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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 446 - Live at the Magnetosphere
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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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 445 - Dick War
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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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 444 - Damnit, Magnus
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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Other crossovers come and go, but we know the truth: it's always Inferno in here.
(We highly recommend cutting this one into a crop top, but you do you.)
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Jay is dealing with an ongoing family medical emergency, so episode releases may be somewhat unpredictable for the next few weeks. Thank you for your patience!
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Have you RSVP'd yet? DO IT NOW! We need to know how many party favors to order!
WHAT?! Somehow, we've been doing this for a decade?!
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men will be celebrating our 10th birthday on April 13 in Portland, Oregon, with a live show at Clinton Street Theater (10 AM - 12 PM) followed by a birthday party at Books With Pictures (2 - 5 PM)!
RSVP HERE FOR ONE OR BOTH EVENTS!
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Both events are free and all-ages-friendly (assuming you're down with your kid learning a few choice swears).
The live show is mask-mandatory; masks will be provided at the door for anyone who doesn't bring their own. (The party is outdoors and therefore mask-optional.)
There will be both party favors (free) and merch (legal currency or barter), the latter including a fancy new 10th-anniversary print by Colleen Coover!
We welcome costumes and other benign silliness.
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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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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 442 - MimeQuest 64
In which Marrow remains a connoisseur of dead rats; Jay has opinions about the NYC Subway system; U.L.T.I.M.A.T.U.M. are snazzy dressers; Doctor Doom gets excited about Onslaught; Magneto can have a rocket pack if he wants; villainous game recognizes villainous game; weird retcons are the best retcons; and you should totally come to our birthday party.
X-PLAINED:
A peculiar side effect of Wolverine’s healing factor
Jay & Miles on Bluesky (and other social media)
Our upcoming 10th birthday party and live show (and related announcements)
X-Men Unlimited #22
X-Men/Doctor Doom Annual 1998
An unpleasant way to wake up
That’s so Kraven
Avengers and transit cops
U.L.T.I.M.A.T.U.M.
Flag Smasher
Some miscellaneous New York Subway trivia
Audience stand-ins (and how the reading experience changes when the audience stand-in isn’t human-passing)
Additional New York Subway trivia
Premonitions of Onslaught
An X-Men highlight reel
A delightful little retcon
One way to ruin X-Men #137
Healing factor preferences
NEXT EPISODE: Miles and Katie Pryde X-Plain Comics Retail!
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In which Banshee should eat the rich; the real Monet is way more of a jerk than the fake one; the Marvel Universe is the world inside your brain-case; Maggott joins and quits Generation X at almost the speed of Sunfire; Dracula gives Chamber the D; and if Jay and Miles die in this episode, they die in real life.
X-PLAINED:
Dracula as a universal standard
Earth-441
Generation X #48-49
The missed potential of 13,000-year-old teenager Gaia
The Jay Faerber run of Generation X
Emma and Banshee’s forgotten X-friendship
That time that Moira ripped off Banshee’s skin and wore it like a Halloween costume (again)
Cordelia Frost, Emma’s younger sister
Adrienne Frost, Emma’s older sister
Interpersonal arguments by way of Asgardian combat scenarios
Jubilee, fox; versus M, scorpion
Alaska, moping capital of the Marvel Universe
Clever scene transitions
Constantine Francis Slaughter IV and his mustache
Puberty as body horror
Husk’s breakup haircut
Slug emulation
Generation X / Dracula Annual 1998
The Council of Cross-Time Draculas
Chamber’s goofy face
Vampire fonts
Jubilee’s bunny slippers
Charlie Brown in Snow Valley
Count von Count (again)
Monsters as class metaphor
What would happen if Synch synced with Legion
Who would pronounce Cable like Britta Perry pronounces bagel
NEXT EPISODE: Victor Von Doom X-Plains the X-Men.
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Call for questions
Miles will be talking to Katie Pryde, owner of Portland's Eisner-award winning comic shop Books With Pictures, on an upcoming episode! Got questions about the X-retail world or anything related? Message us!
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WHAT?! Somehow, we've been doing this for a decade?!
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men will be celebrating our 10th birthday on April 13 in Portland, Oregon, with a live show at Clinton Street Theater (10 AM - 12 PM) followed by a birthday party at Books With Pictures (2 - 5 PM)!
RSVP HERE FOR ONE OR BOTH EVENTS!
FINE PRINT:
Both events are free and all-ages-friendly (assuming you're down with your kid learning a few choice swears).
The live show is mask-mandatory; masks will be provided at the door for anyone who doesn't bring their own. (The party is outdoors and therefore mask-optional.)
There will be both party favors (free) and merch (legal currency or barter), the latter including a fancy new 10th-anniversary print by Colleen Coover!
We welcome costumes and other benign silliness.
#X-Men#Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men#XPlaintheXMen#Portland#comics#live events#podcast#Jay and Miles#Jay Edidin#Miles Stokes#Books With Pictures#Clinton Street Theater
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In which the Hunt for Xavier remains vaguely disappointing; Gambit is good with kids; nanomachines are the new unstable molecules; Marrow is a walking armory; and we recommend comics for babies.
