Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

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532 – No Regrets (feat. Matt Hunter)

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In which we wrap things up.

X-PLAINED:

  • Krakoa (mostly)
  • The True Secret History of Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
  • The True Secret History of Matt Hunter
  • Live shows
  • The “WHAT”s
  • Audio production through transition
  • Adapting to long-distance recording
  • Proximity
  • Our retirement plans
  • The means of production
  • Our favorite voice effects
  • Sound design considerations for Dazzler’s shows
  • What we’ve learned from making Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
  • Regrets
  • Where to find Matt online
  • Our evolving feelings about the X-Men
  • Stories we would’ve liked to have covered
  • The evolving podcasting landscape
  • X-Men analogues
  • Our theoretical Magic: The Gathering mechanics
  • What X-Men is really about
  • How to read like Jay and Miles

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531 – Here Comes Tomorrow

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In which we wrap up the continuity portion of the podcast along with our coverage of Grant Morrison’s New X-Men; Wolverine poses dramatically; Cyclops breaks the timeline; Wolverine poses dramatically; we are deeply intrigued by Brian and his magic car; Wolverine poses dramatically; Sublime extends his reach; Phoenix heals the timeline; Wolverine poses dramatically; change is important; and somewhere Wolverine is probably still posing dramatically.

X-PLAINED:

  • X of Swords (somewhat)
  • Endings
  • Varying opinions on the same art
  • Earth-15104
  • ‘Crawlers
  • Tom Skylark
  • Rover (in several media)
  • The Beast (Hank McCoy) (sort of)
  • The evolution of EVA
  • An evocative quotation
  • Several recognizable oracles
  • Where the timeline broke
  • The Proud People
  • Apollyon the Destroyer
  • Mer-Max
  • A somewhat robotic love triangle
  • Tito Bohusk
  • How to hatch a Phoenix egg
  • The White Hot Room
  • The Termids
  • Several atrocities
  • An unfortunate costume choice
  • John Sublime (for real this time)
  • Yet another origin of life on Earth
  • Evil science
  • Kick (more) (again)
  • Weapon XIV
  • The X-Men’s last stand
  • An unlikely Phoenix host
  • Breaking cycles
  • Aspects of Earth-15104 we’d like to see explored further
  • Where we’d conclude the X-Men

NEXT EPISODE: The end.

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530 – Not for Beginners

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In which we remain frustrated with Morrison’s Magneto; Esme Cuckoo’s hat game is lacking; and the status quo dies with Jean Grey.

X-PLAINED:

  • Dubious X-relationships
  • Some excellent songs from an excellent show
  • New X-Men #149-150
  • Various atrocities and catastrophes
  • The resistance, such as it is
  • Magneto’s limits
  • A rebirth
  • Neutron warheads
  • The cavalry
  • Yet another death of Magneto
  • Yet another death of Jean Grey
  • A peculiar epilogue
  • A legacy of retcons
  • A miasma of bleakness and futility
  • The Xorn retcon
  • Disability in “Planet X”
  • Miracles of Magnetism

NEXT EPISODE: The future!

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529 – Magneto Was Wrong

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In which many plot threads come together; Charles Xavier is a catastrophically bad listener; you should probably not live in the Marvel Universe; bridges are really important; there’s nothing sexy about dying of heat exhaustion; and we judge Morrison’s Magneto and find him wanting.

X-PLAINED:

  • What Xorn did after dying
  • The story so far
  • New X-Men #146-148
  • Beast’s typing gloves
  • Several innovative ways to type loudly
  • Doomed plans
  • A manufactured confrontation
  • A trap
  • Magneto reimagined
  • Visual depictions of sweat
  • “New Genosha”
  • Death and rebirth
  • Whether Magneto has a place in New X-Men; and if so, what
  • A name for an era

NEXT EPISODE: Yet another death of Magneto

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528 – Welcome to the Slippery Slope

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In which friends don’t let friends drink sparkling wine at the Hellfire Club; Cyclops is a Silent Hill protagonist; Fantomex is a cool dude; John Sublime has his grubby little fingers in everything; and three men do a lot of things to avoid going to therapy.

X-PLAINED:

  • What happened to the World
  • Weapon XVI
  • New X-Men #142-145
  • Fantomex (more) (again)
  • The Weapon Plus program
  • A large number of things men will do instead of going to therapy
  • How to murder a nice, romantic mood
  • The Hellfire Club, the rest of the time
  • Jake Danials Whisky
  • A drinking contest
  • The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
  • The World
  • Weapon XV
  • A series of B&Es
  • Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.)
  • Car cops
  • Weapon XV’s feelings
  • Weapon Plus’s secret space headquarters
  • Education at the Xavier School
  • Gender-swapped superheroes and heirs to superheroes

NEXT EPISODE: Magneto, unmasked!

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527 – Whodunnit?

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In which Jean Grey crosses several lines; Emma Frost is killed; Bishop and Sage visit from X-Treme X-Men; mutants are weird; the plot thickens; Emma Frost is resurrected; and we learn several secrets of fly reproduction.

