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    Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

    Because It’s About Time Someone Did

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    79 – Bear on a Boat Oct 19, 2015
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 10/25/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 10/25/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

    In no one trusts Magneto; Dr. Druid is the comfiest superhero; She-Hulk wants to punch a meteor; Rachel and Miles are really bad at both nature and maritime law; boat fights are the best fights; everyone makes terrible choices; and James Jaspers should really have been disbarred by now.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Darkstar vs. Dark Star
    • X-Men vs. Avengers #1-4
    • Magneto’s narrative milestones
    • Dr. Anthony Druid
    • A most peculiar meteor
    • The Soviet Super Soldiers
    • Vanguard
    • Darkstar
    • The Titanium Man / Gremlin
    • Ursa Major
    • Floridian vs. Australian fauna
    • Crimson Dynamo
    • Dock parties with the X-Men
    • Secrets of Asteroid M
    • Cartoonish pursuit
    • The drinking rules of costume semi-destruction
    • The Laws of the Sea
    • Why you should put your multi-team brawls on a boat
    • An abrupt creative shift
    • The Light
    • Several miracles of magnetism
    • An ethical dilemma
    • The (other) trial of Magneto
    • Magneto heel turns
    • Picking which tie-ins to read
    • The Secret Convergence on Infinite Podcasts

    NEXT EPISODE: Warlock vs. the Impossible Man!

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    78 – The Eye Killers and Other Cautionary Tales Oct 12, 2015
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 10/18/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 10/18/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

    In which we persevere in the face of adversity; Storm goes on a quest; Mr. Sinister makes his first appearance; Dazzler learns about teamwork (again); it still sucks to be Havok (but not as much as it sucks to be Madelyne Pryor); you should probably put down that cactus; the Murder Grampas join Freedom Force; Storm’s life is a metal-album cover; and the X-Men are doomed as hell.

    X-Plained:

    • The Mr. Sinister / Summers family time loop
    • Uncanny X-Men #220-224
    • Actual and potential origins of Mr. Sinister’s name
    • How Longshot’s powers work in combat
    • Teamwork (again)
    • Representing sound and silence in a visual medium
    • A protracted fight
    • Forge (again)
    • Naze (kind of)
    • The Adversary
    • Eye Killers
    • One of many reasons not to masturbate with a cactus
    • The X-Men in San Francisco
    • Madelyne Pryor vs. fate
    • Storm vs. Forge
    • Character names vs. code names
    • X-Makeovers

    NEXT WEEK: X-Men vs. Avengers

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    77 – Die Hard With a Lobster Oct 05, 2015
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 10/11/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 10/11/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

    In which we relax our definition of X-book; we really want Sunspot to grow a mustache; Miles gets an excuse to say “shillelagh”; Bill the Lobster goes on a rampage; and Fallen Angels is really, really, really wonderful.

    X-Plained:

    • Devil Dinosaur
    • Moon Boy
    • Fallen Angels #1-8
    • Jo Duffy
    • Assembling a team
    • Sunspot as a point-of-view character
    • Compassion as a superpower
    • Da Costa’s Devils vs. Ma Guthrie’s Gorillas
    • Goat Simulator
    • An unfortunate incident
    • Somewhat harsh student evaluations
    • The moral compass of Magnum, P.I.
    • Warlock and Sunspot as mutual foils
    • Chance
    • Ariel
    • Multiple Man (Jamie Madrox) and several notable duplicates
    • Siryn (Theresa Cassidy)
    • Gomi
    • Bill
    • Don
    • The Fallen Angels
    • The Vanisher
    • The Marvel Girl Fan Club
    • Lobster feelings
    • Kirby monsters
    • Doris Danger
    • Dinosaur World
    • Fallen Angels as a spiritual antecedent to Runaways
    • The tragic death of Don the Lobster
    • Fallen Angels II
    • How to party like Dr. Doom
    • Doom Patrol vs. X-Men

    NEXT WEEK: A Sinister debut.

