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    Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

    Because It’s About Time Someone Did

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    166 – Proteus Has Two Mommies Oct 02, 2017
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    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In which we finally announce our NYCC panel lineup; Boom Boom is the Gina Linetti of X-Force; we don’t actually know very much about the New Warriors; Cable grows as a person; Cyclops makes an ethically dubious call; Warren Kenneth Worthington III is a jerk; Jay gets very angry at a fictional character; no one gets a happy ending and the skeleton was inside you all along.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Penance (but not that Penance)
    • Our actual, for-real NYCC panel details
    • “Kings of Pain”
    • New Mutants Annual #7
    • New Warriors Annual #1
    • Uncanny X-Men Annual #15
    • X-Factor Annual #6
    • The Alliance of Evil
    • Harness
    • Piecemeal
    • Genetech
    • IDIC
    • Symbolic chess
    • The New Warriors
    • The Clean Plate Club from Hell
    • The Pec Twins
    • ReBoot
    • A really screwed up debate
    • Magneto vs. Human Nature
    • Privilege and Callouts

    NEXT WEEK: Summers Family Bullshit on the Moon!

    COME SEE US LIVE AT NEW YORK COMIC CON, WITH SPECIAL GUESTS CHRIS CLAREMONT AND LOUISE SIMONSON!

    You can find a 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!

    We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

    165 – Pop Rocks Sep 25, 2017
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In which Charles Xavier returns to the pages of Uncanny X-Men; Storm is out of our league forever; Miles would be a terrible president; Psylocke picks up the frequent-shower torch; everyone gets possessed; Gambit acts more Sinister than he is; and our NYCC panel is definitely on THURSDAY, not Friday.

    X-PLAINED:

    • The Pantheon
    • Uncanny X-Men #275-277
    • Dinosaurs in space
    • A very impressive cover
    • Several kinds of manacle
    • Small children we’d like to see beat up Gladiator
    • Varying levels of Evil Charles Xavier
    • A nefarious plan
    • Double death
    • FailCat Logan
    • Two bad, beautiful babes with really big guns
    • Some excellent sound effects
    • Awesome space fights
    • Shopping with Deathbird
    • Mall vs. maul
    • X-archenemies

    NEXT EPISODE: The Kings of Pain!

    NOTE: Seriously, the NYCC Panel is on THURSDAY. Not Friday. THURSDAY. It’s official now.

    You can find a 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!

    We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

    164 – This Is the Mutant Revolution: Live at Rose City Comic Con Sep 18, 2017
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In which Jay and Miles finally sit down for an in-depth discussion of the political weight of superheroes and what the X-Men mean to us in America’s current political climate.

    Correction: In the episode, we said that Kyle Yount produced this one. In actuality, Kyle recorded the episode and Kurt Loyd produced it. Sorry, Kurt!

    You can find our photos from Rose City Comic Con 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!

    We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

    163 – Shut Up, Conscience Sep 11, 2017
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In which Rose City Comic Con was in fact pretty awesome; we return to Marvel Presents; Colossus has a bad day; Ann Nocenti engages in some bipartisan satire; Cyclops has a bad day; Moira MacTaggert gets possessed again; Master Mold is really hard to kill; you should absolutely not send Jay naked leprechaun pictures; sentinels are basically rationalization engines; and that is really not how consciences work.

    NOTE: In this episode, we said that the U.S.S.R. dissolved in 1989. That actually happened in 1991.

    ADDITIONAL NOTE: THE NYCC PANEL HAS BEEN MOVED. IT IS ON THURSDAY, NOT FRIDAY.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Sentinel Aesthetics
    • Prime Sentinels
    • “Colossus: God’s Country”
    • Butt physics
    • The Cold War
    • Colossus’s feelings about porn
    • The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library
    • Some varyingly dubious politics
    • The Cold Warriors
    • Alexander, who is probably not actually either Colonel Sanders or Howard Hughes
    • Bipartisan satire
    • Jay’s grandfather
    • An uncomfortable picnic
    • Limbs
    • Number Six (but not that one)
    • Terrible neighbors
    • “Cyclops: The Retribution Affair”
    • Bobbie and Mary Campbell
    • Master Mold (again)
    • Stephen Lang (again)
    • Servitors
    • A well-honed lobster alert system
    • The Retribution Virus
    • Conscience
    • A terrible party
    • Kitty Pryde’s Gal Pal Squad
    • Community Organizer Magneto

    NEXT EPISODE: Live from Rose City Comic Con!

