476 – The Moppets Take Manhattan

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In which we remain adamant pro-POG advocates; Artie and Leech have adventures; Firestar and Emma Frost get some resolution; Santa Claus may or may not be the avatar of Cyttorak; Black Tom Cassidy exceeds expectations; and Monet has vampire problems. X-PLAINED: Marvel’s Revolution line POGs (somewhat) (again) Who’s on Generation X these days Generation X #59-62 Artie and Leech’s adventures in NYC Holidays at the Massachusetts Academy Cordelia Frost (more) (again) Mondo (the real one) Santa Claus / Juggernaut disambiguation An overly convoluted plot Parenting? St. Croix family problems Vampire problems Legacies of Generation X NEXT EPISODE: Ages of Apocalypse! Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! Buy rad swag at our TeePublic shop!

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0:00.0	So, Jay, canonically, have Dracula and Apocalypse ever sensually explored each other's bodies?
0:07.7	No.
0:08.6	What?
0:10.6	I'm Jay Eddden.
0:22.2	And I'm Miles Stokes.
0:23.8	And we are here to Explain the X-Men.
0:26.4	Because it's about time someone did.
0:28.5	Welcome to episode 476 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men,
0:32.0	where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera.
0:36.6	And welcome to our second ending in a row.
0:40.5	Last episode, we covered the end of John Francis Moore's X-Force.
0:45.3	And today, we are closing out Jay Ferber's run on Generation X.
0:49.7	Yeah, so we'll talk more about this when we get to the new era very shortly.
0:54.2	But at this point in the year 2000, Marvel did sort of a soft reboot called Revolution, where we got new creative teams on a bunch of books.
1:05.0	We had a six-month gap where we like picked up six months later in continuity and had to kind of figure out what was going on. Some of the side books like this one and X-Force and X-Man were part of a new
1:18.0	line called Counter-X with like a new edgier vibe.
1:22.6	Oh my.
1:23.3	Yeah, no, it's going to be a whole thing.
1:25.9	Does everyone get rollerblades?
1:27.6	I mean, I'm pretty sure that's what edgy means.
1:29.8	Rollerblades and or pogs, which this podcast has been weirdly obsessed with, despite neither of us being pog players for its entire run.
1:37.8	They've just got good hand feel.
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