Generation X – Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

As Mentioned in Episode 431 – Doctor Jennifer Murder’s Drop-In Deathatorium

November 19, 2023 Miles Leave a comment

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Alright, who stuck their surprisingly awesome fan-zine on this comics rack? (Generation X Underground Special #1)

Do the extra-long fingers help or hurt? (Generation X Underground Special #1)

Triumphant walk! (Generation X Underground Special #1)

Cibo Matto! (Generation X Underground Special #1)

“I’m just not sure about this neighborhood. Let’s head over to Crime Alley instead.” (Generation X Underground Special #1)

No notes. (Generation X Underground Special #1)

(Former since the Donut Day Riots) Detective Lucas Bishop. (Generation X Underground Special #1)

Eat your heart out, Jack Kirby. (Generation X Underground Special #1)

You and me both, random gangster. (Generation X Underground Special #1)

And, in fact, that very funk will save the day. (Generation X Underground Special #1)

Chamber’s secondary mutation is to be more heavily inked when he’s depressed. (Generation X Underground Special #1)

If you’re ever this heavily inked, please talk to someone. (Generation X Underground Special #1)

Al made a shirt and so can you! (Generation X Underground Special #1)

Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, Beatniks vs. Hostess Fruit Pies… (Generation X Underground Special #1)

Nate is such a good dude sometimes. (X-Man: All Saints Day #1)

What an oddly relevantly helpful old woman! (X-Man: All Saints Day #1)

Downtown Transylvania circa 1998, I assume. (X-Man: All Saints Day #1)

Hey, your face isn’t even all that bony! (X-Man: All Saints Day #1)

See, kids? This is why you shouldn’t smoke. (X-Man: All Saints Day #1)

She had to wait days for a lightning storm epic enough for her to make her entrance properly. (X-Man: All Saints Day #1)

How has no one brought this delightful villain back since this issue?! (X-Man: All Saints Day #1)

Didn’t see that one coming… (X-Man: All Saints Day #1)

NO NOTES. (X-Man: All Saints Day #1)

Doctor Von Mort’s home office is way cooler than mine. (X-Man: All Saints Day #1)

Abysnthia Von Mort x-plains Absynthia Von Mort. (X-Man: All Saints Day #1)

“Help! We’ve been filed!” (X-Man: All Saints Day #1)

I’m not crying you’re crying (X-Man: All Saints Day #1)

NEXT EPISODE: Generation X suits up!

431 – Doctor Jennifer Murder’s Drop-In Deathatorium

November 19, 2023 Miles 3 comments

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In which Synch is a more versatile character than he originally got credit for; “eep” and “eek” are likewise underused; space makes everything better; Nate Grey is the proto-himbo; and if you can decipher the secret code in this episode, you, too, can win a Silver Surfer jet ski!

X-PLAINED:

Diablo
Generation X Underground Special
X-Men Unlimited #30
X-Man: All Saints Day
Jim Mahfood
Skin’s video-game preferences
Strange superpowers
Poster pirates
Visual representations of the passage of time
“Banshee’s Angels”
Charlie’s Angels
The infamous donut-day riots
Perfect costumes
Adequate restraints for small children
The raw power of funk
Generation X vs. the Beat Generation
The greatest disco event in the universe
Nate Grey
Some kid named Jerome
Countess Absynthia Von Mort
Transylvania
Dr. Cindy’s Castle
The state of Phoenix affairs
The color bar at the top of the page in ‘90s comics

NEXT EPISODE: Generation X suits up!

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429 – Slightly Sticky

November 5, 2023 Miles 15 comments

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In which you should stop hatin’, there’s a big difference between fill-ins and filler, Snow Valley needs higher Ferris wheel standards, Todd DeZago must really hate video rental clerks, and we’re all monsters – some of us just smell better than others.

X-PLAINED:

Strong Guy’s hellacious history
The nature and purpose of X-Men Unlimited
X-Men Unlimited #20-21
Rock Trolls (Chambliss, Nettles, and Munson)
What Asgard was up to in 1998
Magik vs magic
The Snow Valley Harvest Festival
Jubilation Lee, one of the guys
Eagles vs Hats
Fatman, Beardlady-o, Stickman-o, & Frogman-o
Tic Tac Toe fundamentals
Angry mobs
Paige Guthrie, Angry Mom
The many potential applications of Husk’s powers
Falls Edge, VA vs Eagle Ridge, WV
Payphones & video rental stores
X-friends
Rutland, VT (again)
Melvin J. Weals
Helen Back
The Donnybrook Country Club
Cat Fancier & Motorcycle Conventions
The Shi’ar Wardrobe Transmogrifier
Steel (the Shaq one)
The worst pun we’ve ever seen in a comic
Earth: the Hipster Planet
Which X-Men throw the best and/or wildest Halloween parties
Fan-casting X-voices

NEXT EPISODE: The X-Men team up with the Fantastic Four!

