59 – X is for Xtinction, with Chris Sims and Chad Bowers
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2015
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In which Chris and Chad teach us to stop worrying and love the ‘90s; the line between parody and homage is thin and flexible; everything happens at the mall; no one wants to play volleyball with Cyclops; and we totally fail to resolve the question, “Does a mall babe eat chili fries?”
WARNING: This episode contains minor spoilers for X-Men ’92 #1.
X-PLAINED:
- The Westchester Wars
- Battleworld
- X-Men ’92 #1
- Digital vs. print pacing
- A continuity error
- Narrative restrictions of Battleworld
- The actual X-Men of 1992 (and the post-Claremont X-Universe)
- X-Men Adventures
- X-Men Collector’s Edition
- Mutatant Genesis
- X-Cutioner’s Song
- Early Deadpool
- Piecing together the Marvel Universe from trading cards
- The X-Men animated series
- Concurrent and complimentary adaptation
- Cassandra Nova ‘92
- The fine line between homage and parody
- Definitive story arcs of the 1990s
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| 0:00.0 | So Rachel I read the first issue of X-Men 92. |
| 0:03.0 | And it was so awesome, right? |
| 0:05.0 | Well, yeah, yeah, but I'm still kind of confused by how Battle World works. |
| 0:08.0 | My impression is that it's a conglomeration of worlds pulled from across the multiverse by God King Doom and then divided into individual baronies, |
| 0:14.0 | but I'm still hazy on the specific mechanics of it. |
| 0:16.0 | Well, and they seem to deviate pretty far from the sources. |
| 0:19.0 | I mean, I don't know about you, but I don't remember Robert Kelly riding around in a flying chariot pulled by war wolves in 1992. |
| 0:25.0 | P-Puh, don't look at me. I mean, I was still a good eight years from being more than peripherally aware of X-Men |
| 0:29.6 | at all. Chris, Chad, you guys want to field this one? |
| 0:32.1 | Sure thing. |
| 0:33.0 | Battleworld is the Marvel Universe |
| 0:35.0 | remade from the pieces and parts of everything and everyone |
| 0:37.0 | and every time that's ever existed. |
| 0:39.0 | And it's all happening under the omnipotent eye of Dr. Doom. |
| 0:41.0 | And like any good editor, Dr. Doom retconned |
| 0:44.1 | the fabric of reality so that it's all it's ever been. |
| 0:46.5 | And thus there are Warwolves. |
| 0:48.2 | But the thing is, the Warwolves are |
| 0:50.1 | from roughly the same era. |
| 0:51.2 | I mean, they were definitely around in the Marvel Universe in |
| 0:53.3 | 1992, not so much the villain you reveal at the end. |
| 0:56.5 | Yeah, yeah, but you can forget about the old 1992. This is 1992 on Battle World. |
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