81 – The Kids Are All Right, with Dennis Hopeless
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2015
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In which we sit down with one of our favorite writers to talk about his upcoming series; the X-teens take to the road; Season One is kind of Friday Night Lights; good relationships make good stories; and we are really excited for All-New X-Men.
X-PLAINED:
- Genesis (Evan Sabahnur)
- Dennis Hopeless
- Secret origins of X-Men: Season One
- All-New X-Men, vol. 2
- How to write Jean Grey
- Building a team
- Why Quentin Quire isn’t in All-New X-Men
- All-New in the larger X-line, and the X-line in the larger Marvel Universe
- Definitive X-eras
- Cable & X-Force
- What makes Cable tick
- Boom Boom
- Colossus and Domino
- The narrative case for solid relationships
- Favorite villains
- Mark Bagley
- Character evolution across multiple creative teams
- X-teen hobbies
- Vegas Valley Comic Book Fest
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Rachel, you think the original five X-Men are ever going to make it home? |
| 0:03.3 | Back to the past, Beast Yanked them out of? |
| 0:05.7 | No, they're on their second ongoing series. |
| 0:08.3 | I'd say they're here to stay. |
| 0:09.4 | Well, not all of them. |
| 0:10.8 | Yes, all of them. |
| 0:12.4 | Not an all-new X-Men though. Who's missing? Marvel |
| 0:15.0 | Girl. Oh right, she's over an extraordinary X-Men. So who else is running around |
| 0:19.4 | and all-new? It's not just the four guys, right? Well there's Wolverine.23 Wolverine not old man Logan yeah Laura Kenny and oia oh sweet I've missed her |
| 0:28.4 | anyone else Evan wait kid apocalypse? That's the one. |
| 0:32.6 | Oh, he's my favorite apocalypse. |
| 0:34.3 | He is everyone's favorite apocalypse. |
| 0:36.1 | He's adorable. |
| 0:37.4 | And somehow he's got an even weirder backstory than the original. |
| 0:40.2 | I love that. |
| 0:41.2 | How so? |
| 0:41.9 | I mean, he's basically just a clone of apocalypse right? Oh God I only remember bits and pieces but it's I think it's got something to do with the world. |
| 0:49.0 | Rachel most of us call it Earth. Dude, no, no, the world. |
| 0:53.2 | The shrunk down time-dilated weapon-plus super science |
| 0:56.4 | bio-dome? |
| 0:57.2 | You remember this. |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, that world. |
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