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    Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

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    39 – Forever Alone Together Jan 12, 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 and travel mugs available until 1/11/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

    In which Miles and his Doom voice return triumphant; we reach an understanding regarding Lila Cheney; Mob science is pretty shoddy; Magneto has fancy hair; New Mutants Xavier is Best Xavier; no one is more goth than Cloak and Dagger; and you can have Rachel’s Speed Racer references when you pry them from her cold, dead hands.

    X-Plained:

    • Spider-Man crossovers
    • Cats
    • Marvel Team-Up Annual #6
    • New Mutants #22-25
    • Phone calls with bears
    • Glam day at the Hellfire Club
    • Rahne’s fairytale
    • Cloak & Dagger
    • Drugs
    • Eldritch curtains
    • A seriously flawed evil plan
    • Harry’s Hideaway
    • The Sam and Dani Show
    • Magneto’s hair
    • Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch’s parentage
    • Waiting for the T
    • Whether Cloak and Dagger are mutants
    • How to buy original art

    NEXT WEEK: G. Willow Wilson!

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    38 – Welcome to Murderworld (Feat. Chris Sims) Jan 05, 2015
    Show notes
    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 and travel mugs available until 1/11/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

    In which we welcome back Emergency Backup Co-Host Chris Sims; comics writers are basically supervillains; Cyclops is not here to have fun; Spider-Man flirts with objectivism; Murderworld is probably not financially sustainable; you should totally cosplay the Proletarian; Arcade may or may not secretly be the Archie Andrews of Earth-616; and Doctor Doom remains absolutely delightful.

    X-Plained

    • Captain Britain
    • Arcade
    • Francisco Scaramanga
    • The vastly inferior Arcade of Earth-1610
    • Uncanny X-Men #123-124, 146-147, 197
    • Chris’s first X-Men
    • A really sweet truck
    • Spider-Man’s brief flirtation with objectivism
    • What the X-Men do on their night off
    • Hella nipples
    • Murderworld
    • Miss Locke
    • Mr. Chambers
    • Marvel comics in the Marvel Universe
    • A large number of elaborate deathtraps
    • Soviet Nick Fury
    • The Proletarian
    • Hostage-wrapping
    • Phil and Tobe
    • One way to celebrate your birthday
    • Avengers Arena
    • Miss Coriander
    • The best non-X Arcade stories
    • The end of Axis Sixis
    • Arcade at the Arcade

    NEXT WEEK: Cloak and Dagger!

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

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    Buy prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!

    37 – Giant-Size Special #1 Dec 28, 2014
    Show notes
    Art by David Wynne. Prints available until 1/15 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
    Art by David Wynne. Prints available until 1/15 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

    In which we launch our first-ever giant-size special; God Loves, Man Kills is the definitive X-Men story; Bobby makes his R&MXtXM on-air debut; we repopulate the world with X-writers; Rachel is really excited about x-plaining X-Cutioner’s Song; Miles takes a strong stance on Wolverine’s mask; we award some awards; and it’s all your fault.

    X-Plained

    • God Loves, Man Kills (Marvel Graphic Novel #5)
    • William Stryker
    • An inappropriate analogy
    • Keeping it interesting
    • Favorite episodes
    • Bridging the fan/critic divide
    • Our ongoing obsession with bit characters
    • The challenge of keeping Charles Xavier relevant
    • X-Planation Curation
    • Several stories we’re really looking forward to covering
    • X-Writers on a desert island
    • Internet fights
    • Favorite stories vs. best stories
    • Stupid hats of the Marvel Universe
    • Dr. Doom as Tim Gunn
    • Havok vs. ceiling fans
    • Educational standards of the Marvel Universe
    • The First Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence in X-Cellence

    NEXT WEEK: Rachel and Chris Sims X-Plain Arcade

    CORRECTION: In this episode, Rachel claims that there is only one Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau in the Marvel Multiverse. This is patently untrue. There are numerous versions of Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau in the Marvel Multiverse, who may or may not be able to combine Voltron-style into a giant Corbeau Singularity.

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

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    36 – Steal This Podcast Dec 21, 2014
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    Lila Cheney Wembley 84
    Art by David Wynne. Prints available in the shop until 12/28, or contact David for the original!

    In which we play Six Degrees of Lila Cheney; Cannonball gets a makeover; Earth does not in fact blow up; the X-Men like their s’mores with thinly veiled allegories; and Magik dabbles in erotic friend fiction.

