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    Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

    Because It’s About Time Someone Did

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    502 – Milkshakes of Despair (Maximum Security, Part 2 of 2) Oct 13, 2025
    Show notes

    In which t’ieves and assassins dress to impress; Bishop returns; Rogue and Carol Danvers have a moment; and the revolution will be stored on compact disc.

    X-PLAINED:

    • The New Son
    • The First Half of Maximum Security
    • Gambit #23
    • X-Men #107
    • X-Men Unlimited #29
    • Maximum Security #3 (briefly)
    • Several of Gambit’s buddies
    • How to dress for… stealth? I guess?
    • Heth’sa of the planet Culth
    • Where Carl the X-Cutioner got his silly outfit
    • A heist
    • How to restore your lost honor without messing up the timeline
    • 12-18 milkshakes
    • What Colossus is into these days
    • Vampire clowns (maybe)
    • Z’Cann
    • The Blood Brothers
    • Vibes memories
    • A big fight
    • A touching moment of touching
    • Mechamage, briefly
    • Quasar, superficially
    • Cadre K
    • The Skrull cows
    • Writing for the trade vs. podcast pacing
    • Limits of power-cancelling accessories

    NEXT EPISODE: Dream’s Rather Anticlimactic End!

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    501 – A Bag of Cloacae (Maximum Security, Part 1 of 2) Oct 06, 2025
    Show notes

    In which an event begins; Earth is problematic; the Phoenix Force is an unreliable narrator; Max Power just wants to make safer party drugs; and we miss Opal Tanaka.

    X-PLAINED:

    • The fate of the D’Bari
    • Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet
    • Maximum Security #1
    • Uncanny X-Men #387
    • Iron Man #35
    • Bishop the Last X-Man #15
    • Voting in space
    • A bad plan
    • U.S. Agent (John Walker)
    • A peculiar marketplace
    • A dangerous hat
    • Starhammer
    • Space romance problems
    • Breaking into Earth
    • Max Power
    • Magic dirt
    • Littletown, Nebraska
    • An extremely upsetting baby
    • A very impressive crash landing
    • What Bishop’s been up to
    • Human X-characters we’d like to see more of
    • Some kid named Michael
    • Trading cards we’d like

    NEXT EPISODE: Maximum Security concludes!

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    500 – People Who Stick Together Sep 22, 2025
    Show notes

    In which we sure did that.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Miracles of magnetism
    • Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

    NEXT EPISODE: Maximum Security!

    Special thanks to:

    • Producer, fellow musketeer, and all-around mensch Matt Hunter
    • Episode 500 guests David Maybury and Josephine Riesman
      • David’s blog and upcoming Vegas trivia tournament
      • Josie’s website and Morrison run-focused podcast
    • Illustrator David Wynne
    • Producers Emeritus Bobby Roberts, Kyle Yount, and Kurt Lloyd
    • Parental-leave pinch hitters Al Kennedy and Dylan Higgins
    • Everyone who’s made the X-comics what they are
    • Our families, friends, and enablers
    • Our kickass patrons, who make this podcast possible
    • All of our listeners, who make this podcast worthwhile

    Please consider this to be the visual companion to episode 500.

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    499 – Light Me, Boy! Sep 15, 2025
    Show notes

    In which we meet some delightful monsters; Cannonball is a man who knows how to wear overalls; Domino is the Leslie Knope of X-Force; red liquid babies deserve love, too; and not all British authors know each other.

    X-PLAINED:

    • A murder
    • X-Force #110-113
    • Peak butts
    • Domestic bliss
    • Misplaced guilt
    • Several monsters
    • Comics Codium
    • Warborgs and/or Rawborgs
    • Poison problems
    • Additional monsters
    • SHIELD business
    • Large guns
    • Still more monsters
    • How monsters interact with the Bechdel Test
    • Cuckoo
    • Prescribed narcotics
    • Life Model Decoys (more) (again)
    • X-major arcana

    NEXT EPISODE: Apparently we’ve made 500 of these?

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    498 – Home Depot Ossuary Sep 08, 2025
    Show notes

    In which the Twisted Sisters are vanquished by water; there is no way to make Stryfe cool; and the X-Men fight a hurricane.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Ego the Living Planet and his dysfunctional family
    • X-Men #105-106
    • Uncanny X-Men #386
    • The Neo (more) (again)
    • The state of Psylocke and Archangel’s relationship
    • The Twisted Sisters
      • Helix
      • Coil
      • Gyre
      • Ringlet
      • Torque
    • Pelicans
    • Bad decisions of past Jay and Miles
    • A mysterious stranger
    • Unrealized plans
    • Mystique and Wolverine’s forgotten friendship
    • Neo infrastructure
    • Big Casino’s name
    • An unlikely hybrid
    • A surprisingly large femur
    • The new Brotherhood
    • Lee Forrester (again)
    • Weather
    • Fan history

    NEXT EPISODE: X-Force vs. Warborgs

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    497 – Stranger Things Aug 25, 2025
    Show notes

    In which Prosh’s plans sort of come to fruition; we do not know very much about movies; Iceman dies (but is fine); The Stranger gets around; and Toad learns nothing.

