521 – Snowflakes
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
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In which John Sublime sucks; Angel Salvatore rules; trauma does not justify evil; and you should never, ever, ever mess with Jean Grey.
X-PLAINED:
- A horrifying revelation
- The universe where Jay and Miles work for Cassandra Nova
- New X-Men #118-120
- John Sublime (more) (again)
- The U-Men
- Psychic energy, gender-reveal party-style
- The Stepford Cuckoos
- One way to disperse a mob
- An uncivil conversation
- The death and/or discomfort of many U-Men
- An awakening of sorts
- Squaring the phoenix
- Hank McCoy’s “coming out”
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| 0:00.0 | So, Jay, roughly how old is Charles Xavier supposed to be anyway? |
| 0:05.0 | At this point in continuity? |
| 0:07.0 | Three years younger than you. |
| 0:09.0 | What? |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Jay Editon. And I'm Miles Editing. |
| 0:22.7 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:24.3 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:27.1 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:29.3 | Welcome to episode 521 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, |
| 0:33.1 | where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 0:38.2 | And welcome back to more New X-Men, which is all we're doing right now and we're having a great |
| 0:42.8 | time with it. It's so good. Man, it's so nice just focusing on one series for a while. Yeah, I think |
| 0:49.2 | the last time we did that was like before New Mutants started, and that was so many years ago in podcast coverage. We were just covering X-Men. I feel so much calmer and so much more on top of things. That's completely, completely fair. Yeah. Because yeah, at this point, there were a number of other books going on. There were two other X-Men books. There were various solo books. There were mini-series all over the place. And a lot of them were great. A lot of them were cool. I have so many feelings about Stacey X that I'll probably never get to. But new X-Men, it just was such a highlight for us. It was such a revitalization of X-Men. And it's really fun just to do one episode to the next to the next about it. And it stands alone so beautifully. |
| 1:29.7 | You mentioned that there were contemporary titles, and it's really fun just to do one episode to the next to the next about it. |
| 1:27.8 | And it stands alone so beautifully. |
| 1:29.7 | You mentioned that there were contemporary titles, and of course those were going on simultaneously, |
| 1:33.5 | but you don't see the massive crossovers that have defined pretty much the preceding decade. |
| 1:40.5 | True. |
| 1:41.2 | Although I am really looking forward to the new X-men story where bishop and sage show up from |
| 1:45.4 | extreme x-men to be the main characters for a minute ha ha okay so this is our what third new |
| 1:52.1 | x-men episode right yep so uh really you should just listen to all of these episodes all in a row |
| 1:58.3 | and then listen to our entire back catalog and tell us how good we are. But if you don't remember the last couple, maybe we can talk a |
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