124 – The Cruelest Planet
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2016
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In which everyone dies (or something); every Summers is miserable in their own way; we are pretty done with Nanny and the Orphanmaker; Lady Deathstrike is a surprisingly astute art critic; the X-Men’s digital invisibility does not extend to the White Pages; we venture into slightly less charted territory; Wolverine has a really bad day; and you should totally come hang out with us at Rose City Comic Con!
X-PLAINED:
- Origins of Lady Deathstrike
- Jay & Miles at Rose City Comic Con
- X-Ray party etiquette
- Uncanny X-Men #248-251
- The precise inverse of an anticlimax
- The Siege Perilous (more) (again)
- Dramatic parallels
- Summers tragedy disambiguation
- Jim Lee’s first X-issue
- The apparent death of Storm (this time)
- The merged Reavers
- What it takes for Jay to play a sidescroller
- An X-band
- Longshot’s departure
- A really ineffective rescue
- Art-critic Deathstrike
- Administrative assistant Jubilee
- Zaladane
- An unconventional approach to genealogy
- The ickiest method of mind control
- Dark Claw
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jay, what's the deal with Lady Death Strike? |
| 0:02.4 | Hates Wolverine, leads the Reavers, kind of a cyborg? |
| 0:05.7 | Why? |
| 0:06.7 | Well, she's not originally from X-Men, is she? |
| 0:08.5 | She is not. |
| 0:09.5 | She made her first official appearance in Daredevil Number 197. What was she doing there? |
| 0:13.7 | Helping Daredevil thwart her father who had rescued bullseye. |
| 0:16.6 | What did Lord Darkwind want with Bullseye? |
| 0:19.6 | Mostly to give him some adamantium bones in hopes that he'd help restore Japan to a pre-World War II feudal state. |
| 0:24.4 | Huh. |
| 0:25.4 | And Yurico was against this? |
| 0:27.4 | Well, Yurico was in love with one of her dad's underlings and wanted to get him out from |
| 0:31.0 | Under Lord Darkwind's thumb. |
| 0:32.2 | Oh, fair enough. |
| 0:33.8 | So did they find Bullsey? |
| 0:35.5 | Sort of. |
| 0:36.1 | But they were stymied by the fact that Bullseye was tracking them, too. |
| 0:39.0 | While recovering from having Adam Antium installed in his skeleton, that is an impressive trick. |
| 0:44.7 | Not really. |
| 0:45.7 | How so? |
| 0:46.7 | Well, it turned out that he and Daredevil hated each other so hard, it generated a psychic |
| 0:49.9 | link. |
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