30 – New-Wave Superteens in Love
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2014
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In which the New Mutants are the Bobbsey Twins to the X-Men’s Sam Spade; Nina da Costa is Ms. Frizzle; New Mutants does a Rachel-and-Miles cold open; Selene is the Elizabeth Bathory of lava; Rahne likes Sam, Sam likes Amara, Dani likes Bobby, and Bobby likes everyone; Gil and Art are no Harvey and Janet; Miles has a Del Preston moment, Magma is a Horta; and if something super happens, you should tell a super adult.
X-Plained:
- Selene
- Externals
- New Mutants #7-17
- The da Costa family
- Axe
- Some really dubious cosmetic choices
- Nova Roma
- Amara Aquilla (Magma)
- Op-art as a superpower
- Doug Ramsey’s hair
- The Massachusetts Academy
- New-Wave Superteens
- Deflection
- The Hellions
- Not-Particularly-Secret Origins of the Hellfire Club
- Publishing schedules
Next Week: Lifedeath, time travel, and Forge’s tiny shorts.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, what's the deal with Saline? |
| 0:02.0 | Which part, Miles? The human sacrifice? |
| 0:04.0 | The apparent immortality? |
| 0:05.0 | Or the thing where she's friends with rocks? |
| 0:08.0 | All of it? |
| 0:09.0 | Okay, well, first of all, Saline's an external. |
| 0:12.0 | Really? |
| 0:13.0 | She doesn't look like a metal curby giant from space? |
| 0:15.0 | Oh, no, no, no. |
| 0:16.0 | See, you're thinking of the eternally. |
| 0:18.0 | Actually, you're really thinking of the celestials who created the eternally, |
| 0:21.0 | but that's a lamut point point because Saline's actually an external. |
| 0:23.8 | So what are externals? |
| 0:25.6 | Well, there are these naya mortal mutants who hang around the fringes of society pulling the strings, |
| 0:28.9 | like Candra, the woman who set up the thieves, I mean, sorry, the Teves Guild and the |
| 0:32.0 | Assassins Guild in New Orleans. |
| 0:33.6 | So Highlanders basically? |
| 0:35.6 | Yeah, pretty much. |
| 0:36.5 | I mean, it's even hinted pretty heavily that the reason Saline's |
| 0:38.5 | outlived the rest is that she's been killing them and absorbing their |
| 0:40.8 | essences. |
| 0:41.8 | So she's the only one left? |
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