Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men – Détails, épisodes et analyse

In which Synch is better with your powers than you are; Generation X gets some actual training; Artie and Leech are fully feral; everyone gets the hots for Paladin; Zeus has probably fucked a motorcycle at some point; many countries have valleys; and Adrienne Frost is terrible.

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• Generation X #52-54
• Tristan Brawn (more) (again)
• Grant Morrison on suspension of disbelief in superhero media
• Honor vs. privilege
• School dance themes
• Artie and Leech’s habitat
• Spider-Ham
• Ducktor Doom
• Role models
• What Gaia is probably definitely up to
• Paladin
• The Rising Sons
• Rollerblades
• Dragon problems
• Power emulation vs. reproduction
• Pokémans
• Cosplaying Emma Frost with a beard
• Diamond Patch
• Muir Island vs. Muir Isle

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In which Devin Toohey joins Miles to discuss X-Men’s DC Comics cousin Doom Patrol, and their bastard Amalgam child, X-Patrol!

X-PLAINED:

• X-Men vs. Doom Patrol
• Meet Your Doom
• Doom Patrol
• Amalgam
• X-Patrol
• Elasti-Girl (Amalgam)
• Shatterstarfire
• Beastling
• Ferro Man
• Dial H.U.S.K.
• X-Patrol #1
• Exciting X-Patrol #1
• Niles Cable
• Dr. Doomsday
• Superhero aviation
• Brother Brood
• Raveniya
• Niles Dayspring
• Technoorganic lettering
• Claw mechanics
• Magneto on X-Force
• Real-life Dazzler and Lila Cheney analogs

NEXT EPISODE: Generation X goes to Madripoor!

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In which we celebrate our tenth anniversary by X-Plaining what may be the most reviled X-arc; you should not try this at home; Mystique is so much better than this story; Azazel is a really boring devil; Nightcrawler should probably be missing a hand; the Xavier School definitely does not have an HR department; and we would prefer that you not pee on Iceman.

X-PLAINED:

• Nightcrawler’s (most recent) parentage
• Uncanny X-Men #428-434
• X-Men Blue: Origins #1
• The X-Men, like, in general
• Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)
• Some narrative choices
• Mystique
• Baron Christian Wagner
• Marvel Europe
• Azazel
• Church sex
• Nightstreaker
• Isla des Demonas
• Foibles of Warren Kenneth Worthington III
• Annie and Carter Ghazikhanian
• Abyss
• Kiwi Black
• The Cheyarafim and Neyaphem
• Bad times with psychic therapy
• Post-traumatic supervillainy
• Uncool Hell
• A miracle of magnetism
• The only cool thing in Uncool Hell
• A very elegant retcon
• X-Muppets
• Characters who deserve more page space
• Miles’s favorite X-Person
• What the Worthington Corporation does
• A character who could reasonably be Azazel’s kid

NEXT EPISODE: Back to X-business as usual!

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This would usually be a skip week, but thanks to some generous donors to Equality Florida, Hawk Talk is back! This week’s topic was chosen by Play Comics.

In which Max Carleton and Miles take a trip back to the Silver Age, the origins of Marvel Girl’s telepathy are questionable, the nature of Polaris’s parentage is also questionable, and the quality of Sauron’s origin story shall never be questioned.

X-PLAINED:

• The Locust (Dr. August Hopper)
• Uncanny X-Men #46, 52, and 60
• Genuine tragedy
• Funereal fashion
• Frederick “Amos” Duncan
• The Juggernaut (Cain Marko) (again)
• The Crimson Cosmos
• Energy globules
• Charles Xavier’s telepathy lending library
• Jean Grey, spiteful seamstress
• Erik the Red (the first one) (Scott Summers)
• Lorna Dane, fashion icon
• Filially-obligated villainy
• Psychic-delia
• The sadly short-lived Roy Thomas / Neal Adams run
• Suspension of disbelief
• Pteranodons
• Sauron (Karl Lykos, fantasy nerd)
• Alex Summers, perpetual captive and/or villain battery
• Miles’s favorite two-page spread
• How to choose the perfect supervillain name
• X-Men: The Animated Series, 1960s Edition
• Our Silver Age X-creator wish list
• Magnetism

NEXT EPISODE: Excalibur!

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In which Storm & Joseph X-Plain the X-Men, Alex Summers is not brainwashed this time, he promises, Scott Lobdell writes better moments than stories, Ed McGuinness draws very large chins, and it’s Denver the Last Dinosaur, not Denver the Lost Dinosaur

X-PLAINED:

• Uncanny X-Men #339
• Spider-Man disambiguation
• A. Kubert disambiguation
• J. Jonah Jameson (again) (hooray!)
• Sneaking songs
• The history of smoking regulation on airlines
• Creed disambiguation
• Havok’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
• Bonding while falling out of planes
• X-Men #59
• The copyright status of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Well-drawn Wolverines
• Hercules vs The Tick
• Wolverine Annual 1996
• The tragic death of Mariko Yashida
• Silver Samurai (Kuniuchio Harada)
• Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida) and what he’s been up to since Fatal Attractions
• Josef Stalin, apparently?
• Red Ronin and its nemesis, a time-lost dinosaur who we assure you is not Godzilla
• Jedi and/or samurai vs. doors
• Our logo fonts
• James Howlett, guidance counselor
• Onslaught but not evil
• Whether Magneto could wield Mjolnir

NEXT EPISODE: The Silver Age with Max Carleton!

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In which we return to Rutland, Vermont; Emma Frost faces her salad demons; Banshee is not even supposed to be here today; no one should ever have to drive in New York City; Fenris is both evil and obnoxious; and we’re still not over that one Senator Kelly action figure.

X-PLAINED:

• How to help us help queer and trans youth
• Generation X #22
• Generation X Annual 1996
• Halloween with Generation X
• Stag Beetle Magazine
• X-casting Nicholas Cage
• Neurotica
• William Castle
• Roger Corman’s Poe adaptations
• Saturday morning cartoons
• Weird gardening
• Some very clever lettering tricks
• Several humans
• Train delays
• Fenris
• Mutagen Wave Generator
• The Worst Action Figure (more) (again)
• Robert the Ship
• Our favorite Beast iterations
• Abbreviations

NEXT EPISODE: Wolverine and some other guys!

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Sometimes when the world’s a trash fire, it’s hard to figure out where to start. We talk activism, figuring out how you can help, and what we’re doing to fight back against anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in Florida.

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In which Jay and guest X-Pert Connor Goldsmith explore approaches to podcasting about X-Men; difficult characters; costume preferences; our mutual mistrust of horses; owning our perspectives; and good on-ramps.

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• The ghost of Madelyne Pryor
• Cerebro (podcast)
• Good Selene stories
• Potential vs. payoff
• Costume opinions
• Fashion in comics
• Horse problems
• The Maple Hill Farm books
• Science vs. magic
• Learning to love X-Force
• Speaking ~as~ vs. speaking ~for~
• Twitter
• The (fairly uncomplicated) ethics of liking things
• Reading as a prosecutor
• Catching up to the modern X-Men
• Critical perspective

NEXT EPISODE: Generation X

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In which the Beast miniseries is actually a cleverly disguised Karma miniseries; Gateway’s moral alignment remains a mystery; Cannonball rocks some sideburns; there are many reasons to dislike Viper; and every #1 is somebody’s first.

X-PLAINED:

• An off-panel death
• X-Force #62
• Beast #1-3
• Karma’s family and backstory (again)
• Twin absorption
• MacGuffins and/or children
• Clearcut and Mindmeld
• Unconsciousness
• Spiral (again)
• Marios
• What to do (visually) with six arms
• Spiral’s mutates
• Some very impressive body horror
• MId-fight stalling
• Misplaced revenge
• Hank McCoy’s multiversal offspring
• The history of Karma’s sexual orientation

NEXT EPISODE: Jay and Connor Goldsmith X-Plain X-Plaining!

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