492 – Brain Sharks

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In which the Shockwave Riders are exceptionally silly; we are deeply impressed by brain sharks; and chrome plating and gun arms are among the lesser explored recurring Claremont motifs.

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0:00.0	So, Jay, what happened to Jean Grey's sister anyway?
0:03.9	Wasn't she supposed to be a mutant?
0:06.3	Sarah?
0:07.1	She was killed by Cameron Hodge.
0:09.8	Oh, that's a shame.
0:10.7	She seemed like a cool character.
0:12.9	No, it's okay.
0:13.6	After her apparent deaths, she woke up in space, catalyzed a bunch of aliens' powers.
0:17.8	She can do that?
0:19.2	Yeah, as you said, she's a mutant. Anyway, they started
0:21.6	kind of worshipping her, and now she wears a cape and communicate with Jean through the
0:25.1	white hot room. What? I'm Jay Eddden.
0:39.2	And I'm Miles Stokes.
0:40.7	And we are here to Explain the X-Men.
0:43.5	Because it's about time someone did.
0:45.5	Welcome to episode 492 of Jay and Miles, Explain the X-Men, where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera.
0:54.4	And welcome home to us.
0:56.5	We are back from Washington, D.C.,
0:57.9	and we're doing a normal episode across the country from one another,
1:01.1	which is fun, but Jay, I'm so glad we did that thing.
1:03.2	It was so much fun doing an event with you, like, in person.
1:05.8	It was a lot of fun, and one of the great things about doing that right after a mutant
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