123 – Mojo Mayhem
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In which Jay and Miles return to Rose City Comic Con; “Having a Wild Weekend” is the mash-up t-shirt of Excalibur stories; swears are for everyone; Arcade is not a subtle villain; we love Art Adams a lot; Minor-Domo is the Harvey and/or Janet of the Mojoverse; Kitty gets another new costume; and the X-Babies carjack their creators.
X-PLAINED:
- The Agent
- Jay and Miles at Rose City Comic Con 2016
- What Excalibur has instead of annuals
- Competing theories of Eriks Larsen
- “Having a Wild Weekend” (Marvel Comics Presents #31-38)
- The Community reference that keeps on giving
- How to fight on the Internet without being a dick
- A large number of thinly veiled TV references
- The X-Babies
- Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem
- Ricochet Rita (again)
- Psychonauts
- Exploding children (more) (again)
- The House of Ideas
- The New Universe
- Major Domo
- Minor Domo
- Jay’s dream vacation
- Cats Laughing (more) (again)
- Cosplay you should totally do
- Why you should always read the EULA
- The classic X-Men spirit
- Some of our favorite cameos
- The return of Judith Rassendyll
- One fairly specific way to ruin a wedding
- Where to find Havok in comics
- X-Men we’d like to see as wizards
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jay I'm confused. |
| 0:02.0 | Well, I mean, X-Men. |
| 0:04.0 | Okay, okay, fair point, fair point. |
| 0:06.0 | But seriously, do you know what's up with the agent? |
| 0:08.0 | Agent of what? |
| 0:10.0 | Shield, hate, aim? |
| 0:12.0 | No, the agent. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm running out of acronyms here. |
| 0:15.0 | The agent, the definite article. |
| 0:17.0 | Okay, which one? |
| 0:18.0 | There's more than one. |
| 0:19.0 | There's only one identity, but there have been multiple people under the mask sort of. |
| 0:24.0 | Oh like Eric the Red. |
| 0:25.9 | You know actually yeah almost exactly like Eric the Red. |
| 0:28.8 | Oh man I don't know if there's room for two bondage Vikings in the Marvel |
| 0:31.5 | universe. Oh the agent isn't a bondage Viking. |
| 0:35.0 | But he does start out as a disguise for a friendly character, even if the circumstances are |
| 0:39.3 | somewhat different. |
| 0:40.3 | Well, I know he's actually Ricci Rita in Mojo Mayhem. |
| 0:43.0 | Right. Now, again, the context is different with Eric The Red. |
| 0:46.6 | Rita is trapped in the agent identity. |
| 0:48.6 | She didn't pick it on purpose. |
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