Adam X the X-Treme – Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

As Mentioned in Episode 282 – The Tide Takes the Castle

January 26, 2020 Jay One comment

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Hank McCoy is his own worst enemy–and best audience! (X-Men #38)

Bobby Drake somehow experienced the ’90s harder than most of his peers. (X-Men #38)

She’s not wrong. (X-Men #38)

“I, um, think I might have left something in Alaska. Bye.” (X-Men #38)

Every day, Bishop gets a little less enchanted with his heroes. (X-Men #38)

Aw, these two and their friendship. (X-Men #38)

[SOBS IN CALLBACK] (Iceman #3)

Has anyone ever stopped to notice the fact that Bobby Drake is a fucking spectacular sculptor? Seriously, he should be doing THAT professionally. (Uncanny X-Men #219)

William Drake: a jerk then, a jerk now. (Uncanny X-Men #219)

There is no rage like the rage of a man quietly spooning mashed potatoes onto plates. (Uncanny X-Men #219)

HE’S SO AWFUL. (Uncanny X-Men #219)

Aw, these kids. (Uncanny X-Men #219)

Meanwhile, in Hawk Talk! (Uncanny X-Men #219)

Planes are a Summers family tradition; as, apparently, is crashing them. (X-Men #39)

He’s a good kid. (X-Men #39)

A good kid with a good cap. (X-Men #39)

Weirdly, the heart just sort of hovers around outside the boathouse, and nobody can figure out how to make it go away. (X-Men #39)

See what we mean about the difference the right artist makes to Adam X (X-Men #39)

Man, I just want Philip and Deborah to adopt him and basically be the Kents. (X-Men #39)

Y’know what? Sure. Why not? (X-Men #39)

He came back! (X-Men #39)

HE’S SUCH A GOOD KID. (X-Men #39)

NEXT EPISODE: Still not technically Legion Quest!

LINKS & FURTHER DELIGHTS:

When not making our endless nonsense sound good, producer Matt Hunter makes really excellent music, and you should go listen to some!
Jay does not actually write things on hackertyper.com, but he wishes he could.
We covered Rogue’s solo series in Episode 245 – Natural Causes.
This is the plane Philip flew in WWII, if that’s your kind of thing.

282 – The Tide Takes the Castle

January 26, 2020 Jay 7 comments

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In which the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning should really be the setting of a stoner comedy; Garrabed Bashur’s brain is probably 90% porn by now; the tide always takes the castle; William Drake remains terrible; Adam X the X-Treme deserved better; Jay pitches a series; disability is not a boolean and exclusively medically-defined state; and we are all about some weird X-Men tie-in products.

X-PLAINED:

Mariko Yoshida in the afterlife
Moon Talk
Some upcoming X-books
X-Men #38-39
Uncanny X-Men #319
Many unhealthy coping mechanisms
Sinister foreshadowing
Fancy hair
Commcast (Garabed Bashur)
Hawk sex
An exceptionally resonant callback
Intersectional bigotry
The domestic dynamics of the Drake household
The remarkably poignant return of Adam X the X-Treme
The opposite of a Jack London story
An unlikely intergenerational frienship
A novel use of a novel superpower
Mutation as and intersecting with disability
X-Men tie-in products we’d like to see

NEXT EPISODE: X-Factor fills in!

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As Mentioned in Episode 250 – Minding the DNA, feat. Fabian Nicieza

June 2, 2019 Jay Leave a comment

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Here’s Fabian on Twitter!
You can read Outrage here!
Special thanks to Shatterstarologist Charlie of The Young Ones for lending their X-Pertise to the cold open!

250 – Minding the DNA, feat. Fabian Nicieza

June 2, 2019 Jay 6 comments

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In which writer Fabian Nicieza joins us to talk ‘90s crossovers, narrative legacies, and what Adam X’s word balloons really sound like!

Special thanks to Shatterstarologist Charlie of The Young Ones for lending their X-Pertise to the cold open!

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As Mentioned in Episode 246 – Foreshadow Puppets

May 5, 2019 Jay One comment

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Four arms–and a conscience. (X-Force #27)

Does he just live in Gyrich’s garage? Or, like, under the lawn? (X-Force #27)

Too many muscles for one panel: The X-Force Story. (X-Force #27)

Who’s that? SURELY not Danielle Moonstar! (X-Force #27)

‘Kay. (X-Force #28)

And that’s the last we’ll see of Sunspot for a while. (X-Force #28)

Sometimes it’s like that. (X-Force #28)

Confirmed canonical: Shatterstar’s hair is independently mobile. (X-Force #29)

What happened to Sam, and who is this alarmingly beefy stranger? (X-Force #29)

Cable is leaning full into the Dad thing these days; and I, for one, am here for it. (X-Force #29)

I’m fairly sure that I saw this movie in an 8th-grade assembly. (X-Force #29)

Kids these days, amirite? (X-Force #29)

Based on her facial expression, I imagine her delivering this line in roughly the style of Aubrey Plaza as April Ludgate. (X-Force #29)

Sure thing, buddy. (X-Force #29)

Look at these angry, pointy boys. (X-Force #30)

So angry. So pointy. (X-Force #30)

Angry but not pointy. (X-Force #30)

“You’ll probably do okay; you’re not a major character.” (X-Force #30)

How much better would this issue have been if they’d done a skate-off? (X-Force #30)

Don’t worry, he’ll be fine. (X-Force #30)

Aw, look at him learning to person! (X-Force #30)

NEXT EPISODE: More spiky people yelling!

