Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Author: Jay

As Mentioned in Episode 346 – Romancing the Gehenna Stone

Leave a comment

Listen to the episode here.

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
Darts with Patch. (Wolverine #11)
Darts with Patch. (Wolverine #11)
Burt Corrigan, at his driest. (Wolverine #11)
Burt Corrigan, at his driest. (Wolverine #11)
Now THAT'S how you arrive at court. (Wolverine #11)
Now THAT’S how you arrive at court. (Wolverine #11)
I would argue that Burt is MORE competent than most of the people around him, and also more vampire-aware. (Wolverine #11)
I would argue that Burt is MORE competent than most of the people around him, and also more vampire-aware. (Wolverine #11)
He's the best at what he does, and what he does makes for pretty fun splash pages. (Wolverine #12)
He’s the best at what he does, and what he does makes for pretty fun splash pages. (Wolverine #12)
Dang, man. (Wolverine #12)
Dang, man. (Wolverine #12)
So, that happened. (Wolverine #13)
So, that happened. (Wolverine #13)
Good times, good times. (Wolverine #13)
Good times, good times. (Wolverine #13)
THE PRECIOUS! (Wolverine #13)
THE PRECIOUS! (Wolverine #13)
AGAIN: NOBODY IN THIS COMIC CAN FLY. (Wolverine #14)
AGAIN: NOBODY IN THIS COMIC CAN FLY. (Wolverine #14)
Two corner-box Wolverines are better than one! (Wolverine #15)
Two corner-box Wolverines are better than one! (Wolverine #15)
Aw, Burt. (Wolverine #15)
Aw, Burt. (Wolverine #15)
The Hand of God, everybody! (Wolverine #15)
The Hand of God, everybody! (Wolverine #15)
Hell, yeah, you are. (Wolverine #15)
Hell, yeah, you are. (Wolverine #15)
NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk NEXT EPISODE: Onslaught!
NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk
NEXT EPISODE: Onslaught!

346 – Romancing the Gehenna Stone

18 comments

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

In which we continue to avoid Onslaught with a jaunt over to the Wolverine solo series; Logan is terrible at both being a loner and secret identities; fake vampires are fundamentally hilarious; and Burt Corrigan is the hero we need.

X-PLAINED

  • Hyperstorm (kinda)
  • Wolverine #11-16
  • A very full week
  • What Wolverine has been up to
  • Madripoor
  • Several supporting cast members
  • “Patch”
  • Archie Corrigan
  • Burt Corrigan
  • Several things to do in San Francisco
  • Vampire humor
  • Ba’al
  • The Gehenna Stone
  • Penis bones
  • The Hand of God
  • Doomsday
  • Mutual fratricide
  • A midair brawl
  • Secret identity problems
  • Claw problems
  • Other metals with which one’s skeleton might be bonded
  • Bisecting Logan
  • Team-ups we’d like to see

NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk!

NEXT EPISODE: Onslaught, honestly, we promise.

Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog.

Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!

Jay 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!

Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!

345 – All of the Marvels (feat. Douglas Wolk)

8 comments

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

In which author and friend of the podcast Douglas Wolk joins us to discuss his upcoming book All of the Marvels; his epic quest to read all Marvel Comics, ever; and what he learned along the way.

LINKS!

No visual companion this week!

Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!

Jay 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!

Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!

As Mentioned in Episode 344 – Where No Mutant Has Gone Before

Leave a comment

Listen to the episode here.

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... (Star Trex)
A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… (Star Trex)
And then, Gladiator punched the Enterprise. (Star Trex)
And then, Gladiator punched the Enterprise. (Star Trex)
This throwaway gag basically carries the issue. (Star Trex)
This throwaway gag basically carries the issue. (Star Trex)
Everything Deathbird knows about diplomacy, she learned from Edgar Rice Burroughs novel covers. (Star Trex)
Everything Deathbird knows about diplomacy, she learned from Edgar Rice Burroughs novel covers. (Star Trex)
Several hundred years later... (Star Trek: The Next Generation / X-Men: Second Contact)
Several hundred years later… (Star Trek: The Next Generation / X-Men: Second Contact)
"I mean, we pay about as much attention to the Prime Directive..." (Star Trek: The Next Generation / X-Men: Second Contact)
“I mean, we pay about as much attention to the Prime Directive…” (Star Trek: The Next Generation / X-Men: Second Contact)
This scene really looks like they should all be holding cocktails. (Star Trek: The Next Generation / X-Men: Second Contact)
This scene really looks like they should all be holding cocktails. (Star Trek: The Next Generation / X-Men: Second Contact)
Kang saying "Civility costs nothing" never stops being funny. (Star Trek: The Next Generation / X-Men: Second Contact)
Kang saying “Civility costs nothing” never stops being funny. (Star Trek: The Next Generation / X-Men: Second Contact)
Well, he's doomed. (Star Trek: The Next Generation / X-Men: Second Contact)
Well, he’s doomed. (Star Trek: The Next Generation / X-Men: Second Contact)
And so's she. (Star Trek: The Next Generation / X-Men: Second Contact)
And so’s she. (Star Trek: The Next Generation / X-Men: Second Contact)
We told you about that so we could tell you about this. (Planet X)
We told you about that so we could tell you about this. (Planet X)
NEXT EPISODE: All of the Marvels. ALL of them. (feat. Douglas Wolk)
NEXT EPISODE: All of the Marvels. ALL of them. (feat. Douglas Wolk)

