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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which Al Kennedy and Miles enter a somewhat post-OZT world, the art of Frank Teran (whose uncle built a jetpack) elevates an otherwise merely decent story, Puck is played by Bob Hoskins, Wild Child gets a chance to shine, Mystique and Forge are sitting in a tree, and Swamp Thing is amazing. X-PLAINED: Spider-Man's head cold Sabretooth: Back to Nature #1 Sabretooth (Victor Creed) Wild Child (Kyle Gibney) Horrible violence, expertly implied The ubiquity of sewers Saturday morning cartoons of R-rated movies Serial killers with G.I. Joe names Improbable tracking Bilingual crime Chekhov's waterfall DRUGS X-Factor #136-137 The Hound program Skeumorphism Doctor Valerie Cooper and Major Edmond Atkinson, excellent exes Questionable wound-dressing Holograms Government jobs The sad fate of the Chase family Nimrod disambiguation The Marvel Universe According to Doctor Seuss NEXT EPISODE: The X-Men return from space! 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	Hey, El, so now that we're done with Operation Zero Tolerance, I've been thinking about...
0:05.0	We're not exactly done with Operation Zero Tolerance, but this episode's gonna be all about the events that spin out of it.
0:13.0	Okay, okay, so now that we're done with comics, with the Operation Zero Tolerance logo on their cover, I've been thinking about...
0:21.0	About what?
0:23.0	About Operation Zero Tolerance.
0:26.0	I mean, the implications of this event should have affected so many superheroes and supervillains both practically and philosophically.
0:34.0	Why didn't we see more of that?
0:36.0	We saw some.
0:38.0	You already covered Spider-Man's fight with Maru.
0:41.0	A venom was sent to intimidate J. Jonah Jameson out of investigating Bastion and Operation Zero Tolerance.
0:47.0	Who sent him?
0:49.0	Venom never really seemed like much of a team player.
0:52.0	Well, the government had put a bomb in his chest to get him to cooperate.
0:56.0	Huh, okay.
0:58.0	Man, what is it with the government and planting things in supervillains? That never goes well.
1:04.0	It didn't, especially when Venom and intimidate us murder.
1:09.0	Damn it, Eddie. I assume Spider-Man showed up to stop him, though, right?
1:14.0	He did, but it was an unexpectedly challenging fight, thanks to...
1:19.0	Spidey's and Big E was spanned with the alien symbiote.
1:22.0	You know, he was pretty much over that by this point.
1:26.0	Jameson's distracting yelling voice?
1:29.0	Still, no. I think Pete's gotten used to JJJ's ranting.
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