489 – The Eyepatch of Love
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In which Pete Wisdom does his best Charles Xavier; Alastair Stuart has not aged well; San Francisco has monster problems; and there’s probably an alternate universe where Dr. Niles Roman fronts a metal band for toddlers.
X-PLAINED:
- The value of Pete Wisdom
- X-Force #102-105
- Revolution (more) (again)
- Counter X (more) (again)
- Flight
- Elf stuff
- Alastair Stuart (again)
- The eyepatch of love
- Science City 53
- Meatspore stormtroopers
- Project Cuckoo
- Dr. Niles Roman
- Tactics vs. Strategy
- Monster problems
- The Violence Machine
- The apparent death of Pete Wisdom
- What a good X-Force HQ needs
- The most X-treme possible lineup
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| 0:00.0 | You know, Jay, I'm never entirely sure whether to take Pete wisdom seriously. |
| 0:04.8 | How so, Miles? |
| 0:06.5 | Well, on one hand, he's this hardened ex-intelligence guy with a vendetta and a plan. |
| 0:12.1 | On the other hand, he's just so... |
| 0:14.5 | Goofy? |
| 0:15.5 | Goofy. |
| 0:16.7 | He can be both. |
| 0:18.3 | Also, we're talking about the Marvel Universe and Marvel Britain in particular. |
| 0:22.3 | Someone who's effective against goofy but real threats is kind of compulsory. |
| 0:26.2 | I guess we saw our share of those threats in Excalibur. |
| 0:29.7 | Oh, buddy, you have not even scratched the surface. |
| 0:32.5 | You ever heard Ayal Anthe? |
| 0:34.4 | Dial what? |
| 0:35.5 | Never mind. |
| 0:36.4 | The point is, while the superheroes are punching and the archmages are archmaging, |
| 0:40.1 | someone's got to handle the weird stuff, like entering into political marriages with rogue fairies. |
| 0:45.2 | I guess? |
| 0:47.0 | Or destroying a vampire army. |
| 0:49.0 | Oh, that can be an issue, yeah. |
| 0:51.4 | Being controlled by Dracula from his base on the moon. |
| 0:53.8 | What? |
| 1:06.0 | I'm Jay Editedon. |
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