526 – Vengeful Mutants on Drugs

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Books, Visual Arts, Arts

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In which you should use drugs only with caution; a famous shirt makes its debut; Wolverine is the new Mary Worth; and you were never Quentin Quire’s age (unless you were).

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What Quentin Quire’s been up to since discorporating
New X-Men #135-138
The Special Class
Basilisk
Ernst
Dummy
No Girl
Whether the Xavier School should admit human students
Quentin’s new look
Kick (more) (again)
The Omega Gang
That one t-shirt
How to punch up your Power Point presentation
A somewhat fraught camping trip
The Special Class vs. U-Men
A secret
Some kind of weird affair
A riot, of sorts
Wolverine’s unfortunate soul patch
What actually happened to Jumbo Carnation
Telepathic deconstruction
The Cuckoos vs. Emma Frost
A somewhat mysterious secondary mutation
Denouement
The subsequent evolution of Quentin Quire
What’s happening to xplainthexmen.com when the show ends
The telepathy-telekinesis overlap

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0:00.0	So, Jay, what's Quentin Quire been up to since discorporating?
0:04.2	Spoilers, man.
0:05.9	Okay, this spoiler's old enough to drink.
0:08.4	No, yeah, that's fair.
0:09.9	Well, he recorporated, discorporated again,
0:12.2	recorporated again, solved some mysteries, lived down a desert island,
0:14.7	uh, tanked and arms summit, devamped Jubilee,
0:16.5	joined the West Coast Avengers, was a disembodied head for a while.
0:19.5	Damn, he's been busy.
0:23.0	And became the god of an alien species.
0:23.8	What?
0:38.2	And we are here to explain the X-Men. Because we are here to explain the X-Men. Because I'm Jay Eddden. And I'm Miles Stokes.
0:41.1	And we are here to Explain the X-Men.
0:42.8	Because it's about time someone did.
0:47.0	Welcome to episode 526 of Jay and Miles Explain the X-Men,
0:51.4	where we walk you through the ins, the outs, and the retcons of comics' greatest superhero soap opera.
0:57.0	And welcome to one of the most famous storylines from Grant Morrison's new X-Men. Riot at Big Staviors.
0:59.0	Yes, this arc is, of course, while not the first appearance of Quentin Quire, the Big Quentin
1:04.0	Quentin would go on to become a long-running and beloved character, and it's easy to forget
1:10.0	just how different he was in this first big story.
1:14.0	Yeah, absolutely. The Quentin we see here, and the Quentin we're going to see later, and for example, Wolverine and the X-Men, are very, very, and I think plausibly given the time frame, different.
1:24.3	Mm-hmm. And also used for a very different narrative purpose, and we'll totally get to that.
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