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    Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

    Because It’s About Time Someone Did

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    309 – Excellent Turtle Sep 27, 2020
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In 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!

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    308 – No Story Is the Whole Story Sep 21, 2020
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In 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!

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    307 – Ugly Mootants Only Sep 14, 2020
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In 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!

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    HAWK TALK – Playing With Super Power (feat. Matthew Hunter) Sep 07, 2020
    Show notes

    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!

    306 – Between Here and There Aug 31, 2020
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In 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!

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    305 – The Sleep of the Wicked Aug 24, 2020
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In 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!

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    304 – Explosive Ops Aug 17, 2020
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In 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!

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    HAWK TALK – Video Renaissance Aug 10, 2020
    Show notes

    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, 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 musicals
    303 – No Simple Answers, feat. Laura Hudson Aug 03, 2020
    Show notes

    In 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!

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    302 – Space Junk Jul 27, 2020
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In 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!

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