136 – Fill-In Frenzy
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2016
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In which we find the idea of Jack Kirby as G-d deeply comforting; “Jercules” is our new favorite insult; the difference between camp and divinity is good backlighting; Zeus does not have the moral high ground; Ron Lim’s Captain Britain is the definitive cad; the Demon Druid is the saddest supervillain; Archangel broods like it’s his day job; and Jay gets to do all the fun voices for once.
X-PLAINED:
- The Upstarts
- An inflatable Batman
- New Mutants #81
- Excalibur #20
- X-Factor #47
- Our favorite Magma story
- The best insult
- Pugilistic impunity
- A context-inappropriate oath
- The worst film festival
- Fighting fire with Magma
- The Demon Druid
- A Satanic pirate tavern
- Reactorhenge
- The depths of fuchsia
- Archangel’s deeply weird comfort mechanisms
- Some dude named Greg
- Publishing delays
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jay, what's bothering you, Miles? |
| 0:03.2 | Remember the 90s? |
| 0:04.8 | Vaguely. |
| 0:05.8 | Why? |
| 0:06.8 | Okay, so I've been reading X-Men 92 and of course the up-starts show up. |
| 0:11.0 | Oh man, those guys. So the thing is I remember them but I don't think I ever worked out quite what their deal was or what was up with that Games Master guy. |
| 0:18.8 | Okay, so the Upstarts were a group of rich obnoxious young mutants who hunted other mutants and eventually |
| 0:24.4 | prominent humans for fun and potential profit. |
| 0:27.4 | The game's master assigned points to targets, set rules, and generally strong the contestants |
| 0:31.5 | along with promises of a really fantastic but never explicitly |
| 0:34.8 | named prize for the winner. |
| 0:36.0 | Right, right, it's all starting to come back now. |
| 0:38.8 | Sebastian Shaw's jerk kid Shinobi was their leader, right? |
| 0:42.1 | Ah, for a while. |
| 0:43.5 | Shinobie took the lead early on by killing his dad, |
| 0:45.5 | but then Phibian Cortez took out Magneto, |
| 0:47.5 | which put Cortez in the lead by a pretty wide margin. |
| 0:50.0 | The Von Struthers were there too, right? |
| 0:52.0 | And Fitzroy. |
| 0:53.4 | Am I forgetting anyone? |
| 0:54.5 | Siena Blaze. |
| 0:55.6 | Oh, right. Her. |
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