430 – The Bad Feelings Box
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In which birds have no business in sex dreams; feelings are complicated and allegories are imperfect; Mystique made some valid points; Psycho-Man is good at UI; Callisto was right; and the label “Omega-level mutant” actually kind of makes sense.
X-PLAINED:
- Psycho-Man
- Malice (but not that one)
- Hate Monger (but not that one)
- Finding good comics from the ‘90s
- Uncanny X-Men #359
- X-Men / Fantastic Four Annual 1998
- X-Men #79
- The dead man’s hand
- Dr. Aubrey Agee
- Psi-War fallout
- Dr. Bradley Beynon
- Hadley the robot
- Poker twinks
- La Bludgeon
- Psycho-Man’s Bad Feelings Box
- An invisible bear trap
- Marvel’s floating poker game
- Officers Aguinal and Cleveland
- Antagonists vs. villains
- Omega-level mutants
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| 0:00.0 | So Jay, what is Psychomans' deal? |
| 0:03.4 | Well, Miles, he is a very small man with very big feelings. |
| 0:09.1 | That sounds awfully subtle for a supervillain. |
| 0:12.1 | I mean, he's got a robot suit and a fancy Kirby machine that makes people hate each other. |
| 0:17.0 | Acceptable, I guess. Hell, he was the one |
| 0:25.0 | palis that one time. |
| 0:23.0 | Malis? You mean that choker with the skull on it that possesses people? |
| 0:28.0 | The one Polaris got stuck in? |
| 0:30.0 | Different malice. And Sue wasn't possessed anyway, just brainwashed by hate monger. |
| 0:35.0 | Wait, Psycho Man was working with Hitler? |
| 0:39.0 | Different hate monger. This one was a robot who could turn into a perfect duplicate of Reed Richards. |
| 0:44.0 | And that was enough to brainwash Sue into becoming a supervillain. |
| 0:49.0 | He also had some pamphlets. |
| 0:51.0 | What? I'm Jay Edderton and I'm Jay Eddidin and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men because it's about time someone did |
| 1:11.1 | Welcome to episode 430 of Jayand Miles explained the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, |
| 1:16.1 | the outs, and the recons of comics greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 1:21.4 | And welcome to a late 90s episode about some really good comics. I gotta say late 90s I talked a lot of shit about you and |
| 1:28.9 | Certainly some aspects of you are not great, but there is some amazing work in this era. The thing |
| 1:35.8 | about the late 90s is that there's so much that your odds of getting something |
| 1:42.0 | brilliant drop. Like there are as many really good comics, but there are so many total. |
| 1:50.1 | And so many of those are just kind of there that like if you reach into the mix and you're drawing a random issue or a random series, I think it's less likely to grab you than if you do that a decade prior. |
| 2:05.0 | You know, that is a good point. Back in the 80s, there were very few X-books, |
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