podcasts – Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
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.
Ages of Apocalypse
In which reality shatters; Ghost Rider wants friends; Jay’s toddler weighs in on the X-Men; the Phoenix costume is pretty much perfect; Caliban puts all his resources into an epic mount; and the future is so bright you’re gonna need shades.
X-PLAINED:
The Triune Understanding
Ages of Apocalypse
Uncanny X-Men #378
Cable #77
Wolverine #148
X-Men Unlimited #26
X-Men #98
Earth-23378
Things you can leave to people in a will
The Silver Age, but different
Apocaclops
Aliya Dayspring
Chronological inco
The Moppets Take Manhattan
In which we remain adamant pro-POG advocates; Artie and Leech have adventures; Firestar and Emma Frost get some resolution; Santa Claus may or may not be the avatar of Cyttorak; Black Tom Cassidy exceeds expectations; and Monet has vampire problems.
X-PLAINED:
Marvel’s Revolution line
POGs (somewhat) (again)
Who’s on Generation X these days
Generation X #59-62
Artie and Leech’s adventures in NYC
Holidays at the Massachusetts Academy
Cordelia Frost (more) (again)
Mondo (the real one)
Santa Clau
Cross-Time Crisis
Meet Dani, Dani, Dani, and Dani. (X-Force #99)
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Giant-Size Special #13 (feat. Anthony Oliveira)
Classic (x2). (Warlock #2)
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The Baker's Dozen (The Twelve, Part Three)
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Leave Room for Magneto
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Eyebrows and Powers (The Twelve Part 1)
Survival of the Toothiest (Cable #75)
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Sasquatch Road Trip
NEXT TIME: Jubilee gets revenge!
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Disorganizing Prnciple
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A Rogue's Tale, feat. Lenore Zann
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The Cigarettes of Damocles
In which X-Force is kind of silly; that really isn’t what “quantum” means; polite and lawful are two entirely different things, and Sam Guthrie is only one of them; Selene vogues; and the Hellfire Club plays the dead girlfriend card.
X-PLAINED:
Blackheart
The Damocles Foundation (more) (again)
Lucas Bartholomew Guthrie
The difference between prisons and jails
X-Force #98-98
Whether Dr. Octopus enjoys the literary stylings of Elmore Leonard
One way to get out of prison
The Glitterbox
An unsucce
The Fart Ghost That Walks Like a Manhattan
In which Gambit is fundamentally goofy; t’ieves love research; Magneto was ripped; Professor Xavier remains a jerk; Miles attempts to convey something very fundamentally visual in an audio format; Marrow is adorable; the X-Men pretty much disband (again); and a miniseries is the opposite of a vacation.
X-PLAINED:
Where Wolverine went
Gambit Annual 1999
Uncanny X-Men #372
X-Men #92
A lot of backstory
A very cute plastic goose
What Gambit does in his free time
Those weird fluid-filled tubes they
Angst and Continuity
In which the 1990s were very long; if you die in the simulation, you die in real life; Adrienne Frost is a bad person with good clothes; we judge the number 57; things just keep happening; and Penance somehow gets even more complicated.
X-PLAINED:
Bevatron
Generation X #55-57
The Hellions and their untimely demise (again)
Uncanny X-Men #281
A continuity conundrum
Many allusions and references
Cognitive dissonance
Dancing between the raindrops of continuity
Resolution
Emma Frost, triumphant
Fas
Things to Do in Denver When You're X-Force
In which Magneto may be right but is also wildly impractical; X-Force goes on a sneaking mission; Magneto isn’t mad, he’s just disappointed; Rictor and Shatterstar return; Strong is not a common surname in the Marvel universe; and being a mutant on TV doesn’t mean you’re one in the comics.
X-PLAINED:
How Jubilee became a vampire
The most X-treme youth of them all
X-Force 94-95
X-Force Annual 1999
Genosha
Butler disambiguation
Clown jobs
A team-up predicated on an awkward breakup
Hammer Town
De
Setting Sons
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.
X-PLAINED:
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 mod
Waiting to X’Hal (feat. Devin Toohey)
It is a crime that Dial H.U.S.K. didn’t make the cover. (X-Patrol #1)
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Quantum Stuff
NEXT TIME: Some damned fine X-Force.
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457 – Stinking at the Moon
Even a typo cannot mar this perfect panel. (X-Men Unlimited #24)
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Until/Unless
NEXT TIME: Douglock’s back!
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Space, Geeks, and Galactus
In which Roadhouse is basically a Wolverine story; Spider-Man does crimes; space names are derivative; there are lots of good reasons to yell at Professor Xavier; the X-Men do Doctor Who; Galactus is not interested in your puny human feelings; Marrow gets a new look; the Skrulls need a crash course in UI; and we overthink bones.
