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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

388 – Deceit and Death

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In which there’s a lot of good television out there; Shang-Chi says the title of the story at every possible opportunity; Wolverine is probably not a Deadhead; Sebastian Shaw thinks he’s a bigger deal than he is; and Operation Zero Tolerance officially begins.

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0:00.0

You know, Jay, I still can't believe Storm capped wearing that enchanted ruby that she stole from Kendra.

0:05.8

Oh, that wasn't Kendra's ruby. The one Storm wore on an office part of her costume was her mom's.

0:12.0

Oh, okay, so it was just a regular ruby then.

0:16.0

Sure. That's a relief.

0:18.0

Unless you combined it with the rest of the set.

0:20.0

Then what happens?

0:22.0

It can open portals between dimensions.

0:24.0

WHAT?!

0:30.0

I'm Jay Editan.

0:38.0

And I'm Miles Stokes.

0:40.0

And we are here to explain the X-Men.

0:42.0

Because it's about time someone did.

0:44.0

Welcome to episode 388 of Jay and Miles explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the retcons of comics greatest superhero soap opera.

0:52.0

And welcome, at long last, to Operation Zero Tolerance.

0:58.0

Well, almost. We'll get there in this episode, but there's some other stuff too.

1:02.0

Operational little bit of tolerance.

1:04.0

Yeah, first Operation Reference 2 and Old 70s comic that comics scholar Douglas Wolk really really likes.

1:11.0

I mean, I trust Douglas's taste.

1:13.0

Yeah, so this is weird.

1:16.0

We've talked a little recently about how sometimes stories can feel like filler between events.

1:19.0

And what we have here in X-Men volume 2, number 62 to 64, is a neat little three-part story

1:27.0

where the X-Men fight Sebastian Shaw, but in Hong Kong, and they team up with Shang Chi.

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