126 – Live at Rose City Comic Con, with Greg Pak
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In which we return to Rose City Comic Con and somehow manage to one-up last year’s Stryfe cold open; Greg Pak has secretly written all of the X-books; Cullen Bunn may or may not be watching you RIGHT NOW; the X-Men distill down to murder and kissing; Toshiro Mifune should be everybody; Miles swears first (for once); and we can’t wait to see all of your X-Men roller derby names!
X-PLAINED:
- Cold open escalation
- Onslaught
- Greg Pak
- Continuity exegesis
- Marrying history and narrative
- Murder and kissing
- X-Treme X-Men vol. 2
- Reimagining characters across the multiverse
- Governor-General James Howlett
- Magneto: Testament
- Where superheroes should and shouldn’t intersect with geopolitical events
- Our X-Men buddy-cop duos of choice
- X-Commencement speakers
- X-Men roller derby names
- Contemporary vs. retrospective representations of current events
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So, you know what's rough about live shows? |
| 0:02.6 | The fact that they're live. |
| 0:03.6 | Well, that too. |
| 0:04.6 | But I was thinking about the escalation factor. |
| 0:07.0 | The escalation factor. |
| 0:09.0 | Right, like last year we did strife for the cold open, |
| 0:12.0 | and now we have to top it or it'll be anticlimactic. |
| 0:15.0 | Miles, we're not going to top strife. |
| 0:16.7 | We could. |
| 0:17.7 | Strife, Miles. |
| 0:20.5 | We totally could. |
| 0:21.5 | Wait, no, no, no. No, no. I know what you're thinking and no we could explain don't do a man we do not go there seriously |
| 0:28.4 | On slot absolutely not |
| 0:31.9 | No, but dude on slot is perfect. I mean if there's anything in continuity more confusing than strife. |
| 0:37.0 | Miles, do you know why we haven't explained Onslot yet? |
| 0:40.0 | Because we're still in late 89 chronologically? |
| 0:42.8 | Well, okay, there's also that. |
| 0:44.0 | But mostly onslaught is literally inexplicable. |
| 0:48.0 | Oh, come on, he can't be that bad. |
| 0:50.0 | You're adorable, Miles. |
| 0:53.0 | Jay? |
| 0:54.0 | Okay, you know what, fine, we're going to do this. |
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