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    Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

    Because It’s About Time Someone Did

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    137 – Kicky Kinko Killers (feat. Sarah Kuhn) Dec 05, 2016
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and coffee mugs available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

    In which author Sarah Kuhn joins us to talk about Asian-American and Asian-British representation in superhero comics; Psylocke is the literal embodiment of British imperialism; Jubilee speaks for us all; representation isn’t a Boolean state; Wolverine fails at pop culture references; and somewhere there’s probably a really dark alternate universe where Betsy teamed up with Jamie instead of Brian.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Crimson Dawn
    • Sarah Kuhn
    • Uncanny X-Men #256-258
    • A proactive approach to career advancement
    • Matsuo Tsurayaba
    • The Mandarin
    • A highly symbolic dream sequence
    • A controversial transformation
    • Kwannon
    • What badass looked like in 1990
    • Several varyingly successful Batman references
    • Rose Wu
    • A fairly novel approach to hallucination
    • Some high-quality invective
    • Psylocke as a villain

    NEXT WEEK: What (almost) everyone else is up to!

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    136 – Fill-In Frenzy Nov 28, 2016
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and coffee mugs available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and coffee mugs available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

    In which we find the idea of Jack Kirby as G-d deeply comforting; “Jercules” is our new favorite insult; the difference between camp and divinity is good backlighting; Zeus does not have the moral high ground; Ron Lim’s Captain Britain is the definitive cad; the Demon Druid is the saddest supervillain; Archangel broods like it’s his day job; and Jay gets to do all the fun voices for once.

    X-PLAINED:

    • The Upstarts
    • An inflatable Batman
    • New Mutants #81
    • Excalibur #20
    • X-Factor #47
    • Our favorite Magma story
    • The best insult
    • Pugilistic impunity
    • A context-inappropriate oath
    • The worst film festival
    • Fighting fire with Magma
    • The Demon Druid
    • A Satanic pirate tavern
    • Reactorhenge
    • The depths of fuchsia
    • Archangel’s deeply weird comfort mechanisms
    • Some dude named Greg
    • Publishing delays

    NEXT WEEK: Lady Mandarin, feat. Sarah Kuhn

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    135 – Kurt Wagner, Warlord of Mars (Cross-Time Caper, Part 2) Nov 21, 2016
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

    In which the Cross-Time Caper continues; alliteration is awesome; someone else’s geopolitical conflict is not an appropriate place to play out your pirate fantasies; we are definitely not actually going to eat Alan Davis’s brains; Jamie Braddock is Evil Rex Racer; Widget eats a car; Rick Leonardi is the definitive fill-in artist; the problem is patriarchy; and everything’s sticky in Madripoor.

    X-PLAINED:

    • X-Manga
    • Excalibur #16-19
    • Crosstime
    • A John Carter riff
    • A mysterious and dubiously reliable narrator
    • A terrible pick-up line
    • Kymri
    • Anjulie
    • Gender-neutral fantasy armor
    • Implicit fellatio in several media
    • Space Fred Savage
    • An alternate Jean Grey (and her untimely demise)
    • Tullamore Voge
    • A grand tourney
    • A deeply disappointing pastiche
    • ORZ-1
    • Dirty Pair (and a sustained riff thereon)
    • What makes a train sexy
    • Wolverine’s table manners
    • Jim Jaspers vs. Jamie Braddock vs. Jamie Jeffers

    NEXT EPISODE: Fill-In Frenzy!

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    134 – Live at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival (feat. Scott Koblish) Nov 14, 2016
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

    In which Deadpool and X-Men ’92 artist Scott Koblish joins us to present the Summers Family Tree as you’ve never experienced it before; the X-Men go to Dante’s Hell; Dr. Strange gets his Virgil on; Wolverine sniffs snakes; Iceman has probably killed a lot of people; and X-Men fans have remained remarkably consistent over the years.