LINKS & FURTHER CROSSOVERS

344 – Where No Mutant Has Gone Before (feat. Tina Carleton)

14 comments

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

In which the X-Men cross over with two generations of Star Trek; your grandma invented slash fiction; Gladiator punches a starship; we designate a universe; Leonard McCoy gets bowdlerized; “Gary” is a silly name for a god; Elizabeth Dehner deserves better; a lot of things happen in space; Worf and Wolverine enjoy a brief but intense romance; the X-Men should have more to say about the ethics of “curing” mutation; and we successfully delay Onslaught by another week.

X-PLAINED:

  • Cross-franchise creative footprints
  • Collecting Star Trek in the ‘90s
  • Secret origins of Tina and Jay’s friendship
  • Star Trex
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation / X-Men: Second Contact
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation / X-Men: Planet X
  • Delta Vega
  • “Where No Man Has Gone Before”
  • The Shi’ar (again)
  • The relationship of Star Trek to the Marvel Universe
  • Earth-1701, which may or may not also be Earth-200500
  • Proteus (again)
  • A dubious date
  • First Contact
  • The Borg
  • Several temporal anomalies
  • The Traveler
  • Michael Jan Friedman
  • Xhaldia
  • Time Hooks and/or Chrono-compasses
  • Prune juice
  • Your new ship
  • The Drakkon
  • A simulated Charles Xavier
  • A Highland sex ghost, apparently?

NEXT EPISODE: All of the Marvels, with Douglas Wolk!

Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog.

Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!

Jay 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!

Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!

As Mentioned in Episode 343 – The Water Cooler of Violence

5 comments

Listen to the episode here.

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
LIES ALL LIES (X-Force #55)
LIES ALL LIES (X-Force #55)
(Probably not a LMD. This time.) (X-Force #55)
(Probably not a LMD. This time.) (X-Force #55)
I'm not sure sound works like that, but it's still cool. (X-Force #55)
I’m not sure sound works like that, but it’s still cool. (X-Force #55)
And now you know how animated Wolverine feels. (X-Force #55)
And now you know how animated Wolverine feels. (X-Force #55)
Well, that's one way to open a giant door. (X-Force #55)
Well, that’s one way to open a giant door. (X-Force #55)
Seriously, why is he in his underwear? (X-Force #55)
Seriously, why is he in his underwear? (X-Force #55)
It's really not any harder to believe than anything else in this comic. (X-Force #55)
It’s really not any harder to believe than anything else in this comic. (X-Force #55)
Sacrelicious! (X-Force #56)
Sacrelicious! (X-Force #56)
The Benjamin Russell storyline really doesn't make any sense when you break it down... (X-Force #56)
The Benjamin Russell storyline really doesn’t make any sense when you break it down… (X-Force #56)
I have nightmares like this. (X-Force #56)
I have nightmares like this. (X-Force #56)
IT WAS GAMESMASTER ALL ALONG SURE WHY NOT (X-Force #56)
IT WAS GAMESMASTER ALL ALONG SURE WHY NOT (X-Force #56)
We kinda forgot to cover this first time 'round. (X-Men Unlimited #8)
We kinda forgot to cover this first time ’round. (X-Men Unlimited #8)
Puberty's rough, buddy. (X-Men Unlimited #8)
Puberty’s rough, buddy. (X-Men Unlimited #8)
"There's a new mutant about to manifest! Let's have the MOST UNSETTLING X-Man go follow him around!" (X-Men Unlimited #8)
“There’s a new mutant about to manifest! Let’s have the MOST UNSETTLING X-Man go follow him around!” (X-Men Unlimited #8)
Seriously, there is NO evidence at this point that it's the word "mutant" that sends the kid running and not, say, the lightning. (X-Men Unlimited #8)
Seriously, there is NO evidence at this point that it’s the word “mutant” that sends the kid running and not, say, the lightning. (X-Men Unlimited #8)
This is the part where it starts to feel like one of those books you could get in the '80s with your kid's name as the protagonist. (X-Men Unlimited #8)
This is the part where it starts to feel like one of those books you could get in the ’80s with your kid’s name as the protagonist. (X-Men Unlimited #8)
See what I mean? (X-Men Unlimited #8)
See what I mean? (X-Men Unlimited #8)
"They usually bring you back in a dozen or so issues. Why?" (X-Men Unlimited #8)
“They usually bring you back in a dozen or so issues. Why?” (X-Men Unlimited #8)
And they all lived happily ever after.* *Joined the Thunderbolts, became Maverick, maybe blew up? (X-Men Unlimited #8)
And they all lived happily ever after.* *Joined the Thunderbolts, became Maverick, maybe blew up? (X-Men Unlimited #8)
NEXT EPISODE: Where no mutant has gone before!
NEXT EPISODE: Where no mutant has gone before!

