101 – Not Bad, Just Drawn That Way
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2016
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In which it’s pretty much always terrible to be Magik; Y is a sometimes vowel; Wolfsbane is a secret Disney Princess; feelings ruin everything; and Gossamyr may or may not be an allegory (but is pretty interesting either way).
X-PLAINED:
- What Lila Cheney is up to these days
- New Mutants #67-70
- Gratuitous space spelling
- Gossamyr
- Spyder
- The Accountants
- Magneto’s ongoing slide into supervillainy
- A few fairly specific elements of teen-girl social dynamics
- Wolfsbane’s greatest desire
- Practical logistics of teleporting aliens into a sun
- Approaching the X-books as a new writer
- Who we’d put on an all-X-Men trivia team
NEXT EPISODE: BabyRace 2000; and Archangel vs. Cameron Hodge
Special thanks to Kieron Gillen for the X-pert consult; and to Arvin Bautista for the use of “I Will Steal Your Heart.”
InfernoWatch:
- Illyana’s descent continues
- S’ym gains near-complete control of Limbo
- First instances of possessed machinery and architecture
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| 0:00.0 | So I've been thinking about Lila Cheney. |
| 0:02.5 | Isn't that just kind of a default state? |
| 0:04.5 | Well, point, but the thing is, she hasn't shown up in the Marvel universe in ages, has she? |
| 0:08.5 | Is she even still alive? |
| 0:10.0 | Oh, yeah, she's fine. She popped up in Captain Marvel last year. |
| 0:13.0 | Dude what she been up to? |
| 0:14.5 | Eh you know, cavorting around the galaxy, stealing stuff, rocking out, breaking an engagement. |
| 0:18.9 | Wait, engagement? Like to Cannonball? What? No, Cannonball's with Smasher. |
| 0:23.0 | They have an adorable demon baby. |
| 0:25.0 | Imperial Guard Smasher? |
| 0:26.0 | Didn't he die? |
| 0:27.0 | Well, she in this case, and like four Smashers have died. |
| 0:30.0 | It's a job, not a specific person. |
| 0:32.0 | Oh, wait, then who is Lila engaged to? |
| 0:34.0 | Oh, Prince Anne of Aladna. |
| 0:35.0 | Prince who of what now? |
| 0:36.0 | It's a planet she visited early on when her powers first manifested. |
| 0:39.0 | Monarchy, strict rules of succession, really weird societal wars. |
| 0:43.0 | And they talk only in rhymed couplets. |
| 0:45.0 | What? I'm J Rachel Eddin and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men |
| 1:00.7 | because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:02.4 | Welcome to episode 101 of J and Miles. |
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