389 – Wreck Gotta Recognize

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In which some puns are fundamentally visual; Jubilee is a really good kid; Bastion is a bad person but a good villain; Bachalo does Romita; Seagulls are assholes (but reasonably good narrators); Skin has no time for fantasies; Hitch does Cockrum; and Operation Zero Tolerance (unofficially) begins (again).

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0:00.0	So, Jay, what's up with this glory and the shaper of dreams, dude?
0:06.0	Miles, that is a lot of question.
0:10.0	Well, I mean, he can make dreams come true, right? So, how does that work? Is he some kind of elemental force? Some kind of god?
0:19.0	No, at least not originally. He was a kid named Thomas Gideon, who was the son of Gregory Gideon, a minor fantastic four villain.
0:26.0	Okay, so what was Gregory's deal?
0:29.0	Well, first, he decided to trap the fantastic four in the past to impress some of his business competitors.
0:35.0	How did that go?
0:36.0	About as well as you'd expect.
0:38.0	Oh, and then later on, he kidnapped most of them in hopes of using them to get...
0:42.0	Ransom.
0:43.0	A cure for cancer.
0:44.0	What?!
0:45.0	I'm Jay, editing.
0:57.0	And I'm Miles Stokes.
0:59.0	And we are here to explain the X-Men.
1:02.0	Because it's about time someone did.
1:04.0	Welcome to episode 389 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.
1:13.0	And welcome to some more time spent just on the cusp of Operation Zero Tolerance.
1:19.0	Something that I hadn't really realized about this story is that its intro is like as long as the story itself, like its unofficial issues that lead into it.
1:28.0	Because all of the issues we're going to be talking about today, all of the generation X issues are very directly related to the start of OCT.
1:35.0	But they're not technically chapters of Operation Zero Tolerance.
1:39.0	So, is that a long prologue or is it a misnamed first chapter?
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