142 – The Monster at the End of This Comic
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2017
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In which Jay and Miles make a personal announcement; moles (probably) don’t lay eggs; Angel is full of angst and flechettes; there’s always room for cello; and no matter how complicated our personal lives get, X-Factor’s will always be worse!
X-PLAINED:
- The Tanaka family business
- Jay & Miles vs. time travel
- Some personal stuff that’s going on
- Our definitive Iceman artist
- A whole lot of child endangerment
- Two reasons not to eat cereal from the 1980s
- X-Factor #51-53 and 55
- Cable’s first word
- Slightly dubious zoning
- Charlotte Jones
- Opal Tanaka
- Mole
- Chicken Wings
- Grover, but not that Grover
- B-grade Sabretooth
- A double date
- Giant bugs
- The Locust (August Hopper)
- A walk in the park
- A failed proposal
- What we talk about when we talk about retcons
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Man, Opel Tanaka is great. |
| 0:03.0 | She really is. |
| 0:04.8 | You know, of all the women Iceman awkwardly dates, she is easily my favorite. |
| 0:09.7 | Does she stick around or end up sidelined? |
| 0:12.3 | Sidelined. |
| 0:13.0 | But honestly, that's probably for the best. |
| 0:16.0 | The relationship was getting pretty strained. |
| 0:18.0 | Because Iceman was secretly gay? |
| 0:20.0 | Because Opel's grandfather was a crime lord who wanted her to take over the family empire. |
| 0:23.4 | Yeah, I guess I could see that being an issue. |
| 0:25.2 | Of Cyborg samurai? |
| 0:26.5 | What? I'm Jay Eddidin and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 0:42.8 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:44.4 | Welcome to episode 142 of Jay and Miles, explain the X-Men, |
| 0:48.1 | where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the ret cons of comics greatest |
| 0:51.3 | superhero soap opera. |
| 0:53.0 | And welcome to more 2017, |
| 0:55.0 | although for us it's actually New Year's Eve. |
| 0:57.3 | We are actually double recording on New Year's Eve |
| 0:59.1 | because our December recording schedule is truly bizarre. |
| 1:01.6 | Yeah, I keep on thinking that this is gonna be the first episode of the new year, but it's not. |
| 1:04.7 | It's going to be the second, right? |
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