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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

460 – Setting Sons

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Books, Visual Arts, Arts

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In which Synch is better with your powers than you are; Generation X gets some actual training; Artie and Leech are fully feral; everyone gets the hots for Paladin; Zeus has probably fucked a motorcycle at some point; many countries have valleys; and Adrienne Frost is terrible.

X-PLAINED:

  • Generation X #52-54
  • Tristan Brawn (more) (again)
  • Grant Morrison on suspension of disbelief in superhero media
  • Honor vs. privilege
  • School dance themes
  • Artie and Leech’s habitat
  • Spider-Ham
  • Ducktor Doom
  • Role models
  • What Gaia is probably definitely up to
  • Paladin
  • The Rising Sons
  • Rollerblades
  • Dragon problems
  • Power emulation vs. reproduction
  • Pokémans
  • Cosplaying Emma Frost with a beard
  • Diamond Patch
  • Muir Island vs. Muir Isle

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0:00.0

Man, the demon bear is such a pain in the ass.

0:03.5

I know, right? You'd think defeating it once would have been enough.

0:07.5

Yeah, well, nobody expected it to be...

0:10.0

Resilient?

0:11.0

Contagious?

0:12.7

What? I'm Jay Eddidden and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men

0:30.1

because it's about time someone did.

0:32.1

Welcome to episode four hundred sixty of J and Miles explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the retcons of comics greatest superhero soap opera.

0:40.0

And welcome to some more Generation X. This is an era of Generation X we were pretty

0:47.4

unfamiliar with but I read ahead a little and you know it's all right it's all right

0:51.9

Generation X has been a very uneven book and so yeah I

0:56.7

I think that's easy to forget like everybody remembers the first honestly just the first

1:00.4

few issues.

1:02.7

And then it kind of got weird and Chris Bachella

1:05.5

was not a very consistent artist in terms of being there

1:08.0

for all the issues.

1:09.0

And yeah, but that being said, I love these characters and I'm so glad we're covering this book.

1:14.0

They're good kids. They try hard. I mean, they're fictional, so they don't actually try, but...

1:19.0

I don't know. I think it's important to give fictional characters credit.

1:23.0

It's a slippery slope, Miles.

1:25.0

Perhaps.

1:27.0

Well, let's slip into something more comfortable.

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