    X-PLAINED

    • The Summers family
    • Birthdays at the Xavier mansion
    • A package as sinister as it is stylish
    • Uncanny X-Men King-Size Annual #4
    • One version of Hell
    • A demon who is also a sorting hat
    • Another X-Men crossover conspiracy theory
    • The X-Men’s religious affiliations and lack thereof
    • Nuance of self-narration
    • Snakes with arms, and the vocalizations thereof
    • Dangers of encasing people in ice
    • The death of Stefan Szardos
    • An overly complex revenge plot
    • The origin of that one angry mob from Giant-Size X-Men #1
    • Kinda-incest
    • Reader responses to the Dark Phoenix Saga
    • X-Men vs. board games
    • The appeal of the Outback X-Men
    • Artist-character associations

    NEXT EPISODE: Kurt Wagner: Warlord… of our hearts!

    DEAR MISTER SINISTER lyrics by Jay Edidin & music by Tea Fougner. Performed by Scott Koblish.

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    133 – Feisty Little Fellow from the Stars (Judgment War, Part 2) Nov 07, 2016
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    In which the plot thickens; Jay and Miles fix Avatar; Ship is a good bro; you are in space right now; the Beginagains go full This Island Earth; Cyclops weaponizes love; voting is really important; and you’re listening to ten straight hours of soft jazz and subversion on ZZ-105

    X-PLAINED:

    • The other Dazzler (Bertram Worthington)
    • Our newest t-shirt
    • X-Factor #48-50
    • A metaphor within a metaphor, in space
    • The first half of Judgment War (briefly) (again)
    • A prisoner exchange
    • Hairstyles of the possessed and famous
    • Proper use of Cable
    • A case for retcons
    • Iceman vs. Archangel
    • A feisty little fellow from the stars
    • The secret origin of Ship
    • The Celestials
    • The core of Iceman’s personality
    • Several kisses
    • Beast and the Rejects
    • Some terrible hats
    • An unfair fight
    • A nefarious plot
    • Contagious heroism
    • Arishem
    • The power of love
    • Why we use the word “queer”
    • Several theoretical and unlikely crossovers

    NEXT EPISODE: Live at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival, with musical guest Scott Koblish!

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    132 – Nornheim Lemonade Oct 31, 2016
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

    In which Rusty is an honorary Bluth; we bid a sad farewell to Bret Blevins; Hogan the Grim is probably the best at bedtime stories; Asgard has really tight hat game; Hela is a remarkably competent supervillain; there are some sound effects you have to earn; Rusty and Skids fight the Vulture; and Miles has so many feelings about Thor.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Cortex
    • Damian Tryp
    • Our weird 2016 recording schedule
    • Jay & Miles at Vegas Valley Comic Book Fest 2016
    • Recent ResurrXion announcements
    • The second half of the Asgard Adventure
    • The end of Bret Blevins’ New Mutants run
    • New Mutants #82-85
    • The Odinsleep
    • A fairly upsetting board game
    • Volstagg’s awesome kids
    • Tiwaz of the Wastes
    • Many excellent hats
    • Ula and the Savage Swarm
    • Garm
    • Miles’s favorite Fenrir story
    • A remarkably clever villainous plan
    • A signature sound effect
    • Karnilla the Norn Queen
    • Cable’s relationship to Longshot
    • Recommendations for a comics newcomer

    NEXT EPISODE: X-Factor vs. Celestials, as Judgment War concludes!

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    131 – The Reaver Bunch Oct 24, 2016
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

    In which Jubilee is the sassiest Xenomorph; Lady Deathstrike is way too good for the Reavers; Wolverine gets a sidekick; Forge arm wrestles the Shadow King; Moira takes a cavalier approach lab safety; Magneto’s motives get kind of reconciled; Legion is a chaos gamer; Mystique and Destiny break our hearts; queer erasure in fiction reflects erasure in life; and the Shadow King is not even a little bit subtle.

