507 – Comic Book Logic

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In which there are a lot of explosions in X-Force; Great Britain-616 is to intelligence as Canada-616 is to military; Alastair Stuart used to be fun; Emma Frost is here to stomp on your dreams; Chamber joins the X-Men; and the Generation X kids graduate themselves.

X-PLAINED:

Revolution (again)
Counter-X (again)
X-Force #114-115
Generation X #75
Yet another origin of humanity and/or life on Earth (again)
The World Engine
Accurate representation of CD-Rs
Genetech
A swimsuit interlude
Agent Corben
Alastair Stuart (more) (again)
A kidnapping
A really amazingly terrible plan
A particularly large explosion
The remaining 14 issues of X-Force vol. 1
An interlude at Applebee’s
Bad times at the New Xavier School
A murder (more) (again)
Intersectional superheroism
An additional bonus murder
An invitation
Many goodbyes
What happens next to the Generation X kids

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0:00.0	I know there'll be others, Jay, but I'll miss this iteration of X-Force.
0:05.0	Aw. It's okay, Miles. They will return, at least briefly.
0:10.0	Awesome. What brings the team back together?
0:13.0	Trademark infringement. What?
0:16.0	What? I'm Jay Eddiden.
0:29.1	And I'm Miles Stokes.
0:30.6	And we are here to Explain the X-Men.
0:33.7	Because it's about time someone did.
0:36.0	Welcome to episode 507 of Jay and Miles
0:39.0	explained the X-Men,
0:40.3	where we walk you through the ins,
0:41.4	the outs, and the retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera.
0:45.7	And welcome to a pair of milestones
0:49.4	that are also a pair of endings,
0:51.7	because sometimes the order of things we cover in the podcast ends up kind of weird. Well, they're really mostly a pair of endings, because sometimes the order of things we cover in the podcast ends up
0:54.7	kind of weird. Well, they're really mostly a pair of endings. I don't know if there are
0:58.9	milestones beyond being endings. Endings are a milestone. I guess, well, one is a multiple of
1:05.1	25, which is usually a milestone to, but the other two are 114 and 115, which are just kind of there.
1:29.7	Listeners, of course, what we're referring to is that today we're going to be covering the finales of X-Force Volume 1 and Generation X Volume 1. The X-Force. The X-Fourse finale is a two-parter. The Generation X finale is a one-shot. And, yeah, they weirdly fit really well together in terms of the amount of stuff we like to cover in an episode. They're thematically consistent in that they're both endings.
1:33.6	There are fun comparisons we can make that we were talking about before we recorded.
1:37.5	I got to say when we're talking about endings, X Factor is a hard act to follow.
1:42.9	That's true. Oh, X Factor, which in number 149, not 150, but 149, just blew the book up.
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