458 – Quantum Stuff

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

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🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In which Tommy Lee Edwards draws a damned fine everything; death gods get taken a lot less seriously when their avatars are seagulls; warm and cool colors get in a fight; Domino has no time for this bullshit; Cable and Domino wait ’til the kids are asleep; Sunspot’s alibi is too complicated; X-Force forges a pouches path; Engines are nothing but trouble; and Ry’lor the Destroyer puts himself in time out. X-PLAINED: The Norse Pantheon of 2099 X-Force #91-93 One of the best X-covers ever Our favorite Siryn story Jesse Aaronson, penitent chef Sean Cassidy, penitent dad A realistically anticlimactic breakup Cassidy/Rourke history Bring Your Daughter to Crimes Day Napoleon Sanders An epistolary montage The dusty pink word balloons of Tom Waits A missed Manos-portunity The Chaos Engine Halloween Jack Domino’s varied musical tastes Ry’lor the Destroyer Kodo the Komodo Bedlam’s extremely situational powers Astarte and Electryon Horniness as a superpower The Temple of the Dying Sun Cable & Corsair’s (lack of) history Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, and Hope NEXT EPISODE: Miles and guest host Devin talk X-Patrol, 1996's X-Force / Doom Patrol mash-up! Want to hire J&MXPtXM producer Matt Hunter to produce your podcast? Email him! Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog! 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, who the hell is Halloween Jack? I don't remember him ever showing up before.
0:06.5	That, Miles, would be because he is from 2099.
0:10.5	Oh, that'll do it. So what's this deal? Okay, so remember Alka Max? That's the
0:19.2	evil corporation that created all those clones of X23, right?
0:23.0	Right. He was a scientist named Jordan Boone who worked there,
0:26.0	and he got involved with this program designed to give people superpowers
0:29.0	based on existing characters.
0:31.0	So who's Jack based on the Green Goblin? No, actually Loki. The program was
0:38.4	specifically trying to recreate the Norse gods to the point of implanting
0:42.0	computer chips and test subjects brains
0:44.0	that wiped out all of their existing memories to make them believe they were in reality
0:47.4	the gods and then dumping them on a floating island fashioned after Valhalla.
0:52.3	And you get Halloween Jack out of that? How?
0:58.0	Boone managed to avoid the chip and at some point decided to just try taking things in a different direction.
1:03.0	So what happened to Valhalla Nouveau?
1:06.0	Ended up a province of Latvia.
1:08.0	What? I'm Jay Eddenden and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men because it's about time someone did
1:28.0	Welcome to episode 458 of Jay and Miles explain the X-Men where we walk walk you through the ins, the outs, and the
1:33.7	red-cons of comics greatest superhero soap opera.
1:37.0	And welcome to one of our favorite aspects of that soap opera because, as you've gathered over the course of lo these many years
1:44.2	listeners we have come to love the excellent fuckups in X Force.
1:48.6	I didn't you mean the excellent fuckups? Well I mean clearly. So these days X Force is pretty
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