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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

408 – Yabba Yabba Yabba

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In which Bishop gets another miniseries; splinter timelines make fun narrative sandboxes; the X.S.E. goes detecting; the Statue of Liberty never fares well in dystopian futures; “Booger” is not a name you give yourself; and we can’t believe it’s taken us this long to make a hanky code joke about Bishop.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So, Miles, have you ever noticed how much time the X-Men spend underground?

0:05.0

You know, Jay, it makes sense that they'd operate sub-Rosa given the whole world that hates and fears them deal.

0:11.0

No, no, I mean, literally underground. The more locks live in the sewers,

0:15.0

you got a tunnel to the savage land, there's the whole brute trouble and the big easy thing,

0:19.0

and I mean half the X- if you're mentioned as basements and sub- basements.

0:23.0

Point. They even operated from the ruins under the mansion for a pretty long time.

0:28.0

Given that, it's kind of surprising it took them so long to find Grey Morgan.

0:32.0

The lane? It seems pretty clearly marked where the school is.

0:37.0

No, I mean the mutant kid buried alive under the mansion.

0:41.0

The hell? In the 18th century. What?!

0:45.0

I'm Jay Addident. And I'm Miles Stokes.

0:59.0

And we are here to explain the X-Men.

1:02.0

Because it's about time someone did.

1:04.0

Welcome to episode 408 of Jay and Miles explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins,

1:09.0

the outs, and direct cons of comics, greatest superhero soap opera.

1:13.0

Well, since you've been back, we've done a bunch of minus issues. We did one mainstream continuity episode with X-Factor,

1:20.0

and now we're doing a mini-series.

1:22.0

Sounds like the 90s.

1:24.0

It does sound like the 90s, yes.

1:27.0

And of course, in the 90s, I'm not going to say no one was a bigger deal,

1:33.0

but few characters were a bigger deal than time-traveling Supercop Lucas Bishop.

1:39.0

That's right, this is his third mini-series we will have covered from the 1990s.

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