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    76 – Live at Rose City Comic Con, with Ann Nocenti, Jeff Parker, and Chris Yost Sep 28, 2015
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 10/4/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 10/4/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

    In which we record our first live episode; Rose City Comic Con is AMAZING; Ann tells us how to torture the X-Men; Jean Grey needs more friends; Chris survives an encounter with an angry vampire; Squirrel Girl sets the high bar for questions; everyone has opinions about Longshot’s hair; Jeff gets meta; Cyclops is the best at fighting Sentinels; and Rachel ALMOST gets through an entire panel without swearing.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Cable (Nathan Summers)
    • Stryfe (Also Nathan Summers)
    • Rose City Comic Con
    • Christopher Yost
    • Jeff Parker
    • Ann Nocenti
    • The X-Men
    • Superheroes vs. soap operas
    • Continuity vs. evolution
    • Updating the Silver Age
    • What defines an X-book
    • All of our iconic X-eras
    • Close encounters of the fan kind
    • The Continuiteens
    • Marvel Girl and Squirrel Girl team-ups
    • Narrative regrets
    • How we’d end the X-Men
    • X-Men best suited to professional wrestling
    • Our personal mutant metaphors
    • Which of the X-Men is best at fighting Sentinels

    NEXT WEEK: Fallen Angels!

    There’s no visual companion this week, but you can see photos from the panel, party, and more in our Rose City Comic Con roundup!

    Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!

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    75 – By Their Deeds You Shall Know Them Sep 21, 2015
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 9/20/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 9/20/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

    In which Masque is the worst Morlock; makeouts are a good reason to learn to control your powers; Cyclops and Marvel Girl are terrible role models; Iceman is the heart of X-Factor; Cameron Hodge finally shows his hand; the kids are all right (and probably the only ones who are); and we’ve basically given up on X-Factor ever learning to use doors.

    X-PLAINED:

    • The Right
    • The Ani-Mator
    • X-Factor #16-20
    • Training with X-Factor
    • Skids’ backstory
    • Motivational makeouts
    • Miles’s Thor-ner
    • Thor #377-378
    • Why you don’t make deals with frost giants
    • The mystical realm of Pittsburgh
    • Redundant funeral graffiti
    • A totally rad villain speech
    • The evolution of Iceman
    • Dubious flight safety precautions
    • Rictor (Julio Esteban Richter)
    • Some really epic gaslighting
    • A probably-inevitable confrontation
    • Supervillain team-building exercises
    • Park maintenance

    NEXT WEEK: Rachel & Miles Live at Rose City Comic Con; with Ann Nocenti, Jeff Parker, and Christopher Yost!

    You can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog!

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    74 – This Dumb Rumpus Sep 14, 2015
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 9/20/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 9/20/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

    In which Franklin Richards is definitely a normal human meat child; Thing’s code-name is delightfully ambiguous; your kids are probably robot sailors; it’s always a Doombot; Rachel accidentally identifies with Reed Richards; all dramatic roads lead to Latveria; and superheroes are terrible at conflict resolution.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Franklin Richards
    • Rachel & Miles at Rose City Comic Con
    • Rachel & Miles X-Plain the X-Men LIVE
    • Fantastic Four Versus the X-Men #1-4
    • The best hugs in the biz
    • The Fantastic Four
    • Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards)
    • Invisible Woman (Susan Richards)
    • Human Torch (Johnny Storm)
    • Thing (Ben Grimm)
    • The Fantasticast
    • Special dreams (but not that kind)
    • Alicia Masters (sort of)
    • Dubiously informative cover art
    • The doomed frenemyship of Reed Richards and Victor von Doom
    • Varyingly competent parenting
    • An awful lot of incidental nudity
    • Ethics of super-science
    • Robot sailors
    • Latveriandroids
    • Agency
    • Dubious conflict-resolution skills
    • Human Torch costume logistics
    • Dr. Doom’s history with Magneto
    • Relative roles and themes of Marvel teams

    NEXT WEEK: X-Factor still hasn’t really gotten the hang of doors.

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    Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!

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    73 – Evolving Evolution, with Robert N. Skir Sep 07, 2015
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 9/6/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 9/6/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

    In which Rachel holds down the fort; Robert N. Skir X-Plains several cartoons; teenagers are basically mutants; Southern goths are the best goths; and you should really just watch X-Men: Evolution already.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Bad parenting choices
    • Rachel & Miles @ Rose City Comic Con
    • Secret origins of Robert N. Skir
    • The development of X-Men: Evolution
    • The Unauthorized X-Men
    • Point-of-view points of entry
    • The Evolution series bible
    • Spyke (Evan Daniels)
    • Mutants in society
    • Rogue variations
    • Brushes with fandom

    NEXT WEEK: Fantastic Four vs. X-Men

    There’s no visual companion to this episode, but you can find links and further reading on our blog!

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    72 – Thrown Under the Plot Bus Aug 31, 2015
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 9/6/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 9/6/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

    In which Dazzler is not a team player; Longshot is the Zonker Harris of the X-Men; Juggernaut is That Guy; Rachel and Miles channel Statler and Waldorf; and Alex Summers is seriously never, ever going to finish grad school.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Mutant X
    • The only well-adjusted Scott Summers in the Multiverse
    • The Goblin Entity
    • Uncanny X-Men #217-219
    • The evolution of the X-Men’s lineup
    • Standards for a good twist
    • Doonesbury
    • Several Dungeons & Dragons analogies
    • A dubious literary allusion
    • Flying jeeps
    • CrimeBros
    • The fundamental tragedy of Longshot
    • Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and several homages thereto
    • Geordie and Rupert
    • Havok (more) (again)
    • Car-wreck sex
    • An unfortunate end to a camping trip
    • The Plot Bus
    • Several ways to stat Rogue up as a D&D character
    • Narrative-friendly power sets

    Special thanks to:

    • The wonderful Adam Warrock, for letting us sample his song “Teamwork” in this episode! You can listen to the full track here, and find more of Adam’s work at adamwarrock.com.
    • Harrison Barber for his X-Pert D&D advice (not to mention nearly fifteen years of tolerating our nonsense at the gaming table)!

    NEXT WEEK: X-Men: Evolution with Robert N. Skir!

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    71 – The Once and Fuchsia King Aug 24, 2015
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 8/30/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 8/30/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

    In which the New Mutants return from space; Professor Xavier ruins everything; Magneto is the Craig Pelton of X-Men; Cypher carouses shamefully with Hellfire tramps; Karma quits the team; and we wrap up Chris Claremont’s New Mutants run.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Leong and Nga Coy Manh
    • New Mutants #51-54
    • The Starjammers (again)
    • The paradox of Professor X
    • Several dramatic speeches
    • The Hellfire Club for Creative Anachronism
    • Plan Omega (but not that one)
    • A fairly epic dress-code violation
    • Magik vs. Limbo
    • A very specific bit of fancasting
    • Best Magneto
    • What X-fans (may or may not) live for
    • A well-wrought nightmare
    • Hellion disambiguation
    • Doug Ramsey’s Fancy Hair
    • New Mutants X Frank Zappa
    • Wacky teen hijinks at the Hellfire Club
    • Carousing shamefully with Hellfire tramps
    • A heroic challenge
    • A counterintuitive heart’s desire
    • Claremont’s New Mutants run.
    • Libraries
    • Emma Frost’s accent
    • The sounds of blastin’

    NEXT WEEK: It’s hard to be Havok.

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    Rachel 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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    70 – Forget It, Jake; It’s X-Factor Aug 17, 2015
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 8/23/2015 in the shop (also pencils skirts, ‘cause, why the hell not?) or contact David for the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 8/23/2015 in the shop (also pencils skirts, ‘cause, why the hell not?) or contact David for the original.

    In which everything is terrible; miscommunication triangles are way more awkward than love triangles; Boom Boom is universally delightful; Miles has feelings about ‘80s fashion; Apocalypse is judging your band posters; X-Factor still hasn’t gotten the hang of doors; Cyclops’s life continues to be an anxiety dream; the Twelve are better in foreshadowing than practice; and Angel dies as he lived: half-naked, at an airport.

    X-PLAINED

    • The evolution of Angel
    • Cold opens
    • rachelandmiles.com
    • X-Factor so far
    • X-Factor #12-15
    • A miscommunication triangle
    • Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith)
    • Rachel’s Marc Silvestri causality loop
    • Boom Boom vs. Jubilee
    • Cameron disambiguation
    • Famine
    • Master Mold (more) (again)
    • The Twelve
    • Tanya Trask
    • Caliban

    NEXT WEEK: Technoorganic blues!

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