    X-PLAINED:

    • That one time Donald Pierce pretended to be Cyclops for like a year
    • The post X-Men X-Men
    • What may be our deepest cut yet
    • Uncanny X-Men #252-255
    • Where’s Wolverine?
    • The Reaver Bunch
    • Major-League lumpoids
    • Robot dingoes
    • A prescient vision
    • Trouble at sea
    • Several significant deaths
    • Subtext and queer erasure
    • The key of agony
    • Smile noises
    • Non-mutants we’d team up with the X-Men

    NEXT WEEK: Back to Asgard!

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    130 – The Soule Protocols (feat. Charles Soule) Oct 16, 2016
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

    In which writer Charles Soule joins us for a (spoiler free) discussion of Death of X and how to make mortality matter in universes where death is a revolving door.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Fang
    • Who’s really trying to kill off the X-Men
    • Death of Wolverine
    • Death of X
    • Charles Soule’s favorite death scenes
    • Several reasons to care about the Inhumans
    • Unpacking Cyclops
    • The correct pronunciation of “ResurrXion”

    NEXT EPISODE: The Makeshift X-Men of Muir Island

    There’s no visual companion this week!

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    129 – They Don’t Allow Dragons in Here (The Cross-Time Caper, Part 1) Oct 10, 2016
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

    In which “Cross-Time Caper” is something of a misnomer; Excalibur is an awful lot of fun to summarize; none of us will ever live up to Oscar Wilde’s expectations; Captain Britain secretly derives his powers from genre; sometimes things turn out to be simple; Kitty Pryde is better at everything than you; manipulation and murder are the new flowers and candy; context may or may not ruin everything; Meggan gets a new outfit; Technet takes Brighton; and some universes are just too silly to survive.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Rick Jones, Sidekick Supreme
    • The Cross-Time Caper
    • Excalibur #12-15
    • Three love triangles
    • Jay’s mom’s late iguana
    • Captain Marshall, Lord Champion of the Realm
    • Prince William
    • Butch the ogre
    • Princess Kate
    • Fisticuffs
    • Instant air conditioning, Excalibur-style
    • Bagpipe Vader
    • An anticlimactic solution to a protracted problem
    • Sorcery 101
    • Several profoundly unethical ways to initiate a relationship
    • Arrested Excalibur
    • The Campsite Rule of relationships
    • The logistics and social history of tarring and feathering
    • A protracted parody
    • A very large number and several names for it
    • A theoretical team-up
    • Ultimate Hunger
    • An unidentified comic that is not Ultimate Hunger
    • Some less-than-ideal creative choices
    • A multiversal montage
    • Jamie Braddock (more) (again)
    • A duck
    • The unenviable fate of Doctor Crocodile
    • Pairing mutants with metal genres
    • Inconsistent flight safety measures

    NEXT EPISODE: Killing the X-Men, with Charles Soule

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    128 – A Stupid Way to Die (Judgment War, Part 1) Oct 03, 2016
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

    In which X-Factor goes to space; Miles gets judgmental about spelling; Paul Smith returns to an X-title; Celestials are a pain; Judgment War is the Star-Trekkiest story that doesn’t actually involve Star Trek; monster ladies are super important; if you can be a green dude, you should be a green dude; and Cyclops gears up to fight some gods.

    X-PLAINED:

    • One way to kill a Celestial
    • Judg(e)ment War
    • Drunk Mark Trail
    • X-Factor #43-46
    • Walls you should maybe not bust through even if you’re X-Factor
    • A completely inappropriate show pitch
    • Celestials
    • The true secret purpose of Ship
    • The Chosen
    • The Rejects
    • Dualers
    • Perfect Seera
    • Rask
    • Zarka
    • Monster ladies in cultural context
    • Lev
    • A stupid way to die
    • Jammers
    • Plot-relevant amnesia
    • The Most Perfect
    • ZZ-105
    • Baby theft (more)(again)
    • Ryest
    • The Beginagains
    • Whether and when there’ll be another all-question episode
    • The current status of the Jean Grey school

    NEXT EPISODE: The Cross-Time Caper begins!

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