135 – Kurt Wagner, Warlord of Mars (Cross-Time Caper, Part 2)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In which the Cross-Time Caper continues; alliteration is awesome; someone else’s geopolitical conflict is not an appropriate place to play out your pirate fantasies; we are definitely not actually going to eat Alan Davis’s brains; Jamie Braddock is Evil Rex Racer; Widget eats a car; Rick Leonardi is the definitive fill-in artist; the problem is patriarchy; and everything’s sticky in Madripoor.
X-PLAINED:
- X-Manga
- Excalibur #16-19
- Crosstime
- A John Carter riff
- A mysterious and dubiously reliable narrator
- A terrible pick-up line
- Kymri
- Anjulie
- Gender-neutral fantasy armor
- Implicit fellatio in several media
- Space Fred Savage
- An alternate Jean Grey (and her untimely demise)
- Tullamore Voge
- A grand tourney
- A deeply disappointing pastiche
- ORZ-1
- Dirty Pair (and a sustained riff thereon)
- What makes a train sexy
- Wolverine’s table manners
- Jim Jaspers vs. Jamie Braddock vs. Jamie Jeffers
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jay I know there are X-Men Animas, but are there X-Men manga? |
| 0:04.6 | There sure are, Miles. |
| 0:05.6 | There's an older mini series that's basically cartoon stories and a more manga art style. |
| 0:09.7 | Oh, and then there's the manga-verse stuff and there's a Wolverine standalone. |
| 0:13.0 | Wait, is that the high school one? |
| 0:14.5 | Uh, yeah, Prodigal Sun. |
| 0:15.8 | No teenager has a right to sideburns like that. |
| 0:18.3 | But what's the Mangaverse? |
| 0:19.9 | Okay, so the Mangaverse is Manga-inflected shared Marvel Universe. |
| 0:23.2 | There were a bunch of intersecting titles, |
| 0:25.0 | including two X-Men series and a handful of one shots. |
| 0:27.4 | Was Wolverine a teenager in that one, too? |
| 0:29.6 | Nah, he was actually on the older end. |
| 0:31.3 | Huh, that's a relief. |
| 0:32.4 | But he might have been a summer's brother. |
| 0:34.0 | What? I'm J Rachel Eddenden and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men |
| 0:49.9 | because it's about time someone did welcome Welcome to episode 135 of Jay and Miles |
| 0:53.9 | explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, |
| 0:56.0 | the outs, and the ret cons of comics greatest |
| 0:58.1 | superhero soap opera. |
| 0:59.2 | And welcome back to us to recording in our usual studio right outside of Portland. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah, from a my asthma of existential despair. |
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