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    Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

    Because It’s About Time Someone Did

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    285 – Immediately if Not Sooner Feb 16, 2020
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    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In which Goldballs is still a better name than Egg; we continue our progress towards Earth-295; Legion pulls a Stryfe; we’re still pretty shaky on how to pronounce “M’Kraan”; Xavier and Magneto were absolutely and unquestionably doing sex in the 1970s; it’s time time; the Watcher is watching you masturbate; and what happens immediately before the end of the world is often as important as what happens immediately after.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Balls
    • Legion (more) (again)
    • Uncanny X-Men 320-321
    • X-Men #40
    • Establishing stakes
    • Slang of the mid-1990s
    • Time travel as a dick move
    • Issues vs. episodes
    • The M’Kraan Crystal (more) (again)
    • Hebrew vowels
    • Latent time travel abilities
    • Charles Xavier’s “first” bar fight
    • An exceptional caption
    • A very bad narrative choice
    • The death of Charles Francis Xavier
    • A load-bearing moment in time
    • Jahf the Guardian
    • Waiting for the end of the world
    • The best-drawn kiss in X-Men, ever
    • The many Krakoas
    • Integrating Legion into Dawn of X

    NEXT EPISODE: More Legion Quest!

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    284 – Precious Baubles, feat. Chip Zdarsky Feb 10, 2020
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    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In which we sit down with writer Chip Zdarsky to talk crossovers, continuity, metaphors, and X-Men/Fantastic Four!

    X-PLAINED:

    • X-Men/Fantastic Four
    • A reunion
    • Richards kids
    • The state of Franklin Richards’ powers
    • Balancing characters in team books
    • Superhero teams as families
    • Several metaphors
    • Chip’s definitive X-Men
    • Reed Richards vs. Charles Xavier
    • Doom
    • Krakoan fashion
    • Switching gears
    • An exchange of portraits
    • Whether Garfield is a mutant
    • Evolution

    NEXT EPISODE: Legion Quest (for real, this time)!

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    283 – Legion Quest Quest Feb 03, 2020
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    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In which Jay is writing a Cyclops one-shot; It is honestly truly almost Legion Quest; Mystique plays the long game; sometimes filler is a good thing; Havok is a geophysicist, not a geographer; Lila definitely stole it; and more stories should be set in space junkyards.

    X-PLAINED:

    • How Betsy Braddock got her original body back
    • Marvel Snapshots: X-Men
    • The lead-up to Legion Quest
    • X-Factor #108-111
    • Mystique’s skill set
    • Legion (David Haller) (more) (again)
    • Freedom Force
    • The most powerful of devices
    • A dream about a dream
    • An intersection of unreliable narrators
    • The narrative justification for Legion Quest
    • A rock monster
    • Jornick
    • Lila Cheney (more) (again)
    • A Kurt Vonnegut reference
    • The K’Lanti
    • A space junkyard
    • The end of X-Factor’s second iconic era
    • Our favorite male/female X-friendships
    • Pros and cons of line cohesiveness

    NEXT EPISODE: Chip Zdarsky!

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    282 – The Tide Takes the Castle Jan 27, 2020
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    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In which the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning should really be the setting of a stoner comedy; Garrabed Bashur’s brain is probably 90% porn by now; the tide always takes the castle; William Drake remains terrible; Adam X the X-Treme deserved better; Jay pitches a series; disability is not a boolean and exclusively medically-defined state; and we are all about some weird X-Men tie-in products.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Mariko Yoshida in the afterlife
    • Moon Talk
    • Some upcoming X-books
    • X-Men #38-39
    • Uncanny X-Men #319
    • Many unhealthy coping mechanisms
    • Sinister foreshadowing
    • Fancy hair
    • Commcast (Garabed Bashur)
    • Hawk sex
    • An exceptionally resonant callback
    • Intersectional bigotry
    • The domestic dynamics of the Drake household
    • The remarkably poignant return of Adam X the X-Treme
    • The opposite of a Jack London story
    • An unlikely intergenerational frienship
    • A novel use of a novel superpower
    • Mutation as and intersecting with disability
    • X-Men tie-in products we’d like to see

    NEXT EPISODE: X-Factor fills in!

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    281 – Memories Jan 20, 2020
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    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In which Warpath and Colossus should start a support group; X-Force gets a new HQ; we make an unprecedently large number of musical-theater references; Cable is a highly qualified individual; tranq darts don’t work like that; Emma Frost gives fairly decent advice; the malls of Boston will never be the same again; and we need mutant body diversity now.

    CONTENT WARNING: This episode involves discussion of child sexual abuse, murder, and cruelty to animals. If you want to skip that part, head to 34:42 for happier times!

    X-PLAINED:

    • An early adventures of the brothers Proudstar
    • The new New Mutants trailer
    • Starlight Express
    • X-Force #40-42
    • Feral (Maria Callasantos) (more) (again)
    • X-Force’s new digs
    • Little Shop of X-Force
    • Thornn (Lucia Callasantos)
    • Code Blue
    • Cable’s law degree
    • How tranq darts (don’t) work
    • A lot of murder
    • Several family reunions
    • A terrifying team-up
    • Body diversity and fat representation in X-books
    • Feral’s Jellicle name
    • Cats, kind of, I guess

    NEXT EPISODE: We get really intense about Adam X the X-Treme.

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    280 – Business-Casual Basilisk Jan 13, 2020
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    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In which the future is not great at codenames; spot foil is cool as hell; Mountjoy is bafflingly business-themed; Bishop goes full Point Break; Jean Grey and Lorna Dane should absolutely be friends; and Jay & Miles are heading to ECCC 2020!

