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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

70 – Forget It, Jake; It’s X-Factor

Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes

Arts, Books, Visual Arts

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 8/23/2015 in the shop (also pencils skirts, ‘cause, why the hell not?) or contact David for the original.
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 8/23/2015 in the shop (also pencils skirts, ‘cause, why the hell not?) or contact David for the original.

In which everything is terrible; miscommunication triangles are way more awkward than love triangles; Boom Boom is universally delightful; Miles has feelings about ‘80s fashion; Apocalypse is judging your band posters; X-Factor still hasn’t gotten the hang of doors; Cyclops’s life continues to be an anxiety dream; the Twelve are better in foreshadowing than practice; and Angel dies as he lived: half-naked, at an airport.

X-PLAINED

  • The evolution of Angel
  • Cold opens
  • rachelandmiles.com
  • X-Factor so far
  • X-Factor #12-15
  • A miscommunication triangle
  • Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith)
  • Rachel’s Marc Silvestri causality loop
  • Boom Boom vs. Jubilee
  • Cameron disambiguation
  • Famine
  • Master Mold (more) (again)
  • The Twelve
  • Tanya Trask
  • Caliban

NEXT WEEK: Technoorganic blues!


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey Rachel, what's the deal with Angel these days?

0:03.0

Which one, Miles?

0:04.0

There's the original Warren Worthington the third, the time-displaced teenage version, Angel

0:07.8

Salvador.

0:08.8

The original, I think.

0:10.5

I mean, he looks like the original, but he seems pretty off these days

0:13.0

long blonde hair metal wings yeah that's the one yeah that's Warren primal sort of sort of

0:18.3

it's his body anyway mostly mostly well the metal wings obviously aren't the originals.

0:24.0

Yeah, what's with that? I thought they'd revert it to feathers way back during the stuff with

0:27.7

Ozymandias. The feathers were techno-organic.

0:30.0

Seriously? Yeah, Wolf Spain ripped off his wings during X-Force.

0:33.8

Why would she do that?

0:34.8

She was brainwashed.

0:35.8

Oh.

0:36.8

Anyway, the wings grew back metal and it turned out both that the feathers had themselves

0:40.0

been a different expression of the same thing and that Warren had some psionic control over his form

0:44.1

whether he appeared as the blue and bladed archangel or the pink feathery original flavor.

0:48.0

So he's still archangel?

0:49.8

No. No. No.

0:51.8

See, after X-Force murdered baby apocalypse on the moon.

0:55.0

I'm just going to let that one sit.

0:56.7

Good call.

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