147 – The Beginning of the End of the Beginning
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2017
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In which the New Mutants get a new status quo (and new costumes); we have deeply mixed feelings about Rob Liefeld; Cable is the comprehensive sex-ed to Xavier’s staunch denial and Magneto’s abstinence-only; Rictor gets a new dad by right of arms; and you should totally come party with us at Emerald City Comic Con!
X-PLAINED:
- Feral Wolverine
- Jay & Miles at Emerald City Comic Con
- New Mutants #90, 91, 93, and 94
- Early Rob Liefeld
- Caliban vs. Sabretooth
- Vertical spreads
- Stately Xavier Ruins
- How to confuse Freedom Force
- Imaginary fashions of the early ’90s
- How Rictor’s father may or may not have died
- The New Mutants’ new uniforms
- A lovingly-rendered butt
- Improv with Apocalypse
- The mystery of Rictor’s shirt
- Seismic weaving
- The Japanese branch of the MLF (Kamikaze, Sumo, and Dragoness)
- The Mutual Liberation Front
- Diana, Warrior Princess (again)
- Several kisses
- Sleet
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CORRECTION: In this episode, Jay referred to Bob Harras as Editor-in-Chief of Marvel in 1990. Tom DeFalco was in fact Editor-in-Chief; Harras was the X-Men line editor.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jay, remember when Wolverine's claws were mechanical? |
| 0:03.2 | They were never mechanical. |
| 0:05.2 | That's the magical retons, buddy. |
| 0:06.8 | Right, but until fatal attractions everybody thought they were. |
| 0:10.3 | Remember that panel when he first popped his bone claws without the adamantium? |
| 0:13.5 | It blew my mind. |
| 0:15.4 | The first surprise of many. |
| 0:17.1 | Oh, you mean like Colossus joining the accolades? |
| 0:19.1 | Well, yeah, that too. |
| 0:20.8 | But now I'm still talking about Wolverine. |
| 0:22.6 | Oh, well I know he lost his healing factor for a while after that. |
| 0:25.4 | Only in the direct aftermath of fatal attractions, but when it came back, it came back with a |
| 0:29.7 | vengeance, along with his original mutation. |
| 0:32.1 | Wait, his original mutation? |
| 0:34.0 | Yeah, see, apparently the adamantium hadn't just held back his healing factor. |
| 0:38.0 | It had also held in check a more global mutation that the healing factor was in fact a part of. |
| 0:42.0 | Which was... Regression to a... mutation that the healing factor was in fact a part of. |
| 0:43.0 | Which was? |
| 0:44.0 | Regression to a super powerful but super feral state. |
| 0:47.0 | It was kind of like when Beast got infected by Pestilence and got really strong at the cost of his intellect, |
| 0:52.0 | but with less pathos and more inappropriate |
| 0:54.4 | licking. |
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