    You can find a 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!

    We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

    162 – Naked In Canada Sep 04, 2017
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In which almost everyone is better than Romulus; Barry Windsor-Smith continues to draw the best naked X-Men; Jay has strong feelings about Wolverine’s origins; Miles still hasn’t seen The Prisoner; when in doubt, it’s probably Kang the Conqueror and/or Mystique; we remain unqualified to give bear-fighting advice; you should not hide out in a nuclear reactor; and the Coffee-a-Go-Go has probably been turned into a new-wave sushi bar or something.

    X-PLAINED:

    • The Professor (Truett Hudson)
    • Romulus
    • Jay & Miles at Rose City Comic Con
    • Marvel Comics Presents #72-84
    • “Weapon X”
    • Backstory attrition
    • A really good opening montage
    • Some very effective use of color
    • Healing hair
    • The original villain behind Weapon X
    • A retconned origin of Wolverine’s claws
    • Dr. Abraham Cornelius
    • Carol Hines
    • Terry Gilliam’s Weapon X
    • Audio vs. text-based mind control
    • An action figure in dubious taste
    • The Milgram Experiment
    • An adaptation we’d like to see
    • A bad place to hide
    • Subsequent “Weapon X” retcons
    • How Cyclops’s powers have (and haven’t) developed
    • Jay’s general failure at X-tourism

    NEXT WEEK: More MCP, featuring “The Retribution Affair” and “God’s Country”!

    You can find 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!

    We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

    161 – Do You Even Howl, Bro? Aug 28, 2017
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In which we return to Excalibur, and Excalibur returns to form; “Girls’ School from Heck” is way better than we remembered; Jay has strong feelings about penmanship; we examine the semantics of field hockey; the band gets back together; Dai Thomas has no time for your comic-book bullshit; and you should never, ever install a good/evil switch in your technological abominations.

    X-PLAINED

    • The first appearances of Colonel Vazhin
    • Perks of home recording
    • FlameCon 2017
    • Jay & Miles at Rose City Comic Con
    • Excalibur #32-36
    • “Girls’ School from Heck!”
    • St. Searle’s School for Young Ladies
    • St. Trinian’s and a large number of references thereto
    • Regional variations in boarding school hijinks
    • Miss Rutherford
    • A poorly staged panel
    • Phoebe Huntsman
    • Kitty Pryde’s penmanship
    • Margaret Thatcher’s weirdly wholesome fantasies
    • The kinda-reformation of Mesmero
    • The end of Chris Claremont’s run on Excalibur
    • Some complicated contradictions related to the ethics of consumption
    • An abduction
    • The ethics of psychic interrogation (kinda)
    • Mariner disambiguation
    • A rescue
    • An unlikely partnership
    • Darkmoor Research Center
    • Dr. Walshe
    • A somewhat convoluted plot
    • Whether the Danger Room could function as a bathroom
    • The physics of Asteroid M

    NEXT EPISODE: Weapon X!

    You can find 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!

    We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

    Special thanks to Gavia Baker-Whitelaw for helping us assemble the St. Searle’s marginalia!

    X-TRA – FlameCon 2017 Sofa Special, feat. Sina Grace, James Tynion IV, and Niki Johnson Aug 23, 2017
    Show notes
    Thanks again to James and Sam for letting us use their hotel room for this ridiculousness!

    WHAT?! Less than a month back, and it’s a brand new mid-week bonus episode!

    In which Jay, Niki, Sina, and James drink fancy Scotch and talk FlameCon; what X-Men means to us as queer readers and writers; the difference between the bat family and the X-Men; mutant metaphors; favorite ‘ships; and more!

    GUESTS:

    • Sina Grace
    • Niki Johnson
    • James Tynion IV

    This episode comes courtesy of our rad Patreon subscribers. If you want to join their ranks and help keep us on the air and ad-free–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!

