83 – Live at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2015
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In which we travel back in time to 1979 for our second live convention special; X-Men Annual #3 desperately needs a Queen soundtrack; George Perez draws great Banshee; Polemachus is kind of a bullshit planet; we dream of a world without Funky Winkerbean; Cyclops’s costume does not mix and match well; if you can be someone else, you should probably be Brian Blessed; Colossus gets a dragon; and Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival is awesome.
X-PLAINED:
- X-misadventures in Las Vegas
- X-Men Annual #3
- Arkon the Magnificent
- Isadore and Irmagarde Uhman
- The Comical Books
- Polemachus the planet vs. Polemachus the person
- Funky Winkerbean
- Several logistical problems with the Danger Room
- MVP Cyclops
- Some very good visual counterpoint to dialogue
- Paperboard lightning bolt disambiguation
- Jay’s favorite Starman story
- X-title and music pairings
- Imperions
- Visual perspective in grand melees
- How to order a meal on Polemachus
- One specific variation on Cyclops’s powers
- The X-Men as Spinal Tap
- Space-barbarian eyewear
- The annual cabinet
- The most appropriate X-team placement for Funky Winkerbean
- Best worst characters
- Our favorite X-Force teams
- Secret Convergence on Infinite Podcasts
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| 0:00.0 | Man, I keep thinking. |
| 0:01.5 | Las Vegas would be such a good place for a superhero fight. |
| 0:04.0 | Oh man, I know, right? |
| 0:05.0 | It's like all bright lights and saturated color |
| 0:07.0 | and like really smashable landmarks. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm surprised the X-Men haven't made it out this way. |
| 0:11.0 | Well, they swing by occasionally. |
| 0:12.0 | I mean, they fought the |
| 0:13.2 | Hulkier ones like way back in the silver age and Wolverine passes through now and |
| 0:16.6 | again in solo titles. Wolverine I'd have expected gambit. Hey hey dude |
| 0:19.9 | ultimate gambit died in Vegas. Show some respect, man. |
| 0:23.2 | Oh, what happened? |
| 0:24.7 | You know, the usual. |
| 0:26.0 | It would advise with Daring Casino Heists and the Strucker Twins and Juggernaut. |
| 0:29.8 | Ouch? |
| 0:30.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.3 | So since then, most of the Vegas stories in the exbooks have involved Hella who actually set up camp here and ran a casino for a while. |
| 0:36.5 | Wait like the Asgardian Hella? Oh yeah. Now back in Dark Rain actually Daniel Moonstar Mirage came here to meet with Hellet and get her |
| 0:43.3 | Valkyrie powers back. How did that work out? Yeah, took down areas in the Battle of |
| 0:46.8 | Utopia. Nice. Mm-hmm. But the modern team who's actually spent the most time |
| 0:50.8 | in Vegas is X-factor investigations. |
| 0:53.2 | I thought that we're based on New York. |
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