90 – Ghosts of the Outback
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2016
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In which the X-Men move to Australia; O.Z. Chase is definitely not a werewolf; Dazzler is a smart, glittery laser cookie; Gateway falls into some uncomfortable tropes; Havok remains the king of terrible hats; Madelyne Pryor hacks the planet; Rogue makes a friend; Rick Leonardi draws the definitive Magik; Colossus’ secondary mutation is allegory; and there are a lot of great places to donate your old backissues.
X-PLAINED:
- Gateway’s probable origin
- Wintry mix
- Miles’s definitive X-era
- Uncanny X-Men #228-231
- O.Z. Chase
- Vladimir Zaitzev
- The Reavers (No, not those Reavers)
- Bonebreaker
- Skullcrusher
- Pretty Boy
- Children
- Jessan Hoan (Tyger Tiger)
- Gateway
- Teamwork (more) (again)
- The Siege Perilous
- Cooterman’s Creek
- Jay’s favorite mythic figure (and long-term career goal)
- The best brother in the Marvel Universe
- A really sad team-up
- Favorite X-science moments
- Where to donate comic books
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jay, what's you're researching? |
| 0:02.0 | Uh, Pinto be cosmology. |
| 0:03.4 | What the who? |
| 0:04.7 | Gateways tribe, I mean, I think. |
| 0:06.1 | I mean, well, I'm kind of extrapolating based on the X-Men's rough location |
| 0:09.2 | in Australia, but that's the one that makes the most sense. |
| 0:11.6 | But dude, that town wasn't even a real place. |
| 0:13.8 | Well, yeah, I know. |
| 0:15.2 | But X-Men volume 2 number 44 puts it about 200 miles southeast of Lake |
| 0:18.6 | Disappointment, which means it's either in or near the Gibson |
| 0:21.2 | Desert Bio region, and as far as I've been able to figure out the |
| 0:23.6 | Pintby are the only indigenous group based anywhere near there. |
| 0:26.8 | He is a teleporter. |
| 0:28.0 | He might have come from somewhere else. |
| 0:29.8 | Oh man, I said so much research already. Well, Gateway does get around though. |
| 0:34.0 | I mean, wasn't he at the Xavier School for a while? |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah, for some of Generation X, I think. |
| 0:38.0 | And he's also got some previous history with Manet's little sisters. |
| 0:40.0 | The twins who went around merged into one person for a while? |
| 0:43.2 | Yeah, those two. Oh, and on Earth 1191. |
| 0:45.8 | What's he up to on Earth 1191? |
| 0:47.8 | Eh, you know, the usual. Teleporting around, being Bishop's grandfather. |
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