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As Mentioned in Episode 419 – Stuff Happens

July 29, 2023 Miles Leave a comment

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Run, Penance! The retcons are coming for you! (Generation X #40)

Hey, that’s not how telepathy works! (Generation X #40)

I’d be responding with a lot more middle fingers and lawsuits than Synch is here. (Generation X #40)

Monet, I know your brother is super evil and all, but do you really have to be so mean about it? (Generation X #40)

I see someone just earned their Villainous Wordplay merit badge! (Generation X #40)

Huh, that was easy. (Generation X #40)

…as Disney’s copyright lawyers back slowly away… (Generation X #40)

This issue’s an odd and somewhat troubling one, but damn that art is great. (Generation X #41)

Jubilee: from youngest X-Man to youngest Gen X’er. (Generation X #41)

AAAAAAAHHHHHHH (Generation X #41)

And once more I say AAAAAAAHHHHHHH (Generation X #41)

I’m impressed we can tell Emma and Paige apart for once, but what really impresses me is EVERYTHING ABOUT JUBILEE’S HAIR (Generation X #42)

Is… is this how flirting works? Have we been doing it wrong? (Generation X #42)

We’ll get to this. (Generation X #42)

The color of PAIN (Generation X #42)

It must be hard to be Just Some Dude in the Marvel Universe. (Generation X #42)

Why Gaia is probably actually a Neutrino from TMNT, figure 1. (Generation X #42)

Why Gaia is probably actually a Neutrino from TMNT, figure 2. (Generation X #42)

Hi, Elsie-Dee and Albert! Bye, Elsie-Dee and Albert! (Generation X #42)

I feel like Emma makes that face at Sean a lot. (Generation X #43)

This run may be baffling and bizarre, but I can’t say I’m not having a good time. (Generation X #43)

FUN FACT: Did you know that 1996’s Super Mario RPG was the first time Princess Peach, then called Princess Toadstool, used a frying pan as a weapon? (Generation X #43)

Oh right, these guys. (Generation X #43)

NEXT EPISODE: Queering Wolverine with Dr. Christopher Michael Roman!

419 – Stuff Happens

July 29, 2023 Miles 9 comments

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In which the St. Croix family is constructed largely of retcons; Generation X adjusts surprisingly quickly to a massive status quo shift; Psi-War is coming soon to a podcast near you; Snow White – I mean, Bianca LaNeige – has an intriguing but exceptionally minimal backstory; and if you die in this podcast episode, you die in real life.

X-PLAINED:

Hellfire Club history
Generation X #40-43
MillXnials
Mercy General Hospital vs Our Mother of Mercy Hospital
Ambiguous psionic overlap
Nicole & Claudette & Monet & Marius St. Croix
The Downtown Stomp
Synch, agreeable and bland (for now)
Vincent Adultman
The nature of Penance
A glacial but effective pace
Bianca LaNeige, evil Snow White from space
Warpy, Stinky, Spiky, Windy, Greasy, Brainy, and Blurry
The Enchanted Forest of Oregon
Claremont:Body Swaps::Hama:Getting Stuck In Other Dimensions
Jay vs. Accents
Terminal Dream Syndrome
A surprisingly gruesome fill-in
An underrated era for Emma Frost
Betty & Veronica, presenting like mandrills
Zak the Neutrino
Albert & Elsie-Dee (briefly)
The Dodsons vs Mike Allred
Dr. Bronner’s uncredited Marvel career
Our coverage of Ultimate X-Men (or lack thereof)
Dr. Phil Zimbardo’s xplainthexmen study

NEXT EPISODE: Queering Wolverine with Dr. Christopher Michael Roman!

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As Mentioned in Episode 410 – Jubilee, Don’t Eat That

May 7, 2023 Jay Leave a comment

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A boojum, which is later referred to repeatedly as a snark but is clearly not one for reasons expounded in this episode. (Generation X #37)

Gaia the Super Chill. (Generation X #37)

SURE WHY NOT (Generation X #37)

A somewhat unlikely timetable. (Generation X #37)

SURE WHY NOT (Generation X #37)

I freakin’ love this cover. (Generation X #38)

Interdimensional portals are rad as heck. (Generation X #38)

(Generation X #38)

jubilee no don’t eat that why would you even (Generation X #39)

SURE WHY NOT (Generation X #39)

In a genre full of deeply oblivious goons, these two may in fact be the most oblivious. (Generation X #39)

NEXT EPISODE: The return of the Angry Clarmontean Narrator!

