399 – The Cybertronic Spree

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which the X-Force road trip era begins; Team X takes on a new dimension; Dani Moonstar gets her subtext back; pointing out a stereotype doesn’t excuse using it; Tabitha Smith generally deserves better; platypuses are underrepresented in the superhero genre; Hell becomes Stryfe; and Domino gets back in the game. X-PLAINED A dastardly plot X-Men 2099 Road trips X-Force #71-74 Team X A Love & Rockets reference Stan and Ollie The Triplets of Belleville How not to fund your film Michael Whitecloud Project Stepladder Colossal Man Several references to X-Force -1 Platypuses Edwin Martynec Weaponized humming The death of Warpath Hell Blackheart Friendship A mysterious villain NOTE: Whoa, The Cybertronic Spree is actually a real band! NEXT WEEK: The return of Erik the Red! 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, Al, what's your reading?
0:01.8	It's X-Man issue 10 from 1964.
0:05.0	I didn't realize that this was the first appearance
0:07.4	of K-ZAR in the Modern Marvel Universe.
0:10.3	You know, now that you mention it,
0:12.1	that is one of the stranger points of interest
0:14.9	in those early issues.
0:16.4	Are you a K-ZAR fan?
0:18.3	Absolutely.
0:19.5	Well, from I money, you can't beat Mark Wade
0:21.8	and Andy Coobert's run on the character from the late 90s.
0:25.0	Wade and Coobert, that is an incredible team.
0:28.4	Oh, man, it really is.
0:30.6	Everyone is all about K-ZAR being a child of two worlds,
0:35.3	civilization and nature.
0:37.7	I'm not to mention the incredible plot
0:39.8	attached by K-ZAR's evil brother, Parnival Plunder.
0:43.0	That is an amazing name.
0:46.2	I take it, he has some kind of appropriately grandiose scheme
0:50.4	and some kind of secret weapon.
0:52.7	Oh, yeah.
0:53.7	What, an orbiting space laser trained on the Savage Land?
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