X-PLAINED:

  • The brothers Xorn
  • A question of reading order
  • New X-Men #139-141
  • Cosmic force problems
  • A showdown
  • A brief tour through the mind of Emma Frost
  • A murder most foul
  • Bishop (briefly) (again)
  • Sage (briefly) (again)
  • Many suspects
  • One way to get drugs, I guess?
  • A mysterious shack and its mysterious contents
  • Perils and advantages of being a living computer
  • A murder weapon
  • Angel and Beak’s excellent babies
  • A resurrection
  • A subtly remarkable taxicab
  • The advent of mixed-case lettering in Marvel comics
  • How Angel and Beak’s reproductive cycle corresponds to actual fly reproduction

NEXT EPISODE: Assault on Weapon Plus

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526 – Vengeful Mutants on Drugs

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In which you should use drugs only with caution; a famous shirt makes its debut; Wolverine is the new Mary Worth; and you were never Quentin Quire’s age (unless you were).

X-PLAINED:

  • What Quentin Quire’s been up to since discorporating
  • New X-Men #135-138
  • The Special Class
  • Basilisk
  • Ernst
  • Dummy
  • No Girl
  • Whether the Xavier School should admit human students
  • Quentin’s new look
  • Kick (more) (again)
  • The Omega Gang
  • That one t-shirt
  • How to punch up your Power Point presentation
  • A somewhat fraught camping trip
  • The Special Class vs. U-Men
  • A secret
  • Some kind of weird affair
  • A riot, of sorts
  • Wolverine’s unfortunate soul patch
  • What actually happened to Jumbo Carnation
  • Telepathic deconstruction
  • The Cuckoos vs. Emma Frost
  • A somewhat mysterious secondary mutation
  • Denouement
  • The subsequent evolution of Quentin Quire
  • What’s happening to xplainthexmen.com when the show ends
  • The telepathy-telekinesis overlap

NEXT EPISODE: Murder!

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525 – Beyond This Death

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In which Warren Kenneth Worthington III is a terrible teacher; we are all Magneto’s children; Sooraya Qadir deserves a better origin story; teenagers have a lot of feelings; and we meet one of the modern age’s most controversial mutants.

X-PLAINED:

  • The destiny of Quentin Quire
  • New X-Men #131-134
  • An underattended funeral
  • How to fly? Kinda? I guess?
  • A kiss
  • A friendship
  • Another bit of ruby quartz marginalia that will never be mentioned again
  • A somewhat ill-founded psychic metaphor
  • Emma Frost’s Dark Phoenix costume
  • Some kind of weird affair
  • Echoes of 9/11/2001
  • Genosha, a year later
  • Ghosts
  • Polaris’s paternity
  • Shocker (the mutant one)
  • The last words of Genosha
  • Islamophobia post 9/11
  • Sooraya Qadir (Dust)
  • An attempted hijacking and the aftermath thereof
  • Some Shi’ar nonsense
  • X-Corporation Mumbai
  • Jumbo Carnation
  • Telepathy class
  • An artist’s interpretation of the fate of mankind if mutants are not driven out, as predicted by Bolivar Trask
  • Accountability
  • Professor X’s weird little paintings
  • X-adjectives
  • Best and worst X-Men with whom to share a psychic rapport

NEXT EPISODE: Quentin Quire’s teen angst bullshit gets a body count!

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524 – House in a House

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In which Xorn goes out on the town; silverware is morally neutral; Cyclops pursues dubious counsel; the X means ten; and Fantomex is eminently enjoyable.

X-PLAINED:

  • The parentage of Hope Summers
  • New X-Men #127-130
  • Mutant Town
  • A monster who is not a monster but is, perhaps, a metaphor
  • X-Corporation Paris
  • The whole Phoenix situation
  • Fantomex
  • Weapon XII
  • A gene-hazard
  • Corporal Animal
  • E.V.A.
  • The Weapon Plus program (somewhat)
  • The World (somewhat)
  • The Shi’ar Empire vs. Earth
  • Xorn variations

NEXT EPISODE: A Memorial of Magnetism

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523 – This World of Liars

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In which Wolverine learns to fly; pants are a basic human right; we decide to cherry-pick our Xorn retcons; Xavier’s eyebrows follow his mind; and the first year of New X-Men ends with a bang.

X-PLAINED:

  • The origin of the Shi’ar Imperial Guard
  • New X-Men #124-126
  • The current state of Charles Xavier’s body
  • G-Type
  • Neosaurus
  • Plutonia
  • Schism
  • Oracle
  • Stuf
  • Gladiator (more) (again)
  • Angel disambiguation
  • Several plans
  • Mutant justice
  • Several miracles of magnetism
  • Mummudrai
  • Horror movie shit
  • Subtle visual foreshadowing
  • A ruse
  • Education
  • Long-lost family members
  • What may or may not come after this

NEXT EPISODE: Fantomex!

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