    X-Plained:

    • Strong Guy
    • Annuals
    • New Mutants Annual #1 (Steal This Planet)
    • Lila Cheney
    • Both versions of Cats Laughing
    • The Vrakanain
    • Chris Claremont Book Club
    • Uncanny X-Men Annual #8 (The Adventures of Lockheed the Space Dragon and His Pet Girl Kitty)
    • Some dubious campfire games
    • Illyana’s Space Opera
    • Space pirate X-Men
    • Some long-awaited resolution

    NEXT WEEK: Rachel and Miles’s Giant-Size Special #1, featuring God Loves, Man Kills!

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

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    35 – Post-Disco Panic Dec 15, 2014
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    Art by David Wynne
    Art by David Wynne

    In which literally every character in Dazzler: The Movie is the absolute worst; Beauty and the Beast is secretly kind of awesome; Ann Nocenti is an editorial war-bard; Rachel issues a hat-related retraction; and we would read the hell out of Tales from the Heartbreak Hotel.

    X-Plained:

    • The many mutations of Hank McCoy
    • Alison Blaire
    • Dazzler: The Movie
    • Dazzler’s corporate origins
    • The original plans for the actual unmade Dazzler movie
    • Severely off-model Storm
    • Ziggy the Butler
    • Several frankly horrifying courtships
    • Roman Nekoboh
    • Eric Beale
    • Beauty and the Beast (but not that one)
    • The correct way to open a miniseries
    • Ann Nocenti
    • Alexander Flynn
    • The importance of voice in writing Beast
    • Max Rocker
    • The Heartbreak Hotel (but not that one) and its residents
    • Nocenti narration
    • Some really dubious underground theater
    • The worst hat
    • What Dazzler’s been up to lately

    NEXT WEEK: Rock’n’Roll Annuals… IN SPACE!

    ART CHALLENGE: Join us in a world where Beauty and the Beast spinoff Tales from the Heartbreak Hotel is a real, published comic–and send us your fan-art from that series!

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    34 – Mordenkainen’s Marvelous Mutants Dec 08, 2014
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    Warlock The Barbarian
    Art by David Wynne. Prints available here through Sunday, December 14!

    In which we venture forth into an age undreamed of, there are so many reasons to have Northstar on your team, Selene is the worst guest, Rachel X-Plains Conan, Cyttorak is the Mordenkainen of the Marvel Universe, Miles loves Doctor Strange, we have some fairly serious Captain America feelings, the X-Men completely fail at hide-and-seek, and we make more D&D references in one episode than in the previous 34 combined.

    X-Plained

    • Northstar
    • Beard privilege
    • X-Men 189-192
    • Anachronistic timeline markers
    • Hounds
    • The Culture Shock Class
    • An Age Undreamed of
    • Conan disambiguation
    • Red Sonja vs. Red Sonya
    • Kulan Gath
    • Marvel Team-Up #79
    • Barbarian Avengers
    • Why we love Captain America
    • Several haircuts
    • WiFi sorcery
    • A really good inspirational speech
    • The inevitable cephalopod revolution
    • Why Hank Pym is the absolute worst
    • Claudication
    • Hide-and-seek
    • How Rachel Summers actually traveled back in time
    • Magus
    • Warlock, Adam Warlock, and their respective Magi
    • Politics, religion, and Nightcrawler

    Edited to Add: In this episode, we answered a question from a listener looking for textual evidence that Nightcrawler isn’t homophobic (we pointed them to Amazing X-Men #13). We also discussed that question from a different angle–and at considerably more length–on the blog.

    Next Week: Dazzler: The Movie!

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    33 – Crossoverload Dec 01, 2014
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    Art by David Wynne! Prints here, or contact David for the original.
    Art by David Wynne! Prints here, or contact David for the original.

    In which we dive into two crossovers; our DCU is the DCAU; the Greys just cannot catch a break; Darkseid is basically Santa Claus; the Phoenix Force has Cyclops feels; Baron Karza is the sonic screwdriver of supervillains; and the Enigma Force is aptly named.

    CONTENT NOTE: The Micronauts portion of this episode involves not-particularly-graphic but still fairly involved discussions of sexual violence. If that’s not something you want to listen to, we’d recommend stopping the episode after the Teen Titans portion at 26:26, and fast-forwarding to 47:52 for conclusions, questions, and outro.