LINKS & FURTHER CONSUMABLES:

Mandy may be the quintessential Nic Cage movie.
We first washed up on the shores of Octopusheim in Episode 19 – Acorns & Swords!

246 – Foreshadow Puppets

May 5, 2019 Jay 12 comments

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In which Danielle Moonstar is not a master of disguise; the MLF are bad enough dudes to kidnap a guy who works near the president; Tempo wasn’t even supposed to be here today; Reignfire is no Magneto; we now desperately want X-Force matryoshka dolls; Feral quits the team; Henry Peter Gyrich fails to learn from experience (or anything else); small children are bad at everything; Shatterstar gets a tagline; Sam Guthrie REALLY needs a vacation; and it’s surprisingly difficult to choose a favorite resurrection.

X-PLAINED:

Cortex
The kinder, gentler Cable
Several matters related to Nicholas Cage
X-Force #27-30
Broome jaws
The Area jar
The Mutant Liberation Front
Reignfire (again)
Hardaway
A cyborg asshole
Locus
Moonstar
“Of Faith and Fable”
Foreshadow puppets
Bobby da Costa’s greatest fear
Dad jokes with Cable
X-Force’s day off
Shatterstar vs. Adam X the X-Treme
Windsong
An inevitable team-up
A Very Special Episode moment
The return of Wine Mom Domino
The return of Jean Grey’s telepathy
Our favorite resurrections

NEXT EPISODE: Sabretooth

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As Mentioned in Episode 237 – X-Treme

March 3, 2019 Jay Leave a comment

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That bathrobe deserves its own code name. (X-Men Annual #2)

It’s gonna get retconned away again soon, but, there you go! (X-Men Annual #2)

Ouch. (X-Men Annual #2)

Yeah, I’m with Revanche. (X-Men Annual #2)

I didn’t realize during the episode, but I think this may be the first time Revanche has called Psylocke “Elisabeth.” (X-Men Annual #2)

They look like they’re fighting for space on the cover. (X-Force Annual #2)

The Longshot of 1993. (X-Force Annual #2)

This is basically how everyone meets X-Force. (X-Force Annual #2)

Adam X moves like a video-game character, and it’s kind of great. (X-Force Annual #2)

Yeah, that’s rarely a good sign. (X-Force Annual #2)

…Okay, MAYBE I can see it. (X-Force Annual #2)

Possibly the greatest line in this issue. (X-Force Annual #2)

SEE WHAT I MEAN? It looks all portentous; but, no, it’s just the city. (X-Force Annual #2)

Add your own Shape of Water joke here. (X-Force Annual #2)

NEXT EPISODE: Jay gets really emotional about a remote control.

LINKS & FURTHER DIVERSIONS

Fun fact: Aron Wisenfeld is the only person Jay has ever seen spell his given name like Jay’s dad.
This is King Radical. (He also has a skateboard.)

237 – X-Treme

March 3, 2019 Jay 28 comments

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In which there is only one Big Pine Key; Empyrean is actually a pretty sensible dude; the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants are ride-or-die; you should probably avoid setting X-Men stories in Phoenix, Arizona; Adam X the X-Treme is the Longshot of the 1990s; Miles adopts a ship; heteronormativity is why we can’t have nice things; and you should really seriously come see us at ECCC!

X-PLAINED:

Why Nate Grey is Like That
X-Men Annual #2
X-Force Annual #2
The worst book Aron Wisenfeld ever drew
Big Pine Key
Empyrean
Jonathan Chambers
A very fancy bathrobe
What’s going on in Psylocke’s head
Pallative care for late-stage Legacy virus patients
Revanche’s fairly bleak legacy
X-Men: Time Gliders
How to dress to discuss Adam X the X-Treme
Adam X the X-Treme
Personal lettering styles
Michelle
Flashing, but not like that
Martin Strong
Miles’s new ship
Subtext vs. canon
Heteronormativity
X-Crayons

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85 – Secret Convergence on Infinite Podcasts, Part 9: Complex Continuity, with Paul O’Brien and Kieran Shiach

November 29, 2015 Jay 46 comments

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In which Miles finally makes it to Battlepod; we delve into our favorite continuity snarls for the benefit of the Beyonder; Kang is everyone; we’re really grateful that the D.C. Multiverse is out of our usual scope; someone gets a new costume; and the Secret Convergence on Infinite Podcasts reaches its shocking conclusion!

Featuring Paul O’Brien of House to Astonish and Kieran Shiach of Journey Into Misery; with Greg Rucka as the voice of the Beyonder!

X-PLAINED:

Kang
The Third Summers Brother
The D.C. Multiverse
Cable

This is the final episode of the Secret Convergence on Infinite Podcasts, a nine-part crossover event featuring the bravest and boldest of comics podcasts. You can find a list of the previous #SCOIP episodes–and where to jump into participating podcasts–on our blog!

ART CHALLENGE: Miles apparently came home from Secret Convergence with a snazzy new costume that may or may not be a hostile alien symbiote! What does it look like?

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Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 11 – Outtakes and Cosplay!

October 31, 2014 Jay Leave a comment

We don’t normally post outtakes here–normally, they’re a Patreon subscriber perk, available exclusively on our backstage blog–but if there’s anyone who justifies exceptions to the rules, it’s Adam X the X-Treme.

To see more outtakes–as well as episode outlines and other behind-the-scenes content–you can subscribe to our Patreon at any level that includes access to the backstage blog!

Meanwhile, in this week’s videos, we’re getting into the spirit of the Stealth/Plainclothes Cosplay Contest (and Halloween). We’ll be doing that next week, too–as long as the contest is running–but here’s what we’re dressed as this week: