435 – Giant-Size Special #12 (feat. Kieron Gillen)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2024
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
In which we have had an eventful year; Longshot is a classic folk hero; writer Kieron Gillen makes a triumphant and mildly terrifying return to the show; and you remain the best listeners of any podcast, ever.
X-PLAINED:
- Our tenth birthday party!
- 2023
- Longshot vol. 2 #1
- Longshot as a folkloric archetype
- Longshot (more) (again)
- Dismal Nitch, Washington
- The Thingee
- Baum, Kansas
- Corn
- Betty
- Barrie, Kansas
- The Albony Avenue Sanitarium and several of its residents
- Innocence, broadly
- The Wuggly Ump, by Edward Gorey
- Love
- Immortal X-Men
- Nathaniel Essex and several significant clones thereof
- Defining Mister Sinister
- Making Charles Xavier sympathetic
- Reset phrases
- Eternals
- The 10th Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
- Many people to whom we are grateful
NEXT EPISODE: X-Men: Liberators
NOTE: If you want to avoid Immortal X-Men spoilers in our interview with Kieron Gillen, you can skip to 01:38:50 for the Corbeau Awards!
Special thanks to:
- Matt Hunter
- Dylan Higgins
- Al Kennedy
- Max Carleton
- Kieron Gillen
- Tea Fougner
- Anna Stokes
- All of our patrons
- All of you listening, always <3
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| 0:00.0 | I can't believe it's already the winter special. |
| 0:03.0 | I know right what even is time? |
| 0:06.4 | All I know is that we're recording this on March 1384th 2020. |
| 0:11.8 | But seriously I feel perpetually behind on X-books between the baby finishing |
| 0:16.0 | grad school and you know everything. It's been almost impossible to keep up. |
| 0:20.9 | I know what you mean. Luckily we can cheat because we've got |
| 0:25.4 | Kiran Gillen here and presumably if anyone can get us up to date quickly it's he. |
| 0:29.2 | Ody. Karen, awesome, we need your help. |
| 0:34.0 | Okay, so we know all the recent stuff has revolved around Mr Sinister, but... |
| 0:38.0 | What exactly did Sinister do? |
| 0:42.0 | Um, which one? |
| 0:43.7 | What? What? I'm Jay Edditan and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men |
| 1:01.2 | because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:03.5 | Welcome to episode 435 of J&Miles, explain the X-Men, |
| 1:08.1 | where we walk you through the ins, outs, and retcons of comics greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 1:12.4 | And welcome to... of Comics' greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 1:13.0 | And welcome to... |
| 1:15.0 | The 10th annual Jand Miles Explained the X-Men Giant-sized Winter Special. |
| 1:21.0 | That's right, we are almost at our 10th birthday, |
| 1:25.0 | which means, because we did the first winter special for our first birthday, |
| 1:28.0 | this is the 10th damn one of these we've done. |
| 1:31.0 | We're so excited, we're so excited you're here with us. We're also very excited before we jump in to make a |
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