465 – Right in the Fabric
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In which “Astonishing X-Men” is something of a misnomer; Death has a good look; sometimes you just need a guy who swoops; Miles stops worrying and learns to love Nate Grey; Telekinesis is silly looking; “Wolverine” dies; and nothing really changes.
X-PLAINED:
- Astonishing X-Men (miniseries)
- Ambience
- Nina (again)
- Mannites (again)
- The third-best way to get out of awkward conversations
- The Hulkbuster base
- Bastion (again)
- Bastion’s worst nightmare
- Death (a new one)
- Fiddly bits
- Cable’s Psimitar
- Telekinetic snowboarding
- Headcase
- Darco
- Glub
- Beautiful Dreamer
- Grace
- Totem
- Things to do with a severed head
- The Changing
- The (apparent) death of Wolverine
- How to salvage this miniseries
- Hypothetical X-crossovers
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| 0:00.0 | So Jay the manites are like the next big thing in X-Men right? |
| 0:05.0 | That was certainly someone's intent. You know it's funny for such a big deal I don't remember them like at all. |
| 0:13.7 | That would be because they never appear again after this mini series. |
| 0:17.7 | What? I'm Jay Eddin and I'm Milstokes and we are here to explain the X-Men because it's about time someone did |
| 0:37.6 | Welcome to episode 465 of Jay and Miles explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, outs, and the retcons of comics greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 0:47.0 | And welcome to Astonishing X-Men, no not the one from Age of Apocalypse and also not the Joss Whedon run. This is the one in the middle, the other one. |
| 0:54.8 | I would like to object to the title of this series. This is not an astonishing series, |
| 0:59.4 | nor are the X-Men particularly astonishing within it. |
| 1:02.8 | If it is astonishing anything, it is astonishingly dull. |
| 1:06.8 | I mean, I feel like that's not necessarily the way to have our listeners not just skip the |
| 1:10.8 | episode. |
| 1:11.8 | We're going to make a good episode |
| 1:13.0 | listeners. You're going to love this episode we hope. |
| 1:15.0 | Maybe. But it's true. It's a, so I'd never read this before. |
| 1:19.0 | This is the famous series where spoiler for like the rest of the episode Wolverine dies |
| 1:23.8 | spoiler for stuff we've already been talking about it's not really Wolverine it turns |
| 1:27.3 | out but like it should be a big deal it's an interesting cast of characters who all |
| 1:31.2 | have interesting histories and relationships together. |
| 1:34.0 | There's a new scary villain with a great visual design. |
| 1:36.5 | Wolverine freaking dies. |
| 1:38.0 | It should be a big deal. |
| 1:39.0 | It's a mini series. |
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