Listen to the episode here.
Tag: logan
311 – Love Makes a Super-Team
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | RSS
In which we decide to stop recognizing the nominal difference between X-Men and Uncanny X-Men; time travel may or may not wait for you; Mister Sinister has probably appeared in at least one Ed Wood film; we are a pro-Tingle podcast; X-Men is about family; the Braddock twins catch up; Sailor Moon > Shinobi Shaw; Generation X is inducted into the baseball tradition; and Storm does what she does with Morlocks in sewers.
X-PLAINED:
- Franklin Richards’ impressive lineage
- 311
- Yet another structure for annuals
- X-Men Annual 1995
- Uncanny X-Men #325
- Serious academic discussions
- Faye Livingstone
- Mister Sinister’s Hollywood adventures
- Tyler Dayspring / Tolliver / Genesis (again)
- Teenage optimism
- An absolutely nonsensical villainous plot
- A Hank McCoy that might have been
- Friendship
- Fraternal correspondence
- Romance
- Morlocks
- The first time Storm stabbed a Morlock leader in the heart
- Gene Nation
- A really excessive cover
- An intergenerational baseball game
- Another fairly nonsensical villainous plot
- The second time Storm stabbed a Morlock leader in the heart
- X-horror
- Other media X-fans may enjoy reading, playing, or watching
NEXT EPISODE: Bob Proehl X-Plains the Resonant Duology!
Check out the visual companion to this episode 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 rad swag at our TeePublic shop!
As Mentioned in Episode 301 – Can’t Beat the Real Thing
301 – Can’t Beat the Real Thing
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | RSS
In which we enter our fourth century of podcasting with brand new theme music; we have both Wolverine questions and wolverine questions; it is extremely rough to be Bishop; the creator of Garfield may or may not live in a sewer on Earth-616; Rogue needs better coping mechanisms; bigotry is depressingly timeless; and everything is Onslaught now.
X-PLAINED:
- Joseph’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
- Our new theme music
- X-Men Prime #1
- A genuinely cool cover gimmick
- What happened after the end of the world
- Boundaries
- War crimes vs. fashion crimes
- Destruction of real landmarks in fiction
- A mysterious assailant
- Actual embodied chaos god Jim Davis and his Earth-616 namesake
- Several memorable Garfield stories
- Marrow (Sarah Rushman)
- The secret origin of the Morlocks
- A friendship we miss
- Unhealthy coping mechanisms
- The perennially dubious journalistic ethics of Trish Tilby
- Dennis
- The death of Dennis
- Flaws of the mutant metaphor (more) (again)
- Several refugees from Earth-295
- Mr. Summers and Mr. Summers
- The secret origin of the Genoshan mutates
- The Acolytes
- The continuing relevance of the mutant metaphor (more) (again)
- Cross-universe characterization
NEXT EPISODE: The fall of Avalon!
NOTE: The Garfield strips Jay mentions appeared in newspapers, on purpose, in October 1989.
Check out the visual companion to this episode 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 rad swag at our TeePublic shop!
As Mentioned in Episode 300 – Götterdämmerung
Listen to the episode here.
LINKS & FURTHER EPICS:
- Janet K. Lee makes really, really gorgeous comics and other art.
- A lot of the episodes we mentioned are in the roundup from our 5th anniversary episode.
- You can hear more about Jay’s chickens-in-law in Hawk Talk: Florida Mans
300 – Götterdämmerung
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | RSS
In which the Age of Apocalypse comes to an end; Angel briefly lives up to his potential; Bishop was sometimes right; It’s not a climactic ending without an X-Men #137 reference; Colossus breaks our hearts; X-Men: Marvels Snapshot will be out in September; and somehow we have made 300 of these things.
X-PLAINED:
- Beast vs. Dark Beast
- X-Men: Omega
- The entirety of the (first) Age of Apocalypse
- Potpourri vs. incense
- Dramatic hair
- Many, many errors
- Unforeseen consequences
- A long-anticipated team-up
- Many deaths
- Art as artifact
- Narration that has haunted Jay for 20 years
- One of the more persistent deaths of David Haller
- Blast Attack
- The end of a world
- Refugees from the Age of Apocalypse
- Our favorite X-milestone issues
- Theoretical teams
- Orphans
- When X-Men: Marvels Snapshot is actually coming out
- Our favorite show bits
- How Jay’s chickens-in-law are doing
NEXT EPISODE: X-Men Prime
Check out the visual companion to this episode 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 rad swag at our TeePublic shop!
As Mentioned in Episode 291 – Eat Malarkey and Die
291 – Eat Malarkey and Die
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | RSS
In which we celebrate a birthday; nuclear war is never a good Plan A; every Logan is Old Man Logan; we are underwhelmed by the Pretty Boys of Earth-295; Jean Grey is one hell of a pilot; there are so many reasons not to like Donald Pierce; teleporters are the narrative nuclei of the Age of Apocalypse; and Gateway of Earth-295 deserves significantly more in-depth exploration than we can provide.
X-PLAINED:
- Weapon X (Logan)
- Weapon X #1-4
- Irony
- Coordinating costumes to tattoos (and vice versa)
- How to ride a sentinel
- Apocalypse’s sea wall
- Mutant power classifications
- The mass human evacuation
- Nuclear war
- Magma
- A load of malarkey
- Interactions of telepathy and PTSD
- The Pretty Boys of Earth-295
- How not to jump out of a zeppelin
- What Carol Danvers smells like
- Gateway (Earth-295)
- An exceptionally high-tech guilt trip
- Unconventional navigation
- Character transformations between universes
- The complex conundrum of Jean Grey
- When humans became aware about mutants
- Logan’s D&D alignment
- Our own D&D character histories
NEXT EPISODE: Factor X!
Check out the visual companion to this episode 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 rad swag at our TeePublic shop!
As Mentioned in Episode 288 – Cape Citadel Remix
288 – Cape Citadel Remix
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | Email | RSS
In which Magneto is a drama llama in any universe (but a remarkably decent parent in at least one); the soap opera hits the Age of Apocalypse; Weapon X is a man made of red flags; Gambit has an OT3; the better man wins; some blanks are better left unfilled; and we would probably not fare too well on Earth-295.
X-PLAINED:
- The other Magnus
- Synchronicity
- Earth-295 (more) (again)
- X-Men Chronicles #1-2
- Selective backstory
- Magneto’s hair
- Wundagore Mountain
- Aesthetics of the Age of Apocalypse
- The X-Men of Earth-295
- Magneto’s pedagogy
- More miscellaneous horsemen
- Weapon X (Logan)
- Cape Citadel, revisited
- The death of the Scarlet Witch
- Disaster Bisexual Gambit
- Wolverine (but not that one)
- Punks who may or may not also be scrimshanders
- Emotionally well-adjusted Quicksilver
- Further miracles of magnetism
- The narrative power of evocation
- Age of Somebody Else
- Jay and Miles of Earth-295
NEXT EPISODE: Summers Family Reunions somehow get even worse.
Check out the visual companion to this episode 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 rad swag at our TeePublic shop!