of Warpath
    • Hell
    • Blackheart
    • Friendship
    • A mysterious villain

    NOTE: Whoa, The Cybertronic Spree is actually a real band!

    NEXT WEEK: The return of Erik the Red!

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    398 – Shanna the Wee Devil Jan 16, 2023
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    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
    In which the rest of the X-Men return from space; Maggott is the new cool; Gambit’s past catches up with him; Chris Bachalo takes over as regular artist on Uncanny X-Men; Deathbird flirts singularly aggressively; Eany and Meany eat a truck; dating a telepathic ninja is going to take some getting used to; and Havok predictably remains ABD. X-PLAINED
    • Motormouth (Harley Davis)
    • Motormouth and Killpower
    • Uncanny X-Men #347-349
    • Grovel and Spat
    • A horse guy who is actually a cat-frog-lizard guy
    • An extraordinarily half-assed action figure
    • Load-bearing backstory
    • Landscape
    • The other Nanny
    • Elegant foreshadowing
    • Beast’s appearance as a mutant power
    • Gambit’s chest hair
    • The end of playtime
    • CCA-compliant foliage
    • Deathbird and Bishop
    • A vanity plate
    • Eany and Meany
    • One-off psychometry
    • Psylocke vs. Maggott
    • Decompression
    • Havok’s enduring lack of a Ph.D.
    NEXT EPISODE: X-Force hits the road! NOTE: In this episode, Miles theorized Grovel’s voice as sounding halfway between Cable and Kermit the Frog without realizing that he was in fact just describing Sweetums. -Jay

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    397 – Mürdr at IKEA Jan 10, 2023
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    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In which Al Kennedy and Miles enter a somewhat post-OZT world, the art of Frank Teran (whose uncle built a jetpack) elevates an otherwise merely decent story, Puck is played by Bob Hoskins, Wild Child gets a chance to shine, Mystique and Forge are sitting in a tree, and Swamp Thing is amazing.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Spider-Man’s head cold
    • Sabretooth: Back to Nature #1
    • Sabretooth (Victor Creed)
    • Wild Child (Kyle Gibney)
    • Horrible violence, expertly implied
    • The ubiquity of sewers
    • Saturday morning cartoons of R-rated movies
    • Serial killers with G.I. Joe names
    • Improbable tracking
    • Bilingual crime
    • Chekhov’s waterfall
    • DRUGS
    • X-Factor #136-137
    • The Hound program
    • Skeumorphism
    • Doctor Valerie Cooper and Major Edmond Atkinson, excellent exes
    • Questionable wound-dressing
    • Holograms
    • Government jobs
    • The sad fate of the Chase family
    • Nimrod disambiguation
    • The Marvel Universe According to Doctor Seuss

    NEXT EPISODE: The X-Men return from space!

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    396 – Giant-Size Special #11 Jan 02, 2023
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In which we spend too long trying to place a time-travel miniseries in continuity, Al Kennedy does us a solid, Bernard Chang draws some excellent New Mutants young and old, Al Ewing x-plains X-Men: Red, Forearm and Random play Nintendo, and we reveal the winners of The Ninth Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence!

    X-PLAINED:

    • Jay’s spatial and temporal whereabouts
    • Cannonball, Mirage, Magik, Sunspot, Wolfsbane, Karma, Magma, Cypher, Warlock, and Douglock
    • New Mutants: Truth or Death
    • Kitty Pryde and Illyana Rasputin, gal pals
    • Triple-dog dares
    • Nova Roma, or not
    • Mikhail F**king Rasputin
    • The arrogance of reality warpers
    • How to write Magma
    • The Technarchy and the Phalanx
    • Hardee’s X-Men: Time Gliders
    • Farmboy chic
    • Bernard Chang’s 21 Panels
    • Branching vs. overwriting timelines
    • The effects of de-aging and history rewriting on immunology
    • Found family
    • She Who Swam With The Acanti
    • Sleep-Eeze Mattresses Starring The Hulk
    • Arrako
    • Continuity synchronicity
    • S.W.O.R.D. as a workplace drama
    • The moral downfall of Abigail Brand
    • The leadership styles of Storm, Magneto, and Sunspot
    • Himbo disambiguation
    • The fates of Armor, Risque, and Peeper
    • Mysterium Clicker
    • Santa Claus
    • The Ninth Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence

    (Note: Our interview with Al Ewing contains spoilers for X-Men: Red!)

    NEXT EPISODE: Sabretooth betrays an X-team! Again!

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    395 – Boxer Briefs of Humanity Dec 19, 2022
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    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In which Jay has exciting news, Rick Leonardo draws an impressively creepy mad scientist’s lair, the clouds are purple and so is the prose, Powers of X gets a subtle prequel 21 years early, Cable’s own tolerance has finally reached zero, and we summarize Bastion’s backstory way, way faster than Bastion does.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Machine Man (X-51) (Aaron Stack)
    • Operation Zero Tolerance (more) (again)
    • Jay’s upcoming parental leave
    • Bastion (Sebastion Gilberti)
    • M-Tech
    • Powerman 5000
    • Cable & Machine Man Annual 1998
    • Hobgits and their sound effects
    • Street Fighter: the Roleplaying Game
    • Batroc ze Lepair
    • Jack Kirby’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
    • X-51 / X-23 overlaps
    • Classic Summers Family Bullshit
    • Psionic soapboxes
    • What makes Bastion a compelling villain
    • The necessity of companions
    • Master Mold 3.0 & Nimrod 2.0
    • Machine Man & Bastion Annual 1998
    • Terrible font choices
    • ZORCH
    • Cable vs. floors
    • The carbon footprint of robotic fascism
    • Marvel Comics Presents #17-24 (just a little)
    • Incredible Hulk Annual #7 (just a tad)
    • The Siege Perilous
    • The future of Machine Man
    • The hypothetical 2022 version of Bastion
    • Historical events in which we’d love to see long-lived mutants take part

    NEXT WEEK: We take a break for the holidays!

    IN TWO WEEKS: The Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men 2022 Giant-Size Winter Special!

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    HAWK TALK – Keeper Dec 12, 2022
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    This would usually be a skip week, but thanks to some generous donors to Equality Florida, Hawk Talk is back! This week: Dave Tomaine and Rho Sovia’s graphic novel, Keeper!

    LINKS AND FURTHER READING

    • You can buy Keeper digitally at BigCartel or physically at Studio Two Boys!
    • Check out Dave’s band Cave People!
    • Find Dave on Twitter (twice)!
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