395 – Boxer Briefs of Humanity

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which Jay has exciting news, Rick Leonardo draws an impressively creepy mad scientist’s lair, the clouds are purple and so is the prose, Powers of X gets a subtle prequel 21 years early, Cable’s own tolerance has finally reached zero, and we summarize Bastion’s backstory way, way faster than Bastion does. X-PLAINED: Machine Man (X-51) (Aaron Stack) Operation Zero Tolerance (more) (again) Jay’s upcoming parental leave Bastion (Sebastion Gilberti) M-Tech Powerman 5000 Cable & Machine Man Annual 1998 Hobgits and their sound effects Street Fighter: the Roleplaying Game Batroc ze Lepair Jack Kirby’s 2001: A Space Odyssey X-51 / X-23 overlaps Classic Summers Family Bullshit Psionic soapboxes What makes Bastion a compelling villain The necessity of companions Master Mold 3.0 & Nimrod 2.0 Machine Man & Bastion Annual 1998 Terrible font choices ZORCH Cable vs. floors The carbon footprint of robotic fascism Marvel Comics Presents #17-24 (just a little) Incredible Hulk Annual #7 (just a tad) The Siege Perilous The future of Machine Man The hypothetical 2022 version of Bastion Historical events in which we’d love to see long-lived mutants take part NEXT WEEK: We take a break for the holidays! IN TWO WEEKS: The Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men 2022 Giant-Size Winter Special! Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!

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0:00.0	So, Jay, what is Machine Man's deal?
0:04.8	I really only know him from next wave, and I know that's not officially even the same
0:08.7	machine man as the main guy.
0:11.2	Okay, so, originally designated Unit X51, Machine Man was invented and built by Dr. Abel
0:17.0	Stack as part of an experiment to build sophisticated and independent robotic soldiers.
0:21.5	The other 50 models went haywire, but X51 was sentient and a cool dude, and Abel ended
0:25.7	up sacrificing his own life to save X51s.
0:28.8	X51 took the name Aaron Stack in honor of his creator, and in the face of a rampant
0:32.3	anti-robot discrimination passed as human when not performing acts of heroism.
0:36.2	Okay, cool, cool, so what all can he do?
0:41.5	Hmm, let's see, he's super strong and super durable, he's got some protection from
0:46.0	energy, oh, and he can elongate his limbs and sleep in very effective ways.
0:50.4	Also, flight, plus he's telepathic?
0:55.2	An insurance investigator.
0:56.2	What?
0:57.2	I'm Jay Editing, and I'm Miles Stokes.
1:11.7	And we are here to explain the X-Men, because it's about time someone did.
1:16.6	Welcome to episode 395 of Jay and Miles, explain the X-Men where we walk you through the
1:20.9	ins, the outs, and the red cons of comics greatest superhero soap opera.
1:25.1	And welcome back to, so you know how we said we were done with operations hero tolerance?
1:30.3	We lied.
1:31.3	Yeah, we were mostly done with operations hero tolerance, because we never got to
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