On account of life in general, this episode does not have a cold open.

Please take it as read that the Marvel Universe is a strange and often silly place. I'm Jay Eddine and I'm Milstokes and we are here to explain the X-Men.

I'm Jay Eddine and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men because it's about time someone did

Welcome to episode 440 of Jay and Miles explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, the outs and the red kinds of comics greatest superhero soap opera.

And welcome to right where we left you.

You know there's comic stories where the next issue picks up like two seconds after the last issue.

It's like that except we're releasing this a week later. So this is the second half of

the hunt for Xavier. If you haven't listened to episode 4, you may want to go back and do so, but honestly, you won't be missing all that much.

That is true. We talked about this a bit last time, but this is the last big story of the Steve Seagull,

Joe Kelly era of uncanny X-Men and X-Men.

And boy, what a sad way to go out.

Yeah, at this point, as we understand it I mean information is

fragmentary but the ideas that Siegel and Kelly had at the beginning of the

run all the plot lines they were building up to a lot of that had been scuttled

by this point in favor of from what we can tell just a return to the basics.

We've already seen the members of Excalibur who had been X-Men return to the X-Men and a spoiler for a story called

the hunt for Xavier where they're trying to get Xavier back they get Xavier back.

This is an episode where I should also give a certain technical qualifier so I live in a small apartment where

sound carries and normally when I record my one-year-old is already asleep but today we're

recording in the afternoon which means that they are wide awake and really eager to participate.

So if you hear, you know, quiet noises in the background, it's probably the baby and not ghosts,

but it can never be too sure, so have fun with that.

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