X-PLAINED:
The time the Skrulls did “A Piece of the Action”
The trouble with benevolent dictatorships
X-Men #89-90
Uncanny X-Men #370
A New York City that is not in fa
X-Men ’97, Part 2
SPOILER WARNING: ALL OF THEM, NONSTOP
In which Barry Windsor-Smith is too sexy for television; we know what happens when unstable molecules get struck by lightning; X-Men gets political and does it spectacularly; this Captain America would not sew the cape; Magneto continues to throw things into space; and they kissed and we missed it.
X-PLAINED:
Fabian Cortez’s name
X-Men ’97 episodes 6-10
Lifedeath I & II: a surprising adaptation
Varying levels of going in blind
A somewhat different and poss
X-Men '97, Part 1
SPOILER WARNING: ALL OF THEM, NONSTOP
In which we put the comics on hold to take a look at X-Men ’97; it is still always Inferno in here; Wolverine is best used sparingly; a Marvel show finally embraces politics; Wolverine is best in small doses; Madeylne Pryor still always deserves better; Jubilee grows up; and we are all in on this series.
X-PLAINED:
“Beyond Good and Evil”
X-Men: The Animated Series and our respective feelings about it
X-Men ’97, episodes 1-5
Watching X-Men ’97 with and with
Hot Nothing
In which Magneto is not full of mirth; nobody real or fictional likes Fabian Cortez; when you’re a speedster, every problem is a metaphorical nail; The Zealot makes some valid points; and when Quicksilver declares himself your conscience, it’s time to examine your life.
X-PLAINED:
How Magneto got his powers back
Morally ambiguous hair
Genosha (more) (again)
Magneto Rex #1-3
Magneto vs. Conan
Trish Tilby
Omniscient narrative condemnation
Magneto’s true archfoe
Magistrates (more) (again)
Mutates
Meanwhile in Another Dimension
In which we remain fascinated by Magneto’s robot butler; murder is Logan’s love language; the Juggernaut punches a hole in reality; Professor Xavier makes it weird; and Storm lectures several gods.
X-PLAINED:
Silly mutant powers
Uncanny X-Men #368-369
X-Men #88
Alan Davis’s X-Men run
Magneto’s robot butler
Joseph’s funeral
Nun-sense
A voyage to another dimension
Eyebrow power
Ejulp
The Trion
The other Gem of Cyttorak that’s like the first one but somehow worse
Several comas
Juggernaut vs. Jugg
Live at the Clinton Street Theater
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
Dressing the X-Men, with Russell Dauterman
…and the trading cards of Russell’s art that are a Kickstarter bonus!
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Skamageddon
Feral’s back – just in time to wreck Jay’s voice again! (And Siryn’s, but we’ll get to that later.) (X-Force #88)
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Minor Altercation of the Mutants
In which everything is an event these days; Skin may or may not have a skeleton; everyone has a crush on Synch; we are intrigued by Integer; and it’s hard to be Emma Frost.
X-PLAINED:
War of the Mutants
Generation X #50
X-Man #50
Nate Grey (again)
Adrienne Frost
Science
Dark Beast (again)
Gene Nation
Vessel
Hemingway
Membrain
Fever Pitch
Dark Opsidian
Iron Maiden
Wynter
Tattoos
More science
Integer
Trauma
Multiversal designations
The Morlock Tunnels
NEXT EPISODE: X-Force vs the New Hellions
Live at the Magnetosphere
Ah, the age-old question: would you scissor your clone while yelling? (Uncanny X-Men #367)
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Dick War
In which not every story needs to be an event; Alan Davis returns to the X-line; X-mansion security is not what it once was; Rogue needs some new fantasies; and Magneto wants a country.
X-PLAINED:
A poor governance decision
X-Men: The Magneto War #1
Uncanny X-Men #366
Astral demerits
A very dramatic dream
The yolk of oppression
Several Acolytes
Nightcrawler’s nightcap
Our standards for advertisers
Suburban Magneto
Ferris
Magnet problems
Forged DNA
Mutants from Georgia, Florida, and Indiana
Fly
Damnit, Magnus
In which it’s difficult to flee with soup; Miles may or may not be haunting the X-Men; Colossus collaborates involuntarily; Marrow is full of surprises; Magneto is a dick; Jay continues to carry a torch for Secret Wars: Siege; and you should totally come to our birthday party.
X-PLAINED:
Several rather pointed allusions
X-Force #86
Uncanny X-Men #365
X-Men #85
Almost Reno, NM
Where mutants come from
The Aguilar Institute (more) (again)
Abandoned towns
Mary the telepathic moppet (more) (again)
A Brief Update
Jay is dealing with an ongoing family medical emergency, so episode releases may be somewhat unpredictable for the next few weeks. Thank you for your patience!
X-Retail (feat. Katie Pryde of Books With Pictures)
In which we walk down X-Plain Memory Lane; everyone needs Bitch Planet; HoX/PoX wouldn’t stay on shelves; we learn how to make sure a comic doesn’t get canceled; Marvel should have kept publishing those Krakoa-era anthology TPBs; X-Men is indeed a soap opera; and you can jump in here ’cause we’re all confused.
