105 – Live from ECCC with Kris Anka, Al Ewing, Scott Koblish, and G. Willow Wilson
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In which continuity has its eyes on you; the multiverse is so complex that we have to drag Al Ewing out of the audience to X-plain it; the X-Men mean a lot of different (but mostly compatible) things to all of us; we will accept any retcons necessary to maintain Magneto’s history as a Holocaust survivor; and ECCC rocks our world.
X-PLAINED:
- Secret Wars
- Alternate universes vs. alternate timelines
- Multiversal problem-solving
- New Arcadia
- Definitive alternate-timeline X-Men
- The weird joy of reading comics out of order
- That one alternate timeline where Storm has a leather jacket and is hooking up with Wolverine
- The only happy Cyclops in the multiverse
- What makes the X-Men the X-Men
- Intersections we’d like to see explored in canon
- The appeal of universe-hopping
- Relative ratios of metaphors to punching
- Proof of concept in comics publishing
- Battleworld characters we’d like to import into the 616.1
- Which X-Men should get solo series
NEXT WEEK: X-Terminators!
CORRECTION: During the panel, Jay claimed that Spider-Man had been married for their entire life. Jay was in fact five years old when Spider-Man got married. We regret the error, but maintain our stance that Spider-Man is totally married.
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen you could have been anywhere in the world tonight but you're here with us in Seattle |
| 0:06.3 | Washington are you ready for a live podcast huh? |
| 0:19.7 | The issue on the table, Jay's plan to jettison current continuity and focus on secret wars. Scott Koblish, you have the floor, sir. |
| 0:22.1 | Right. Koblish, you have the floor, sir. With great power, there must also come great responsibility. |
| 0:28.0 | We fight for the ideal to the best of our ability. |
| 0:31.0 | These are wise words, Spider-Man quote them. Don't act surprise. of our ability these a wise word spiderman quote |
| 0:33.6 | um don't act surprise you guys can smile and stand road um |
| 0:38.3 | oh but Jay forgets their plan would have this panel explaining events. |
| 0:43.0 | Now I'm pretty clear as to where we might veer |
| 0:45.8 | the very same title where the experts appear. |
| 0:48.4 | Not true. |
| 0:49.4 | Oh, if the shoe fits, wear it? |
| 0:51.0 | If continuity is a mess, why should the panel bear it? |
| 0:53.8 | Oh, our books are gold, I'm told. |
| 0:56.0 | Don't blame the ongoings because they get sold. |
| 0:58.8 | In Deadpool, we lampoon the status quo. |
| 1:01.4 | We subvert. You just want to sound smart for your show. This |
| 1:05.2 | multiverseal plan is an outrageous demand and it's too many damn titles for |
| 1:09.3 | anyone to understand. Stand with me for continuity and pray to doom that Jay's plan never comes |
| 1:16.8 | to be. Look, we got frisky with Beyonders in the mix. Imagine what's going to happen if you |
| 1:21.7 | nuke the 616. |
| 1:23.0 | Thank you, Scott. Jay, your response. |
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