462 – Angst and Continuity
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In which the 1990s were very long; if you die in the simulation, you die in real life; Adrienne Frost is a bad person with good clothes; we judge the number 57; things just keep happening; and Penance somehow gets even more complicated.
X-PLAINED:
- Bevatron
- Generation X #55-57
- The Hellions and their untimely demise (again)
- Uncanny X-Men #281
- A continuity conundrum
- Many allusions and references
- Cognitive dissonance
- Dancing between the raindrops of continuity
- Resolution
- Emma Frost, triumphant
- Fashion
- Emplate (more) (again)
- Propeller beanies
- Feelings
- Explosions
- One way to solve a problem
- Whether you should read Dazzler: The Movie
- The worst possible power swaps
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| 0:00.0 | Man, Miles, Pavitron's name is such a weirdly obscure reference. |
| 0:06.0 | Reference? So that Hellian's name is not just a word that Fabian Nasia made up? |
| 0:12.0 | It is not. It is in fact the name of a mid-century particle accelerator in California. |
| 0:17.0 | And so Bevatron's power is what? |
| 0:20.0 | Speed? Or, I don't know particles? |
| 0:23.0 | Channeling bioelectric energy into blasts. |
| 0:26.0 | Well, I guess that makes about as much sense for the name. |
| 0:30.0 | You know, it's funny though, I don't remember Bevatron from the New Mutants era at all. |
| 0:34.8 | Oh, that's because Bevatron wasn't around then. He first showed up in 1991 in a New Warriors book. |
| 0:40.2 | Hey, New Warriors. What was he doing there again? |
| 0:43.7 | Following off night thrasher's roof |
| 0:45.8 | What? I'm Jay Eddagen. And I'm J Eddagen. And I'm Miles Stokes. And we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 1:04.0 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:06.0 | Welcome to episode 462 of J. and Miles Explain the X-Men, |
| 1:10.0 | where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the retcons of comics greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 1:15.0 | And welcome back to Massachusetts because it is a Generation X episode and I think it's kind of a turning point for me as Generation X episodes go. |
| 1:26.0 | How so? |
| 1:28.0 | Well we've been covering the J-Fareber run which follows the Larry Hammer run. |
| 1:32.8 | And we've been talking about how Generation X |
| 1:34.4 | has been inconsistent for a long time, |
| 1:36.6 | how it's often been an inconsistent book in general. |
| 1:39.7 | That the Generation X that people remember |
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