X-PLAINED:
The most crowded X-year
Books With Pictures, official best comics shop in the world
Our upcoming 10th birthday party
Katie Pryde’s X-history
Prioritizing marginalized nerd iden
MimeQuest 64
In which Marrow remains a connoisseur of dead rats; Jay has opinions about the NYC Subway system; U.L.T.I.M.A.T.U.M. are snazzy dressers; Doctor Doom gets excited about Onslaught; Magneto can have a rocket pack if he wants; villainous game recognizes villainous game; weird retcons are the best retcons; and you should totally come to our birthday party.
X-PLAINED:
A peculiar side effect of Wolverine’s healing factor
Jay & Miles on Bluesky (and other social media)
Our upcoming 10th birthday part
Dracu-tastic
Jubilee versus fonts. (Generation X / Dracula Annual 1998)
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Fightin’ and Ballin’
From organic steel to organic… whatever that is. (X-Men #83)
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Fishfic
Maybe the post-Fall era of X-Men will finally explain what Wolverine smelled. (Uncanny X-Men #363)
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The Man of Harsh Business
In which Gambit knows how to make an entrance; Rogue and Gambit only have relationship conversations during superhero fights; Wolverine fights a shark; and we have opinions on how to handle certain aspects of backstory.
X-PLAINED:
One way to take over Madripoor
Uncanny X-Men #361
X-Men #81
Wolverine: Black Rio
The X-Men’s rapid slide back to the status quo
Steve Comicraft
The fork of loneliness
Cyttorak (again)
Black Tom Cassidy (again)
Peacocks
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
What’s sticking out of J
Dismember the Titans
“Hot Topic Rennfaire” was a somewhat controversial choice for X-Force’s prom theme. (X-Force #85)
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The Feel-Good Movie of the Summer
In which Colossus has had a rough time of it; the X-Men are at their best in bar fights; Bronze-age Wolverine was a jerk; Ursa Major deserves more page space; kids dig Nightcrawler; and we imagine an X-Men newspaper comic strip.
X-PLAINED:
Notable incidents in Iceman’s romantic history
X-Men: Liberators #1-4
Nostalgia
Friendship
A bar fight
Province 13
General Sergei
Several dead deer
Gregor and Valeri
Nikolas
Zener cards
Several children
Omega Red (more) (again)
Ariana
Ideal formats
Beast vs.
Giant-Size Special #12
Illustration by David Wynne
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Return to Cape Citadel
In which the X-Men turn 35; we pause to celebrate the death of Henry Kissinger; Jay is a space nerd; Marrow hang-dries her delicates; space shuttles are not rockets; the band gets back together; and the Danger Room isn’t the first piece of X-tech to get sentience and a robot body.
X-PLAINED
How Excalibur got a Blackbird
Uncanny X-Men #360
X-Men #80
Many callbacks
The Benassi Rocket
The Cassini Probe
The All-New, Slightly Off X-Men
The Grey King (Addison Falk)
Chaos and/or Xhaos (Dan Dash)
Merc
Looking Back at Looking Back
In which we take a retrospective look at X-Factor and Excalibur: where the series began, where they went, and what’s in store after the ends of their first volumes.
X-PLAINED:
What Rictor’s been up to
X-Factor
Excalibur
NEXT EPISODE: A Corbeau cameo!
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Weird Little Adventures
In which we reach the end of Larry Hama’s run on Generation X; Gaia remains remarkably normal for someone who has spent millennia chained up alone in a citadel; Synch practices radical forgiveness; we ponder the nature of Emma Frost and Sean Cassidy’s relationship; and Forge is extra unqualified to lecture on ethics.
X-PLAINED:
How Jubilee stopped being a vampire
The Draco, kinda
Generation X #44-47
Bianca LaNeige (again)
Polaroid cameras
Gaia (more) (again)
Reality warping
Woody and Arlo Guth
Doctor Jennifer Murder’s Drop-In Deathatorium
No notes. (Generation X Underground Special #1)
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The Bad Feelings Box
In which birds have no business in sex dreams; feelings are complicated and allegories are imperfect; Mystique made some valid points; Psycho-Man is good at UI; Callisto was right; and the label “Omega-level mutant” actually kind of makes sense.
X-PLAINED:
Psycho-Man
Malice (but not that one)
Hate Monger (but not that one)
Finding good comics from the ‘90s
Uncanny X-Men #359
X-Men / Fantastic Four Annual 1998
X-Men #79
The dead man’s hand
Dr. Aubrey Agee
Psi-War fallout
Dr. Bradley Beynon
H
Slightly Sticky
It’s a Dracularmy! (X-Men Unlimited #21)
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Naked in a Cake
Love and chaos. (Excalibur #125)
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Standard Deviation
In which we have grown to love Adam Pollina; the Vanisher is delightfully awful; Ekaterina Gryaznova gets a new look; Domino rejoins X-Force; superheroes actually have a conversation instead of fighting; Cannonball rejoins X-Force; we don’t even remember recording this one; and something cool is coming (stay tuned).