410 – Jubilee, Don’t Eat That

May 7, 2023 Jay 12 comments

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In which the M-Plate Saga continues; Jay gets into the spirit of the day; we briefly give up on our primary mission; the story is coordinated if not coherent; Miles is not allowed to continuity-shame about Tolkein; Gaia is extra chill; Dirt Nap discovers altruism; and Jubilee should absolutely not have eaten that.

X-PLAINED:

Vampires vs. Marrow (again)
Whether Marrow is a mutant
Drugs
X-Plaining the inexplicable
Generation X #37-39
M-Plate (more) (again)
A Boojum
How to correctly identify a snark
The Universal Amalgamator (more) (again)
A door
Moria, kind of, I guess?
Mysterious topiary
An equally mysterious train
The Citadel of the Universal Amalgamator
Gaia
How to make a deal with a Token
Orange milk
A network of interdimensional water closets
The Bill the Pony Effect
An attempted murder
Monet vs. Northstar
Characters we’d like to see come out of the subtext

NEXT EPISODE: The Angry Claremontean Narrator Returns

CORRECTION: Miles said that the previous episode was #410. This episode is in fact #410; the previous episode is #409.

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As Mentioned in Episode 409 – Lurid Malarkey

May 7, 2023 Jay Leave a comment

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In which Sean entirely fails to X-Plain Monet. (Generation X #34)

Tracy Authier, middle-school bandit. (Generation X #34)

Now I really wanna read Paige’s descriptions of these guys. (Generation X #34)

Oh, Paige. (Generation X #34)

The hell what?! (Generation X #34)

M-Plate! (Also, I’m pretty sure Penance’s word balloon is supposed to go to Synch.) (Generation X #34)

Fun with Chimera. (Generation X #35)

Everett, no. (Generation X #35)

In which things get a trifle Windsor McCay. (Generation X #35)

Jubilee’s hallucinogenic Wonderland. (Generation X #35)

More fun in Wonderland. (Generation X #35)

Meet Elwood. (Generation X #36)

Do you know who these people are? PLEASE TELL US! (Generation X #36)

This is not a great way to introduce yourself to the neighbors. (Generation X #36)

Spoiler: Chief Authier is a telepath. (Generation X #36)

NEXT EPISODE: that happens

409 – Lurid Malarkey

April 30, 2023 Jay 11 comments

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In which nobody is sure what Emplate actually eats; airport food is not a good peace offering; Larry Hama writes a good Jubilee; the St. Croix siblings merge; and we honestly have no idea what a Token is.

X-PLAINED:

Emplate vs. Marrow
What’s been up with Generation X
Generation X #34-36
Claudette and Nicole St. Croix
Emplate (more) (again)
Controlled chaos
Tracy Authier
Bullying
Dorian and Weasel (again)
Treasures
EAT
Some unusually friendly blackmail
Wizard Magazine
Husk’s diary and hypothetical fanfiction
Chimera
A Lepton imploder
Dirt-Nap
M-Plate
A dream, we think, probably
Jubilee in Wonderland
A Token
Chief Authier
Elwood
Landau, Luckman, & Lake (again)
The Citadel at the Edge of Reality
The Universal Amalgamator
Magik on screen
Our favorite villains and alignment shifts from the Krakoa era

NEXT EPISODE: The M-Plate Saga concludes

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As Mentioned in Episode 405 – Morally Purple

April 2, 2023 Jay Leave a comment

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So, that’s a thing. (Cable #-1)

Honestly, I kinda wish Cable had sported this look for longer. (Cable #-1)

THE BOW TIE (Cable #-1)

Cable’s future may be kind of dystopian, but it’s also rad as hell. (Cable #-1)

Damn, bro. (Cable #-1)

On one hand, yes, he’s very dashing. On the other hand, they are definitely foster siblings. (Excalibur #-1)

Hey, we know that guy! (Excalibur #-1)

This is Sabu. Don’t get attached. (Excalibur #-1)

Harry Leland knows how to dress to impress. (Generation X #-1)

I know it’s a byproduct of the foreshortening plus slightly murky colors, but from at least one angle, it looks like Hank has a human-skin rug. (Generation X #-1)