40 – Give Them Something to Punch (With G. Willow Wilson)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2015
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In which writer G. Willow Wilson joins us to talk about her new run on X-Men; the Future is really confusing; we consider the many iterations of Rachel Grey; Storm probably has strong feelings about climate change; and writing for a shared universe takes some seriously fancy footwork.
X-Plained:
- Jubilee
- Shogo (a little)
- The future vs. the Future
- X-Men vols. 1-4
- The logistics of stepping into a book mid-series
- Pigeonholing and “girl” books
- The proper pronunciation of Kamala
- Storm (again)
- Psylocke
- M
- Rachel Grey (again)
- Cross-title coordination
- Writing in a shared universe
- Super-powered ecology
- The gender politics of telepathy
- Writing and dialogue across media
- Marginalization, intersectionality, and the mutant metaphor
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Miles, what's you're reading? |
| 0:02.0 | X-Men. I'm trying to figure out what's up with Jubilee's powers. |
| 0:04.0 | She's lost the plasma bursts a while back, right? |
| 0:06.0 | Oh, yeah, she was depowered on M-Day. |
| 0:08.0 | But she got turned into a vampire and curse of the mutants. |
| 0:11.0 | Yeah, and that's basically her power set these days. |
| 0:13.0 | Fangs, claws, super strength, and speed, decreased physical vulnerability, turning into mist, |
| 0:16.8 | dramatic brooding. |
| 0:17.8 | Didn't she have a healing factor too? |
| 0:18.8 | That was just because she was drinking a bunch of Wolverine's blood. |
| 0:21.2 | Uwuh. |
| 0:22.2 | Right? And she's got a baby? Yeah.ines blood. Ugh. Right? |
| 0:23.0 | And she's got a baby? |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:25.0 | Well, where'd he come from? |
| 0:26.0 | The future. |
| 0:27.0 | Like Earth 811? |
| 0:28.0 | No, the capital F future. |
| 0:29.0 | So the Earth 616 future? |
| 0:31.0 | I don't know if he exists in other timelines. |
| 0:33.0 | What? |
| 0:34.0 | The future? |
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