76 – Live at Rose City Comic Con, with Ann Nocenti, Jeff Parker, and Chris Yost
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2015
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In which we record our first live episode; Rose City Comic Con is AMAZING; Ann tells us how to torture the X-Men; Jean Grey needs more friends; Chris survives an encounter with an angry vampire; Squirrel Girl sets the high bar for questions; everyone has opinions about Longshot’s hair; Jeff gets meta; Cyclops is the best at fighting Sentinels; and Rachel ALMOST gets through an entire panel without swearing.
X-PLAINED:
- Cable (Nathan Summers)
- Stryfe (Also Nathan Summers)
- Rose City Comic Con
- Christopher Yost
- Jeff Parker
- Ann Nocenti
- The X-Men
- Superheroes vs. soap operas
- Continuity vs. evolution
- Updating the Silver Age
- What defines an X-book
- All of our iconic X-eras
- Close encounters of the fan kind
- The Continuiteens
- Marvel Girl and Squirrel Girl team-ups
- Narrative regrets
- How we’d end the X-Men
- X-Men best suited to professional wrestling
- Our personal mutant metaphors
- Which of the X-Men is best at fighting Sentinels
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings X Fiennes, this voice belongs to Kyle, the producer of this little X-Men podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | The episode you're about to hear was recorded at Rose City Comic-Con last weekend. |
| 0:10.5 | Due to the live nature of this episode, the audio quality wasn't as controllable as I'd have liked, |
| 0:16.0 | and the end result isn't as clean as you're used to. |
| 0:18.0 | So I wanted to give you a heads up. |
| 0:20.0 | The cold open is a bit rough, but things smooth out considerably after that. |
| 0:24.2 | Now if you'll excuse me, I got to duck back behind this curtain. |
| 0:27.6 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:28.6 | So I've been thinking about cable. |
| 0:31.6 | Miles, Miles, why would you do that? I need you to stop and I need you to consider your life choices right now. |
| 0:37.0 | Okay, let's be honest, this was bound to happen sooner or later. |
| 0:40.0 | I mean, I guess, but like here? |
| 0:42.0 | Well, it just blows my mind. I mind I mean okay how do you get from here to there |
| 0:46.1 | Baby Nathan Christopher Summers to what what is cable up to these days anyway? |
| 0:50.8 | Dude what is anyone in the Marvel universe doing these days? |
| 0:53.7 | He's running around Battleworld in like a dozen different iterations. |
| 0:56.2 | I mean not that that's actually anything new for cable. |
| 0:58.2 | Right, there was that thing in recent exports where he was replaced by a series of limited lifespan |
| 1:02.4 | claims. See so, you know, business is usual. where he was replaced by a series of limited lifespan clones. |
| 1:03.0 | See, so, you know, business as usual. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, but remember back in the day when everybody thought |
| 1:07.0 | Cable was a clone and Strife, the big metal armor guy |
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