422 – Cairn Touch This
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In which the X-Men’s membership is a complicated subject; not all angels know each other; we need to talk about Beast’s Wasp costume; Cecilia Reyes speaks for all reasonable folk; Storm gets a mysterious package; and reading comics day-and-date may not be for everyone.
X-PLAINED:
- The variable loyalties of the N’garai
- X-Men #74-76
- A somewhat atypical team lineup
- A whole lotta backstory
- How to join the X-Men
- Warren Kenneth Worthington III as a religious figure
- Flechette clean-up
- Teenage drama
- Detective Jim Logan
- A lot of murder
- The N’garai
- Beast’s Wasp costume
- Explanatory captions for real life
- The Ru’tai
- Pilgrimm
- Mai’Keth the Undying One
- The Eye of Kierokk
- Maggott’s secret origins
- X-Men cartoons for a 7-year-old
- Reckoning with loss in comics
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| 0:00.0 | You know, Jay, the Nagarai have always felt like such a weird fit for the X-Men. |
| 0:04.5 | I know, right? |
| 0:06.0 | Like, sure, let's take this monster that showed up in a pro story in Haunt of Horror, |
| 0:11.2 | make it look like a Geiger rip off and stick a rock full of him in Charles Xavier's backyard! |
| 0:16.8 | How did they even get in there? |
| 0:19.4 | Oh, Thon did that. |
| 0:21.2 | Remind me who Kathon is again? |
| 0:24.0 | You know, Elder God used to be trapped in Mount Fuji-Gor. |
| 0:28.2 | Oh, was he the guy who altered Wanda Maximoff's powers to be mystically based so that she could eventually serve as his mortal host? |
| 0:36.2 | He was, although I'm not actually sure how canon that is these days. |
| 0:41.4 | But the Nagarai work for him. |
| 0:44.5 | The Nagarai generally aren't too picky about their employers. |
| 0:48.2 | I mean, one time a month senior in the Catholic Church recruited them. |
| 0:51.6 | Do I even want to know? |
| 0:53.6 | To try and kill Satan. |
| 0:55.0 | What?! |
| 0:58.1 | I'm Jay Edgerton. |
| 1:08.6 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 1:10.4 | And we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 1:13.4 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:15.4 | Welcome to episode 422 of Jay and Miles, |
| 1:18.2 | explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the red cons of comics greatest superhero soap opera. |
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