438 – The Man of Harsh Business
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In which Gambit knows how to make an entrance; Rogue and Gambit only have relationship conversations during superhero fights; Wolverine fights a shark; and we have opinions on how to handle certain aspects of backstory.
X-PLAINED:
- One way to take over Madripoor
- Uncanny X-Men #361
- X-Men #81
- Wolverine: Black Rio
- The X-Men’s rapid slide back to the status quo
- Steve Comicraft
- The fork of loneliness
- Cyttorak (again)
- Black Tom Cassidy (again)
- Peacocks
- Sarasota Jungle Gardens
- What’s sticking out of Juggernaut’s pants
- Favorite versions of the Danger Room
- Floriography
- Kali (kind of)
- Mary Purcell (a bit)
- Rio Carnival
- An outfit
- Detective Antonio Vargas and his mustache
- Saint Cyrus Leviticus
- Ezra
- Comparing mutant and Inhuman culture
- Demonic homage
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| 0:00.0 | Man, Jay, I still can't believe Wolverine married Viper. |
| 0:04.0 | Well, it wasn't entirely voluntary, Miles. |
| 0:07.5 | She called in a debt of honor. |
| 0:09.0 | What did she get out of it anyway? |
| 0:11.0 | Well, she was banking on Wolverine's reputation in Madropore making it easier for her to take over the island. |
| 0:16.7 | Did it? Not as much as his ability to impersonate several adventures, X-Men, and members of the Fantastic Four. |
| 0:24.0 | Wait, Wolverine did that? |
| 0:25.8 | The guy who thought putting on an eye patch was a good disguise. |
| 0:29.7 | All at once. |
| 0:30.7 | What? I'm Jay Eddidin and at Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men |
| 0:47.6 | because it's about time someone did. Welcome to episode 438 of Jay and Miles explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, |
| 0:54.9 | the outs and the red cons of comics greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 0:59.0 | And welcome to a veritable cornucopia of mutant stuff. |
| 1:03.8 | We plan our episodes well before we write them, |
| 1:07.0 | and sometimes it turns out, like, |
| 1:09.0 | we put a bunch of stuff in here, |
| 1:10.6 | and then it's too late, and we have to do the episode. |
| 1:12.8 | But I'm very excited about like all of it, |
| 1:15.3 | so I feel fine about that. |
| 1:17.5 | Yeah, this is a good batch of comics. |
| 1:20.2 | It's a slightly, slightly disconnected batch of comics comics or at least partially disconnected or at least some of them are disconnected or at least one is disconnected from the other two. |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah, to offer a glimpse behind the X-Plane curtain, so so you know we know roughly how much |
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