As Mentioned – Page 42 – Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

The X-Men as they appear in the 90s cartoon opening sequence.

We really just never get tired of Cyclops blowing up robots.

Mr. Sinister is here for your logical causality and possibly also your glam rock!

Creepy Gambit would like you to buy a comic book in which he is probably even creepier in that than in the cartoon it’s based on.

Bruce Timm’s love letter to Broadcast Standards & Practices.

Mojo gets meta.

The first-season lineup of X-Men: Evolution.

X-23 is not pleased with your Harley Quinn comparisons.

In 1989, Dwayne McDuffie sent this pitch to Marvel to make a point about some trends pervasive among their black characters.

Ten years after McDuffie’s letter, Marvel introduced Spyke in X-Men: Evolution: A black kid on a skateboard, who is related to the only other black character on the show.

Nothing you tell us will convince us that Lin-Z from Jem and the Holograms is not secretly Dazzler.

Wolverine and the X-Men was a damn fine show, and the fact that it only ran for one season should be a crime with actual, legal repercussions.

Remember that time X-Men: Evolution did a straight-up homage to girl-gang movies? (S2E10, “Walk on the Wild Side”)

Beast sports a Howard the Duck t-shirt to visit Jean Grey in the hospital…

…but testifies before the Senate in briefs. He’s a complex dude.

Jean Grey’s Jim Lee-designed costume is not our favorite.

This is Morph as he appears in the 90s X-Men cartoon. Don’t get too attached.

In the podcast, Rachel said Morph made his comics debut in Exiles, totally forgetting that he’d previously appeared in Age of Apocalypse. Sorry!

We didn’t actually mention this, but you should probably watch it anyway:

For more Chris Sims, check out:

Chris’s X-Men episode guides at Comics Alliance

War Rocket Ajax

Movie Fighters Kickstarter

For more on X-Men, X-Men Evolution, and Wolverine and the X-Men, check out:

X-Men (90s series) on Toonzone

Broadcast Standards and Practices Notes

X-Men Evolution on Toonzone

Wolverine and the X-Men on Toonzone

As Mentioned in Episode 2 – Sentinels In the Mist

April 20, 2014 Jay 11 comments

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Quicksilver is more of a bored mutant, but Magneto got to name the club.

Mastermind’s bookshelf is nothing but Ayn Rand and Pickup Artist handbooks. (From X-Men #4)

Roughly 2/3 of the mutants in the Marvel Universe have variations on this origin story. (X-Men #4)

The last time Quicksilver trusted humans, they dressed him like this. (X-Men #4)

It’s actually sort of a tube that goes around her whole head, but it’s funnier if you pretend the Scarlet Witch is basically just villain-breading. (X-Men #4)

Toad: Career minion. ( X-Men #5)

Magneto is not making a very good case for mutant rule. (X-Men #7)

Either Cain Marko is evil, or he’s unusually prescient and has already figured out what an asshole his stepbrother is going to grow up into. (X-Men #12)

“Y’know–Cyttorak? We covered this in basic training, Cain.” (X-Men #12)

The Juggernaut. (X-Men #13)

A fair and balanced view of the Mutant Menace. (X-Men #14)

Seriously, how did Bolivar Trask not see this coming? (X-Men #14)

LOOK AT THAT KIRBY HAT. LOOK. AT. THAT. KIRBY. HAT. (X-Men #15)

“Intergenerational miscommunication” is a really common villain origin story. Also, check out those Neal Adams layouts. Man, he’s good. (X-Men #57)

“Son, your mother has seen the future. Disco is coming. You must prepare.” (X-Men #58)

When you’ve got a team of good guys with incredibly destructive superpowers, giant robots are a rare chance to really show off. (X-Men #59)

No, really. This scene is from almost 50 years later. Same basic principle. (Astonishing X-Men #8)

Remember that time Cyclops dressed up like Quicksilver and talked the Sentinels into going off and fighting the sun? That totally happened. (X-Men #59)