424 – Times Change
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In which everything is Havok’s fault; Jay is a bad influence; Polaris makes some valid points; Jamie Madrox is the Bobby Drake of X-Factor; and X-Factor vol. 1 ends with a bang.
X-PLAINED:
- Muppet rules
- X-Factor, vol. 1, in general
- X-Factor #146-149
- Sense of place
- Jude Black and his inexplicable facial hair
- Boundaries
- Edible Arrangements
- A different kind of sports bar
- Kevin
- Nostalgia, I guess?
- Several confrontations
- Temporal insanity
- A very specialized course
- What happens next
- The universe where Dazzler replaced Jean Grey in the original X-Factor
- Characters we would like to have seen more of
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| 0:00.0 | So, Miles, this is the end of X-Factor. |
| 0:04.0 | Yeah, yeah, this is it, Jay. |
| 0:07.0 | Well, at least it follows Muppet Show rules. |
| 0:10.0 | What a celebrity guest star, lots of monsters and pigs and frogs. |
| 0:14.0 | No, you know, the Jim Henson thing where everything has to end with an explosion. |
| 0:18.0 | Oh, yeah, okay, okay. |
| 0:20.0 | Or with somebody getting eaten. |
| 0:21.0 | WHAT?! |
| 0:30.0 | It's time to turn the pages. |
| 0:38.0 | It's time to see the sights. |
| 0:40.0 | It's time to meet the beautiful S-Factor tonight. |
| 0:44.0 | It's time to put on darkness. |
| 0:47.0 | It's time to dress up right. |
| 0:49.0 | It's time to start scuffle on anchor tonight. |
| 0:53.0 | Why do we still explain this? |
| 0:55.0 | Why do we even look? |
| 0:57.0 | It's like a kind of torture. |
| 0:59.0 | It's time to read the book. |
| 1:08.0 | To introduce our topic is what I'm here to do. |
| 1:12.0 | So it makes me really happy to introduce to you the end of X-Factor volume one day. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm Jay Editing, and I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 1:29.0 | And we are here to explain the X-Men. |
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