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    Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

    Because It’s About Time Someone Did

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    452 – Hot Nothing Jun 10, 2024
    Show notes

    In which Magneto is not full of mirth; nobody real or fictional likes Fabian Cortez; when you’re a speedster, every problem is a metaphorical nail; The Zealot makes some valid points; and when Quicksilver declares himself your conscience, it’s time to examine your life.

    X-PLAINED:

    • How Magneto got his powers back
    • Morally ambiguous hair
    • Genosha (more) (again)
    • Magneto Rex #1-3
    • Magneto vs. Conan
    • Trish Tilby
    • Omniscient narrative condemnation
    • Magneto’s true archfoe
    • Magistrates (more) (again)
    • Mutates (more) (again)
    • Dr. Alda Huxley
    • Phillip Moreau (more) (again)
    • Jenny Ransome (more) (again)
    • Pipeline (Cormac Grimshaw)
    • Teleportational nudity
    • The Zealot
    • Fabian Cortez (more) (again)
    • Amelia Voght (more) (again)
    • Several of Magneto’s on-again-off-again children
    • The Bastille (but not that one)
    • Mutant numbering
    • When to use full frontal nudity in your comic
    • The X-books we’re not covering
    • The Amulet of Right vs the Sword of Might

    NEXT EPISODE: X-Men ’97!

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    451 – Meanwhile in Another Dimension Jun 03, 2024
    Show notes

    In which we remain fascinated by Magneto’s robot butler; murder is Logan’s love language; the Juggernaut punches a hole in reality; Professor Xavier makes it weird; and Storm lectures several gods.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Silly mutant powers
    • Uncanny X-Men #368-369
    • X-Men #88
    • Alan Davis’s X-Men run
    • Magneto’s robot butler
    • Joseph’s funeral
    • Nun-sense
    • A voyage to another dimension
    • Eyebrow power
    • Ejulp
    • The Trion
    • The other Gem of Cyttorak that’s like the first one but somehow worse
    • Several comas
    • Juggernaut vs. Juggernaut
    • Evil, kind of
    • Vacationing with X-Men characters
    • Illyana Rasputin and Rachel Summers

    NEXT EPISODE: Magneto Rex

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    450 – Live at the Clinton Street Theater May 27, 2024
    Show notes

    In which we celebrate our tenth anniversary by X-Plaining what may be the most reviled X-arc; you should not try this at home; Mystique is so much better than this story; Azazel is a really boring devil; Nightcrawler should probably be missing a hand; the Xavier School definitely does not have an HR department; and we would prefer that you not pee on Iceman.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Nightcrawler’s (most recent) parentage
    • Uncanny X-Men #428-434
    • X-Men Blue: Origins #1
    • The X-Men, like, in general
    • Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)
    • Some narrative choices
    • Mystique
    • Baron Christian Wagner
    • Marvel Europe
    • Azazel
    • Church sex
    • Nightstreaker
    • Isla des Demonas
    • Foibles of Warren Kenneth Worthington III
    • Annie and Carter Ghazikhanian
    • Abyss
    • Kiwi Black
    • The Cheyarafim and Neyaphem
    • Bad times with psychic therapy
    • Post-traumatic supervillainy
    • Uncool Hell
    • A miracle of magnetism
    • The only cool thing in Uncool Hell
    • A very elegant retcon
    • X-Muppets
    • Characters who deserve more page space
    • Miles’s favorite X-Person
    • What the Worthington Corporation does
    • A character who could reasonably be Azazel’s kid

    NEXT EPISODE: Back to X-business as usual!

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    449 – Dressing the X-Men, with Russell Dauterman May 13, 2024
    Show notes

    In which artist Russell Dauterman joins us to discuss super-powered costume design!

    X-PLAINED:

    • Why it’s important to get a professional to design your superhero costume
    • Why Miles doesn’t trust the government
    • Russell’s history at Marvel
    • Designing for the Hellfire Gala
    • Mutant fashion
    • The word “fashionize”
    • Iconic looks
    • Modernizing superhero costumes
    • Powers vs. personality
    • Punk goddess Storm
    • Designing for drawability
    • Magic hair
    • Russell’s influences
    • Definitive Rogue costumes
    • X-Men ‘97
    • Best X-team costumes
    • Jay’s holy grail cosplay
    • Magic hair, cosplayed
    • Costume retrospectives
    • Where to find Russell online
    • Evil twin trends of the 1990s
    • Fuck You Pink

    NEXT EPISODE: Jay & Miles Live at the Clinton Street Theater!

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    448 – Skamageddon May 06, 2024
    Show notes
    Feral’s back – just in time to wreck Jay’s voice again! (And Siryn’s, but we’ll get to that later.) (X-Force #88)

    In which timeline math is almost never worth it; Tarot comes back from the dead (kind of) (maybe); Magma makes a heel turn; “King Bedlam” would be a great name for a ska band; not every nude man can turn into a bear; and you don’t have to talk to your supervillain relatives.

