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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2014

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In which we begin at the beginning: everything clicks with #3, Professor Xavier is a jerk, Magneto is a fearless fashionista, Cyclops gets a name, Jean Grey has a chronic case of the Silver Age, and allegorical diversity is not enough.

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0:00.0	Hey Rachel is that the latest issue of uncanny X-Men?
0:02.2	It sure is, Miles.
0:03.5	What's going on?
0:04.5	Well, see, the X-Men, now that Cyclops is X-Men, and they're currently kind of
0:07.5	of terrorists.
0:08.5	They're operating underground from the Weapon X bunker.
0:10.9	Wait, weapon X?
0:12.1	You know, the mostly Canadian military organization, they were putting
0:14.7	mutants in concentration camps, stuff like that.
0:17.1	Those are the ones who did the genetic branding thing with the bigms on their faces, like Bishop and
0:20.9	Lila Milner.
0:21.9	Oh, no, no, no, no no no no those guys are from the forever
0:23.4	yesterday universe it's a splinter universe these guys are from the main
0:26.1	continuity and the X-Men are hiding out in in their all headquarters so they get a
0:30.0	ping on their cobbled together cerebral that a new mutant has manifested in Chicago and they
0:33.8	all head down to check it out. But it's not actually a mutant, it's a ruse and they get attacked
0:37.5	by a son and all. No, it's really not. But they've got magic along, so that's cool. And she's been studying with Dr. Strange and... Wait, hang on,
0:46.4	on magic? So, Leana Rasputin, that's Colossus's little sister, but didn't she die of the legacy
0:50.8	virus after she got re-d-aged back in Inferno?
0:54.0	Well, sort of, but this one's actually an alternate Ileana from a parallel universe,
0:57.4	so it's cool.
0:58.0	What? Welcome, I'm Rachel Eddidden. I'm Miles Stokes. And we're here to explain the X-Men.
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