38 – Welcome to Murderworld (Feat. Chris Sims)

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Books, Visual Arts, Arts

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🗓️ 5 January 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Art by David Wynne. Prints and travel mugs available until 1/11/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

In which we welcome back Emergency Backup Co-Host Chris Sims; comics writers are basically supervillains; Cyclops is not here to have fun; Spider-Man flirts with objectivism; Murderworld is probably not financially sustainable; you should totally cosplay the Proletarian; Arcade may or may not secretly be the Archie Andrews of Earth-616; and Doctor Doom remains absolutely delightful.

X-Plained

Captain Britain
Arcade
Francisco Scaramanga
The vastly inferior Arcade of Earth-1610
Uncanny X-Men #123-124, 146-147, 197
Chris’s first X-Men
A really sweet truck
Spider-Man’s brief flirtation with objectivism
What the X-Men do on their night off
Hella nipples
Murderworld
Miss Locke
Mr. Chambers
Marvel comics in the Marvel Universe
A large number of elaborate deathtraps
Soviet Nick Fury
The Proletarian
Hostage-wrapping
Phil and Tobe
One way to celebrate your birthday
Avengers Arena
Miss Coriander
The best non-X Arcade stories
The end of ~~Axis~~ Sixis
Arcade at the Arcade

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0:00.0	Hey Rachel, I was reading some early arcade appearances the other night.
0:03.7	Oh cool, thank you, Chris. You are the best possible emergency backup co-host.
0:07.1	I was wondering, Captain Britain, is he a mutant?
0:09.8	No, he's just really rich. But his brother and sister are mutants.
0:13.4	Yeah.
0:13.9	And he has a ton of superpowers himself.
0:16.4	Still not a mutant, though.
0:17.8	Okay, so where do his powers come from?
0:20.4	Merlin?
0:21.1	Merlin?
0:21.8	Merlin?
0:22.4	Like from King Arthur, Merlin. Yeah, that one. So Brian. from Merlin? Merlin? Merlin? Merlin?
0:23.0	Like from King Arthur, Merlin.
0:24.0	Yeah, that one.
0:25.0	So Brian Braddock crashed his bike while on the runner from super villains because look, it's a comic,
0:28.0	it happens. And while he was bleeding out on the side of the road,
0:30.0	Merlin and his daughter Roma offered to make him the mystical champion of Britain.
0:32.6	What?
0:33.2	What? Hi, I'm Rachel Eddin.
0:45.0	And I'm Chris Sims filling in for Miles Stokes.
0:48.0	And we are here to explain the X-Men.
0:51.0	Because it's about time somebody did.
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