    X-PLAINED:

    • The Stranger
    • X-Men Forever #4-6
    • Prosh (more) (again)
    • The story so far
    • Astra (again)
    • The Black Womb Project
    • Toad’s secret origins, possibly
    • Fashion
    • Hazard
    • Amanda Mueller (a bit)
    • Anguirus
    • The end of human civilization
    • Foreshadowing
    • A dramatic reveal
    • Several makeovers
    • Darth Toad
    • Fighting arenas / community theaters

    NEXT EPISODE: Mystique reassembles the Brotherhood!

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    496 – Time After Time Aug 18, 2025
    Show notes

    In which Prosh assembles a peculiar team; the cosmic forces are somewhat paranoid; Mystique gets shit done; and we are very into the concept of Toadland.

    X-PLAINED:

    • The Black Womb Project
    • X-Men Forever #1-3
    • Prosh
    • Several custom-grown people
    • A motley crew of mutants (and one human)
    • Cataclysm keys
    • The assassination of Graydon Creed
    • Several poignant reunions
    • The cosmic construction worker (Death)
    • Why the Phoenix Force chose Jean Grey
    • How much continuity is too much continuity
    • Pyro’s romance novels

    NEXT EPISODE: The rest of the series!

    Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog!

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    495 – The Goth Aug 04, 2025
    Show notes

    In which Rogue is beset with leadership; Psylocke’s telekinetic sword is narratively inconsistent; the Crimson Pirates are bad at their job; and you should not look to Frank Punisher as a role model.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Whether Dani Moonstar is still a Valkyrie
    • X-Men #103-104
    • Uncanny X-Men #384-385
    • A crossover
    • Tessa (somewhat)
    • A test
    • The Goth (group)
    • Skulls
    • The Crimson Pirates
    • The mind of Tullamore Voge
    • Something “rough trade” does not mean
    • Visual representation of telepathy
    • Kymri (again)
    • The Goth (individual)
    • Skycycles
    • A ruse
    • How to get the X-Perts at a convention near you
    • What happened to the Massachusetts Academy

    NEXT EPISODE: X-Men Forever

    The visual companion to this episode will be up in the near future!

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    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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    494 – You’ve Got Evil Mail Jul 21, 2025
    Show notes

    In which the X-Men zealously protect their trademarks; Cable can have as many moms as he wants to; not everyone should have to be a superhero; Lady Deathstrike knows how to handle unauthorized emails; and somehow there are still more gun arms.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Lady Deathstrike
    • X-Men Unlimited #27-28
    • X-Men Annual 2000
    • One reason to recycle code names
    • Thunderbird III (Neal Shaara)
    • Sanjit Shaara and his electronic diary
    • Karima Shapandar
    • Bastion and the Prime Sentinels (again) (briefly)
    • Omega Prime Sentinels
    • Rebirth Island and what lurks there
    • Darkstar (Laynia Petrovna)
    • Unusual disturbances
    • Whether Gambit sleeps
    • The Black Death
    • Internet security training with Bastion
    • The genealogy of Nora Ephron romantic comedy You’ve Got Mail
    • Fashion
    • Stryfe (again) (briefly)
    • Psylocke’s telekinetic katana
    • Interactions between Madelyne Pryor and her large adult son
    • Spiral’s Body Shop

    NEXT EPISODE: The Brotherhood targets Senator Kelly… again.

    Check out the visual companion to this episode here!

    Find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!

    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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    493 – Now a Major Motion Picture Jul 14, 2025
    Show notes

    In which the first X-Men film turns 25 (and holds up remarkably well).

    X-PLAINED:

    • A startling absence
    • The X-Men’s big-screen debut
    • An X-film that might have been
    • X-Men (2000), in general; and related publications
    • Some very casting
    • What makes a good adaptation
    • Wolverine’s hair
    • Those costumes
    • The cinematic X-Men
    • The cinematic Brotherhood
    • Sabretooth’s eyebrows
    • Condensed backstories
    • The movie magic of magnetism
    • The worst toy of all time
    • Going to school with superheroes
    • Things we’d like to have seen in the movie

    NEXT EPISODE: The origin of Thunderbird! (Not that one.) (Or that one.)

    The visual companion to this episode is the film X-Men (2000).

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