464 – The Cigarettes of Damocles
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In which X-Force is kind of silly; that really isn’t what “quantum” means; polite and lawful are two entirely different things, and Sam Guthrie is only one of them; Selene vogues; and the Hellfire Club plays the dead girlfriend card.
X-PLAINED:
- Blackheart
- The Damocles Foundation (more) (again)
- Lucas Bartholomew Guthrie
- The difference between prisons and jails
- X-Force #98-98
- Whether Dr. Octopus enjoys the literary stylings of Elmore Leonard
- One way to get out of prison
- The Glitterbox
- An unsuccessful heist
- Celestial cigarettes and/or golems
- Thomas and/or Tyler Zebulon and/or Zeke Guthrie
- Demon Bears as urban pests
- Selene, Always Voguing
- Gatherers
- Various evil scientists
- The Sword
- Junkyard life
- Lenny Delmonico
- Psychic rodeos
- Nightmare chambers
- Bat sex
- An offer Sunspot can’t refuse
- Hank McCoy’s villain arc
- New Mutant superlatives
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| 0:00.0 | So Jay, what's the deal with this Blackheart guy? |
| 0:04.0 | He's the son of Satan. |
| 0:05.0 | Oh, like Damien Helstrom. |
| 0:07.0 | Exactly. |
| 0:08.0 | In fact, they're half brothers. |
| 0:10.0 | On their father side, I presume. |
| 0:12.0 | You presume correctly. |
| 0:14.0 | So who's Blackheart's mom? |
| 0:16.0 | The town of Christ, Crown, New York. |
| 0:18.0 | What? I'm Jay Eddenden and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men |
| 0:35.4 | Because it's about time someone did. Welcome to episode 464 of Jay and Miles |
| 0:40.3 | explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the |
| 0:42.8 | Ratcoms of comics greatest superhero soap opera. And welcome to some X-Force. So we are |
| 0:49.6 | well into John Francis Moore's run on X- were after the Road Trip era which I would say was yeah |
| 0:56.0 | 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. |
| 1:05.0 | Very good, yeah. |
| 1:06.0 | But it's still John Francis More X Force, and it's still pretty fun. |
| 1:11.0 | 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. |
| 1:21.6 | It's fine the Damocles Foundation is silly. |
| 1:25.0 | I mean, let's be real, a lot of X-Force is silly, and that is a feature, not a bug. |
| 1:29.0 | Indeed. |
| 1:31.0 | 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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