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    Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

    Because It’s About Time Someone Did

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    157 – Melted to Slag May 01, 2017
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Contact David to purchase the original!

    In which the X-Tinction Agenda reaches its Return of the Jedi; Wolverine is a weaponized nuisance; HR would like a word with Gambit; Havok gets framed; Cameron Hodge is the great unifier; Genosha is revolting; you don’t get to make a threatening speech about someone else’s powers; Jean Grey is tired of your bullshit; and Jay and Miles may or may not dive into the Siege Perilous!

    X-PLAINED:

    • The Law of Conservation of Plot Elements
    • Uncanny X-Men #272
    • New Mutants #97
    • X-Factor #62
    • The Story So Far
    • Glasses fashions in comics
    • The difference between Batman and the Punisher
    • How to tell that something has gone terribly wrong
    • Acceptable pants
    • Some really sketchy judicial process
    • A ruse
    • Several retcons concerning Wolverine
    • Consequence-free impaling
    • Chekhov’s genetic engineering
    • Louise Simonson’s final issue of New Mutants
    • The relative durability of mutants
    • A number of prescient threats
    • This one time Jay and Miles got paid to throw a bunch of printers down a flight of stairs
    • Summers Brothers team-ups
    • A very cathartic fight
    • Thoughts on books as physical artifacts and collecting comics
    • Places to jump into long X-series on Marvel Unlimited
    • Our plans for the hiatus

    THE PODCAST WILL BE ON HIATUS DURING MAY, JUNE, AND JULY, 2017! SEE YOU IN AUGUST!

    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.)

    156 – Genosha Strikes Back Apr 24, 2017
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Contact David to purchase the original!

    In which we hit the Empire Strikes Back of X-Tinction Agenda; it’s hard to be Laura Kinney; the psychic knife makes its debut; Evil!Sexy Moira retains some moral high ground; if your society is built on slavery, your society deserves to crumble; words mean things; Havok would be a terrible housecat; the mutants do not have the patent on stupidity; the opposite of blades is cotton; we give Cameron Hodge’s severed head a pep talk; and Cyclops goes full Peralta.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Uncanny X-Men #271, New Mutants #96, X-Factor #61
    • Laura Kinney’s brief babysitting career
    • Our upcoming hiatus
    • Dramatis personae
    • A figurative battering ram
    • Focused totality
    • Best insults of the 1990s
    • A debate
    • Ethics of rhetoric
    • Housecat Havok
    • Skittering
    • Mutate numbering systems
    • The Prisoner vs. Les Miserables
    • The slow disintegration of reality as we know it
    • Sneaking with Cable
    • A singularly anticlimactic cover
    • A lushly illustrated report
    • Increasingly petty revenge
    • S.H.I.E.L.D.’s most advanced bald cap
    • A rising storm
    • Art teams
    • What we’d like to see out of an X-Men cinematic reboot

    NEXT EPISODE: Return of the Revenge of the X-Men

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    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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    155 – X-Tinction Event Apr 17, 2017
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Contact David to purchase the original!

    In which the X-Tinction Agenda begins in earnest; Jim Lee rocks our world; Cable doesn’t need any Mickey-Mouse schedules; Jean Grey is not paid by the word; Havok makes a heel turn; Boom Boom’s pretext of self-interest fools no one; Cameron Hodge is STILL the worst; and Jay and Miles make an announcement.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Warlock across the multiverse
    • Uncanny X-Men #270, New Mutants #95, X-Factor #60
    • X-Tinction Agenda
    • The first modern crossover
    • The creative state of the X-line
    • Limitations of Marvel Unlimited
    • Dramatis Personae
    • Mickey-Mouse schedules
    • The X-Men, who do not die the old-fashioned way
    • One-way nude teleportation
    • Magistrate Summers
    • The return of Cameron Hodge’s angry severed head
    • Wipeout (again)
    • Mutates
    • The death of Warlock
    • The esoteric paraphernalia of war
    • Silver Age misogyny
    • What we’d do differently if we introduced the X-Men in 2017
    • Our upcoming hiatus

    NEXT EPISODE: It gets worse.

