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    Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

    Because It’s About Time Someone Did

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    49 – Of Mullets and Miracles Mar 23, 2015
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 3/29/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 3/29/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

    In which we meet Miles’s favorite X-Man; Longshot is Secret Wars II done right; we are fairly committed to the idea of Ann Nocenti as a post-apocalyptic daredevil superhero; Longshot is patient zero of the ‘90s; Ricochet Rita is the best; luck is a zero-sum commodity; Mojo is legitimately terrifying; and nuance is Longshot’s secret weakness.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Spiral
    • The Body Shop
    • Several ill-advised body swaps
    • Longshot
    • Longshot
    • Rachel Summers Syndrome
    • The evolution of Art Adams
    • The metaphysics of luck
    • The secret origin of pouches
    • A large number of pop culture allusions
    • Glam survivalists
    • Psychometry
    • Moral complexity
    • Gog’n’Magog
    • Ricochet Rita
    • The social economics of jetpacks
    • A whole lot of social satire and commentary
    • Star Slammers
    • Mojo
    • The Mojoverse
    • Luck as a zero-sum commodity
    • Arize
    • Quark
    • Longshot and Dazzler’s star sigils
    • Finding (or creating) your comics community

    NEXT WEEK: The Trial of Magneto!

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    48 – Guitar Solos of the Gods Mar 16, 2015
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 3/22/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 3/22/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

    In which Asgardian Wars occupies the precise intersection of Miles’s favorite things; Marvel Asgard is your favorite metal album; no one appreciates Cypher; Wolfsbane gets some action; Warlock gets meta; Cannonball is a catch; Rachel Summers gets a new costume; Loki does Shakespeare; and Rachel overthinks Leverage.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Various Mjolnirs and their attendant powers
    • Asgardian Wars
    • New Mutants Special Edition #1
    • X-Men Annual #9
    • The Surtwar
    • Art Adams
    • Amora the Enchantress
    • Lorelei
    • Several pop culture cameos
    • A really dubious beach party
    • The Viking Sorceress Asgardian Portrait of Dorian Grey
    • Ed Grimley
    • Hrimhari
    • Wolf makeouts
    • The Marvel version of Norse mythology
    • The Warriors Three
    • Rule #1 of dealing with fairies
    • A hawk ‘hawk
    • Valkyries
    • Einherjar
    • A costume in somewhat questionable taste
    • Interdimensional lightning-bolt mixology
    • Our favorite Thor story, ever
    • How to get your friends and neighbors into comics
    • Asgardian mutants (or lack thereof)
    • X-Leverage cross-casting

    NEXT WEEK: Longshot!

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    47 – The Price of Power (feat. Elisabeth Allie) Mar 09, 2015
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 3/15/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 3/15/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

    In which Emergency Backup Co-Host Elisabeth Allie saves the day; the Berserkers are not the breakout hit you’ve been waiting for; Paul Smith continues to be awesome; nothing good ever happens in the Danger Room; Charles Xavier dabbles in cosplay; Nightcrawler has serious hat game; Rachel Summers lacks healthy coping skills; your life would be way more epic if Claremont narrated it; Northstar is a surprisingly good prom date; Loki is a total dick; and Longshot is totally Miles’s favorite.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Madelyne Pryor
    • X-Men/Alpha Flight vols. 1&2
    • The Berserkers
    • An unconventional model of family therapy
    • Aggressive foreshadowing
    • NPC dialogue
    • Jazzercise superheroes
    • Superhero color theory
    • Sasquatch
    • Aurora
    • Those Who Sit Above in Shadow
    • Norse fashion of the ‘80s
    • Very specific superpowers
    • Some sweet boots
    • The price of power
    • A deus ex machina squared
    • Kitty and Piotr’s first date
    • Snowbird’s powers
    • Miles’s favorite X-Man

    NEXT WEEK: Asgardian Wars!

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    46 – Shadows Over Cairo Mar 01, 2015
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 3/8/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 3/8/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

    In which we bid a fond farewell to Bill Sienkiewicz; Secret Wars II continues to ruin everything; the New Mutants end up in an improbable number of gladiatorial arenas; Shadowcat’s secondary mutation is queer subtext; Magik gives no fucks about your crossover event; Warlock transcends storytelling conventions; and Karma rejoins the team.

    X-PLAINED:

    • The chronologically inconsistent mobility of Professor Xavier
    • The Shadow King
    • New Mutants #29-34
    • Steve Leialoha
    • The Arena (more) (again)
    • Evil group projects
    • Easter eggs
    • Rachel Summers: butch fashion icon
    • Some major failures of positive size diversity in comics
    • Madripoor
    • Ashake
    • The incredible changing Guthries
    • The wickedest club in Cairo
    • Default X-teams
    • Cypher’s powers

    NEXT WEEK: Miles and Elisabeth Allie X-Plain X-Men / Alpha Flight

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    45 – A Woman Who Could Fly Feb 22, 2015
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and travel mugs available until 3/1/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and travel mugs available until 3/1/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

    In which we discard our regularly scheduled programming to focus on Storm and Lifedeath II; no one draws motion like Barry Windsor-Smith; Storm goes up to eleven; and we really wish we had the frame of reference to place this story in the larger context of diaspora literature.

    X-Plained:

    • Forge
    • The Adversary
    • Uncanny X-Men #198 (Lifedeath II)
    • Storm
    • The narrative impact of sexualization
    • Barry Windsor-Smith
    • Extreme weather in comics
    • Hallucinatory X-Men
    • Storm in adaptation
    • The Storm elevator pitch
    • Our Storm dream casting
    • Mjnari
    • Artist editions
    • Colonialism
    • Storm as a liminal figure

    NEXT WEEK: The New Mutants Go to the Arena!