X-PLAINED:
Arcadia DeVille
The Deviants
X-Force #81-84
What’s been up with X-Force
The goddess Pele and the heart thereof
Beachwear
An episode of The Brady Bunch
Krotok the Lava Ma
A Gift from the Lower Regions
In which the Shi’ar have zero chill; Bishop and Deathbird do space opera; we travel to the far-future year of 2018; Alanna Nerimani stretches the definition of “bird”; Deathbird is the cool aunt; Bishop needs a break from dark futures; and Bishop and Sauron have an intimate encounter.
X-PLAINED:
The current number of Summers brothers
Uncanny X-Men #358
Team X 2000
The Shi’ar Empire (more) (again)
Shi’ar voices
Parker Posey vs. Posie Parker
Sexual dimorphism in art
The Ursaa
Organs
The Chnitt
K
Shooting the Moose
In which moose are nothing to mess with; Cyclops requests a reality check; Bachalo does Kirby; Rogue absorbs a catchphrase; and the Shadow King needs a villain song.
X-PLAINED:
Uncanny X-Men #356-357
X-Men 77-78
The Cable Principle
Corvid disambiguation
An aborted narrative
Moose
Sherrif and/or Officer Chris
Stacy’s sister Melissa
Cul-de-sacs
Ptarmigan Creek
Dubiously credible lies
Nostalgia
Bad times in Westchester
Bad times in space
Punching birds
Moon Wolf
An absolutely inappropriate theatr
Times Change
In which everything is Havok’s fault; Jay is a bad influence; Polaris makes some valid points; Jamie Madrox is the Bobby Drake of X-Factor; and X-Factor vol. 1 ends with a bang.
X-PLAINED:
Muppet rules
X-Factor, vol. 1, in general
X-Factor #146-149
Sense of place
Jude Black and his inexplicable facial hair
Boundaries
Edible Arrangements
A different kind of sports bar
Kevin
Nostalgia, I guess?
Several confrontations
Temporal insanity
A very specialized course
What happens next
The universe wher
Moby Dick Ice Cream
In which subtlety is not Sabra’s strong point; Moira takes a vacation; Meggan broods; you should take care in referencing the Dark Phoenix Saga; Excalibur may or may not shave Mimic; and Captain Britain is a silly man.
X-PLAINED:
Ghosts
Excalibur #121-123
The Mutant Underground
Empathic recon
An extremely disgruntled kiss
Kitty’s new costume
Several of Legion’s personalities
A mysterious disk
A very fancy trash can and/or ice cream maker
Ice cream of Cloud City
A good dog
Remains of Operation
Cairn Touch This
In which the X-Men’s membership is a complicated subject; not all angels know each other; we need to talk about Beast’s Wasp costume; Cecilia Reyes speaks for all reasonable folk; Storm gets a mysterious package; and reading comics day-and-date may not be for everyone.
X-PLAINED:
The variable loyalties of the N’garai
X-Men #74-76
A somewhat atypical team lineup
A whole lotta backstory
How to join the X-Men
Warren Kenneth Worthington III as a religious figure
Flechette clean-up
Teenage drama
De
The Legendary House of Wolverine
In which Jay sits down with scholar Christopher Michael Roman to discuss his recent book, Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction: A Fastball Special; alongside queer theory, porous bodies, and nontraditional mentorship.
CONTENT NOTE: This episode includes graphic discussions of physical trauma as well as consensual if weird fictional sex.
NEXT EPISODE: Colossus and Meggan finally go to Dudleyworld, sort of!
No visual companion this week, but if you want to pick up Chris’s book, you can
Stuff Happens
Run, Penance! The retcons are coming for you! (Generation X #40)
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Reignfirefighters
In which S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are scarier in suits; Reignfire is the new Erik the Red; “background assets” would be a very funny euphemism; it’s always either time travel or clones; and you should probably not get a corporate logo tattooed on the side of your head.
X-PLAINED:
Crimes of Dark Beast
X-Force #77-80
The Mutant Liberation Front
Reignfire (repeatedly)
Video Renaissance
Almost Reno, NM
The inversion of several common tropes
Small towns
Different kinds of mutants
X-Force Fun Facts
Skids
Pterodactyl with a Gun
In which you, too, can use Cerebro; Jubilee is here, for some reason; the Xavier School should absolutely not be accredited; Hulk Hands would solve many of Rogue’s problems; Sauron gets a gun; Psylocke pulls a Lois Lane maneuver; you really shouldn’t spring a Phoenix costume on anybody; Joseph has (another) identity crisis; and Canada has problems.
X-PLAINED:
Miles at SDCC
Uncanny X-Men #353-355
X-Men #73
A running motif
Wolverine’s sons
Margaret Stone
“fun”
The location of the original X-jet
The Screaming Room
In which we are incapable of X-Plaining the Great Lakes Avengers; Pete Wisdom evolves; Douglock hacks the island; Nightcrawler cosplays Nightcrawler; and we find ourselves bafflingly defensive of the Bamfs.