    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!

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    154 – Leaning into the Metaphor (feat. Sina Grace) Apr 10, 2017
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Contact David to purchase the original!

    In which incoming Iceman writer Sina Grace joins us to talk about the coolest X-Man; Adult Bobby Drake gets the spotlight; no one looks too closely at the jokester; the mutant metaphor works both globally and personally; and we are all a little horrified by how long ago Grant Morrison’s New X-Men run happened.

    X-PLAINED:

    • The Apocalypse Seed
    • What ice powers sound like
    • Ice puns and Memento-style tattoos
    • Adult coming-out stories
    • Intersectionality and representation
    • Iceman on his own
    • The most Sinister of teases
    • Cargo shorts
    • Bobby’s assorted ex-girlfriends
    • Omega-level ice powers vs. anxiety
    • Mike Carey’s X-Men
    • Bobby’s buds Cannonball and Rogue
    • Yas Northstar
    • Respecting continuity, avoiding overwhelm
    • Advice for your younger (and older) self

    Find Sina Grace on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook!

    NEXT EPISODE: The X-Tinction Agenda begins!

    No visual companion this week! Check out Iceman in June!

    Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!

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    153 – Mermaid Parade Apr 03, 2017
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Contact David to purchase the original!

    In which Miles gets an etymology lesson; Nightcrawler is the most dateable guy in the X-Universe; Meggan is basically all the cryptids; Michael Higgins must be stopped; Alistair Stuart is terrible at adulting; we really hope Brian wasn’t too attached to that airplane; and in retrospect, there probably should have been a Spalding Gray joke in there somewhere.

    X-PLAINED:

    • The Montesi Formula
    • Excalibur #28-31
    • The Gilded Lady
    • The quintessential post-college experience
    • The word “cooter”
    • Relative gullibility
    • A generally unacceptable issue
    • Loungewear
    • Vampires, kind of
    • Some uncomfortably colonial imagery
    • Krakoa, Jr.
    • The Vega Men
    • The aftermath of Axis
    • Colossus’s probable politics

    NEXT EPISODE: Talking Iceman with Sina Grace!

    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!

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    152 – Ghosts of Future Present Mar 27, 2017
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Contact David to purchase the original!

    In which Franklin Richards makes everything more complicated; Reed Richards is a terrible parent; Days of Future Present is a surprisingly good ghost story; Valeria Richards is awesome (but does not appear in this crossover); everyone’s got hounds these days; Banshee is your sad cyborg dad; Phoenix has a lot of feelings; and X-Factor once again manages to up the ante for child endangerment.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Nightcrawler’s brief clerical career
    • Days of Future Present
    • Annuals, in general
    • Some extraordinarily specific Namor headcanon
    • Fantastic Four Annual #23
    • New Mutants Annual #6
    • X-Factor Annual #5
    • Uncanny X-Men Annual #14
    • Franklin Richards
    • Several statuses quo
    • The reproductive potential of Doombots
    • Ms. Marvel (Sharon Ventura)
    • Ahab
    • A Code Red Time Emergency
    • One of Jay’s dream pitches
    • Your sad cyborg dad
    • The worst tea party
    • One hell of a kiss
    • Robocop vs. Terminator

    NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur gets eclectic!

    The visual companion to this episode will be up later this week.

    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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    151 – Czars of Kung Fu Mar 20, 2017
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Contact David to purchase the original!

