411 – Tearaway Pants

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In which we actually kind of like a Sabretooth story; we’re not asking for viscera, here; all pants on Earth-616 are tearaway pants; we’d like to see more Wolverine stories about bodily autonomy; Gambit’s hallucinations have hallucinations; and there are probably too many X-books.

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0:00.0	So, Miles, I was thinking, and it occurred to me, I don't think that X-Men really have
0:05.0	any punch-clock villains.
0:06.8	What, like DC's clock-king?
0:09.6	No, no, I mean, like, dangerous, but easily beatable guys you take out at the beginning
0:14.2	of the issue to establish your hero's bonafides.
0:17.5	I think that Danger Room does most of the heavy lifting there.
0:20.4	That's still too bad.
0:21.8	I've always had a soft spot for those slightly silly dudes, you know, the wrecking crew,
0:25.8	Stiltman, Hydroman.
0:27.6	I really don't get why Hydroman isn't a major threat.
0:31.3	He controls water.
0:33.1	Water is everywhere.
0:34.6	It's like 60 plus percent of most people's bodies.
0:38.0	While everything you say is true, the problem is Hydroman has one incredibly exploitable
0:46.8	weakness.
0:48.8	Electricity?
0:49.8	Low temperatures.
0:50.8	Lodry detergent.
0:51.8	What?
0:52.8	I'm Jay Editon, and I'm Miles Stokes.
1:07.3	And we are here to explain the X-Men, because it's about time someone did.
1:11.6	Welcome to episode 411 of Jand Miles, explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins,
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