Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

As Mentioned in Episode 128 – A Stupid Way to Die (Judgment War, Part 1)

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Jean, I know busting through walls is an X-Factor thing, but some walls are there for a reason. (X-Factor #43)
The Kirbiest of Kirby designs! (X-Factor #43)
Throwing this one in for scale. Celestials are big. (X-Factor #43)
A Stupid Way to Die: The Scott Summers Story. (X-Factor #43)
Aw, man. Monster babies are the best babies. (X-Factor #44)
Seems like a fair trade. (X-Factor #44)
Damn, but that’s satisfying. Not quite punching-a-pterosaur satisfying, but still not half bad. (X-Factor #45)
Of Jean’s three personalities, Maddy is the only one familiar with how hairbrushes work. (X-Factor #46)
NEXT EPISODE: The Cross-Time Caper begins!

128 – A Stupid Way to Die (Judgment War, Part 1)

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Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

In which X-Factor goes to space; Miles gets judgmental about spelling; Paul Smith returns to an X-title; Celestials are a pain; Judgment War is the Star-Trekkiest story that doesn’t actually involve Star Trek; monster ladies are super important; if you can be a green dude, you should be a green dude; and Cyclops gears up to fight some gods.

X-PLAINED:

  • One way to kill a Celestial
  • Judg(e)ment War
  • Drunk Mark Trail
  • X-Factor #43-46
  • Walls you should maybe not bust through even if you’re X-Factor
  • A completely inappropriate show pitch
  • Celestials
  • The true secret purpose of Ship
  • The Chosen
  • The Rejects
  • Dualers
  • Perfect Seera
  • Rask
  • Zarka
  • Monster ladies in cultural context
  • Lev
  • A stupid way to die
  • Jammers
  • Plot-relevant amnesia
  • The Most Perfect
  • ZZ-105
  • Baby theft (more)(again)
  • Ryest
  • The Beginagains
  • Whether and when there’ll be another all-question episode
  • The current status of the Jean Grey school

NEXT EPISODE: The Cross-Time Caper begins!

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X-TRA – Sofa Special (feat. Al Ewing)

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We’re celebrating International Podcast Day with a bonus mid-week episode!

In which Jay and Al settle down in the living room to talk about cats, conventions, X-karaoke, Summers Brothers road trips, and what Al has planned for those New Mutants he’s been collecting in New Avengers!

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Jay & Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 100

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Week of 9/28/2016:

In which Victor Ibañez should draw Storm forever; Alti Firmansyah should draw everything forever; and somehow we have filmed 100 of these things!

REVIEWED:

  • *Extraordinary X-Men #14 (02:30)
  • X-Men ’92 #7 (08:51)

*Pick of the Week (13:22)

Filmed at Books With Pictures in Portland, OR.

Fancy hats provided by Anna Sheffey.

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As Mentioned in Episode 127 – Disaster City

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Tabitha, no. (New Mutants #77)
Well, that can’t be good. (New Mutants #77)
Aw, man, Hela is such a fun villain. (New Mutants #78)
WHOOPS! (New Mutants #78)
Remember when we didn’t like Brett Blevins? MEA CULPA. (New Mutants #79)
TABITHA, NO. (New Mutants #79)
Blevins’s Hela is DELIGHTFUL. (New Mutants #79)
This gag doesn’t really stop being funny. (New Mutants #80)
Aw, Boom Boom. We knew you’d come through! (New Mutants #80)
Hela gets equal billing with her expansive gestures and sweet headgear. (New Mutants #80)
NEXT WEEK: Judgment War!

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127 – Disaster City

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Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

In which we get back on the continuity train; everything is the aftermath of Inferno forever; you should never fight a tractor or a horse without first putting on some damn pants; Vincent Price would’ve made a terrific Doctor Strange; Rusty Collins never really gets a fair break; Boom Boom is in over her head; and Brett Blevins takes his place as the definitive New Mutants artist.

X-PLAINED:

  • Mirage’s on-again-off-again Valkyrie career
  • Asgardia
  • The New Mutants’ previous Asgard adventures
  • The best single issue of all time
  • The Naglfar
  • A proposal for a new calendar
  • New Mutants #77-80
  • The Ust-Ordynski Collective (again) (more)
  • There’s Stuff Going On: The Doctor Strange Story
  • A very bad decision
  • Why unicorns are the worst
  • Doctor Stephen Sanders / Doctor Strange / Doctor Dad
  • Let’s Make a Deal
  • Whether arson counts as a personality trait
  • Several nefarious plans
  • Creative growth
  • Disaster City
  • Fun with the Technarchy
  • Mindful representation
  • Miles’s dad’s comics collection

NEXT EPISODE: Judgment War!

