114 – Meltdown (feat. Susan Beaver)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2016
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
In which Havok and Wolverine head to Mexico; Havok tries his hand at noir; Wolverine gets serious about hair gel; Meltdown is probably not actually a common Russian surname; Susan X-Plains nuclear reactors; and we are pretty thoroughly besotted with Havok & Wolverine: Meltdown.
X-PLAINED:
- Age of Apocalypse Corsair
- Epic Comics
- Marvel Comics Presents #24-31
- Leila O’Toole (Plasma)
- The Cold War
- Samantha Smith
- Havok & Wolverine: Meltdown #1-4
- General Meltdown
- Dr. Neutron
- The varying deadliness of vices
- Scarlett McKenzie (Quark)
- Some exceptionally gorgeous artwork
- Why we love Havok
- Chernobyl
- How nuclear reactors do and don’t work
- Other characters we’d like to see in Meltdown-type stories
- Adamantium vs. vibranium
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| 0:00.0 | So Jay I've been thinking about the age of apocalypse. |
| 0:03.6 | Welcome to my life, Miles. |
| 0:05.4 | The Summer's brothers were raised by Sinister in that timeline, right? |
| 0:08.3 | After the plane crash, yeah. |
| 0:09.6 | So their early history is the same. |
| 0:11.6 | Basically, the plane crash is a little different. They were fleeing |
| 0:14.7 | apocalypse not going on a vacation, but the rest is pretty much the same. So there are still |
| 0:19.2 | star-jammers in the age of apocalypse, because I feel like Corsair would have fit pretty well into the glamest timeline. of crash landing back on earth after Scott and Alex had grown up, so they've got that in common. |
| 0:33.6 | Wait, but in the main timeline, the X-Men found him in Age of Apocalypse. |
| 0:37.8 | Sinister. |
| 0:38.8 | Oh, damn. |
| 0:39.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.8 | He eventually managed to escape, but Sinister sent a bunch of high-level operatives after him. |
| 0:45.4 | Did he ever find the kids? |
| 0:46.8 | Eventually, but by that point there was one hell of a trail of carnage. |
| 0:50.6 | Because of the guys tracking him. |
| 0:52.2 | Because he was a brood queen what? |
| 0:53.7 | What? I'm J. Rachel Eddenden and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 1:09.2 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:10.8 | Welcome to episode 114 of Jay and Miles, explain the X-Men, where we walk you through the ins, |
| 1:16.0 | the outs, and the ret cons of comics greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 1:19.0 | Okay, so here we are once again in our brave new world of being past Inferno. How's it going Jay? |
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