LINKS & FURTHER CATASTROPHES:

343 – The Water Cooler of Violence

13 comments

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

In which X-Force carries on the New Mutants’ tradition of property damage; a lot of people have infiltrated Helicarriers; G.W. Bridge makes it weird; Gamesmaster returns to no particular end; and we go back in time to cover the origins of Chris Bradley.

X-PLAINED:

  • The deaths of several Worthingtons
  • X-Force #55-56
  • X-Men Unlimited #8
  • A legacy of explosions
  • Uncanny X-Men #333 (briefly) (again)
  • A heist
  • Several of the many characters who had successfully infiltrated Helicarriers as of 1996
  • Dum Dum Dugan
  • Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine
  • The glory days off LASER tag
  • Church fights
  • Subtext
  • The Weisman Institute for the Criminally Insane (more) (again)
  • How to pronounce “Risque”
  • Chris Bradley
  • Hans Jensen
  • Nostalgia goggles and their absence
  • Civilian awareness of cosmic Marvel
  • Asgard, Oklahoma
  • Annalee

NEXT WEEK: Hawk Talk

NEXT EPISODE: Where No Mutant Has Gone Before

Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog.

Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!

Jay 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!

Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!

As Mentioned in Episode 342 – Angry Birds

Leave a comment

Listen to the episode here.

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
Yes, it's as dramatic as it looks. (Archangel #1)
Yes, it’s as dramatic as it looks. (Archangel #1)
...Kay. (Archangel #1)
…Kay. (Archangel #1)
Please enjoy the most Nic Cage Archangel you will ever see. (Archangel #1)
Please enjoy the most Nic Cage Archangel you will ever see. (Archangel #1)
THIS guy. (Uncanny X-Men #333)
THIS guy. (Uncanny X-Men #333)
HOW DOES SHE STILL NOT MANAGE TO ASSOCIATE HIM WITH MAGNETO? (X-Men #53)
HOW DOES SHE STILL NOT MANAGE TO ASSOCIATE HIM WITH MAGNETO? (X-Men #53)
Oh, Juggernaut, no. (X-Men #53)
Oh, Juggernaut, no. (X-Men #53)
Revenge of X-Men #3. (X-Men #53)
Revenge of X-Men #3. (X-Men #53)
9_Next

As Mentioned in Episode 341 – Rainbow Connection

One comment

Listen to the podcast here!

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
Low-key obsessed with what the hell sound this baby is supposed to be making. (Generation X #15)
Low-key obsessed with what the hell sound this baby is supposed to be making. (Generation X #15)
When your kid goes away to school and comes back... different. (Generation X #15)
When your kid goes away to school and comes back… different. (Generation X #15)
These fucking guys. (Generation X #15)
These fucking guys. (Generation X #15)
I am happy and surprised to announce that Giovanni survives the story pretty much unscathed! (Generation X #15)
I am happy and surprised to announce that Giovanni survives the story pretty much unscathed! (Generation X #15)
I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY HER BONES ARE VISIBLE THOUGH (Generation X #16)
I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY HER BONES ARE VISIBLE THOUGH (Generation X #16)
Hi, Stan. (Generation X #17)
Hi, Stan. (Generation X #17)
Oh, THAT guy. (Generation X #17)
Oh, THAT guy. (Generation X #17)
Nobody draws rubble like Bachalo. (Generation X #17)
Nobody draws rubble like Bachalo. (Generation X #17)
The genre-requisite hall of mirrors. (Generation X #17)
The genre-requisite hall of mirrors. (Generation X #17)
He somehow makes the X-Cutioner look... cool? (Generation X #17)
He somehow makes the X-Cutioner look… cool? (Generation X #17)
NEXT EPISODE: Rich-people problems.
NEXT EPISODE: Rich-people problems.

341 – Rainbow Connection

7 comments

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

In which Chris Bachalo returns to Generation X; we briefly forget that Mondo exists; Synch is an extraordinarily good kid; not everybody gets a jetpack; Jubilee takes a turn as team strategist; Chamber has Onslaught problems; the X-Cutioner has no discernible dignity; the M does not stand for “metaphorical.”

X-PLAINED:

  • Jubilee’s aunt Hope
  • Generation X #15-17
  • Generation X (more) (again)
  • Emplates (more) (again)
  • An instance of possession
  • The Thomas family
  • Intersectional bias
  • Passing privilege
  • Narratively-determined technology
  • Giovanni the janitor
  • Synch vs. Mimic
  • An exceptionally slow-burn reveal
  • Possession as a vehicle for character development
  • The X-Cutioner (Carl Denti) (more) (again)
  • Metaphorical DNA
  • Fun times at the fair
  • Ruby quartz adaptive technology
  • Mutant names

NEXT EPISODE: Fun with flechettes!

Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog!

Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!

Jay 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!

Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!