37 – Giant-Size Special #1
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2014
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
In which we launch our first-ever giant-size special; God Loves, Man Kills is the definitive X-Men story; Bobby makes his R&MXtXM on-air debut; we repopulate the world with X-writers; Rachel is really excited about x-plaining X-Cutioner’s Song; Miles takes a strong stance on Wolverine’s mask; we award some awards; and it’s all your fault.
X-Plained
- God Loves, Man Kills (Marvel Graphic Novel #5)
- William Stryker
- An inappropriate analogy
- Keeping it interesting
- Favorite episodes
- Bridging the fan/critic divide
- Our ongoing obsession with bit characters
- The challenge of keeping Charles Xavier relevant
- X-Planation Curation
- Several stories we’re really looking forward to covering
- X-Writers on a desert island
- Internet fights
- Favorite stories vs. best stories
- Stupid hats of the Marvel Universe
- Dr. Doom as Tim Gunn
- Havok vs. ceiling fans
- Educational standards of the Marvel Universe
- The First Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence in X-Cellence
NEXT WEEK: Rachel and Chris Sims X-Plain Arcade
CORRECTION: In this episode, Rachel claims that there is only one Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau in the Marvel Multiverse. This is patently untrue. There are numerous versions of Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau in the Marvel Multiverse, who may or may not be able to combine Voltron-style into a giant Corbeau Singularity.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel is whoa is that God loves man kills it sure is miles why's it out I mean not that I need to ask it's the best X-Men story ever pretty much but don't you have to finish up the reading for the podcast this is for the podcast oh I thought we were on the new mutants, that cloak and dagger arc, remember? |
| 0:15.0 | Well, yeah, but this is for the special. |
| 0:17.0 | The what? |
| 0:18.0 | The special? |
| 0:19.0 | Remember how our Patreon supporters unlocked a whole bunch of milestone goals really fast? |
| 0:23.0 | Oh yeah that's why we've been doing those video reviews. |
| 0:25.0 | Exactly well one of those goals was semi-annual giant-sized specials. |
| 0:28.0 | Oh cool sounds fun and we're recording the first one today. |
| 0:31.0 | What? The Oh, I'm Rachel Adigin and I'm Miles Stokes. And we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 1:12.0 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:14.0 | Welcome to the 37th episode of Rachel and Miles |
| 1:16.0 | Explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, outs, and retcons of our favorite |
| 1:19.5 | superhero soap opera. |
| 1:20.6 | And welcome also to our first ever giant size special. |
| 1:23.7 | As we noted in the opening, this was a Patreon milestone goal that our subscribers unlocked, |
| 1:27.4 | so you can blame them for it. We are going to start off in the tradition of annuals and |
| 1:31.7 | specials by looking at a very special |
| 1:33.6 | standalone story we've mentioned it before been saving it for a rainy day |
| 1:37.4 | which it is because we were in Portland and it's December so we're going to be looking |
| 1:41.1 | at Marvel Graphic Novel Number 5. |
| 1:43.4 | God Loves Man Kills. |
| 1:45.1 | God Loves Man Kills is the fifth of the Marvel Graphic novels. |
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