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As Mentioned in Episode 510 – Giant-Size Special #14 (feat. Alex Paknadel)

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Well backgrounded, Tom Raney! (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #1)
And then Jean holographically re-traumatized herself. (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #1)
And then Cable holographically re-traumatized himself. (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #1)
That monkey is INTO THIS. (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #1)
Time to switch lip balm brands, my friend. (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #1)
Scott Summers: great at boats. (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #1)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #1)
Okay, this doesn’t literally happen in this issue, but it looks pretty rad. (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #2)
Angry mobs: a core feature of any historical period or geographic locale! (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #2)
Bad kitty. (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #2)
As if his day couldn’t get any worse… (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #2)
It’s easy to forget how well Apocalypse rocks that heavy metal haircut. (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #3)
“I’m not even supposed to be here today! (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #3)
“Hey, who turned out the lights?” (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #3)
(Cue goofy Hanna-Barbera chase music) (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #3)
“Your butt was really different the last time we hung out!” (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #3)
<3 (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #3)
“Sorta-mom, didn’t your sorta-daughter wear that same color when she was old in the future that is my past?” (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #4)
Now that’s how you enter a panel! (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #4)
Jean is having a day. (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #4)
Jean Grey and her weaponized feelings. Hell yeah. (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #4)
Okay, that’s legit cool. If also a little silly. (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #4)
“…at least until our relationship falls apart in New X-Men.” (X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #4)
NEXT TIME: Gambit and Bishop get their own series!

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510 – Giant-Size Special #14 (feat. Alex Paknadel)

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In which we attempt an all-Cyclops Winter special; X-Men are bad at processing grief; writer Alex Paknadel X-Plains his upcoming Cyclops miniseries; every character (except Cameron Hodge) is someone’s favorite; and you remain the best listeners of any podcast, ever.

X-PLAINED:

  • Clones of Cyclops
  • Gwen Warren
  • Our year in review
  • X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #1-4
  • Ahmed and his mustache
  • Emotional support boats
  • A monkey
  • Apoca-lips
  • Anias
  • Boxes of fire
  • One way of coping with trauma
  • Ozymandias (more) (again)
  • The relative criminality of a trail of questions
  • Cat lady problems
  • Twice as many cat ladies named Anias as you’d expect
  • Terrible logic
  • Caliban (more) (again)
  • Several unpleasant reunions
  • Alex Paknadel’s definitive Cyclopses
  • Fun with minor characters
  • Proxy characters and “highly polished surfaces”
  • Characters to revisit
  • Sentinels
  • Cyclops vs. his own powers
  • Cyclops’s powers vs. continuity
  • Who Scott Summers is when he’s alone
  • The punch dimension
  • The 11th Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
  • Many people to whom we are profoundly grateful

NEXT EPISODE: Gambit & Bishop: Now Kiss Sons of the Atom

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As Mentioned in Episode 491 – Live from the Library

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491 – Live from the Library

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In which we record live from the Library of Congress; time travel complicates everything; X-Men is a fundamentally queer narrative; we attempt to summarize a lot of history very fast; and when identities are politicized, claiming them becomes a political act.

X-PLAINED:

  • LC-GLOBE
  • The first openly queer X-Man
  • Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
  • Why we do what we do
  • Why the X-Men are worth studying
  • Returning nuance to critical discussion of media
  • A brief(ish) history of X-Men and queerness in X-Men
  • Iceman Watch
  • Retroactive foreshadowing
  • The mutant metaphor
  • Found family
  • Subtext
  • Text
  • Facets of mutant activism
  • Coming-out stories
  • Various vectors of diversity
  • Some comics Jay wrote
  • Comics in libraries
  • Where to start with Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
  • X-Men for horror fans
  • Our favorite X-Men lineups
  • Identity politics
  • The T-O virus vs. the Legacy Virus

NEXT EPISODE: Brain Sharks!

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Jay has some additional thoughts on identity politics, which you can read here.

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As Mentioned in Episode 462 – Angst and Continuity

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Oh, that can’t be good. (Generation X #55)
Well, shit. (Generation X #55)
Cold, Emma. (Generation X #55)
Ew, but also awesome. (Generation X #56)
FUCK YEAH EMMA FROST (Generation X #56)
Aw. (Generation X #56)
She’s evil, but damn does she have an eye for fashion. (Generation X #56)
Propellor beanie! (Generation X #57)
You really, really can’t. (Generation X #57)
Bobert Drake, straight heterosexual. (Generation X #57)
The queen of the goths! (Generation X #57)
We did not describe Skin’s outfit in the podcast because frankly, words do not do it justice. (Generation X #57)
TBH, this is how most of our school dances ended, too. (Generation X #57)
NEXT EPISODE: The secret origins of Gambit’s fart ghost girlfriend!

462 – Angst and Continuity

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In which the 1990s were very long; if you die in the simulation, you die in real life; Adrienne Frost is a bad person with good clothes; we judge the number 57; things just keep happening; and Penance somehow gets even more complicated.