X-PLAINED:
How to recruit Unus the Untouchable to your super-team
What Excalibur has been up to
Excalibur #118-120
An excellent use of danger room technology
Some fairly deft metacommentary
Colossus vs. another tree
Bamfs and the character assassination thereof
Nightmare
Characterization vi
Stardust
In which Gambit does Stardust; Wilbur Weston holds no one’s redemption; Gambit is unequivocally bisexual; Lucifer is kinda goofy; and we still don’t know what’s in the box.
X-PLAINED:
Family businesses
Gambit vol. 2 #1-4
What Gambit’s been up to
Some peculiar parallels
Father Miguel Bonavita
Sister Katrina
Father Marcelo
A box
Tante Mattie Baptiste
Olivier Stoker and/or Lucifer
Fancy captions
The Cross of Redemption
Anielle, who may or may not Hanael and may or may not also be a fallen star an
Blackwater Boy Band
In which Wild Child makes an unlikely Santa Claus; Sabretooth champions continuity; Random’s last name should’a been Violence; Forge doesn’t have to like you; and Mackie’s X-Factor run gets interesting—right before its untimely end.
X-PLAINED:
Another X-Factor
X-Factor #142-145
Unrealized anticipation
Deadline
What Val Cooper wants for Christmas
The evolutionary symbolism of noses
Several breeds of dog
The secret history of Val Cooper and Wild Child
Wildheart
The Secret Empire
The X.U.E. (more
Convergence
In which X-Force goes to Burning Man Exploding Colossal Man; Douglas Wolk may or may not have superpowers; Karma gets girlfriends; we are already tired of Reignfire; Meltdown and Sunspot initiate a love triangle; and Jay is writing some more X-Men.
X-PLAINED:
Road trips
X-Force #75-76
New Mutants vol. 4 #30
A gatefold and a half
Burning Man
Exploding Colossal Man
Karma’s name
Echidna Faire
Text
Selene (more) (again)
Crowd scenes
Various character relationships
Callbacks
Mud
A magic box and a f
Yappin’ and Scrappin’
Battle of the gross bone-spikes (X-Men #72)
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Tearaway Pants
In which we actually kind of like a Sabretooth story; we’re not asking for viscera, here; all pants on Earth-616 are tearaway pants; we’d like to see more Wolverine stories about bodily autonomy; Gambit’s hallucinations have hallucinations; and there are probably too many X-books.
X-PLAINED:
Punch-clock villains
Hydro-Man’s secret weakness
411
‘90s fashion
X-Men Unlimited #17-18
X-Men Unlimited vs. annuals
A difficult casting decision
Forge’s neutralizer gun
Costume injuries
Color symbolism? K
Jubilee, Don't Eat That
In which the M-Plate Saga continues; Jay gets into the spirit of the day; we briefly give up on our primary mission; the story is coordinated if not coherent; Miles is not allowed to continuity-shame about Tolkein; Gaia is extra chill; Dirt Nap discovers altruism; and Jubilee should absolutely not have eaten that.
X-PLAINED:
Vampires vs. Marrow (again)
Whether Marrow is a mutant
Drugs
X-Plaining the inexplicable
Generation X #37-39
M-Plate (more) (again)
A Boojum
How to correctly identify a sn
Lurid Malarkey
In which nobody is sure what Emplate actually eats; airport food is not a good peace offering; Larry Hama writes a good Jubilee; the St. Croix siblings merge; and we honestly have no idea what a Token is.
X-PLAINED:
Emplate vs. Marrow
What’s been up with Generation X
Generation X #34-36
Claudette and Nicole St. Croix
Emplate (more) (again)
Controlled chaos
Tracy Authier
Bullying
Dorian and Weasel (again)
Treasures
EAT
Some unusually friendly blackmail
Wizard Magazine
Husk’s diary and hypotheti
Yabba Yabba Yabba
In which Bishop gets another miniseries; splinter timelines make fun narrative sandboxes; the X.S.E. goes detecting; the Statue of Liberty never fares well in dystopian futures; “Booger” is not a name you give yourself; and we can’t believe it’s taken us this long to make a hanky code joke about Bishop.
X-PLAINED:
Graymalkin
Bishop: X.S.E. #1-3
Bishop (more) (again)
Earth-1191
The X.S.E.
Hecate
Malcolm
Randall
The popularity of Earth-1191 miniseries
The solid-light hologram of Theseus
The Fana
HAWK TALK - Indie Comics
This would usually be a skip week, but thanks to some generous donors to Equality Florida, Hawk Talk is back! This week: independent comics!
