484 – Hell Tuba
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In which the 2000 Magik miniseries is not a good comics series but is an excellent heavy metal concept album; Nightmare has a nightmare; and tubas work differently in Hell.
X-PLAINED:
- Belasco: the early years
- Magik (2000 series) #1-4
- Magik (Amanda Sefton) (Jimaine Szardos) (more) (again)
- Some art stuff
- The realm of Nightmare
- The Splinter Realms
- The Soul Sword (Amanda Sefton version)
- An Archfiend of the Pit
- Nugent
- Chekhov’s Hell computer (and its secretions)
- Kurt Wagner’s short and bizarre career in the church
- Vitchen
- Several cool demon battles
- The Dread Dormammu
- Gleeg
- A problem
- Muspelheim
- Twilight (sword)
- Some Mephisto nonsense
- Hades, maybe
- Epithets
- A convocation
- Weird Hell guys
- Duke Bleys
- The Archenemy
- The Hell Tuba
- The most demonic brass instrument
- Some time travel bullshit
- Stories where Emma Frost is at her best
- Villain reuse
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| 0:00.0 | So, Jay, Balasco is a demon, right? |
| 0:03.6 | You mean the erstwhile Lord of Limbo, the one Iliana Resputin deposed. |
| 0:08.3 | Kind of. He actually started out as a human sorcerer in the 13th century and got his immortality the old-fashioned way via a pact with the elder gods. |
| 0:16.7 | And then he took over Limbo. |
| 0:19.3 | Nah, that came later. Then he got trapped in suspended animation during a fight with... |
| 0:23.7 | Another sorcerer? A demon? |
| 0:26.2 | Italian poet Dante Aligari. |
| 0:28.1 | What? |
| 0:41.4 | I'm Jay Editedon. |
| 0:43.1 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:45.7 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:47.9 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:51.7 | Welcome to episode 484 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, |
| 0:55.1 | where we walk you through the ins, outs, and red-cons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 0:57.2 | And here we are, |
| 0:59.0 | still early in the Revolution era, |
| 1:01.3 | with a comic |
| 1:01.8 | that directly follows up on |
| 1:03.1 | the last comic we covered. |
| 1:05.3 | So last time we talked |
| 1:06.4 | about X-Men Black Sun, |
| 1:07.8 | which involved |
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