490 – Chekhov’s Angel Dust

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In which Chris Claremont tries to make the Neo happen; Cecilia Reyes continues to have no time for this bullshit; Rogue gets some action; Shadowcat flees the comic; and Tessa returns.

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0:00.0	So, Jay, are the Neo the next big thing?
0:03.7	Kind of depends on what you consider a big thing, Miles.
0:07.7	How so?
0:08.9	Well, they'll all be dead in a little over a decade.
0:12.2	Oh, no. How?
0:14.2	The evolutionary has wiped him out with a thought.
0:17.8	Evolutionaries? Like, like the high evolutionary? There's more than one? Not just Herbert?
0:22.9	No, no. These are completely different evolutionaries. See, back in the pre-human days, the eternal
0:27.6	lowercase or uppercase, eternal? Uppercase, you know, the mysterious race created by the
0:34.2	Celestials. Anyway, the evolutionaries are a bunch of pre-human eight Menfastos rescued and rapidly enhanced
0:39.8	with cosmic radiation, then tasked with safeguarding whatever species on Earth was the most evolved.
0:44.9	Just by, like, protecting them?
0:47.3	By wiping out any potential competitors.
0:49.5	What?
0:50.0	What? I'm Jay Eddden.
1:02.9	And I'm Miles Stokes.
1:04.6	And we are here to Explain the X-Men.
1:07.2	Because it's about time someone did.
1:09.3	Welcome to episode 490 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, where we walk you through
1:14.3	the ins, the outs, and the retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera.
1:18.3	And welcome to something of a milestone.
1:21.3	Welcome to the official return to X-Men after many, many years, the better part of a decade, of Chris Claremont.
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