X-PLAINED
What makes a comic independent
Superbutch
Little Garden
44 Presidents and a Letter to a Cat
Finder
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (again)
Elfquest
Nexus
Prince of Persia
Love & Rockets
Jim Ottaviani’s science comics
Wet Moon
Freshening Up
In which X-Factor bounces from one rock-bottom to another; Sabretooth gets his (murderous) groove back; Dark Beast embraces the iMac aesthetic; the tip was righteous; Mystique multitasks like a pro; and Shard Bishop has come unstuck in time.
X-PLAINED:
X-Nation
What X-Factor’s been up to
X-Factor #138-141
Omega Red (again)
The Brotherhood’s new hideout
Mallory Brickman
Miles and/or Ralph Brickman
Gloria Brickman
“Freshening up”
Mystique, but a sitcom
Agent Vargas
Ever
The secret purpose of Hav
The Most Dangerous Mini-Game
In which we disagree about the value of Stan Lee intros; everybody wants Wolverine; Mister Sinister lurks; Haley Blanding deserves better; Thunderbird fights a tiger; and Xavier and Magneto do their usual thing.
X-PLAINED:
The Circus of Crime
Stan Lee intros
Wolverine #-1
X-Factor #-1
X-Force #-1
X-Men #-1
Proust vs. Sartre
How Logan joined Alpha Flight
The secret origin of the word “canucklehead.”
USDA, Annex B
Myron MacLain
Logan’s cigars
Yet more continuity errors
Sabretooth’s ridiculous ca
Morally Purple
In which Jay returns; babies are bad at pretty much everything; continuity flies straight out the window; Cable should speak English with a Scottish accent; Harry Leland knows how to dress; Tanya Trask makes the same time travel mistake everyone makes; and we love Al Kennedy forever.
X-PLAINED:
Sentry (but not that one)
Babies
Flashback
Cable #-1
Excalibur #-1
Generation X #-1
Uncanny X-Men #-1
The preturn of Angus McWhirter, angry hovercraft-rental guy
Hippie Cable
Veins of science
Yet anothe
Marvel UK, Yes?
And now for something completely different. (Death’s Head II #1)
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Sneaky-Peeky Stuff
Did the Astral Plane used to be this cramped? (Kitty Pryde: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #3)
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What the Damn?!
Captain Mustache, Part the Second. (Excalibur #115)
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True Tales of Double-Entry Bookkeeping
And now for something completely different. (Generation X Holiday Special #1)
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Loud Noises
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
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The Cybertronic Spree
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Shanna the Wee Devil
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
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Mürdr at IKEA
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Giant-Size Special #11
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Boxer Briefs of Humanity
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HAWK TALK - Keeper
This would usually be a skip week, but thanks to some generous donors to Equality Florida, Hawk Talk is back! This week: Dave Tomaine and Rho Sovia’s graphic novel, Keeper!
LINKS AND FURTHER READING
You can buy Keeper digitally at BigCartel or physically at Studio Two Boys!
Check out Dave’s band Cave People!
Find Dave on Twitter (twice)!
Everyone Has to Go Sometime
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Camping With Uncle Mustang
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The Mullet of Leadership
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HAWK TALK - Lawyers
This would usually be a skip week, but thanks to some generous donors to Equality Florida, Hawk Talk is back! This week, we talk about lawyers and law.
LINKS AND FURTHER READING
Follow Lyra Foster on Twitter!
Check out the Trans Family Network!
Mansion of Theseus
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Corners and Conspiracies
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Wreck Gotta Recognize
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HAWK TALK - Basketball
This would usually be a skip week, but thanks to some generous donors to Equality Florida, Hawk Talk is back! This week, we talk about basketball. (Kind of.)
LINKS AND FURTHER READING
Check out donor Dave Buesing’s site, Comic Book Herald!
Deceit and Death
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You've Got Vid-Mail
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No Puppies for Storm
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HAWK TALK - Galaxy: The Prettiest Star
This would usually be a skip week, but thanks to some generous donors to Equality Florida, Hawk Talk is back! This week: Jadzia Axelrod and Jess Taylor’s graphic novel, Galaxy: The Prettiest Star!
Super Whiny Adults Simulator 64
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The Banality of Evil
In which it’s hard to be a mutant post-Onslaught; two Chrises make friends; X-Force goes to off-brand Disney World; we are Team Risque; and you can go to the punch dimension but probably shouldn’t stay long.
X-PLAINED:
X-Men Unlimited #15
X-Force #65-66
Mutant life post-Onslaught
Spinning editorial oversight into story
Weasel, Jumbo, and Headcase
How not to write the Friends of Humanity
The Marvel sex web
Thunderbird (John Proudstar)
Warpath (James Proudstar)
Risque (Gloria Munoz)
Clubbing wit
A Dude and His Ninjas
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HAWK TALK - Ads
This would usually be a skip week, but thanks to some generous donors to Equality Florida, Hawk Talk is back!
Seven Swords
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If We Told You, We'd Have to Kill You
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Arbor Day
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HAWK TALK - Joy
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 Blindseer0.
