39 – Forever Alone Together
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2015
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In which Miles and his Doom voice return triumphant; we reach an understanding regarding Lila Cheney; Mob science is pretty shoddy; Magneto has fancy hair; New Mutants Xavier is Best Xavier; no one is more goth than Cloak and Dagger; and you can have Rachel’s Speed Racer references when you pry them from her cold, dead hands.
X-Plained:
- Spider-Man crossovers
- Cats
- Marvel Team-Up Annual #6
- New Mutants #22-25
- Phone calls with bears
- Glam day at the Hellfire Club
- Rahne’s fairytale
- Cloak & Dagger
- Drugs
- Eldritch curtains
- A seriously flawed evil plan
- Harry’s Hideaway
- The Sam and Dani Show
- Magneto’s hair
- Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch’s parentage
- Waiting for the T
- Whether Cloak and Dagger are mutants
- How to buy original art
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| 0:00.0 | So Rachel, I was thinking about Marvel Team Up. The X-Men and Spider-Man go back pretty far, right? |
| 0:04.0 | Oh, absolutely. I mean, by the time the annual we're talking about today came out, Spidey had even been paling around with Iceman and Firestar for a couple years on TV. |
| 0:10.9 | But really, I mean, he and the X-Men go back as far as the Silver Age. |
| 0:13.6 | They do? Oh, yeah. They first crossed over an X-Men 27 when Spider-Man |
| 0:16.8 | when Spider-Man randomly stops a bank robbery just ahead of Iceman and Beast. |
| 0:19.2 | They asked him to join the team, but he turned them down. |
| 0:21.1 | Because he wasn't a mutant. |
| 0:22.2 | Because he thought he was destined to be alone. |
| 0:24.0 | Huh. |
| 0:25.0 | And then later in X-Men 35, they spent most of the issue trying to kill each other. |
| 0:28.0 | What? |
| 0:29.0 | Why? Well, see, Peter Parker was riding his bike through Westchester. |
| 0:31.0 | Coincidentally? |
| 0:32.0 | Yeah, it's nice and fall. |
| 0:33.4 | Anyway, he got attacked by robots. |
| 0:34.8 | Of course he did. |
| 0:35.9 | Right, so we changed to Spider-Man, took out the bots and promptly got jumped |
| 0:38.6 | by the X-Men. |
| 0:39.4 | Why? |
| 0:40.0 | Well, see, Banshee had sent them a psychic warning earlier that day |
| 0:42.4 | to be Wear the spider. |
| 0:43.6 | Why did Banji want them to beware Spider-Man? |
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