436 – The Feel-Good Movie of the Summer
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K 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.
X-PLAINED:
- Notable incidents in Iceman’s romantic history
- X-Men: Liberators #1-4
- Nostalgia
- Friendship
- A bar fight
- Province 13
- General Sergei
- Several dead deer
- Gregor and Valeri
- Nikolas
- Zener cards
- Several children
- Omega Red (more) (again)
- Ariana
- Ideal formats
- Beast vs. Dark Beast
- A theoretical X-Men newspaper comic
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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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