    X-Plained:

    • Crossover Earth
    • Amalgam
    • Crossovers
    • The Uncanny X-Men and the New Teen Titans
    • The Teen Titans
    • The One True Flash
    • Cosmic Kirby
    • Darkseid
    • Metron
    • The Source Wall
    • Deathstroke the Terminator
    • Ravok
    • Butte sex
    • Cyclops and the Phoenix Force
    • The X-Men and the Micronauts #1-4
    • Bill Mantlo
    • The Hero Initiative
    • Micronauts
    • The Microverse
    • Baron Karza
    • Evil Xavier (more)(again)(seriously, how is anyone still surprised when this happens)
    • Several moral event horizons crossed in quick succession
    • Female protagonists in X-books

    Next Week: Captain America in a loincloth!

    You can find a visual companion to the episode on our blog.

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    Support us on Patreon!

    Buy prints of this week’s illustration here, or contact David Wynne for the original!

    32 – Off the Map Nov 24, 2014
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    Art by David Wynne
    Art by David Wynne

    In which we hit the definitive arc of New Mutants; Bill Sienkiewicz blows our minds; Rachel gets choked up over a credits spread; Rahne gets a makeover; Doug Ramsey is justifiably flustered; and Warlock is a friend to household appliances.

    NOTE: This episode includes a lot of art talk. While doing so is not strictly necessary to follow the discussion, we recommend listening with the visual companion open.

    X-Plained:

    • Warlock
    • The transmode virus
    • New Mutants #18-21
    • The Demon Bear Saga
    • Bill Sienkiewicz
    • Task leaders vs. social leaders
    • Page layout as a storytelling tool
    • Soul armor
    • The Demon Bear and its shadow
    • One of the best covers of all time
    • Makeovers
    • The deeply problematic fate of Tom Corsi and Sharon Friedlander
    • What the New Mutants are up to these days

    Next Week: Crossovers!

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    31 – Chekhov’s Raygun Nov 16, 2014
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    Art by David Wynne
    Art by David Wynne

    In which there is a whole, whole lot going on; we continue to have no use for Michael Rossi; Wolverine should be an advice columnist; Forge makes bold fashion choices; the health of a timeline is directly tied to the awesomeness of Storm’s hair; and the X-Men get their first dark-future refugee.

    X-Plained:

    • Dire Wraiths
    • ROM
    • Tailoring
    • Uncanny X-Men #182-188
    • Just how much story can be shoehorned into seven issues
    • A dubious Silent Hill metaphor
    • The people in Rogue’s head
    • Inexorable momentum
    • Several profoundly uncomfortable conversations
    • Parallel narrative in comics
    • Being friends with Wolverine
    • Casual enmity
    • Forge
    • Miles’s X-doppelganger
    • Tiny shorts
    • Chekhov’s Raygun
    • Rachel Summers (again)
    • Timeline disambiguation
    • Rachel disambiguation
    • “Lifedeath: A Love Story”
    • Feelings
    • Storm, powers, and identity
    • X-Men Mad-Libs
    • Hound marks
    • X-Men: The End

    Next Week: THE DEMON BEAR SAGA!

    You can find a visual companion to the episode – as well as links to recommended reading and the winners of the stealth / plainclothes cosplay contest – on our blog.

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    30 – New-Wave Superteens in Love Nov 09, 2014
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    Art by David Wynne
    Art by David Wynne

    In which the New Mutants are the Bobbsey Twins to the X-Men’s Sam Spade; Nina da Costa is Ms. Frizzle; New Mutants does a Rachel-and-Miles cold open; Selene is the Elizabeth Bathory of lava; Rahne likes Sam, Sam likes Amara, Dani likes Bobby, and Bobby likes everyone; Gil and Art are no Harvey and Janet; Miles has a Del Preston moment, Magma is a Horta; and if something super happens, you should tell a super adult.

    X-Plained:

    • Selene
    • Externals
    • New Mutants #7-17
    • The da Costa family
    • Axe
    • Some really dubious cosmetic choices
    • Nova Roma
    • Amara Aquilla (Magma)
    • Op-art as a superpower
    • Doug Ramsey’s hair
    • The Massachusetts Academy
    • New-Wave Superteens
    • Deflection
    • The Hellions
    • Not-Particularly-Secret Origins of the Hellfire Club
    • Publishing schedules

    Next Week: Lifedeath, time travel, and Forge’s tiny shorts.

    You can find a visual companion to the episode – as well as links to recommended reading and the winners of the stealth / plainclothes cosplay contest – on our blog.

    Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!

    Support us on Patreon!

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