439 – Fishfic

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In which we reach the beginning of an end; Jay totally forgot Gambit was there; we’re all living in the Mary Purcelliverse; the X-Men split the party; and we explore The Bay Area’s Bohemian Hotbed of Student Anarchy. X-PLAINED: Mary Purcell (sort of) The re-defaulting of the X-Men Uncanny X-Men #362-323 X-Men #82 Nebraska Pyro (Saint John Allerdyce) and his endless illness Legacy Virus variations Going home again Running back and forth in quarries Marrow, who’s come a long way The two forms of fire: skeleton monsters and sexy ladies Cerebro (the evil one) San Francisco and Tajikinistan Asphalt ball pits A topsy-turvy nonsensical impossible hell Nina the Mannite Desire, love, loss, and fear Skulls and spines The New (New) Brotherhood of Mutants Cerebrites Alpha and Beta A lost, smelly fish Ambiguous art Blood, sweat, and fears Which mutants would cause the most chaos at holiday gatherings Hopes for post-Fall society NEXT EPISODE: 2 Hunt 2 Xavier Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! 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	So Jay, what's with the green mist blackmailing gambit?
0:05.0	Oh, that's Mary Purcell. He picked her up in Antarctica.
0:09.0	Because she offered to help him?
0:11.0	Because she was contained in a test tube labeled energy and he figured he could use them.
0:15.0	What? I'm Jay Eddagen. And I'm Jay Eddin. And I'm Miles Stokes.
0:31.0	And we are here to explain the X-Men. Because it's about time someone did.
0:37.0	Welcome to episode 439 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men where we walk you through the
0:41.7	ins, the outs, and the ret cons of comics greatest superhero soap opera.
0:46.0	And welcome to the beginning of the end of an era.
0:50.0	And the beginning of an arc that maybe should have been three issues instead of six.
0:57.0	I might even say two. So we are sadly getting to the end of Steve Seagull and Joe Kelly's runs on uncanny X-Men and X-Men.
1:06.8	Runs, which, if you've been listening to the show for the last little while, you will note,
1:10.2	we have by and large loved.
1:13.0	Runs which decay precipitously as they approach their finales.
1:18.0	We've talked about this before.
1:19.0	So Joe Callie and Steve Seagull were brought on after Scott Lobdle very suddenly quit.
1:25.8	And since Chris Claremont, who was plans to be brought back in, was snarled up on a toy
1:31.3	business contract deal of some sort the two of them were
1:34.4	hired and then Marvel didn't want to fire them when Claremont was available.
1:38.0	So they started out with grand plans for the X-Men all these plots they were building up to, sometimes with foreshadowing involving a lot of birds.
1:46.0	And they got to get a little ways into these, and then they were all basically aggressively curtailed by editorial
1:53.7	fiat. Or possibly marketing fiat or possibly business deal
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