    In which Laura easily is worth a dozen Old Mans Logan; Charlotte Jones is the EveryCop; Genosha remains a fairly versatile allegory; Hydra are totally Nazis; Jubilee gets the best sound effects; Rogue has a bad day; and it’ll take more than a sun to stop Lila Cheney.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Graydon Creed
    • Logan oversaturation (more) (again)
    • Uncanny X-Men #264, 268, 269
    • A somewhat convoluted status quo
    • Death by Derrida
    • New York’s sewers (kind of) (maybe)
    • The Misty Knight rule
    • Jackets of the ’90s
    • Cap’s cape
    • Mustache metaphysics
    • The Press Gang (again)
    • VR.5
    • The Doctrine of Hot Pursuit
    • Dazzler, in handy grenade form
    • A prescient scenario
    • Jim Lee signature cocktail dresses
    • A dubious approach to first aid
    • Wolverine’s sexy friends
    • Nazi ducks
    • Seraph
    • Ivan Petrovitch
    • Sexy subversion
    • Rogue vs. Carol Danvers
    • Mutants vs. the Terrigen Mists
    • TaXonomy of ambiguously X-characters

    NEXT EPISODE: Days of Future Present!

    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.)

    150 – Live at ECCC, feat. Dennis Hopeless and Charles Soule Mar 13, 2017
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Contact David to purchase the original!

    In which writers Dennis Hopeless and Charles Soule join us for a live episode at Emerald City Comic Con, Age of X is the world’s worst morale boost; Charles and Dennis X-Plain the Marvel Universe; we still can’t get Hieronymus Bosch’s X-Men out of our heads; and apparently somehow we’ve recorded and posted 150 of these things.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Age of X
    • Evil Moira MacTaggert Disambiguation
    • The post-Secret Wars Marvel Universe
    • Major X-Men turning points
    • ResurrXion
    • Planning events
    • A profoundly unexpected crossover
    • Namor’s definitive qualities
    • Our dream X-creators
    • Where to find Havok in current comics
    • Earned deaths
    • The pronunciations of several words
    • Teams we’d like to see revived or revisited

    NEXT EPISODE: The road to X-Tinction Agenda continues!

    No visual companion this week, but wait ’til you see our ECCC photos!

    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.)

    149 – Panning for Callbacks Mar 07, 2017
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. href=”http://particlefiction.bigcartel.com/”>Contact David to purchase the original!

    In which Old Man Logan is probably better than it deserves to be; Steve McNiven is magical; the post-apocalyptic future probably belongs to the LARPers; Miles’s dad may or may not secretly be Hawkeye; all babies are supervillains; every movie should have a dinosaur chase scene; Emma Frost is our queen forever; and you should never trust a Hitler cosplayer.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Wolverine: Lord of the Vampires
    • Mark Millar
    • Wolverine vol. 3 #66-72
    • Giant-Size Wolverine: Old Man Logan
    • The Hooded Man
    • “Old Man Logan” vs. Old Man Logan
    • The difference between Logan and Wolverine
    • Old-timey apocalypses
    • The Hulk Gang
    • Old Man Hawkeye
    • The Spider-Buggy
    • Moloids
    • Hammer Falls
    • Ultron-8
    • Several generations of supervillains
    • How the world fell under darkness
    • President Red Skull
    • Some very cathartic violence
    • Narrative functions of the rampage

    NEXT EPISODE: Live from Emerald City Comic Con, with Dennis Hopeless & Charles Soule!

    Special thanks to the Protomen.

    The visual companion to this episode will be up when Jay has a working computer charger again.

    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.)

    148 – That’s So Ravens Feb 27, 2017
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Contact David to purchase the original!

    In which Archangel falls in with the LARP crowd; all yuppies are (probably) vampires; Beast is kind of a jerk; there are a lot of reasons to be mad at Forge; and you should totally come hang out with us at ECCC!

    X-PLAINED:

    • A peculiar scheme
    • X-Factor #54, 56-59
    • Crimson
    • The Ravens
    • A gallery opening
    • Several varyingly tortured souls
    • Charlotte Jones (more)
    • Archangel vs. Archangel’s wings
    • Ethical reporting
    • An accidental bank robbery
    • The return of a long-lost villain
    • Timmy Jones

    NEXT EPISODE: Old Man Logan!

    Special thanks to Lillian Cohen-Moore!

    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.)

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