510 – Giant-Size Special #14 (feat. Alex Paknadel)
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
In which we attempt an all-Cyclops Winter special; X-Men are bad at processing grief; writer Alex Paknadel X-Plains his upcoming Cyclops miniseries; every character (except Cameron Hodge) is someone’s favorite; and you remain the best listeners of any podcast, ever.
X-PLAINED:
- Clones of Cyclops
- Gwen Warren
- Our year in review
- X-Men: The Search for Cyclops #1-4
- Ahmed and his mustache
- Emotional support boats
- A monkey
- Apoca-lips
- Anias
- Boxes of fire
- One way of coping with trauma
- Ozymandias (more) (again)
- The relative criminality of a trail of questions
- Cat lady problems
- Twice as many cat ladies named Anias as you’d expect
- Terrible logic
- Caliban (more) (again)
- Several unpleasant reunions
- Alex Paknadel’s definitive Cyclopses
- Fun with minor characters
- Proxy characters and “highly polished surfaces”
- Characters to revisit
- Sentinels
- Cyclops vs. his own powers
- Cyclops’s powers vs. continuity
- Who Scott Summers is when he’s alone
- The punch dimension
- The 11th Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence
- Many people to whom we are profoundly grateful
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| 0:00.0 | So, Jay, I was thinking about the Summers family. |
| 0:04.2 | Welcome to my world, Miles. |
| 0:06.4 | And I was wondering, Mr. Sinister's obsessed with him and with cloning, and I know that in |
| 0:11.5 | Battleworld, there were the endless Summers' zez, but has he ever cloned the main Cyclops? |
| 0:17.4 | It seems weird that he hasn't. |
| 0:20.0 | You mean aside from Paper Jam Cyclops. Oh, the messed up part monster clone he made when Cyclops? It seems weird that he hasn't. You mean aside from paper jam Cyclops. |
| 0:22.5 | Oh, the messed up part monster clone he made when Cyclops proper was dead? I'm not sure I'd count that one. |
| 0:28.6 | You know, it's a good question, and it's one I'm not sure of the answer to, but we can ask Alex. |
| 0:35.9 | Jay, I hate to break this to you, but Havoc is a fictional character. |
| 0:41.3 | Dude, I wasn't talking about Alex Summers. |
| 0:43.9 | I met Alex Pachnadel, the guy writing the new Cyclops series. |
| 0:47.7 | Hi. |
| 0:49.4 | Oh, hi, Alex. |
| 0:50.8 | Okay, yeah, that makes a good deal more sense. |
| 0:53.6 | So, how about it, Alex? Any Cyclops clones running around the 616? |
| 0:58.6 | Uh, that, that's a complicated question. |
| 1:03.3 | It's Summers family continuity. We, we pretty much took the complicated as red. |
| 1:08.9 | Fair enough. Look, there are no clones made entirely from Cyclops' DNA on Earth 616, but there |
| 1:15.1 | is a partial clone, Gwen Warren. |
| 1:18.8 | So if she's a partial clone, who else is in the mix? |
| 1:22.5 | Let's see. Gwen Stacy and Adriana Soria. Gwen Stacy, I know, but who's Adriana Soria. |
| 1:29.0 | Gwen Stacy, I know, but who's Adriana Soria? |
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