442 – MimeQuest 64
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In which Marrow remains a connoisseur of dead rats; Jay has opinions about the NYC Subway system; U.L.T.I.M.A.T.U.M. are snazzy dressers; Doctor Doom gets excited about Onslaught; Magneto can have a rocket pack if he wants; villainous game recognizes villainous game; weird retcons are the best retcons; and you should totally come to our birthday party.
X-PLAINED:
- A peculiar side effect of Wolverine’s healing factor
- Jay & Miles on Bluesky (and other social media)
- Our upcoming 10th birthday party and live show (and related announcements)
- X-Men Unlimited #22
- X-Men/Doctor Doom Annual 1998
- An unpleasant way to wake up
- That’s so Kraven
- Avengers and transit cops
- U.L.T.I.M.A.T.U.M.
- Flag Smasher
- Some miscellaneous New York Subway trivia
- Audience stand-ins (and how the reading experience changes when the audience stand-in isn’t human-passing)
- Additional New York Subway trivia
- Premonitions of Onslaught
- An X-Men highlight reel
- A delightful little retcon
- One way to ruin X-Men #137
- Healing factor preferences
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| 0:00.0 | Man, Wolfrine's healing factor is way, way out of control. |
| 0:05.0 | I know, Jay. Recovering if there's even a single cell of him left? Where are the stakes? |
| 0:11.0 | Actually, I was thinking more about what it could do for other characters. |
| 0:16.0 | Wait, does it heal other people now too? |
| 0:19.8 | Like Angel's Blood? |
| 0:21.8 | Uh, not exactly. |
| 0:25.0 | Then does it harm them? |
| 0:27.0 | Does Wolverine's blood turn other people into Wolverine? |
| 0:31.0 | No, but it does make vampires impervious to sunlight. |
| 0:35.0 | What? |
| 0:36.0 | What? I'm Jay Eddenden and I'm Miles Stokes. And we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 0:53.0 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:55.0 | Welcome to episode 442 of Jay and Miles, |
| 0:58.0 | Explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the retcons of comics |
| 1:02.0 | greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 1:04.6 | And welcome to some fun and goofy stories, but first. The news. So we have a couple kind of big things going on. |
| 1:12.9 | The first regards where you can find us online. |
| 1:16.2 | Now, if you are a social media officiano, |
| 1:18.6 | you may have noticed that we don't really post on Twitter these days. |
| 1:23.0 | And that is because we are basically phasing out |
| 1:25.4 | our use of that platform in favor of Blue Sky, |
| 1:29.5 | which is now no longer invite only, |
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