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X-TRA – Sofa Special (feat. Al Ewing)

September 30, 2016 podcasts 21 comments

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!

SOME RELEVANT LINKS:

You can find all of our RCCC minicomics right here!
Here’s the original SPLINK PSA!
David Malki’s Magneto voicemails are a gift to the world. You can find the full collection here.

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Rose City Comic Con Gallery!

Listen to the live episode here!

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!

Minicomic Madness at RCCC

September 14, 2016 Art, conventions and events, news 6 comments

WHOA DANG ROSE CITY COMIC CON WAS SO GOOD! We met a zillion of you, and you were universally delightful! We did a ton of panels and threw a ridiculous party! And we shared a booth with the splendid Al Ewing, and he and Jay took advantage of the weird plethora of index cards we always bring to shows and spent their spare moments making minicomics, which we’ve collected here for your edutainment!

Click through for road safety, karaoke, vacuum friendship, and more!

As Mentioned in Episode 106 – The X-Terminators

April 25, 2016 As Mentioned, As Mentioned 5 comments

Listen to the podcast here.

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

Hi, Bill Gaines! (X-Terminators #1)

In which Bogdanove goes full Silver-Age romance-cover! (X-Terminators #1)

And so it was. (X-Terminators #1)

Wellp. (X-Terminators #1)

Can Bogdanove draw Boom Boom forever, please? (X-Terminators #1)

THIS KID IS AWESOME. (X-Terminators #1)

The cartoonishness of this series is really, really fun. (X-Terminators #1)

“Classic goblin behavior.” Did she learn about this in school? (X-Terminators #1)

JAIL BREAK TIME! (X-Terminators #1)

Boom Boom vs. vending machines. (X-Terminators #2)

I love the extent to which Hostess Fruit Pies became a running joke within actual Marvel comics. (X-Terminators #2)

So doomed. (X-Terminators #2)

This is probably a little too niche to describe as “every parent’s worst nightmare,” but I’m sure it hit home for someone. (X-Terminators #2)

#WINNING (X-Terminators #2)

Seriously, though–wouldn’t it be funnier if this were just a regular Viewmaster? (X-Terminators #2)

I can’t find the Ghostbusters production photo this is an homage to, but I swear it exists. (X-Terminators #3)

The living landscape of NYC quickly becomes legitimately terrifying, without ever quite losing its cartoonishness. (X-Terminators #3)

Incidental transitional panel, or hidden pitch for a whole new series? (X-Terminators #3)

Magic spells are ridiculous. (X-Terminators #3)

THOSE FACES. (X-Terminators #4)

You know that feeling when a crossover flies in from nowhere and whacks you in the back of the head? Yeah. (X-Terminators #4)

OKAY, THEN. (X-Terminators #4)

Wouldn’t that be multiplying it by 100? (X-Terminators #4)

Are… pigeons particularly notorious for meekly accepting destruction? Is that a thing? (X-Terminators #4)

And they all lived happily ever–HA, NO, JUST KIDDING. GO READ NEW MUTANTS. (X-Terminators #4)

NEXT WEEK: The fall of Magik.

LINKS & FURTHER LISTENING:

The entire Nextwave theme song.

106 – The X-Terminators

April 25, 2016 podcasts 40 comments

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

In which Nextwave is both canon and not-canon; Inferno officially begins; X-Terminators is basically a cartoon; Bill Gaines cannot catch a break; Artie and Leach are superbabies; Takeshi Matsuya is fantastic; you should probably never take our advice about anything; Boom Boom is pretty good at superhero costume design; Walter Peck was right; Miles still won’t stop saying that one line about stealing a baby; N’astirh is no pigeon; and “No Mutant Is an Island” is a patently inaccurate statement.

X-PLAINED:

The Beyond Corporation
The Defilers
X-Terminators #1-4
The first 35 issues of X-Factor, briefly
Two teams with the same name
Fredric Wertham
Bill Gaines
Crotus
Babies
A boarding school that may or may not be Phillips Exeter Academy
Muffy
Saint Simon’s Academy
Wiz Kid (Takeshi Matsuya)
Nuprin
Medical advice from goblins
The Goblin Buster
Metareferential snack food
RadSport Sport Fashion Outfitters
An exceptionally specific Ghostbusters reference
Helen and Tim
Dubious spell semantics
How not to incorporate a crossover into a miniseries, and vice versa
“No Mutant Is an Island”
A brief history of Magneto’s helmet
Definitive Magnetos

NEXT WEEK: The fall of Magik.

Special thanks to multiversal metacontinuity wizard Al Ewing for the last-minute assist on the cold open!

You can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog!

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ECCC 2016 Round-Up!

April 17, 2016 As Mentioned, As Mentioned One comment

Listen to the live episode here.

Miles, Scott, and Jay performing the Hamilton cold open live at Phoenix Comics (video courtesy of Annie Bulloch):

ECCC Show Diaries:

ETA: If you absolutely can’t get enough of Hamilton and X-Men cross-references, here’s the time someone asked Jay to associate songs from the show with specific X-characters and they couldn’t stop.

105 – Live from ECCC with Kris Anka, Al Ewing, Scott Koblish, & G. Willow Wilson

April 17, 2016 podcasts 17 comments

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

In which continuity has its eyes on you; the multiverse is so complex that we have to drag Al Ewing out of the audience to X-plain it; the X-Men mean a lot of different (but mostly compatible) things to all of us; we will accept any retcons necessary to maintain Magneto’s history as a Holocaust survivor; and ECCC rocks our world.

X-PLAINED:

Secret Wars
Alternate universes vs. alternate timelines
Multiversal problem-solving
New Arcadia
Definitive alternate-timeline X-Men
The weird joy of reading comics out of order
That one alternate timeline where Storm has a leather jacket and is hooking up with Wolverine
The only happy Cyclops in the multiverse
What makes the X-Men the X-Men
Intersections we’d like to see explored in canon
The appeal of universe-hopping
Relative ratios of metaphors to punching
Proof of concept in comics publishing
Battleworld characters we’d like to import into the 616.1
Which X-Men should get solo series

NEXT WEEK: X-Terminators!

CORRECTION: During the panel, Jay claimed that Spider-Man had been married for their entire life. Jay was in fact five years old when Spider-Man got married. We regret the error, but maintain our stance that Spider-Man is totally married.

You can find links to all our ECCC coverage–as well as a live video of the Hamilton cold open, from the Phoenix Comics party–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 prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!

Cyclops Has a Good Day at New York Comic Con

October 17, 2014 Art One comment

Last weekend, we were at new York Comic Con! And it was AWESOME! We’ll be posting stuff from there all week–including episode 27, some photos of very cool X-cosplay, and a special bonus mini-episode–but while we’re recombobulating post-travel, here’s what’s new in Rachel’s Cyclops Has a Good Day sketchbook!