Stardate: Today
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The Unstoppable Huggernaut
In which our favorite(?) fear lord returns; Sirocco Sprawl is an extremely unpleasant fictional town; the Juggernaut is not a subtle man; we really need to get our hands on the Generation X novels; Tarot gets a logo font; and Banshee is menaced by spectral leprechauns.
X-PLAINED
Several Juggernauts
Soap Operas
D’Spayre (again)
D’Spayre vs. Nightmare
Juggernaut #1
Generation X Annual 1997
Magical pants
Juggernaut (Cain Marko) and what he’s been up to lately
Incidental reptiles
Sirocco Sprawl, N
Sam Hill
In which Domino’s miniseries earns a grade of “present”; Miles gets to know Sam Hill; Domino trades pouches for boots; and we would prefer that you not sexualize Lady Deathstrike.
X-PLAINED:
Halloween Jack
Domino (Neena Thurman)
Domino #1-3
Milo Thurman
The idiomatic Sam Hill
Lady Deathstrike (again)
The Reavers (again)
Pico
Boot pouches
Puck (Eugene Judd)
Dante’s Beatrice
Several Skullbusters
Robot tits
The E.T. Atari game
One way to get out of saying “I love you”
Our unpopular favorites
NEX
HAWK TALK - The Voyage of the Mimi
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 Chuck Reynolds.
Moore of This
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One Thousand Kicks to the Face
In which there is definitely a wrong way to enjoy your comics; Storm could probably use a more secure storage system; the Externals need more camp; and Joseph makes some valid points.
X-PLAINED
What Storm’s up to
X-Men Unlimited #7 (again) (briefly)
X-Men #60-61
X-Men Unlimited #14
Karima
Jamil
Candra (again)
A surprising absence of Howard Mackie
Candra’s heart
Some excessively complex psychic powers
Phylacteries
The origin of Storm’s romance with T’Challa
Kicks to the face as a unit of pain
U
SMEK
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HAWK TALK - Doonesbury
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 Andy Bartholomew.
Tainted Loins
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Monty Python's Life of Magnus
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Beware of Psychodrama
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HAWK TALK - Online Communities
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.
The Sound of Evil
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Carly Askani
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Six Teenagers in a Van
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X-TRA – Fighting the Fight
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.
Click through here to find out more about our campaign to raise funds for Equality Florida!
Jay and Connor X-Plain X-Casting
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Nine-Tenths of the Law
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A Whole Year of This Nonsense
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Department of Pareidolia
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Licked by a Shadow
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Lazy Summer Day
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The World's Densest Eagle
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Charging Forward
Shatterstar and Cable, drawn as Bee and Puppycat.
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Meanwhile in Britain
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BONUS: Jay, Miles, and Jonathan Hickman Spoil the Hell out of Inferno
Inferno #4 is out; and, as promised, we’ve got a bonus interview with Jonathan Hickman–unedited this time, so please forgive the audio–going into the gory details of the miniseries and its finale! (Again, spoiler warning–we can’t emphasize this enough–we spoil Inferno, including its ending, real hard. Listen at your own risk.)
Giant-Size Special #10
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The Semiotics of Regret
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The Michael Bay-eux Tapestry
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All Sentinels Are Bastards
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HAWK TALK - What A Long, Strange Hawk It's Been
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, Jay and Miles talked about Hawk Talk.
The Touch of Magneto
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Scientists and Superheroes
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HAWK TALK - Bugs
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, Jay and Miles talked about bugs (and Tea Fougner taught us about bees)!
As mentioned in the episode: bee cute furry face
Onslog
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His Mighty Hand
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
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The Xavier Protocols
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
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HAWK TALK - Sitcoms
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, Jay and Tina Carleton of Welcome to Television talked about sitcoms!
Onslaught Secret Weapon Force Power Slammers
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
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Onslaught Continues
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Onslaught Begins
Onslaught bursting out of a cake
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HAWK TALK - School
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about school.
Romancing the Gehenna Stone
Wolverine, out of costume, sporting an eyepatch. He’s dressed as Indiana Jones and brandishing a whip.
" data-image-caption="Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
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All of the Marvels
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/X345-1.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/X345-1.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-full wp-image-17714" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/X345-1.jpg?resize=900%2C506&ssl=1" alt="" width="900" height="506" srcse
Where No Mutant Has Gone Before
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
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HAWK TALK - The Big Stuff
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about large things.
The Water Cooler of Violence
A flaming Helicarrier crashes earthward.
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Angry Birds
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which Miles does his best, birds are weird, some of the most dangerous villains are pink, and we are in the Onslaught Zone.
X-PLAINED:
Malibu Comics and Marvel Comics, sitting in a (multiversal) tree, KILLING
Archangel: Phantom Wings
Unorthodox artistic decisions
Archangel (Warren Kenneth Worthington III)
Angst, renewed
Bird ichor
Tuesday Bird and her Mad Max outfit
How (not?) to flirt
Uncanny X-Men #333
Various Roberts Kelly
G
Rainbow Connection
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
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HAWK TALK - What We Blew Up On Our Summer Vacation
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, Miles and guest hawk Anna Sheffey talked about playing too much Resident Evil during lockdown.
