134 – Live at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival (feat. Scott Koblish)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In which Deadpool and X-Men ’92 artist Scott Koblish joins us to present the Summers Family Tree as you’ve never experienced it before; the X-Men go to Dante’s Hell; Dr. Strange gets his Virgil on; Wolverine sniffs snakes; Iceman has probably killed a lot of people; and X-Men fans have remained remarkably consistent over the years.
X-PLAINED
- The Summers family
- Birthdays at the Xavier mansion
- A package as sinister as it is stylish
- Uncanny X-Men King-Size Annual #4
- One version of Hell
- A demon who is also a sorting hat
- Another X-Men crossover conspiracy theory
- The X-Men’s religious affiliations and lack thereof
- Nuance of self-narration
- Snakes with arms, and the vocalizations thereof
- Dangers of encasing people in ice
- The death of Stefan Szardos
- An overly complex revenge plot
- The origin of that one angry mob from Giant-Size X-Men #1
- Kinda-incest
- Reader responses to the Dark Phoenix Saga
- X-Men vs. board games
- The appeal of the Outback X-Men
- Artist-character associations
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DEAR MISTER SINISTER lyrics by Jay Edidin & music by Tea Fougner. Performed by Scott Koblish.
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| 0:00.0 | Jay, why is there a guitar on the stage? |
| 0:03.0 | That's Scott. |
| 0:04.0 | Scott, you want to go ahead and come up? |
| 0:06.0 | Oh, hey, actually, that was going to be my next question. |
| 0:10.0 | Why is Scott Koblish now on stage with the guitar? |
| 0:13.6 | I thought he wasn't playing until tonight. |
| 0:15.2 | Well, he is playing tonight too. |
| 0:16.6 | But, see, the thing is, I was thinking about gaps in coverage, |
| 0:20.1 | like places where the audio format sort of |
| 0:22.2 | has worked against us, because sometimes the information we're trying to convey the continuity. |
| 0:25.8 | It gets so complex that it calls for some kind of you know additional support like maybe visual aids or something like that and I was thinking about ways to get around that. |
| 0:33.8 | Okay, that's a good idea. |
| 0:35.1 | What did you end up with? |
| 0:36.4 | The Summer's Family Tree. |
| 0:38.0 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:39.4 | In song form. |
| 0:41.8 | What? Dear Mr Sinister, my name is Alex, I've got a school project. |
| 0:54.8 | I hope you can help with my teacher said we have to map out our families, |
| 1:00.1 | parents and grandparents, brothers and sisters she gave us poster board she gave us markers but I'm having trouble with several specifics |
| 1:10.9 | You see I am adopted. I've got a brother. We used to have parents. We don't anymore. |
| 1:20.0 | Dad's name was Christopher. Mom's name was Catherine Dad's mom and dad were named Philip and Deborah. |
| 1:27.6 | That part is easy, the trouble's my brother you see, his name is Scotty and he's kind of a pain |
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