    160 – Hank McCoy and the Hickey of Destiny Aug 21, 2017
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In which the ladies love Hank McCoy; feelings are terrible; wereStarlins stalk the night; Stan Lee is definitely trying to sell you a car; Iceman has a lot to prove; we bid a reluctant farewell to Louise Simonson’s tenure on X-Factor; and yes, video reviews will be back eventually.

    X-PLAINED:

    • The Intelligentsia
    • Jay & Miles at Rose City Comic Con and New York Comic Con
    • Prestige Format comics
    • X-Factor: Prisoner of Love
    • X-Factor #63-64
    • A possible cameo
    • Synthia Naip
    • Several ways to identify individuals from outer space
    • Visual conceits of supernatural noir
    • A deeply unhealthy relationship
    • The mysterious wereStarlin
    • The hickey of destiny
    • Whether Starfox would fuck a crystal
    • Cyburai and/or cyberpunks
    • What makes for good team costumes
    • Post-Iceman cleanup
    • The secret origins of Opal Tanaka
    • Tatsu’o
    • Hiro
    • The Gal Pal Squad
    • Assorted macho bullshit
    • The end of Louise Simonson’s involvement with the central X-line
    • Where to find Dr. Nemesis
    • Magneto’s D&D alignment
    • Whether and when video reviews will return

    NEXT EPISODE: Girls’ School from Heck!

    You can find 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!

    We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

    159 – Childhood’s End Aug 14, 2017
    Show notes

    ***NOTE: We’re aware of the audio issues in this episode. We’re still troubleshooting our cross-country setup. Thank you for your patience!***

    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In which Stryfe is the Jan Brady of the Summers family; Miles’s dreams are trampled beneath tiny, delicate feet; Rictor goes on an unnecessary rescue mission; Cable is Washington to Cannonball’s Hamilton; the New Mutants may or may not time travel; Boom Boom scarfs up some chow for the bohunk; you should definitely not mess with Feral’s pigeons; Liefeld fights are pure rule-of-cool; Jay is absolutely not qualified to give legal advice; and we bid a bittersweet goodbye to New Mutants.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Zero
    • Production transitions
    • The end of New Mutants
    • New Mutants #98-100
    • Plotting vs. scripting
    • The most valuable issue of New Mutants
    • Gideon
    • Liefeld butts (more) (again)
    • The very dramatic death of Emmanuel da Costa
    • Tolliver
    • Some Spider-Man looking jerk
    • Domino (Neena Thurman)
    • A specific and likely inaccurate timeline
    • Feral (Maria Callasantos)
    • The signature Liefeld Kick™
    • The Tavern on the Green
    • Five or six kinds of mutants
    • A sad goodbye
    • Shatterstar (Gaveedra Seven)
    • Cadre Alliance
    • Nesting habits of the urban bohunk
    • Some rad moves
    • A prologue that is also an epilogue
    • The Stryfe that might have been
    • How Logan fits into the X-Men movie timeline
    • X-Men mostly likely to watch Yuri!!! On Ice
    • Jay at FlameCon!!

    NEXT EPISODE: Beast has a sexistential crisis!

    You can find 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!

    We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

    158 – No Focus, Less Direction Aug 07, 2017
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

    In which we return triumphant from hiatus; it’s still always Inferno in here; no one should ever under any circumstances date Cameron Hodge; Kenneth is a fundamentally hilarious name; Magneto’s family gets retconned to death; Pterosaurs are still the absolute worst; and Magik totally deserves a sidekick.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Ka-Zar’s real name
    • Shanna the She-Devil
    • Our new production set-up
    • What we did on our summer vacations
    • Previously on X-Men
    • Further limits of the mutant metaphor
    • Uncanny X-Men #273-275
    • A crisis of leadership
    • A comic that is a metaphor that is also a comic
    • Cable’s OkCupid profile
    • Changing creative dynamics on the X-line
    • Archangel’s middle name
    • Gambit vs. Wolverine
    • Censorship Steam
    • The protean X-bathroom
    • Magneto’s retconned family
    • Colonel Semyanov
    • A perhaps ill-conceived team-up
    • The Self-Styled Mistress of Magnetism
    • Some remarkably lucky timing
    • The semantics of heel turns
    • Gender and sidekicks
    • Mr. Sinister’s powers

    NEXT EPISODE: The end of New Mutants!

    You can find 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!

    We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

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