    X-PLAINED:

    • Lola vs. L.O.L.A.
    • A very good cat
    • Bishop #1-4
    • Lucas Bishop
    • Earth-1191
    • X.S.E.
    • A surprising convergence
    • Guilt
    • Bantam
    • Mountjoy
    • Some terrible banter
    • Several nontraditional modes of possession
    • Shard Bishop
    • How the kids talk these days
    • Hancock
    • Fashion of the future
    • A complex ethical struggle

    NEXT EPISODE: More Cats references.

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    279 – Giant-Size Special #8 Dec 30, 2019
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    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In which Jay would absolutely fight Christmas; we welcome guest X-Perts Christina Strain and Chip Zdarsky; a gift arrives; we consider the relationship of Generation X to Generation X; it is really not okay to leave your discarded skins lying around; D.O.A. is inordinately delightful; Chamber is the punk Shadow; Gateway goes to school; the Generation X TV movie is very, very bad; telepathy is free; the grown-ups are all right; home sucks; freedom rocks; Mondo deserves better; Matt Frewer did most things first; Kevin McNulty has appeared in literally everything; and you remain our favorites, ever.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Mutation, for some value of the term
    • Holidays and the observation thereof
    • December 9
    • Jay’s ideal Christmas
    • How Chris Bachalo’s name is pronounced (more) (again) (sorry)
    • Several promotions
    • Generation X
    • Generation X #1-4
    • Generation X
    • Husk (Paige Guthrie)
    • M (Monet St. Croix)
    • Skin (Angelo Espinosa)
    • Synch (Everett Thomas)
    • Chamber (Jonothon Starsmore)
    • The New Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters
    • Counting Genises
    • The housekeeping implications of body horror
    • The M retcon
    • Continuity in costume design
    • The Danger Grotto
    • Emplate (somewhat)
    • D.O.A.
    • Penance (not that one)
    • Scrabble burns
    • An alternate take on power duplication
    • Mondo ()
    • The return of Nanny and the Orphanmaker
    • Eliot ()
    • A tentative friendship
    • How the Age of Apocalypse comes to Generation X
    • A movie that never fails to disappoint
    • The vagaries of adaptation
    • The best on-screen Emma Frost
    • Gang emails of the 1990s
    • Refrax
    • Buff
    • William Castle
    • The comedic genealogy of Max Headroom
    • Hatley Castle
    • The 2019 Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence

    NEXT WEEK: Jay & Miles go on vacation!
    NEXT EPISODE: Bishop goes solo!

    Special thanks to Christina Strain, Douglas Wolk, and Chip Zdarsky; and–always–to Matt Hunter, David Wynne, Tea Fougner, Anna Sheffey, and all of our patrons and listeners!

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    278 – A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing Dec 23, 2019
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    In which Moonstar really wasn’t fooling anybody; Bird Brain is somehow still alive; Cassidy Keep is weird; Gene Ha draws excellent Storm; Reeva Payge makes her sole comics appearance; and Shinobi Shaw is wrong about everything.

    X-PLAINED:

    • A not-particularly-cunning disguise
    • Upcoming coverage
    • X-Force Annual #3
    • X-Men Annual #3
    • The MLF
    • Reignfire (more) (again)
    • Moonstar (more) (again)
    • An unconventional way to keep a secret diary
    • A bittersweet semi-reunion
    • 3Peace
    • Murphy Keep
    • A ghost, maybe
    • The kind of thing that happens at Cassidy Keep
    • An excellent burn
    • Leather
    • “Neurotoxins”
    • Sex House as the definitive artifact of the 2010s
    • How not to draw someone having a nightmare
    • A very short-lived version of the Hellfire Club
    • How not to villain
    • Coming to terms with bad fictional tech

    NEXT EPISODE: Giant-Size Winter Special, feat. Christina Strain & Chip Zdarsky!

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    277 – Hedgehogs of Cairo Dec 16, 2019
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    In which Sauron is a huge nerd; the Savage Land is where Marvel stores the weird stuff; an etymology detour does not come from the X-Pert you’d expect; and Storm will straight-up stab you.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Responsible weapon storage
    • X-Men Unlimited #6-7
    • A very large creative team
    • Sauron (more) (again)
    • Blood-derived powers
    • The Mutates
    • A pterosaur glow-up
    • Achmed El-Gibar
    • Street urchins (and the etymology thereof)
    • How to get a t’ieve mentor
    • Style vs. taste
    • The proportional relationship between knife skills and leadership potential
    • Tattoos vs. healing factors

    NEXT EPISODE: Sex?

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    276 – Wizard Problems Dec 09, 2019
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    In which Excalibur gets a regular writer again; we judge a book against against its covers; nothing good ever comes from being sexy on Muir Isle; and the soul sword’s real power is cutting through continuity.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Stegron
    • Dinosaur powers
    • Excalibur #83-85 (The Soul Sword Trilogy)
    • Warren Ellis on Excalibur
    • Excalibur (more) (again)
    • Bends Sinister and Bend Sinister
    • Outsider days
    • Mail
    • Boundaries
    • Darkoth
    • Gravemoss
    • The Winding Way
    • Shrill
    • A problematic prosthesis
    • Roger Corman’s The Raven
    • A large number of continuity errors
    • Gratuitous dickery
    • An untold tale
    • The semantics of skin removal
    • Possession vs. retrograde amnesia
    • The circle of nostalgia

    NEXT EPISODE: Jorts Unlimited!

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