145 – Remy and ‘Ro
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2017
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In which Val Cooper remains the club queen of U.S. Intelligence; the Shadow King is a huge jerk; Storm is a badass at any age; Gambit gets off to a surprisingly good start; “flesh and spirit” is the new “body and soul”; and we are guardedly optimistic about an upcoming release.
- Unconventional evidence of nefarious influence
- Uncanny X-Men #265-267
- Storm’s early origins
- The Shadow King
- Deb Levin
- A kind of pointless revenge plot
- Trouble in space
- A great deal of larceny
- Counterintuitive costuming
- The debut of Gambit
- An unnecessarily complicated plan
- Charm, and charm
- Regrets
- Our thoughts on the upcoming Legion series
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| 0:00.0 | So Miles I was thinking about the Shadow King. |
| 0:04.0 | He's an interesting dude, at least in concept, and remarkably consistent across alternate universes, which I appreciate. |
| 0:10.0 | Well, the ultimate one is a little different. |
| 0:12.0 | He's Storm's ex-boyfriend for starts. |
| 0:13.6 | Wait really? Well sorta. When her powers manifested she accidentally shocked the |
| 0:18.3 | dude she was with to death and his consciousness got shunted to an alternate dimension |
| 0:21.7 | and when he came back he was the Shadow King. |
| 0:24.0 | They were brood involved too, kind of, it's complicated. |
| 0:27.0 | Huh. Was he still trying to possess Storm? |
| 0:30.0 | No, well not exactly, but he definitely had some pervasive and lingering impact on her. |
| 0:36.9 | He was messing with her dreams and it was pretty heavily implied that he could influence |
| 0:40.0 | her behavior in other subtle ways. |
| 0:42.1 | Like what? Did she grow an evil goatee like cable? |
| 0:44.9 | Man that would have been great. Nah nothing quite so gosh. Oh what then? |
| 0:49.4 | Larcy? Villainy? |
| 0:51.6 | Playwriting? What? |
| 0:53.0 | What? I'm Jay Eddidin and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men |
| 1:08.6 | because it's about time someone did. Welcome to episode 145 of Jay and Miles, explain the X-Men where we walk you |
| 1:14.9 | through the ins, the outs, and the ret cons of comics greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 1:18.8 | And welcome to another very important milestone in the construction of the X90s that being the first |
| 1:25.0 | appearance of you know that guy Remy Laboe Gambit. |
| 1:29.6 | But before we talk about Gambit there are a couple other points I want to hit there's |
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