425 – Shooting the Moose
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In which moose are nothing to mess with; Cyclops requests a reality check; Bachalo does Kirby; Rogue absorbs a catchphrase; and the Shadow King needs a villain song.
X-PLAINED:
- Uncanny X-Men #356-357
- X-Men 77-78
- The Cable Principle
- Corvid disambiguation
- An aborted narrative
- Moose
- Sherrif and/or Officer Chris
- Stacy’s sister Melissa
- Cul-de-sacs
- Ptarmigan Creek
- Dubiously credible lies
- Nostalgia
- Bad times in Westchester
- Bad times in space
- Punching birds
- Moon Wolf
- An absolutely inappropriate theatrical reference
- Ainet
- Ananansi vs. Anansi
- The Shadow King (more) (again)
- Psi-War
- Temptation
- Shadow powers
- Hair swaps
- Solo Disney+ series for X-Men
- How to make Gambit work onscreen
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| 0:00.0 | So, Jay, do you think superheroes ever get star-struck around each other? |
| 0:03.5 | I'm sure, Miles. All the time. |
| 0:06.0 | I mean, even Cyclops has a Captain America teddy bear. |
| 0:09.0 | What?! |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Jay Editing. |
| 0:22.5 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:24.0 | And we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 0:26.5 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:28.5 | Welcome to episode 425 of Jay and Miles explained the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, |
| 0:33.5 | the outs, and the red cons of comics greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 0:36.5 | And welcome back to some truly delightful late 90s comics. |
| 0:40.5 | We are going to be doing some more X-Men and uncanny X-Men. |
| 0:44.5 | Yeah, this is the tragically abort of Seagull and Kelly Run. |
| 0:47.5 | It is so good. |
| 0:49.5 | I'm not saying like every issue is an absolute banger, |
| 0:52.5 | but we're going to be covering two two-part stories, one from each book today, |
| 0:56.5 | that are great. |
| 0:58.5 | And I don't know. I mean, I guess we could, |
| 1:00.5 | because these stories are largely separate, like group all of the uncanny together in an episode, |
| 1:04.5 | or, well, multiple episodes, all the adjective lists in a handful of episodes. |
| 1:08.5 | But I kind of like doing these two books side by side, |
| 1:12.5 | because clearly the writers were very heavily coordinating. |
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