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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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No notes. (Generation X Underground Special #1) In which Synch is a more versatile character than he originally got credit for; “eep” and “eek” are likewise underused; space makes everything better; Nate Grey is the proto-himbo; and if you can decipher the secret code in this episode, you, too, can win a Silver Surfer jet ski! X-PLAINED: Diablo Generation X Underground Special X-Men Unlimited #30 X-Man: All Saints Day Jim Mahfood Skin’s video-game preferences Strange superpowers Poster pirates Visual representations of the passage of time “Banshee’s Angels” Charlie’s Angels The infamous donut-day riots Perfect costumes Adequate restraints for small children The raw power of funk Generation X vs. the Beat Generation The greatest disco event in the universe Nate Grey Some kid named Jerome Countess Absynthia Von Mort Transylvania Dr. Cindy’s Castle The state of Phoenix affairs The color bar at the top of the page in ‘90s comics NEXT EPISODE: Generation X suits up! Check out visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, Al. What are you doing here in the studio?
0:04.0	Oh, hi, Miles. I've just been hanging out quietly, you know, catching up on my reading.
0:11.0	Since the last time we recorded in February?
0:15.0	Wow yeah the time really goes in hey.
0:18.0	Well since you're here maybe you could give me a hand with something.
0:22.0	Sure go for it.
0:24.0	So I've been looking into this Diablo guy since he factors into one of the comics we're talking about today
0:29.0	and geez, his Marvel database page is like a million miles long.
0:33.4	Yeah, that makes sense, Miles.
0:35.8	He's been a villain since the early years of the Silver Age.
0:39.2	Or longer, if we're talking about his origin story.
0:41.8	He was a Spanish noble back in the ninth century named Esteban Diablo.
0:46.7	Man, he is extra old. But wait a minute, what kind of a ninth century Spanish noble name is Diablo?
0:55.4	Wasn't the Spanish nobility pretty anti devil back then?
0:59.3	Yeah, they were, which is probably why Marvel recond his name into actually being Esteban
1:05.6	Corathon to Diablo. Steve Hart of the Devil? That's not necessarily better.
1:13.0	Eventually they settled on Estevan Corzon de Ablo.
1:18.0	You know, fine, but if he's that old, he must have attempted a ton of villainous deeds.
1:24.5	I guess that's why his Marvel database page was so long.
1:27.2	Oh, absolutely, and most of them were the best kind of unnecessarily elaborate.
1:32.1	I'm listening.
1:34.0	Well, he tried to turn all the salt in New York's salt mines into an addictive drug.
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