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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

436 – The Feel-Good Movie of the Summer

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In which Colossus has had a rough time of it; the X-Men are at their best in bar fights; Bronze-age Wolverine was a jerk; Ursa Major deserves more page space; kids dig Nightcrawler; and we imagine an X-Men newspaper comic strip.

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0:00.0

You know Miles in retrospect the weirdness of Iceman straight hookups could probably have predicted his gayness all on their own

0:08.9

Yeah, I mean having a fling with the incarnated concept of oblivion who is also her own father

0:15.3

is certainly one way to proclaim one's heterosexuality. Oh no no that's pretty

0:20.9

standard for the Marvel Universe.

0:23.0

I was talking about Mystique.

0:25.0

What? I'm Jay Eddidin and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men.

0:43.0

Because it's about time someone did.

0:45.0

Welcome to episode 436 of J and Miles,

0:48.0

Explain the X-Men, where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the

0:51.0

Redcons of comics greatest superhero soap opera.

0:54.0

And sometimes through the obscure mini series, I actually didn't know this one existed until my friend

1:00.3

Devon brought it up to me.

1:02.4

And now here we are.

1:04.0

Here we are.

1:06.0

So we are down to four ongoing X-books that we're covering in the podcast at this point.

1:11.0

But of course, the miniseries, yes, much quicker, the

1:14.6

miniseries never stop. And this one is from 1998 and it's called X-Men

1:21.3

Liberators.

1:23.0

So I have a question that I want to come back to at the end of the discussion

1:28.0

that I want you to keep in mind through this and that is should this have been a mini-series or an arc an arc of one of the main books?

1:33.7

That is an excellent question and yes let's definitely make sure to come back to that after we

1:38.5

discuss this story.

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