450 – Live at the Clinton Street Theater
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
In which we celebrate our tenth anniversary by X-Plaining what may be the most reviled X-arc; you should not try this at home; Mystique is so much better than this story; Azazel is a really boring devil; Nightcrawler should probably be missing a hand; the Xavier School definitely does not have an HR department; and we would prefer that you not pee on Iceman.
X-PLAINED:
- Nightcrawler’s (most recent) parentage
- Uncanny X-Men #428-434
- X-Men Blue: Origins #1
- The X-Men, like, in general
- Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)
- Some narrative choices
- Mystique
- Baron Christian Wagner
- Marvel Europe
- Azazel
- Church sex
- Nightstreaker
- Isla des Demonas
- Foibles of Warren Kenneth Worthington III
- Annie and Carter Ghazikhanian
- Abyss
- Kiwi Black
- The Cheyarafim and Neyaphem
- Bad times with psychic therapy
- Post-traumatic supervillainy
- Uncool Hell
- A miracle of magnetism
- The only cool thing in Uncool Hell
- A very elegant retcon
- X-Muppets
- Characters who deserve more page space
- Miles’s favorite X-Person
- What the Worthington Corporation does
- A character who could reasonably be Azazel’s kid
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends and enemies. |
| 0:02.0 | As this episode goes live, Jay and Miles explained the X-Men is about five weeks into its 11th year. |
| 0:07.0 | But on April 13th of 2024, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of our first episode's release. 10 years |
| 0:14.8 | years madness and what was also madness was what we did to celebrate |
| 0:19.8 | Jay flew across the country and we had a party at Portland's comic shop books with pictures |
| 0:25.2 | and we recorded a live episode at the Clinton Street Theater. |
| 0:28.6 | Fuck yeah we did and we couldn't resist attaching a milestone episode number to a milestone anniversary. |
| 0:35.9 | Alas doing it live occasionally means things get quirky so you may notice a short segment |
| 0:41.5 | near the beginning of this episode that we had to record after the fact to replace a little audio we lost. |
| 0:46.0 | But first, and in general, thank you. If you're listening to this, you are a part of what's brought us this far. |
| 0:53.0 | And with that. |
| 0:55.0 | So we're sitting here on the 10th anniversary of Jay and Miles explain the X-Men. |
| 0:58.0 | And I have been thinking a lot about questions. |
| 1:01.0 | How so, Jay? Well, you know, we've been through so much continuity at this point, and I'm wondering, is there |
| 1:07.4 | anything that still like keeps you up at night, just sort of going through back issues in your |
| 1:11.1 | brain trying to hack through? |
| 1:14.1 | Well, I still don't understand what happened |
| 1:15.7 | with Betsy Braddock and Kwanin. |
| 1:17.8 | That's OK, no one does. |
| 1:20.0 | But what about you? |
| 1:20.8 | What wakes you up at 3, I'm J? Yeah, sometimes I worry about the brood clones of the X-Men. |
| 1:25.0 | The ones out in space who showed up for like a single issue and then were universally forgotten. |
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