111 – You’ll Have to Look Inside for That
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2016
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In which Wolverine gets a wolverine; the Crazy Gang meets their match; Inferno is business as usual for Excalibur; Alan Davis covers are the best covers; David Wynne makes his on-air debut; Courtney Ross is more competent than you; Murderworld operates on a dubious economic model; Nightcrawler is the anti-Nice Guy™, and everything basically works out for the best.
X-PLAINED:
- Wolverine’s wolverine
- A subtle but critical spelling difference
- Excalibur #4-7
- The greatest comic-book cover of all time
- Dialogue on covers
- Courtney Ross
- Edwardian power suits
- Arcade (again)
- The dubious economics of Murderworld
- The Looney Toones school of sexploitation
- Search terms
- Fashion in Excalibur
- A mundane but useful superpower
- The death of Courtney Ross
- Perils of transatlantic flight
- The Goblin Princess
- A really excellent gargoyle
- Several cinematic references
- A very revealing outfit
- Brigadier Alysande Stuart
- Sinister fashion
- Still more Limbo disambiguation
NEXT WEEK: Infero Post-Game, with Sam Humphries
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jay, how many Wolverines are there at this point? |
| 0:03.5 | Lowercase W, somewhere around 20,000. |
| 0:06.5 | Capital W, there's just the one, former X23 Laura Kinney. |
| 0:10.3 | Well, there have to be at least two. |
| 0:11.7 | I mean, there's old man Logan. |
| 0:13.0 | Nah, he's pulling a Jean-Gray these days. No code name. |
| 0:16.0 | Okay, but what about Laura Kenny's clones? There were like half a dozen of them. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, but none of them ever went by Wolverine. |
| 0:22.0 | Wow, so really just the one. |
| 0:24.0 | You could maybe make a case for Jonathan. |
| 0:27.0 | Jonathan? |
| 0:28.0 | Laura and Gabby's pet Wolverine. |
| 0:29.0 | Wait, the current Wolverine and her tween clone have a pet who's also somehow Wolverine |
| 0:34.1 | No no not Wolverine a Wolverine. How did they end up with a pet Wolverine? |
| 0:38.0 | Oh Squirrel Girl brought him to a team up as an overture of friendship. |
| 0:40.7 | What? I'm J Rachel Eddenden and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men |
| 0:56.6 | because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:58.3 | Welcome to episode 111 of Jay and Miles explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the |
| 1:04.1 | retcons of comic's greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 1:07.0 | Okay, so after our brief detour, we are back, of course, in Inferno. |
| 1:11.0 | Forever, for the rest of our lives. |
| 1:12.8 | Actually I think we're almost done. |
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