X-PLAINED:

  • Bevatron
  • Generation X #55-57
  • The Hellions and their untimely demise (again)
  • Uncanny X-Men #281
  • A continuity conundrum
  • Many allusions and references
  • Cognitive dissonance
  • Dancing between the raindrops of continuity
  • Resolution
  • Emma Frost, triumphant
  • Fashion
  • Emplate (more) (again)
  • Propeller beanies
  • Feelings
  • Explosions
  • One way to solve a problem
  • Whether you should read Dazzler: The Movie
  • The worst possible power swaps

NEXT EPISODE: The secret origins of Gambit’s fart ghost girlfriend!

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As Mentioned in Episode 405 – Morally Purple

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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)
And then they never talked to or mentioned each other again. (Generation X #-1)
Rachel’s cloak is SO GOOD. (Uncanny X-Men #-1)
this genocidal disco motherfucker (Uncanny X-Men #-1)
Tanya, NO. (Uncanny X-Men #-1)
NEXT EPISODE: More flashbacks!

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405 – Morally Purple

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In which Jay returns; babies are bad at pretty much everything; continuity flies straight out the window; Cable should speak English with a Scottish accent; Harry Leland knows how to dress; Tanya Trask makes the same time travel mistake everyone makes; and we love Al Kennedy forever.

X-PLAINED:

  • Sentry (but not that one)
  • Babies
  • Flashback
  • Cable #-1
  • Excalibur #-1
  • Generation X #-1
  • Uncanny X-Men #-1
  • The preturn of Angus McWhirter, angry hovercraft-rental guy
  • Hippie Cable
  • Veins of science
  • Yet another time travel loop
  • What may or may not be how Nightcrawler quit the circus
  • Sabu
  • “Science”
  • A large volume of dubious continuity
  • Larry Trask (more) (again)
  • Jay’s cosplay aspirations
  • Sanctity (Tanya Trask)
  • The Twelve (somewhat)
  • A possible splinter timeline
  • The X-Men of 1602
  • Rube Goldberg

NEXT EPISODE: Flashback continues!

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As Mentioned in Episode 395 – Boxer Briefs of Humanity

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“Weirdest disco ball I’ve ever seen, Sarge, and I used to hang out at that evil disco Dazzler used to play at.” (Cable & Machine Man Annual 1998)
Maybe this is why the X-Men refuse to use the phone. (Cable & Machine Man Annual 1998)
Shades of Weapon X. (Cable & Machine Man Annual 1998)
Jeez Nathan just ring the freakin’ doorbell (Cable & Machine Man Annual 1998)
Rose Gilberti, you were too good for this world. (Cable & Machine Man Annual 1998)
World 1-4 (Cable & Machine Man Annual 1998)
Dun duh dun duh dun, Inspector Aaron (Cable & Machine Man Annual 1998)
Cable’s psychic link x-plains Machine Man (Cable & Machine Man Annual 1998)
Look, I know the IT department has gotten messy over the course of the pandemic, you don’t have to rub it in (Machine Man & Bastion Annual 1998)
EWWW (Machine Man & Bastion Annual 1998)
Aww shit we’ve wandered into a TED Talk (Machine Man & Bastion Annual 1998)
Sometimes I wish PowerPoint had never been invented (Machine Man & Bastion Annual 1998)
And sometimes, as a joke, the Siege Perilous will transform a robot into a naked man with a goatee. (Machine Man & Bastion Annual 1998)
Attacked by exposition (Machine Man & Bastion Annual 1998)
Go-Go Gadget Free Will! (Machine Man & Bastion Annual 1998)
EWWW NOW HE’S DOING IT TOO (Machine Man & Bastion Annual 1998)
NEXT TIME: The Old New Mutants meet the New New Mutants

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395 – Boxer Briefs of Humanity

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Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!

In which Jay has exciting news, Rick Leonardo draws an impressively creepy mad scientist’s lair, the clouds are purple and so is the prose, Powers of X gets a subtle prequel 21 years early, Cable’s own tolerance has finally reached zero, and we summarize Bastion’s backstory way, way faster than Bastion does.

X-PLAINED:

  • Machine Man (X-51) (Aaron Stack)
  • Operation Zero Tolerance (more) (again)
  • Jay’s upcoming parental leave
  • Bastion (Sebastion Gilberti)
  • M-Tech
  • Powerman 5000
  • Cable & Machine Man Annual 1998
  • Hobgits and their sound effects
  • Street Fighter: the Roleplaying Game
  • Batroc ze Lepair
  • Jack Kirby’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • X-51 / X-23 overlaps
  • Classic Summers Family Bullshit
  • Psionic soapboxes
  • What makes Bastion a compelling villain
  • The necessity of companions
  • Master Mold 3.0 & Nimrod 2.0
  • Machine Man & Bastion Annual 1998
  • Terrible font choices
  • ZORCH
  • Cable vs. floors
  • The carbon footprint of robotic fascism
  • Marvel Comics Presents #17-24 (just a little)
  • Incredible Hulk Annual #7 (just a tad)
  • The Siege Perilous
  • The future of Machine Man
  • The hypothetical 2022 version of Bastion
  • Historical events in which we’d love to see long-lived mutants take part

NEXT WEEK: We take a break for the holidays!

IN TWO WEEKS: The Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men 2022 Giant-Size Winter Special!

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  • 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!
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