470 – Large Adult Men
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In which Cable may or may not have been a spokesperson for AT&T; it’s impossible to draw a CD dramatically; Wolverine gets his adamantium back; Apocalypse says the thing; and we probably can’t keep putting off The Twelve forever.
X-PLAINED:
- One way to dispose of a corpse
- Cable #73-74
- Wolverine #145
- Cable (more) (again)
- Poor font choice
- Sarcophagus nipples
- Caliban (more) (again)
- Impromptu tailoring
- A cliched vignette
- People talking on couches
- A compact disc
- Unpleasant reunions
- An impressive outfit
- Prior generations of horsemen of Apocalypse
- Wolverine (more) (again)
- How Wolverine ended up a horseman of Apocalypse
- Apocalypse’s aesthetic
- Wolverine vs. Hulk (yet again)
- Which version of Magik was on Krakoa
- An X-Men pitch in the style of Spidey and his Amazing Friends
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| 0:00.0 | So, Jay, after Cable killed himself... |
| 0:03.0 | Don't be reductive, Miles. |
| 0:05.0 | Ugh, fine. |
| 0:07.0 | After regular Cable was murdered by a teenaged version of himself... |
| 0:12.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:13.0 | Anyway, uh, what happened to Adult Cable's body? |
| 0:17.0 | I mean, they buried it. |
| 0:19.0 | Oh, well, that makes sense. |
| 0:23.4 | And then Deadpool dug it up and mounted in a loose height pool table. |
| 0:24.4 | What? |
| 0:36.9 | I'm Jay Edited. |
| 0:38.5 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:41.1 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:43.1 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:47.0 | Welcome to episode 470 of Jay and Miles, Explain the X-Men, |
| 0:51.2 | where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 0:56.2 | And welcome to some books we don't normally cover. That's right. We are diverging from our usual fare this week to take a look at two solo series. Yeah, we're going to be |
| 1:02.8 | covering some cable and some Wolverine that leads into the 12. Although, okay, so I think it's |
| 1:09.7 | kind of important for a person, really just in general, |
| 1:12.2 | to interrogate their own motivations. Why do we do the things we do? Are we doing those things |
| 1:16.0 | for the right reasons, even if they're the right things? And, uh, Jay, are we just, are we just |
| 1:21.4 | putting off covering the 12? Oh, absolutely. Oh, okay. But that said, this stuff is, um, is actually |
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