36 – Steal This Podcast
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2014
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In which we play Six Degrees of Lila Cheney; Cannonball gets a makeover; Earth does not in fact blow up; the X-Men like their s’mores with thinly veiled allegories; and Magik dabbles in erotic friend fiction.
X-Plained:
- Strong Guy
- Annuals
- New Mutants Annual #1 (Steal This Planet)
- Lila Cheney
- Both versions of Cats Laughing
- The Vrakanain
- Chris Claremont Book Club
- Uncanny X-Men Annual #8 (The Adventures of Lockheed the Space Dragon and His Pet Girl Kitty)
- Some dubious campfire games
- Illyana’s Space Opera
- Space pirate X-Men
- Some long-awaited resolution
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, didn't Strong Guy use to be Lila Cheney's bodyguard? |
| 0:03.0 | Yeah, Miles, back before he was Strong Guy. |
| 0:05.0 | In fact, he makes his first appearance not too far out from where we are now, |
| 0:08.0 | New Mutant's Number 29. |
| 0:09.0 | And then he joined X Factor, right? |
| 0:11.0 | Right, and he was going to be Sheriff of Mutant Town before Arcade destroyed it, and then he traveled |
| 0:14.8 | with Lila Somor, and then he went back to X Factor, which by that point was X Factor investigations. |
| 0:18.9 | Wait, wait, wait, I thought he died back in Madrepor back when he was with the government X-factor team. |
| 0:23.4 | No, he had a massive heart attack though and he spent a lot of the following few years |
| 0:26.7 | in suspended animation. |
| 0:28.1 | He didn't actually die until a few years back when he got shot through the heart while |
| 0:31.2 | guard Jay Jonah Jamison for X-factor investigations. |
| 0:34.0 | Oh, man, what a way to go. |
| 0:35.5 | Go. |
| 0:36.5 | Lila Miller brought him back like an issue later. |
| 0:38.0 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:39.4 | So he's still around. |
| 0:40.8 | Not exactly. |
| 0:42.1 | How so? Well, first of all all Lila's power comes with a catch. When she |
| 0:45.6 | brings people back they no longer have souls. Oh that doesn't sound good. You know it's |
| 0:49.4 | actually not as big a deal as you'd think but with strong guy it's largely imm material at this point because to save Monet he killed Wolf Spain's kid. |
| 0:55.6 | Wait wait wait, wait, Wolf Spain has a kid? |
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