    X-PLAINED:

    • The Triune Understanding
    • Birthday party follow-up
    • X-Force #87-90
    • Legacy and continuity
    • Bedlam (Jesse Aaronson)
    • Tarot (Marie-Ange Colbert)
    • Goat Simulator
    • King Bedlam (Christopher Aaronson)
    • The New Hellions
    • Perils of body-swapping
    • Linear time
    • Science
    • Armageddon Man
    • Paradigm
    • Senator Owen Danville
    • Family
    • A fancy hat
    • Madame Web
    • Many natural disasters
    • Early Genoshan history
    • Longshot as a villain

    NEXT EPISODE: Dressing the X-Men with Russell Dauterman!

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    447 – Minor Altercation of the Mutants Apr 29, 2024
    Show notes

    In which everything is an event these days; Skin may or may not have a skeleton; everyone has a crush on Synch; we are intrigued by Integer; and it’s hard to be Emma Frost.

    X-PLAINED:

    • War of the Mutants
    • Generation X #50
    • X-Man #50
    • Nate Grey (again)
    • Adrienne Frost
    • Science
    • Dark Beast (again)
    • Gene Nation
    • Vessel
    • Hemingway
    • Membrain
    • Fever Pitch
    • Dark Opsidian
    • Iron Maiden
    • Wynter
    • Tattoos
    • More science
    • Integer
    • Trauma
    • Multiversal designations
    • The Morlock Tunnels

    NEXT EPISODE: X-Force vs the New Hellions

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    446 – Live at the Magnetosphere Apr 15, 2024
    Show notes
    Ah, the age-old question: would you scissor your clone while yelling? (Uncanny X-Men #367)

    In which the Magneto War comes to a close.

    X-PLAINED:

    • X-Men #86-87
    • Uncanny X-Men #367
    • Quite a few other things, which we’ll add to this post tomorrow!

    NEXT EPISODE: Nate Grey meets Generation X!

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    445 – Dick War Apr 08, 2024
    Show notes

    In which not every story needs to be an event; Alan Davis returns to the X-line; X-mansion security is not what it once was; Rogue needs some new fantasies; and Magneto wants a country.

    X-PLAINED:

    • A poor governance decision
    • X-Men: The Magneto War #1
    • Uncanny X-Men #366
    • Astral demerits
    • A very dramatic dream
    • The yolk of oppression
    • Several Acolytes
    • Nightcrawler’s nightcap
    • Our standards for advertisers
    • Suburban Magneto
    • Ferris
    • Magnet problems
    • Forged DNA
    • Mutants from Georgia, Florida, and Indiana
    • Flying with Storm

    NEXT EPISODE: Magneto wins.

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    444 – Damnit, Magnus Apr 01, 2024
    Show notes

    In which it’s difficult to flee with soup; Miles may or may not be haunting the X-Men; Colossus collaborates involuntarily; Marrow is full of surprises; Magneto is a dick; Jay continues to carry a torch for Secret Wars: Siege; and you should totally come to our birthday party.

    X-PLAINED:

    • Several rather pointed allusions
    • X-Force #86
    • Uncanny X-Men #365
    • X-Men #85
    • Almost Reno, NM
    • Where mutants come from
    • The Aguilar Institute (more) (again)
    • Abandoned towns
    • Mary the telepathic moppet (more) (again)
    • Odysseus Indigo
    • The Damocles Foundation
    • Sibling names
    • The Fundamental Attribution Error
    • A haunting
    • Christmas beer
    • Christmas ghost exquisite corpse
    • Bill Jones
    • A rescue mission
    • Essential stories of the ‘90s
    • Our weird favorites
    • Siege
    • Our upcoming 10th birthday party (more) (again)

    NEXT EPISODE: Magneto War begins!

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    443 – X-Retail (feat. Katie Pryde of Books With Pictures) Mar 11, 2024
    Show notes

    In which we walk down X-Plain Memory Lane; everyone needs Bitch Planet; HoX/PoX wouldn’t stay on shelves; we learn how to make sure a comic doesn’t get canceled; Marvel should have kept publishing those Krakoa-era anthology TPBs; X-Men is indeed a soap opera; and you can jump in here ’cause we’re all confused.

    X-PLAINED:

    • The most crowded X-year
    • Books With Pictures, official best comics shop in the world
    • Our upcoming 10th birthday party
    • Katie Pryde’s X-history
    • Prioritizing marginalized nerd identities
    • Lapsed X-readers
    • X-sprawl
    • The Dawn of X books that worked (and the one that didn’t)
    • The frustration of discontinued collection formats
    • The perfect number of X-books (again)
    • Drama and kissing
    • What we want after Fall of X
    • Readers’ single issue vs collection preferences
    • The power of the preorder
    • Katie’s (naming) origin story
    • Readers versus speculators
    • How to organize a comic book store
    • Non-X recommendations for X-fans
    • The glory of Judge Dredd
    • X-Men who can be trusted to watch a comic book store

    NEXT EPISODE: Deviants, Christmas ghosts, and Magneto!

    LINKS AND FURTHER READING:

    • Books With Pictures in Portland, Oregon
    • The Books With Pictures Podcast

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