So Jay, what's the deal with this Blackheart guy?

He's the son of Satan.

Oh, like Damien Helstrom.

Exactly.

In fact, they're half brothers.

On their father side, I presume.

You presume correctly.

So who's Blackheart's mom?

The town of Christ, Crown, New York.

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. Welcome to episode 464 of Jay and Miles

explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the

Ratcoms of comics greatest superhero soap opera. And welcome to some X-Force. So we are

well into John Francis Moore's run on X- were after the Road Trip era which I would say was yeah

Probably our favorite era right of at least this late 90s period yeah I was gonna say this is is hard to beat, but the road trip era is good.

Very good, yeah.

But it's still John Francis More X Force, and it's still pretty fun.

And yeah, he's a little obsessed with this Damocles Foundation thing that's been going on a lot more on that later but I don't know it's an excuse for X Force to be X Force and for people to have ridiculous names.

It's fine the Damocles Foundation is silly.

I mean, let's be real, a lot of X-Force is silly, and that is a feature, not a bug.

Indeed.

So what have they been up to anyway? So, X-Force, they're of course the grown-up second generation of mutants, plus some

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