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Jay & Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 99

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Week of 9/21/2016:

In which Deadpool V Gambit comes to a close; Extraordinary X-Men gets an annual; Laura Kinney cancels her pull box; and we are so over Civil War II.

REVIEWED:

  • Deadpool V Gambit #5 (0:58)
  • *Extraordinary X-Men Annual #1(05:02)
  • Uncanny X-Men #13 (09:27)
  • All-New Wolverine #12 (15:13)
  • Civil War II: X-Men #4 (19:53)

*Pick of the Week (24:00)

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Rose City Comic Con Gallery!

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Art by David Wynne. No prints this week, but you can contact David to purchase the original!
We are pretty proud of the new button design, y’all. (Yes, there will be a t-shirt. Eventually.)
Also this one.
OH HEY WE FINALLY UPDATED THE ZINE COVERS, TOO!
The second J&MXtX-M zine is precisely what it says on the tin.
You know it’s true.
Miles and Al at our booth!
Having the wall up at our booth meant we got a ton of rad photos at the con as well as the party. Here’s Administratrix Emeritus Tina as Emma Frost!
A superlative ’90s Cyclops and Phoenix!
Eric also cosplays a super excellent Quentin Quire.
PEOPLE CAME AS BOOM BOOM AND DOCTOR DOOM IT WAS A COUPLE COSTUME IT WAS FANTASTIC
We do quick and very unprofessional sketches for $1 at conventions! Here’s Miles’s Dark Phoenix!
Punk Storm, by Jay (who forgot to take pictures of most of their sketches, most of which were of Warlock).
Adam X gets more X-Treme every time Miles draws him.
Boom Boom, by Jay.
Miles’s Mirage ain’t afraid of no Demon Bear!
If you tell Jay to draw whoever they want, Jay will draw Warlock. Every time.
Chamber, by Miles!
Jay also got in a couple sharpie knuckle tattoos! (Happy belated birthday, Diana!)
Always a classic.
The drinks at this year’s party were Inner Circle (with alcohol) and Hellions (alcohol-free) themed this year! (Inferno Watch was the best, though.)
Shadow is a super awesome local musician, and they came to the party as Wolverine with a viola, which may be the greatest deep-cut cosplay of all time.
More fun with the photo wall at the party!
And again!
We have reached Peak Jay. This is not a drill.
It wouldn’t be a convention without Cyclops Has a Good Day sketches! Ramon Villalobos went full-on peak ’90s, and it is AWESOME.
It’s a little off-theme; but, look, when you get a chance to ask Larry Stroman to draw Havok, YOU ASK LARRY STROMAN TO DRAW HAVOK.

Jay and Al spent the weekend making X-Men minicomics! You can read all of them right over here!

126 – Live at Rose City Comic Con, with Greg Pak

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Art by David Wynne. No prints this week, but you can contact David to purchase the original!
Art by David Wynne. No prints this week, but you can contact David to purchase the original!

In which we return to Rose City Comic Con and somehow manage to one-up last year’s Stryfe cold open; Greg Pak has secretly written all of the X-books; Cullen Bunn may or may not be watching you RIGHT NOW; the X-Men distill down to murder and kissing; Toshiro Mifune should be everybody; Miles swears first (for once); and we can’t wait to see all of your X-Men roller derby names!

X-PLAINED:

  • Cold open escalation
  • Onslaught
  • Greg Pak
  • Continuity exegesis
  • Marrying history and narrative
  • Murder and kissing
  • X-Treme X-Men vol. 2
  • Reimagining characters across the multiverse
  • Governor-General James Howlett
  • Magneto: Testament
  • Where superheroes should and shouldn’t intersect with geopolitical events
  • Our X-Men buddy-cop duos of choice
  • X-Commencement speakers
  • X-Men roller derby names
  • Contemporary vs. retrospective representations of current events

NEXT WEEK: The New Mutants go to Asgard!

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Jay & Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 98

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Weeks of 9/7/2016 and 9/14/2016:

In which Psylocke gets her groove back; there’s more to plot than superhero fights; and sound effects become temporarily obsolete.

REVIEWED:

  • Uncanny X-Men #12 (02:00)
  • *All-New X-Men #13 (06:19)
  • Old Man Logan #11 (12:39)

*Pick of the Fortnight (16:03)

Filmed at Books With Pictures in Portland, OR.

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