455 – Space, Geeks, and Galactus

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In which Roadhouse is basically a Wolverine story; Spider-Man does crimes; space names are derivative; there are lots of good reasons to yell at Professor Xavier; the X-Men do Doctor Who; Galactus is not interested in your puny human feelings; Marrow gets a new look; the Skrulls need a crash course in UI; and we overthink bones. X-PLAINED: The time the Skrulls did “A Piece of the Action” The trouble with benevolent dictatorships X-Men #89-90 Uncanny X-Men #370 A New York City that is not in fact New York City “Spider-Man” A ruse Faces Skrull problems Mar-Vell Adam Warlock Sass vs. joviality Skrull Cop City Disguises Nova (Frankie Raye) How Galactus eats planets Condiments Several melees Bone pubes Skrull UI Whether Moopsy could drink Wolverine’s bones X-Musicals NEXT EPISODE: The return of Douglock! The Roald Dahl short story whose title Jay couldn’t recall is “Beware of the Dog.” The visual companion to this episode will be up later this week! 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, do the scrolls ever bring other cultures they infiltrate back home?
0:05.7	You'd think that influence would end up going two ways, right?
0:09.0	Oh yeah, absolutely.
0:10.0	I mean, there's a whole scroll planet based on early 1930s gangsters.
0:15.2	Why would you base an entire planet on 1930s gangsters?
0:19.5	You mean aside from straight up ripping off the original series Star Trek episode a piece of the action?
0:25.0	I thought that sounded familiar.
0:27.6	But nah, in this case the scrolls just happened to kidnap one and thought he was cool.
0:31.2	What? I'm J Eddidin and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men
0:48.8	because it's about time someone did. Welcome to episode 455 of Jay and Miles, explain the X-Men where we walk you through
0:55.2	the ins, the outs, and the ret cons of comics greatest superhero soap opera.
0:59.4	And welcome back to continuity.
1:02.0	It was really fun diving back into the cartoon. There was so much to say. Like, I
1:09.0	originally was going to do that as one episode. You wisely said two two and then we were talking about how we
1:13.7	probably could have gone even longer? I mean ideally I think we could have done an
1:17.0	episode per episode. Oh if we only had the time we have like a podcast
1:21.8	and a mini podcast.
1:23.0	Yeah, no, it definitely wouldn't really be schedulable around full-time jobs.
1:27.0	See, I thought we should just put Explan on hold and do, you know, two and a half months of talking about 97.
1:35.0	I feel like that would have made some people very happy and some people significantly less happy
1:38.8	depending on the stuff they're into.
1:40.8	Well, yeah, that's the trouble with benevolent dictatorships.
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