52 – Previously on Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men…
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2015
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In which we recap a year’s worth of podcasts–and 23 years’ worth of X-Men–in under an hour.
X-PLAINED:
- Rachel & Miles X-Plain the X-Men, Episodes 1-51
- Uncanny X-Men #1-200 & assorted annuals
- Giant-Size X-Men #1
- The New Mutants
- New Mutants #1-35 & assorted annuals and specials
- The Uncanny X-Men and the New Teen Titans
- God Loves, Man Kills
- Wolverine vol. 1
- X-Men/Micronauts
- Storm and Illyana: Magik
- Kitty Pryde and Wolverine
- Dazzler: The Movie
- Beauty and the Beast
- Firestar
- Secret Wars vol. 1
- Secret Wars vol. 2
- Longshot
- Several other assorted X and X-relevant stories
- Our pipe-dream pitches
- Multiversal designations
NEXT WEEK: The return of Jean Grey!
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| 0:00.0 | So Miles, I was thinking. |
| 0:01.5 | What's up? |
| 0:02.0 | Well, when we first started this podcast about a year ago, |
| 0:04.6 | the idea was to unravel X-Men continuity, right? |
| 0:07.2 | Yeah, we wanted to make an accessible guide, |
| 0:09.3 | something people could pick up whenever and wherever. |
| 0:11.3 | Exactly. |
| 0:12.3 | But here's the thing. We're a year in and we've covered a lot of continuity. I mean we just hit |
| 0:17.1 | issue 200 of the main series and that's not even looking at new mutants in the mini series and the graphic novels and we're about to hit a whole |
| 0:22.8 | slew more ongoings and 50-odd episodes is a lot for new listeners to catch up on so they |
| 0:27.3 | can figure out what's happening. It makes sense though I mean in 12 months we've |
| 0:30.6 | covered more than 20 years of continuity. It's not that I don't see a problem I'm just not sure what we can really do about it |
| 0:36.2 | Well, we could do a recap episode |
| 0:37.6 | Wait wait wait wait are you suggesting |
| 0:39.7 | Rachel no time to shed we've got 20 years and 51 episodes to cover in let's see just under an hour. Better cue the music. |
| 0:46.5 | What? Hi, I'm Rachel Additon. |
| 0:57.0 | Hi, I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 1:00.0 | And we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 1:02.0 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 1:04.2 | Welcome to the 52nd episode of Rachel and Miles |
| 1:06.5 | explain the X-Men where we walk you through the ins, outs, |
| 1:08.8 | and ret cons of our favorite superhero soap opera. |
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