443 – X-Retail (feat. Katie Pryde of Books With Pictures)

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In which we walk down X-Plain Memory Lane; everyone needs Bitch Planet; HoX/PoX wouldn't stay on shelves; we learn how to make sure a comic doesn't get canceled; Marvel should have kept publishing those Krakoa-era anthology TPBs; X-Men is indeed a soap opera; and you can jump in here 'cause we're all confused. X-PLAINED: The most crowded X-year Books With Pictures, official best comics shop in the world Our upcoming 10th birthday party Katie Pryde’s X-history Prioritizing marginalized nerd identities Lapsed X-readers X-sprawl The Dawn of X books that worked (and the one that didn’t) The frustration of discontinued collection formats The perfect number of X-books (again) Drama and kissing What we want after Fall of X Readers’ single issue vs collection preferences The power of the preorder Katie’s (naming) origin story Readers versus speculators How to organize a comic book store Non-X recommendations for X-fans The glory of Judge Dredd X-Men who can be trusted to watch a comic book store NEXT EPISODE: Deviants, Christmas ghosts, and Magneto! LINKS AND FURTHER READING: Books With Pictures in Portland, Oregon The Books With Pictures Podcast RSVP to our birthday shenanigans! 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 many X books. I remember when X Factor started and three seemed like a big deal and now we're covering 1999 and even with a couple X titles having ended it still feels like we're moving through the months at a snail's pace.
0:16.0	Hey Miles, it sounds like you're complaining about the number of X books in the late 90s.
0:21.0	Oh, hey, Katie Pride, good to see you. You're in a comic book shop so you probably
0:26.5	would know it it gets better right? Oh occasionally but mostly it gets worse.
0:34.0	Um, much worse.
0:36.0	Oh man, when does that happen?
0:38.0	More and more from where you are overall, but, um, 2010 may have been the most crowded X year on record
0:44.6	depending on how you count right now I'm counting my future additional gray hairs
0:49.3	okay so there were about 10 ongoing team books, plus one for cable.
0:53.9	So, 11, that's a lot, but I guess it's doable.
0:58.7	There were 15 or so books ongoing or mirror mini series or one-shots all connected to Wolverine.
1:05.0	Yeah, damn it, Logan.
1:07.0	And around 40 other miniseries and one-shots?
1:10.0	In a year? How?
1:13.0	And if you count them, there were almost a dozen about Deadpool.
1:18.0	What? I'm Miles Stokes and I'm Katie Pride filling in for Jay Eddin and we are here to explain the X-Men because it's about time someone did
1:41.4	Welcome to episode 443 of J. and Miles explain the X-Men, where we walk you through
1:46.0	the ins, outs, and ret cons of comics greatest superhero soap opera.
1:50.2	And welcome to you, Katie Pride, thank you so much for being on the show.
1:53.7	Miles, I am thrilled to be here.
1:55.7	It has been years.
1:58.1	It freaking has.
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