139 – Starjammed
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In which Spotlight on Starjammers is basically a RPG module; Jay may or may not have developed superpowers; artfully tattered clothing is a Summers family tradition; the Starjammers kill a planet; Raza may or may not be super progressive; and Professor X dies (again).
X-PLAINED:
- The T-Bomb
- Spotlight on Starjammers #1-2
- The Starjammers (more) (again)
- Phlazers
- Keel-hauling
- The space plank
- Phalkon
- The Groff System
- Vam & Mer
- Cr’eee’s dubious past
- Several really on-the-nose planets
- Doki-Doki Universe
- A critical comma
- The expected endurance of the Starjammer
- A Shi’ar imperial poop fight
- Zenith
- Many cameos
- An entirely gratuitous superhero slugfest
- Death Phoenix
- Bald Phoenix
- Several dropped plot threads
- Our thoughts on ResurrXion
- Creative teams vs. characters
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| 0:00.0 | So Jay, the pterogen mists kill mutants and mutate humans who have even a trace of in human DNA, right? |
| 0:07.0 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 0:08.0 | Okay, so I'm solid on that, but how did they end up floating around the earth in cloud form? |
| 0:13.0 | I thought the inhumans kept really careful track of the mists. |
| 0:15.8 | Ah, that was the T-bomb. |
| 0:17.2 | The T-bomb? |
| 0:18.2 | Terrogen bomb. |
| 0:19.2 | Ultimate super weapon, developed by Maximus during the War of Kings. |
| 0:22.2 | Ultimate, as in, you know you know best not as in earth 1610 |
| 0:25.7 | Okay, but uh Maximus that's black Bolt brother. Oh the evil one sometimes |
| 0:30.5 | Okay wait how would releasing the pterogen mists on Earth help with the Vulcan stuff in War of Kings? |
| 0:36.3 | Were they trying to create new in humans or something? |
| 0:38.3 | Um, no, no. |
| 0:39.8 | Maximus developed the T-bomb to destroy the Shiar throne world. |
| 0:42.6 | And that somehow flooded Earth with Terrogen? |
| 0:45.4 | No, that Torah rift in the universe. |
| 0:48.3 | And that released the Terrogen mists. |
| 0:50.1 | No, oh, oh, I see where the point of confusion is. That stuff happened earlier. That was in War of Kings. |
| 0:55.6 | Well, wait, so you don't mean... Oh, they made another one. What? I'm Jay Edditan and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men because it's about time someone did |
| 1:16.0 | welcome to episode 139 of Jay and Miles explain the X-Men where we walk you through |
| 1:20.5 | the ins the outs and the ret cons of comics greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 1:24.8 | And welcome to space because we are taking a break from regular continuity to check out, I mean I guess you could |
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