48 – Guitar Solos of the Gods
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2015
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary

In which Asgardian Wars occupies the precise intersection of Miles’s favorite things; Marvel Asgard is your favorite metal album; no one appreciates Cypher; Wolfsbane gets some action; Warlock gets meta; Cannonball is a catch; Rachel Summers gets a new costume; Loki does Shakespeare; and Rachel overthinks Leverage.
X-PLAINED:
- Various Mjolnirs and their attendant powers
- Asgardian Wars
- New Mutants Special Edition #1
- X-Men Annual #9
- The Surtwar
- Art Adams
- Amora the Enchantress
- Lorelei
- Several pop culture cameos
- A really dubious beach party
- The Viking Sorceress Asgardian Portrait of Dorian Grey
- Ed Grimley
- Hrimhari
- Wolf makeouts
- The Marvel version of Norse mythology
- The Warriors Three
- Rule #1 of dealing with fairies
- A hawk ‘hawk
- Valkyries
- Einherjar
- A costume in somewhat questionable taste
- Interdimensional lightning-bolt mixology
- Our favorite Thor story, ever
- How to get your friends and neighbors into comics
- Asgardian mutants (or lack thereof)
- X-Leverage cross-casting
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Miles, you got a sec. Oh, hey Rachel, welcome back. |
| 0:02.8 | Thanks. So, look, I haven't really slept, so I don't really know if this is just me or if it's actually confusing in continuity, |
| 0:08.1 | but I am having a lot of trouble wrapping my head around Storms Hammer. |
| 0:11.2 | The one Loki makes. |
| 0:12.3 | Yeah, so it's basically |
| 0:13.1 | Mulener, right? Or a Mulener duplicate. No, not really. I mean it is made of Uru |
| 0:18.0 | metal and it's got some of the same powers, but it doesn't have the worthiness |
| 0:20.5 | enchantment and there's some other stuff thrown in too. Okay, see that's the thing I'm sticking on because Thor's weather powers don't come from the |
| 0:26.5 | hammer do they? I mean he's still the god of thunder and lightning without it. |
| 0:29.5 | Sort of. I mean Thor's got some powers of his own especially when he controls the Odin Force now and then but yeah me only gives him a ton of superpowers that he doesn't have otherwise |
| 0:37.0 | Huh I think I thought it was basically a focus for his existing powers plus the returning magical weapon thing and you know that he can throw it and |
| 0:43.2 | fly. What does it actually give him that he doesn't have on his own? |
| 0:45.8 | Okay let's see so better weather control for starts and like you said it comes back to |
| 0:49.8 | Thor when he throws or loses it and he can fly by throwing it and holding on, which is the best method of flight for the record. |
| 0:54.4 | And it's one of the most feasible. |
| 0:55.8 | And it can do energy blasts, energy shields, energy detection, energy absorption, |
| 0:59.4 | energy redirection, teleportation, molecular manipulation, personal transformation, atomization, |
| 1:03.7 | mystic negation. |
| 1:04.7 | It's got Netherworld Cosmic and Electromagnetic power. |
| 1:07.4 | It can make you invisible and intangible. |
| 1:09.0 | It can show visions of the past and detect illusions, send a message across dimensions, it can resurrect the dead, |
| 1:13.4 | control souls, absorb life force, annihilate the undead, and travel through freaking time. |
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