63 – Wildways
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2015
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In which cartoon logic is terrifying; it’s immensely frustrating to be Doug Ramsey; Psylock gets evil robot eyes; queer subtext is not just for the ladies; Danger Room cold opens are the new Kitty’s costume changes; Mojo predicts reality TV; Longshot joins the X-Men; and we answer what may be the best question we have ever gotten.
X-PLAINED:
- Captain Britain Corps
- Alan Davis
- New Mutants Annual #2
- X-Men Annual #10
- Captain Britain (Brian Braddock)
- Psylocke (Betsy Braddock)
- Slaymaster
- Mojo
- Why cartoon logic is terrifying
- Animal Man vol. 1 #5, “The Coyote Gospel” (Incorrectly described as “The Ballad of Wile E. Coyote” in episode)
- Wildways
- Robot eyes
- Template
- Snitch
- Straight Arrow
- Jubilee (but not that Jubilee)
- The trouble with determining character ages in superhero comics
- The stated mission of the New Mutants
- The proto-X-Babies
- Longshot’s X-Men debut
- The New Mutants’ graduation costumes
- A really charged costume choice
- Tonal shifts in New Mutants
- X-Men vs. geese
NEXT WEEK: APOCALYPSE NOW!
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| 0:00.0 | Oh man Miles, I am so excited. |
| 0:02.4 | What's up, Rachel? |
| 0:03.4 | We've got a bunch of Captain Britain this episode, |
| 0:05.6 | and a bunch of Captain Britain means we're almost at... |
| 0:07.6 | The Mutant Massacre? |
| 0:08.8 | Well, that too, but I was thinking more about the high-spirited dimension-hopping |
| 0:12.0 | hygings of Excalibur. |
| 0:13.2 | Ah, the light at the end of the tunnel. |
| 0:15.2 | We'll need it after the coming cascade of Grimdark. |
| 0:17.6 | So that's got me thinking. |
| 0:19.2 | Captain Britain is like a multiverseal constant, right? |
| 0:21.8 | To some extent. |
| 0:22.8 | I don't know that there's a Captain Britain on every Earth, |
| 0:24.8 | but they're definitely the best organized set of alts out there. |
| 0:27.2 | How so? |
| 0:28.0 | Well, first of all, and this is a big one, |
| 0:30.1 | they're aware of the multiverse and of each other. |
| 0:32.4 | The Captain Britain Corps are basically the multiverseal Defence Squad and Tribunal. |
| 0:35.6 | Are they all Brian Braddock? |
| 0:36.9 | Dude, Brian Braddock hasn't even been the Captain Britain of 616 in years. |
| 0:40.8 | I mean a lot of them are variations on him but that's far from a |
| 0:43.4 | constant. But they are all British. Or they're Earth's equivalent. So for |
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