Tag: Cable
492 – Brain Sharks
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | RSS
In which the Shockwave Riders are exceptionally silly; we are deeply impressed by brain sharks; and chrome plating and gun arms are among the lesser explored recurring Claremont motifs.
X-PLAINED:
- The fate of Sara Grey
- Revolution Claremont X-book disambiguation
- Uncanny X-Men #381-383
- The Neo (again)
- An unmarked anniversary
- A secret treasure trove
- Vagaries of telekinesis and telepathy
- The Shockwave Riders
- Brain sharks that eat memories
- The stuff of legend
- The Lost Souls
- Dirges and non-dirges
- One way to start a conversation
- Simyon Kurasov
- Colonel Alexi Vazhin (again)
- The Slash
- How to dress to go clubbing
- Blinkers, somewhat
- Ransom Sole
- Big Casino
- Sketch
- Revenant
- Major Debra Levin
- Bludgeon, Cudgel, and Manacle
- Houndification
- The best 21st century X-characters
NEXT EPISODE: The first X-Men movie turns 25!
Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog!
Find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!
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 rad swag at our Dashery shop!
As Mentioned in Episode 478 – The Monologue Tube
478 – The Monologue Tube
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | RSS
In which Alan Davis is Team Cyclops; everyone gets depowered; it’s hard to connect with kids your age when you’re a superhero; Sinister’s gotta sinister; everyone gets repowered; and the ‘90s were much more eclectic than they get credit for being.
X-PLAINED:
- Side effects of Decimation
- Uncanny X-Men #379-380
- X-Force #101
- X-Men #99
- Cadre K
- Summers family drama
- The High Evolutionary (more) (again)
- The (other) time all the mutants got depowered
- Kevin
- A very beautiful book
- The ongoing mess of Genoshan politics
- The Neo (slightly)
- To what extent Logan’s claws are a mutant power
- Sinister monologues
- Herbert Evolutionary
- The New New Men
- The ‘90s, in general
- What makes a Morlock
NEXT EPISODE: Magneto: Dark Seduction!
Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog.
Find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!
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 rad swag at our TeePublic shop!
As Mentioned in Episode 475 – Cross-Time Crisis
475 – Cross-Time Crisis
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | RSS

In which we wrap up John Francis Moore’s run on X-Force; the Demon Bear returns (kinda); four Moonstars are not in fact better than one; the Queen of Star Swords is an extremely rad villain; and X-Force takes a very contained multiversal tour.
X-PLAINED:
- Multiversal canon
- X-Force #99-100
- The Demon Bear (more) (again)
- Arcadia DeVille (more) (again)
- Mary Weather
- Fenwick
- Meridian
- The Queen of Star Swords
- The Cathedral
- Cable (but not that Cable)
- The X-Forces of several universes
- Earth-3100
- Earth-10003
- Earth-130000
- Earth-8280
- Earth-23100
- Non-mutants on the X-Men
- The provenance of the Brood X-men
NEXT EPISODE: Mondo! (The real one, this time.)
Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog!
Find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!
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 rad swag at our TeePublic shop!
As Mentioned in Episode 473 – The Baker’s Dozen (The Twelve, Part Three)
473 – The Baker’s Dozen (The Twelve, Part Three)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | RSS
In which you know it’s serious business when a logo gets smashed; the prophecy of the Twelve is an elaborate prank; we have a lot of Summers family feelings; Apocalypse is not a very good planner; and the Twelve reaches its conclusion.
X-PLAINED:
- Who Madelyne Pryor’s psychic ghost really is
- The story so far
- Uncanny X-Men #377
- Cable #76
- X-Men #97
- Perks of immortality
- A slightly gratuitous way to destroy an airplane
- Several doppelgangers
- Apocalypse’s big, stupid plan
- A fancy science machine
- The Atomium
- The Twelve
- The three elements
- The best issue of the Twelve
- Orb action
- Cable’s knowledge of history
- Summers feelings
- How to establish stakes
- Potato storms
- The mutant Skrulls (more) (again)
- Cadre K
- Categories of mutants
- How to beta test an Armageddon machine
- Alpha nerd Charles Xavier
- Weaponized continuity
- The color(s) of Cyclops’s eyes
- How to evoke Uncanny X-Men #137
- An unfortunate twist
- Mundane uses of superpowers
- The Altar
- What would have improved the Twelve
NEXT EPISODE: Winter Special!
Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog.
Find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!
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 rad swag at our TeePublic shop!
As Mentioned in Episode 471 – Eyebrows and Powers (The Twelve, Part One)
471 – Eyebrows and Powers (The Twelve: Part One)
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | RSS

In which we begin our coverage of The Twelve; Scott and Jean get sucked back in AGAIN; Apocalypse probably doesn’t tip; and we have become awfully fond of Cable.
X-PLAINED:
- A codename that deviates from common patterns
- The story so far
- Uncanny X-Men #376
- Cable #75
- X-Men #96
- Fiz the Skrull (again)
- The Twelve
- Foreshadowing, both accurate and otherwise
- The Living Monolith (more) (again)
- That one font
- Time-travel logic
- Cable vs. eyes
- Fabian Cortez (more) (again)
- A trap
- Why the Twelve are the Twelve
- The evolution of Cable
NEXT EPISODE: The Twelve continues!
Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog.
Find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!
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 rad swag at our TeePublic shop!