77 – Die Hard With a Lobster
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2015
⏱️ 55 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary

In which we relax our definition of X-book; we really want Sunspot to grow a mustache; Miles gets an excuse to say “shillelagh”; Bill the Lobster goes on a rampage; and Fallen Angels is really, really, really wonderful.
X-Plained:
- Devil Dinosaur
- Moon Boy
- Fallen Angels #1-8
- Jo Duffy
- Assembling a team
- Sunspot as a point-of-view character
- Compassion as a superpower
- Da Costa’s Devils vs. Ma Guthrie’s Gorillas
- Goat Simulator
- An unfortunate incident
- Somewhat harsh student evaluations
- The moral compass of Magnum, P.I.
- Warlock and Sunspot as mutual foils
- Chance
- Ariel
- Multiple Man (Jamie Madrox) and several notable duplicates
- Siryn (Theresa Cassidy)
- Gomi
- Bill
- Don
- The Fallen Angels
- The Vanisher
- The Marvel Girl Fan Club
- Lobster feelings
- Kirby monsters
- Doris Danger
- Dinosaur World
- Fallen Angels as a spiritual antecedent to Runaways
- The tragic death of Don the Lobster
- Fallen Angels II
- How to party like Dr. Doom
- Doom Patrol vs. X-Men
NEXT WEEK: A Sinister debut.
You can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog! (Thanks for your patience!)
Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!
Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!
Buy prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, what's Devil Dinosaurs deal? |
| 0:03.0 | He's a bright red super smart gender fluid mutant dinosaur from Earth 78-4-11, Miles. |
| 0:08.2 | I really don't see what's so complicated about this. |
| 0:10.8 | 78-4-11. |
| 0:12.4 | I thought he was just from prehistoric Earth 616. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, he was originally, or at least Jack Kirby intended him to be. |
| 0:19.0 | There's some amazingly dubious science involved. |
| 0:21.0 | I mean in Devil Dinosaur Number 1, Kirby Straight Up claimed, and I quote, |
| 0:25.0 | After all, just where the dinosaur met his end and where man first stood reasonably erect is still shrouded in mystery. |
| 0:31.0 | That's, that's not true at all. |
| 0:34.0 | I know, but it's a moot point actually because in fallen angels it turns out that the |
| 0:37.7 | Valley of the flame is another world altogether. |
| 0:39.7 | So how do you end up in the 616? |
| 0:41.7 | Well, fallen angels obviously, and later on he showed up in the 616? Well, fallen angels, obviously. |
| 0:43.6 | And later on he showed up in the Excalibur Lighthouse and once Jennifer Kale's apartment. |
| 0:47.7 | That sounds like a tight fit. |
| 0:48.7 | Yeah, Ghost writer had to keep him from destroying New York and then DD and Moon Boy were hypnotized into joining |
| 0:53.7 | the Circus of Crime. |
| 0:54.9 | So pretty standard Marvel Right of Passage. |
| 0:56.7 | True. |
| 0:57.7 | Anyway, after that they pretty much permanently relocated to the savage land. |
| 1:01.4 | So Fallen Angels was Devil Dinosaur's first contact with mainstream Marvel. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

