490 – Chekhov’s Angel Dust
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
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.
X-PLAINED:
- The Evolutionaries
- X-Men #100-102
- The current X-Men rosters
- Thunderbird (Neal Shaara)
- Claremont vs. continuity
- Dove crimes
- The Neo
- Domina
- Jaeger
- Rax
- Fancy space suits
- What to do with someone else’s bone claws
- Some guy named Seth
- The High Evolutionary’s love nest
- A Phoenix-saga callback
- Rave
- Warren Kenneth Worthington III’s weird fantasies
- Whether unstable molecules are self-cleaning
- Seventeen deaths of Mister Sinister
- Salvo the Living Gun
- How to keep track of X-Men
- Time travel problems
- X-Men LEGO sets we’d like to see
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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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