524 – House in a House
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In which Xorn goes out on the town; silverware is morally neutral; Cyclops pursues dubious counsel; the X means ten; and Fantomex is eminently enjoyable.
X-PLAINED:
- The parentage of Hope Summers
- New X-Men #127-130
- Mutant Town
- A monster who is not a monster but is, perhaps, a metaphor
- X-Corporation Paris
- The whole Phoenix situation
- Fantomex
- Weapon XII
- A gene-hazard
- Corporal Animal
- E.V.A.
- The Weapon Plus program (somewhat)
- The World (somewhat)
- The Shi’ar Empire vs. Earth
- Xorn variations
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Jay. So Hope Summers, mutant Messiah. What's her story? |
| 0:06.3 | First mutant born after Scarlet Witch wiped out most of Earth's mutant population and decimation. |
| 0:11.9 | Oh, cool. So were her parents mutants, or depowered mutants? |
| 0:16.8 | Nope. And, uh, parent singular. Her mother was actually impregnated by... |
| 0:20.8 | Artificial insemination? The Phoenix Force, via time-traveling Gene Gray. Nope. And, uh, parent singular. Her mother was actually impregnated by... |
| 0:20.8 | Artificial insemination? |
| 0:22.5 | The Phoenix Force via time-traveling Jean Grey. |
| 0:25.3 | What? |
| 0:27.2 | I'm Jay Editedon. |
| 0:39.1 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:40.7 | And we are here to Explain the X-Men. |
| 0:43.6 | Because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:45.4 | Welcome to episode 524 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men, where we walk you through the |
| 0:50.0 | ins, the outs, and the retcons of comics, greatest superhero soap opera. |
| 0:54.0 | And welcome to another new X-Men episode where Grant Morrison introduces a character who will end up being a big deal, because that just keeps happening. |
| 1:01.3 | I want to say before we go into this, the last arc is such a hard act to follow. |
| 1:07.7 | Oh, you mean the end of the Imperial story? |
| 1:10.2 | The climax of the whole Cassandra Nova thing, yeah. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, yeah, it is hard to follow that. |
| 1:16.0 | It almost reminds me a little of one of my favorite runs, if not my favorite run of comic |
| 1:20.7 | books, period, Walter Simonson's run in the Mighty Thor back in the 80s, where the big, like, |
| 1:26.2 | Doom Sword saga with Surtur, the god of fire, |
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