27 – NYCC 2014 Special with Kris Anka and Russell Dauterman
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2014
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In which we sit down with two of our favorite X-artists for an hour of continuity, character design, and a lot of wine; Corsair is the coolest; Emma Frost is a secret viewpoint character; Bishop is the anti-Booster Gold; Adam X the X-Treme gets a new hat; and none of us know how to pronounce “Bachalo.”
X-Plained:
- The secret X-origins of Kris Anka and Russell Dauterman
- Definitive books and artists
- Favorite characters and series
- Mephistoid spacesuit logistics
- Emma Frost as a reader stand-in
- The secret origin of Psylocke’s pants
- Uncanny X-Men
- The best flashback montage ever
- Underappreciated / underdeveloped characters
- All the Rogues
- Plot twists
- Bishop
- Dream teams
- Sexy dudes with sexy abs
- How to update Adam X the X-Treme
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Miles, you ready to record? |
| 0:01.3 | Record, we're at New York Comic-Con. |
| 0:03.2 | It's after the second day, I was hoping to just fall the hell over. |
| 0:06.0 | Well, I mean, you could fall over, but we're recording an episode. |
| 0:09.1 | We talked about this. |
| 0:10.0 | What are we even going to record? |
| 0:11.2 | We didn't prepare anything. |
| 0:12.2 | I don't know. I figured that Russell Otterman and Chris Anka could just fill in the blanks. |
| 0:15.6 | Hi! What? Hi, I'm Rachel Eddenden. |
| 0:27.0 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:31.0 | And we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 0:32.8 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:34.4 | Welcome to the 27th episode of Rachel and Miles Explain the X-Men, |
| 0:37.3 | where we walk you through the ins outstand ret cons of our very |
| 0:39.8 | favorite superhero soap opera. |
| 0:41.5 | We are here with Russell Dauterman and Chris Anka at |
| 0:44.1 | New York Comic-Con in a hotel room around a crappy USB microphone so |
| 0:48.6 | apologies for the audio quality. We are just hoping to have a conversation |
| 0:52.2 | with you guys about the work you're doing what it's like to work on X-Men |
| 0:55.7 | Cyclops's various facial expressions or lack thereof and that sort of thing. |
| 0:59.4 | Thank you guys again so much for being here. |
| 1:01.4 | Yeah, thanks for having us. |
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