Episode 006: Scott Summers (feat. Jay Edidin)

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

Science Fiction, Arts, Books, Visual Arts, Fiction

4.8 • 815 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

In CEREBRO's first CROSSOVER EVENT, Connor and Jay Edidin of Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men (also writer of the recent X-Men: Marvels Snapshots) have an eye-opening chat about Scott Summers, a.k.a. Cyclops! A polarizing character, "Slim" has provoked strong opinions since 1963.

The CEREBRO character file on Cyclops begins at 30:04.

(Content Advisory: Scott's story includes child abuse at an orphanage, eugenics, suicide of other characters, and references to enslavement and implied rape of other characters. This episode also discusses disability politics.)

The episode cover features art of Cyclops by Jack Kirby, Dave Cockrum, Walt Simonson, Jim Lee, Frank Quitely, Chris Bachalo, and Leinil Francis Yu.

Some links to work mentioned by Jay on this week's episode:

The Essential Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Episode 287: Welcome to the Age of Apocalypse, designed as a jumping-on point for newbies to Jay & Miles.

Ruby Quartz Panic Room, a fanzine about Cyclops and neurodivergence.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I really loved it.
0:01.0	I love the parallel you drew between the Fantastic Four and his family's plane crash.
0:05.5	I love all the stuff at Sinister's orphanage.
0:07.7	It's just really good and everybody should pick it up.
0:09.8	I mean, I agree.
0:10.6	But,
0:11.2	but...
0:11.8	X-Men, X-Men.
0:16.4	In the 21st century, evil mutants led by Magneto aimed to destroy the world.
0:25.2	Only hope is X-Men.
0:31.2	Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast, where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of Homo Superior.
0:38.1	I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith, and with me today is Jay Edidon,
0:42.1	co-host of probably the best-known and most popular X-Men podcast, Jay and Miles
0:46.4	Explain the X-Men, and writer of the recent Marvel Snapshots X-Men issue, told through
0:52.0	the eyes of Scott Slim Summers, the original X-Man Cyclops,
0:56.3	who is the character we're highlighting today. Jay, thank you so much for being my guest.
1:00.9	How are you doing? I am okay. It is the end of a very, very long week, so I will say in advance
1:06.9	that I might be a little bit slower and less glib than I might have been, I guess.
1:14.4	No, actually, never mind.
1:15.3	I'm trying to think of a day when I would have been just sort of less generally burned out feeling.
1:19.5	And this has been kind of a steady state for the last six months, as it has with everyone else.
1:22.8	So, eh.
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