523 – This World of Liars
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
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In which Wolverine learns to fly; pants are a basic human right; we decide to cherry-pick our Xorn retcons; Xavier’s eyebrows follow his mind; and the first year of New X-Men ends with a bang.
X-PLAINED:
- The origin of the Shi’ar Imperial Guard
- New X-Men #124-126
- The current state of Charles Xavier’s body
- G-Type
- Neosaurus
- Plutonia
- Schism
- Oracle
- Stuf
- Gladiator (more) (again)
- Angel disambiguation
- Several plans
- Mutant justice
- Several miracles of magnetism
- Mummudrai
- Horror movie shit
- Subtle visual foreshadowing
- A ruse
- Education
- Long-lost family members
- What may or may not come after this
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey Miles. Can you guess what the Shiar Imperial Guard was first formed to do? |
| 0:05.2 | Guard the Empress, obviously. |
| 0:07.7 | Uh, that's more a byproduct of their first purpose, which was actually to... |
| 0:11.2 | Guard the Empire? |
| 0:13.0 | Kill the Phoenix. |
| 0:14.0 | What! I'm Jay Edidon. |
| 0:28.1 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:29.5 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:32.3 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:34.2 | Welcome to episode 523 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, where we walk you through |
| 0:39.0 | the ins, the outs and the retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 0:43.4 | And welcome back to our continuing coverage of Grant Morrison's New X-Men. |
| 0:48.3 | This is, what, our fifth episode of that? |
| 0:51.0 | Wow. |
| 0:51.9 | I do believe, if you were to be reading New X-Men the way the two of us |
| 0:55.5 | did, listeners, you would be in the second trade paperback. That would be the trade paperback |
| 1:00.9 | titled Imperial, and you found out why last episode, in this episode we're going to be exploring |
| 1:05.1 | that a bit more. Yeah, and this episode actually roughly finishes up the first year of New X-Men. |
| 1:10.7 | And, you know, we've talked a lot about writing for the trade, the idea of stories Yeah, and this episode actually roughly finishes up the first year of New X-Men. |
| 1:17.0 | And, you know, we've talked a lot about writing for the trade, the idea of stories being a specific length that fit into trade paperbacks. |
| 1:19.0 | We have mixed feelings about that as we've discussed. |
| 1:24.7 | But I kind of like that the big Cassandra Nova story lasts almost exactly the first year of the comic. |
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