X-PLAINED:
The Hunt for Xavier, Part 2
Babies and/or ghosts
Chekhov’s repowering
X-Men #83-84
Uncanny X-Men #364
Cerebro / Cerebro Prime
Cerebrite Alpha
Cerebrite Beta
X-Men serial numbers
What Gambit’s friends call him
How Miles stopped worrying and learned to love Gambit
Evil robot sperm
Mary Purcell
Multiple-monitor displays
A computer with a computer
AI
The Florida facility
Post
Pile-Driver X
A glimpse into the butt of all humanity
Comics for babies
Name-based powers
NEXT EPISODE: Generation X has Dracula problems!
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In which we reach the beginning of an end; Jay totally forgot Gambit was there; we’re all living in the Mary Purcelliverse; the X-Men split the party; and we explore The Bay Area’s Bohemian Hotbed of Student Anarchy.
X-PLAINED:
Mary Purcell (sort of)
The re-defaulting of the X-Men
Uncanny X-Men #362-323
X-Men #82
Nebraska
Pyro (Saint John Allerdyce) and his endless illness
Legacy Virus variations
Going home again
Running back and forth in quarries
Marrow, who’s come a long way
The two forms of fire: skeleton monsters and sexy ladies
Cerebro (the evil one)
San Francisco and Tajikinistan
Asphalt ball pits
A topsy-turvy nonsensical impossible hell
Nina the Mannite
Desire, love, loss, and fear
Skulls and spines
The New (New) Brotherhood of Mutants
Cerebrites Alpha and Beta
A lost, smelly fish
Ambiguous art
Blood, sweat, and fears
Which mutants would cause the most chaos at holiday gatherings
Hopes for post-Fall society
NEXT EPISODE: 2 Hunt 2 Xavier
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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 438 - The Man of Harsh Business
In which Gambit knows how to make an entrance; Rogue and Gambit only have relationship conversations during superhero fights; Wolverine fights a shark; and we have opinions on how to handle certain aspects of backstory.
X-PLAINED:
One way to take over Madripoor
Uncanny X-Men #361
X-Men #81
Wolverine: Black Rio
The X-Men’s rapid slide back to the status quo
Steve Comicraft
The fork of loneliness
Cyttorak (again)
Black Tom Cassidy (again)
Peacocks
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
What’s sticking out of Juggernaut’s pants
Favorite versions of the Danger Room
Floriography
Kali (kind of)
Mary Purcell (a bit)
Rio Carnival
An outfit
Detective Antonio Vargas and his mustache
Saint Cyrus Leviticus
Ezra
Comparing mutant and Inhuman culture
Demonic homage
NEXT EPISODE: The Hunt for Xavier begins!
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In which the overlap between Rocky Horror and ‘90s X-Force fans is probably pretty significant; Pandemonia has priorities; the warehouse gets an evil, sexy glowup; swears are great; Johnny Blaze’s motorcycle probably shouldn’t still be on fire; and there is no single definitive X-Men experience.
X-PLAINED:
Master Pandemonium
X-Force #85
X-Force/Champions Annual 1998
What X-Force has been up to lately
The regrettable absence of Doctor Doom
Possession
Community
Cougars (euphemistic)
The thrift cycle
Rusty Collins on Krakoa
Fashion
An eons-old accord between the Houses of Chaos and the Lord of Valhalla
Jennifer Kale
The list
Swears
A statue of Hades
Various appendages sticking out of the earth
Hercules
The mystic power of sarcasm
The greatest fear of a Titan
Monet St. Croix vs. the Count of Monte Cristo
Good X-books for your fifteen-year-old niece
NEXT EPISODE: Wolverine vs. Vampires (again)!
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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 436 - The Feel-Good Movie of the Summer
In which Colossus has had a rough time of it; the X-Men are at their best in bar fights; Bronze-age Wolverine was a jerk; Ursa Major deserves more page space; kids dig Nightcrawler; and we imagine an X-Men newspaper comic strip.
X-PLAINED:
Notable incidents in Iceman’s romantic history
X-Men: Liberators #1-4
Nostalgia
Friendship
A bar fight
Province 13
General Sergei
Several dead deer
Gregor and Valeri
Nikolas
Zener cards
Several children
Omega Red (more) (again)
Ariana
Ideal formats
Beast vs. Dark Beast
A theoretical X-Men newspaper comic
NEXT EPISODE: X-Force gets possessed!
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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episode 435 - Giant-Size Special #12
In which we have had an eventful year; Longshot is a classic folk hero; writer Kieron Gillen makes a triumphant and mildly terrifying return to the show; and you remain the best listeners of any podcast, ever.
X-PLAINED:
Our tenth birthday party!
2023
Longshot vol. 2 #1
Longshot as a folkloric archetype
Longshot (more) (again)
Dismal Nitch, Washington
The Thingee
Baum, Kansas
Corn
Betty
Barrie, Kansas
The Albony Avenue Sanitarium and several of its residents
Innocence, broadly
The Wuggly Ump, by Edward Gorey
Love
Immortal X-Men
Nathaniel Essex and several significant clones thereof
Defining Mister Sinister
Making Charles Xavier sympathetic
Reset phrases
Eternals
The 10th Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
Many people to whom we are grateful
NEXT EPISODE: X-Men: Liberators
Special thanks to:
Matt Hunter
All Kennedy
Max Carleton
Kieron Gillen
Tea Fougner
Anna Stokes
All of our patrons
All of you listening, always <3
“Sinister Is Cloning This Town” performed by Steve and Erin Pence
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