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    44 – Assembling Legion, with Si Spurrier Feb 16, 2015
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and travel mugs available until 2/22/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and travel mugs available until 2/22/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

    In which Legion grows from setting to protagonist; Rachel is a master of narrative rationalization; “Claremont” is a verb; Warlock befriends an airplane; Xavier owns a significant mistake; New Mutants does a deep dive into power dynamics; you should go read X-Men: Legacy already; and Si reveals the true secret nature of reality.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Blindfold (Ruth Aldine)
    • Luca Aldine
    • Legion (David Haller)
    • Mental illness in fiction
    • New Mutants #26-28
    • Socialized medicine
    • Appropriate gym apparel
    • Rachel’s favorite scene from any X-book, ever
    • Claremonting
    • Jack Wayne
    • Cyndi
    • Jemail Karami
    • Roughly 20 years of condensed continuity
    • The Age of Apocalypse
    • Age of X
    • X-Men: Legacy vol. 2
    • Father issues
    • David Haller’s accent
    • The Origamist
    • Santi Sardina
    • A visual metaphor
    • The true secret nature of reality
    • Professor Y
    • The Franklin Richards Universe Hypothesis

    NEXT WEEK: Spotlight on Storm

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    43 – It’s Not a Secret If It’s in the Title Feb 09, 2015
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and travel mugs available until 2/15/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and travel mugs available until 2/15/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

    In which we cover 21 issues in one episode; Secret Wars is a toy commercial; Jim Shooter’s X-Men are not the X-Men to which we are accustomed; Doctor Doom makes a surprisingly benevolent god; Secret Wars II is neither secret nor a war; The Beyonder learns to poop; and Boom-Boom is the best thing to come out of Secret Wars.

    X-Plained:

    • Secret Wars
    • The not-particularly-secret origin of Secret Wars
    • Binary morality
    • Battleworld
    • The Wrecking Crew
    • Klaw
    • The Beyonder
    • Molecule Man
    • Doki-Doki Universe
    • Titania and Volcana
    • Zsaji
    • Secret Wars II
    • The Passion of Jim Shooter
    • Stewart Cadwall
    • What people do
    • Tie-ins
    • Pooping
    • What it means to be Spider-Man
    • Boom-Boom (Tabitha Smith)
    • The time a bunch of superheroes saved the universe by killing a baby

    NEXT WEEK: Legion, with Si Spurrier!

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    42 – A Firestar Is Born Feb 01, 2015
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 2/1/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 2/1/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

    In which Miles has a brush with nostalgia; Angelica Jones is secretly a Thomas Hardy protagonist; it doesn’t need to make sense if it’s awesome; and Emma Frost really needs a mustache to twirl.

    X-Plained:

    • Trevor Fitzroy
    • Firestar (Angelica Jones)
    • Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
    • Nostalgia
    • X-Men, if sometimes the main characters were bears
    • Inexplicably Australian Wolverine
    • Ms. Lion
    • Marvel Divas
    • Sudsy fun
    • Superhero sitcoms
    • Firestar #1-4
    • Basic palmistry
    • Generic mean girls
    • Coen Brothers YA
    • The reinvention of Emma Frost
    • Some epic gaslighting
    • Butter Rum
    • Mutivac
    • Miles’s favorite star-crossed ‘ship
    • Why Thunderbird I has stayed dead
    • Contextual definitions of “organic”

    NEXT WEEK: Secret Wars

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    41 – Hated and Feared Jan 25, 2015
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 2/1/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 2/1/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

    In which Nimrod is probably an honorary Summers by this point; Claremont hits a centennial; it’s probably pretty hard to get an unconscious person into tight leather pants; the X-Men finally encounter a world that actually hates and fears them; and the Power Pack fits somewhat uneasily with the grown-up Marvel Universe.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Nimrod
    • Uncanny X-Men #193-195
    • Thunderbird II (James Proudstar)
    • Situation-inappropriate attire
    • The worst Hellions
    • Firestar (Angelica Jones)
    • Why you call ahead before breaking into NORAD
    • Leadership
    • Public opinion
    • Juggernaut fights
    • How the X-Men wake up
    • Nazgûl
    • Tyranny of the Masses: The Robot
    • The Voltron Special
    • The Power Pack
    • Navigating crossovers

    NEXT WEEK: Firestar!

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    40 – Give Them Something to Punch (With G. Willow Wilson) Jan 19, 2015
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    Art by David Wynne. Prints and travel mugs available until 1/11/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints available until 1/25/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

    In which writer G. Willow Wilson joins us to talk about her new run on X-Men; the Future is really confusing; we consider the many iterations of Rachel Grey; Storm probably has strong feelings about climate change; and writing for a shared universe takes some seriously fancy footwork.

    X-Plained:

    • Jubilee
    • Shogo (a little)
    • The future vs. the Future
    • X-Men vols. 1-4
    • The logistics of stepping into a book mid-series
    • Pigeonholing and “girl” books
    • The proper pronunciation of Kamala
    • Storm (again)
    • Psylocke
    • M
    • Rachel Grey (again)
    • Cross-title coordination
    • Writing in a shared universe
    • Super-powered ecology
    • The gender politics of telepathy
    • Writing and dialogue across media
    • Marginalization, intersectionality, and the mutant metaphor

    Next Week: Pink robots from the future!

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