Daunted by complex continuity? Can’t tell a mutate from a warpie? We are here for you. We have trained for this responsibility for decades. We have the backissues, the calluses, and a really detailed map of the Summers family tree. We’ve been explaining the X-Men informally for years–to our friends and family, to the Internet, and, occasionally, to patient strangers on the street. Now, we’re making it official, with Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men: a weekly podcast dedicated to unpacking the weird, wonderful world of our favorite superhero soap opera for newcomers and die-hard fans alike.
https://www.xplainthexmen.com
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 22 days 6 hours 30 minutes
***TO ME, MY X-MEN***
We got up to plan for the new episode and decided that if the X-Men stand for anything, it's fighting injustice. - The Winter Special will go up on Sunday, January 29, at which point we'll resume the normal posting schedule. - Meanwhile,
episode 143: Seduction of the Innocent
Art by David Wynne. In which the Cross-Time Caper has finally outstayed its welcome; we bid a reluctant farewell to Alan Davis; Inferno may or may not finally actually be over; Evil Doug Ramsey rocks our socks; the Shadow King is not a particularly nuanced villain; Kitty Pryde celebrates a birthday; and Courtney Ross represents an awful lot of dangling plot threads...
episode 142: The Monster at the End of This Comic
Art by David Wynne. Buy prints at Redbubble, or contact David to purchase the original! In which Jay and Miles make a personal announcement; moles (probably) don't lay eggs; Angel is full of angst and flechettes; there's always room for cello; and no matter how complicated our personal lives get, X-Factor's will always be worse! X-PLAINED: The Tanaka family business Jay & Miles vs...
episode 140: Unto Us a Retcon Is Given (feat. Dennis Hopeless)
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original. In which writer Dennis Hopeless returns to the show for an informal introduction to the (first) mutant messiah; Cable is the best-case retcon scenario; Summerses don't get to retire; calculating relative character age remains functionally impossible; Cable is Marsha to Stryfe's Jan; and there's probably already a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta about all of this...
episode 139: Starjammed
Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and coffee mugs available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original. In which Spotlight on Starjammers is basically a RPG module; Jay may or may not have developed superpowers; artfully tattered clothing is a Summers family tradition; the Starjammers kill a planet; Raza may or may not be super progressive; and Professor X dies (again)...
episode 138: What Would Dazzler Do?
Art by David Wynne In which we continue to follow the post-Siege Perilous X-Men; Dazzler finally makes her big-screen debut; Callisto gets a day job; Colossus gets a ponytail; still more X-Men fake their deaths; Jean Grey gets tentacles; Professor Wolverine is a jerk; and Jay overthinks Community...
episode 137: Kicky Kinko Killers (feat. Sarah Kuhn)
Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and coffee mugs available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original...
episode 136: Fill-In Frenzy
Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and coffee mugs available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original...
episode 135: Kurt Wagner, Warlord of Mars (Cross-Time Caper, Part 2)
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original. In which the Cross-Time Caper continues; alliteration is awesome; someone else's geopolitical conflict is not an appropriate place to play out your pirate fantasies; we are definitely not actually going to eat Alan Davis's brains; Jamie Braddock is Evil Rex Racer; Widget eats a car; Rick Leonardi is the definitive fill-in artist; the problem is patriarchy; and everything's sticky in Madripoor...