So Jay, what is Psychomans' deal?

Well, Miles, he is a very small man with very big feelings.

That sounds awfully subtle for a supervillain.

I mean, he's got a robot suit and a fancy Kirby machine that makes people hate each other.

Acceptable, I guess. Hell, he was the one

palis that one time.

Malis? You mean that choker with the skull on it that possesses people?

The one Polaris got stuck in?

Different malice. And Sue wasn't possessed anyway, just brainwashed by hate monger.

Wait, Psycho Man was working with Hitler?

Different hate monger. This one was a robot who could turn into a perfect duplicate of Reed Richards.

And that was enough to brainwash Sue into becoming a supervillain.

He also had some pamphlets.

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

Welcome to episode 430 of Jayand Miles explained the X-Men where we walk you through the ins,

the outs, and the recons of comics greatest superhero soap opera.

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

Certainly some aspects of you are not great, but there is some amazing work in this era. The thing

about the late 90s is that there's so much that your odds of getting something

brilliant drop. Like there are as many really good comics, but there are so many total.

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.

You know, that is a good point. Back in the 80s, there were very few X-books,

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