486 – Welcome to Earth-1298 (Mutant X May, Part 1)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In which we embark on a Great Work; it remains hard to be Alex Summers; and it’s also always Inferno on Earth-1298.
X-PLAINED:
- Mutant X May
- Mutant X #1-8
- Mutant X Annual 1999
- Havok (Alex Summers) (more) (again)
- Earth-1298
- The Six
- The Brute (Hank McCoy)
- Ice-man (Bob Drake)
- Bloodstorm (Ororo Munroe)
- The Fallen (Warren Kenneth Worthington III)
- Marvel Woman (Madelyne Pryor)
- Bannerman Castle
- The original five X-Men of Earth-1298
- S.H.I.E.L.D. of Earth-1298
- Scotty Summers
- Elektra of Earth-1298
- The Swarms of Moot
- The Fantastic Four of Earth-1298
- Canada of Earth-1298
- The Pack
- Logan
- Sabretooth
- Wild Child
- Demon problems
- The Goblin Queen of Earth-1298
- Kitty Pryde of Earth-1298
- Forge of Earth-1298
- Man-Spider
- Some murders
- Alligators of the Night
- National politics
- Cerebro of Earth-1298
- Dr. Strange of Earth-1298
- The Nexus of All Realities
- Stingray of Earth-1298
- Yellowjacket of Earth-1298
- Doc Sampson of Earth-1298
- Vendetta
- Firestar of Earth-1298
- A coincidence
- Adam X and Vulcan of Earth-1298
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| 0:00.0 | Man, Miles, I love Mutant X. |
| 0:04.0 | I don't know, Jay. |
| 0:05.3 | Another alternate timeline? |
| 0:07.3 | What's this one got to recommend it? |
| 0:09.5 | Um, just a whole new Madeline Pryor. |
| 0:12.5 | Freaking Bloodstorm? |
| 0:14.2 | Kiro Magneto giving Silver Age-style speeches. |
| 0:18.6 | Okay, okay, I'm intrigued. |
| 0:21.4 | The only well-adjusted Cyclops in the multiverse. |
| 0:25.1 | What? |
| 0:37.2 | I'm Jay Edditton. |
| 0:38.9 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:40.5 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:43.3 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:45.4 | Welcome to episode 486 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, |
| 0:48.9 | where we walk you through the ins, the outs, |
| 0:50.5 | and the retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 0:53.8 | And welcome to one of the best and or worst ideas we've ever had. |
| 0:59.0 | That's right. It's Mutant X May. |
| 1:02.0 | We threatened it, we promised it, and here we are. |
| 1:06.7 | So listeners, the three episodes that we'll be releasing in May, |
| 1:10.1 | we'll be covering the entirety of Mutant X. |
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