91 – The Saddest Story Ever Told
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In which New Mutants #64 is the saddest single issue of any X-book ever; the New Mutants have to grow up fast; Warlock comes to terms with mortality; The Last of Us is harder to play the second time; Tattoo Tales: X-Men: Masquerade is delightfully unhinged; animated Cyclops is totally the worst; Beast probably has a terrible garage band; Jean starts a kitchen fire; and Wolverine saves Jubilee’s birthday.
X-PLAINED:
- The saddest issue ever
- New Mutants #64
- The only okay way to watch Grave of the Fireflies
- The aftermath of Doug Ramsey’s death
- Several unhealthy coping mechanisms
- The Last of Us
- Tattoo Tales: X-Men: Masquerade
- Some varyingly impressive costumes
- General irresponsibility
- Why Wolverine is wearing a clown suit
- Douglock
- The New Mutants’ D&D alignments
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| 0:00.0 | Man it's rough to be Gene Grace family. |
| 0:02.0 | Ooh, you are not kidding. |
| 0:04.0 | Never knowing whether your kid is alive or dead, |
| 0:06.0 | getting your house busted up by super villains and superheroes. |
| 0:09.0 | Getting wiped out by Shear Death Commandos because of your genome's oblique connection to the Phoenix Force? |
| 0:12.0 | What? because of your genome's oblique connection to the Phoenix Force? |
| 0:12.8 | What? |
| 0:13.8 | I'm J Rachel Eddin. I'm J Rachel Additon and I'm Miles Stokes and we are here to explain the X-Men |
| 0:28.0 | because it's about time someone did. |
| 0:29.7 | Welcome to episode 91 of Rachel and Miles explain the X-Men where we walk you through the |
| 0:34.0 | ins, the outs, and the retcons of our favorite superhero soap opera. |
| 0:37.0 | I think that was our shortest cold open ever. |
| 0:38.8 | It may be. |
| 0:39.8 | Well, you know, direct to the point. |
| 0:40.8 | That's what the Shear Death Commando said. Oh, ouch. Sorry, sorry, I'm not actually sorry. So what are we doing today? |
| 0:48.0 | Today we are doing the saddest issue ever written. We are. Now I thought about this so we're doing New Mutant |
| 0:53.9 | 64 and uncanny X-Men number 303 which I believe is the issue where |
| 0:58.1 | Yana-R-S Putin dies of the legacy virus. It is very sad. That's up there too but I |
| 1:02.3 | think this one may edge it out. This one is very sad. That's up there too, but I think this one may edge it out. |
| 1:04.0 | This one is sadder. If nothing else, that one had build up and this one just the sheer |
| 1:08.0 | incomprehension, the curve of what's going to happen is just it's devastating. |
| 1:12.0 | It really is. Now how do you want to do this because we're just doing this one issue right yeah we were trying to think of how to place this and whether we should do it with the issues around it in continuity and we really kind of wanted this one to have room to breathe but at the same time like it's |
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