506 – The House at the End of the World

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In which Jay remains angry at a font; a person who is obviously Kang the Conqueror is not in fact Kang the Conqueror; the pig men deserve better; and Nightcrawler should never, ever, ever be allowed to attempt grief counseling.

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0:00.0	So, Jay, why do they keep trying to throw Storm and cable together romantically?
0:05.4	I don't know. Matching hair, maybe.
0:08.1	Huh. Yeah, that follows.
0:10.6	Ooh, or maybe it's their alternate timeline kid.
0:13.2	What?
0:13.7	What? I'm Jay Edited.
0:26.5	And I'm Miles Stokes.
0:28.3	And we are here to Explain the X-Men.
0:31.4	Because it's about time someone did.
0:33.5	Welcome to episode 506 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men,
0:41.8	where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the retcons of comics, greatest superhero soap opera.
0:45.3	And welcome to a bit of a detour.
0:51.4	That's right. Today, we are making a hard left off the interstate to go look at cable.
0:56.5	So we don't typically cover cable series, and not that there's not a lot of good stuff,
0:57.9	there is a lot of good stuff.
1:03.2	But most of that good stuff is counterbalanced by the worst font choice of the early aughts Marvel.
1:04.6	Are you still mad about that cable font?
1:07.4	I am so mad about that cable font.
1:09.7	It's still a really bad font that's really difficult to read.
1:14.1	I think this came up when we were covering the 12, didn't it?
1:17.2	And the series is indeed still using that same font.
1:20.7	Which it shouldn't be.
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