58 – Miniseries Mayhem
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In which Nightcrawler does Weird Tales; Iceman does Back to the Future; we want a vacation home in Dave Cockrum’s brain; Bamfs are terrible; the 1983 Iceman miniseries is straight-up bananas; parents just don’t understand; and Rachel will take literally any excuse to talk smack about John Ruskin.
X-PLAINED:
- Vanisher
- Nightcrawler #1-4
- Bizarre Adventures #27
- Iceman #1-4
- The Well at the Center of Time
- The downside to hanging out with pirates
- A shark wizard in a tiny loincloth
- Better living through sound-effect awareness
- Boggies
- The key to a classic Nightcrawler story
- Earth-5311
- Bamfs
- The full extent of Rachel’s Smurfs knowledge
- Cretaceous Sam
- Sehv
- Illyana Rasputin’s porn collection
- The Drake family
- An exceptionally unlikely girl next door
- The definitive Miles’s Mom anecdote
- Marge Smith / Mirage
- White Light
- Idiot
- Kali (but not that one)
- Two generations of Officers Ratchit
- Pornography no one wants to see
- Death by time travel
- Oblivion
- Night Man (kinda)
- Our ideal cross-media adaptations
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, what's the Vanisher's deal? |
| 0:02.6 | You mean, aside from the vanishing? |
| 0:04.6 | Yeah, he started out as a Silver Age villain, right? |
| 0:06.6 | Right, he fought the X-Men way back in their second issue and then Professor X wiped his mind. |
| 0:11.0 | Well, that seems harsh. |
| 0:12.0 | Well, the silver age. |
| 0:13.4 | He showed up again on and off after that, ran around with Factor 3, fought the champions, teamed up with |
| 0:17.0 | Nightcrawler, and briefly became a god in another dimension. |
| 0:19.5 | And then there was the whole Fallen Angels thing where he played Fagan to a bunch of mutant runaways. |
| 0:23.0 | Well he'd been doing that on and off long before though. |
| 0:25.0 | That's how Boom Boom met up with X Factor, remember? |
| 0:28.0 | Oh yeah, didn't he reform for a while though? |
| 0:30.0 | Much later? |
| 0:31.0 | Not voluntarily. |
| 0:32.0 | He'd stolen a bunch of samples of the legacy virus from Mr Sinister's |
| 0:34.7 | lab and X-Force needed him to help them track it down, so to ensure his compliance, they had |
| 0:38.7 | elixir give him an inoperable brain tumor. |
| 0:40.5 | Yeah, seriously? In the shape of the X-Men logo? What? |
| 0:43.4 | I'm Rachel! Hi, I'm Rachel Eddenden. |
| 0:55.0 | And I'm Miles Stokes. |
| 0:56.0 | And we are here to explain the X-Men. |
| 0:58.0 | Because it's about time someone did. |
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