Retconaganda
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
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Luck Be a Lady
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
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Chomp & Stomp
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HAWK TALK - Pirates
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, Jay and guest hawk Tea Fougner talked about pirates.
You can find Tea at @teaberryblue on pretty much all of the social medias!
Wild Genes and Old Magic
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
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Serpents in Eden, feat. Si Spurrier
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Bone Town
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HAWK TALK - Wizards
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about wizards.
Topics, roughly:
Fantasy wizards
Space wizards
Beards and wizards and gender
Vancian spellcasting
Wizard taxonomy
The Baal Shem
Book learnin’
Towers and Discworld wizards
Dragonlance wizards
Tolkien wizards
Iceman with a wizard beard
Which animals make the best wizards
Magic: the Gathering
Our wizardy D&D c
Genetic Nonsense
In which William Stryker is exceptionally difficult to kill; the terminology around Emplate’s powers is absolute nonsense even by comic-book standards; inkers deserve more credit; we would totally read comics about Murmur the Softpoken Mummy; Bishop comes to the rescue; and nothing really resolves.
X-PLAINED:
What happened to William Stryker
Gratuitous use of the adjective “genetic”
Emplate (again)
Generation X #12-14
Inks
Penance’s original backstory
Pining
A really unpleasant reunion
Accent
Fight Train
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
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Gideon Falls
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
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HAWK TALK - Hack the Planet
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, in honor of the 1995 film’s 1337-week anniversary, we talked about the finest movie about technology ever made, Hackers.
Topics, roughly:
Hackers
Mister The Plague
What David Bowie and Angelina Jolie have in common
Razor & Blade
The glory of Matthew Lillard
Counterculture
Queer (sub)text
Focal characters
Jay’s sequel pitch
In ret
Surprised by Brood
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
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Suddenly, Ninjas
Wolverine in a goth club. He’s wearing a mesh tank top and loose pants with a wide sash.
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Scheming and Argument
Nate Grey, ready to start some shit.
" data-image-caption="Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
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Single Blue Male
Dark Beast reaches out from a mirror to menace Regular Beast
" data-image-caption="Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
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The Sounds of Gravity
Cable and Sebastian Shaw play chess with members of X-Force as the pieces.
" data-image-caption="Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
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Son of a Gun
Forge meditates, levitating amid a swirl of technology.
" data-image-caption="Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
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HAWK TALK - Turtle Power
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Topics, roughly:
Daredevil parodies
The nature of mutation
The four humors
Archetypes of masculinity
Legal status of mutant animal people
Questionable toys
Adaptations and adaptations of adaptations
Miles’s favorite Mirage comic story
The excellently weird Archie comic series
Girl t
Captain Bloodscream
Bloodscream, a peculiar vampire; and Belasco, a demon king; in a parody of the Captain Blood poster.
" data-image-caption="Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
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Snack Attack
Mondo, in a Hawaiian shirt, stands beside Cordelia Frost, in lingerie.
" data-image-caption="Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/X324-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/X324-scaled.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-16685" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen
Baby Talk
X-Babies versions of Rogue, Wolverine, Cyclops, Gambit, and Storm.
" data-image-caption="Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
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HAWK TALK - Call Any Vegetable
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about vegetables. Kind of.
Topics, roughly:
Vegetables. Like we said.
Is Apocalypse a fruit?
Ghost vs. slime trees
Dwarves in the rutabagas
Ramen mishaps
How to be less terrible at cooking
Cherimoya, that weirdo
Do More Crimes
Joseph is a twunk Magneto.
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Revolving Doors
The Lifecycle of a Sabretooth: Secret agent, to marauder, to prisoner, to hero, and so on, ad infinitum.
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The Accountability Wagon
Douglock, Daytripper, Nightcrawler, Captain Britain, Meggan, Shadowcat, Wolfsbane, Pete Wisdom, and Moira MacTaggert–all in civilian clothes–sit together in a bar.
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Giant-Size Special #9 (feat. Vita Ayala, Tini Howard, & Leah Williams)
Mister Sinister as Ebeneezer Scrooge sits with a lit candle, menaced by the ghosts of Jay and Miles
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HAWK TALK - Surviving 2020
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked (exhaustedly) about This Freaking Year.
Topics, roughly:
This year was pretty rough
Maybe next year will be better?
Some things are cool, though
NOTE: Miles watched Knives Out immediately after recording this episode, and Jay was right: it is delightful.
Leprechaun Hill
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Acquaintances of Humanity
Rogue and Gambit, fighting.
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Return to Megalopolis: At the Movies with the New Mutants
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HAWK TALK - Surviving the (Holiday) Experience
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about holidays, winter and otherwise.
Topics, roughly:
Time, which used to make sense
Several holidays and feelings, media, and traditions related thereto
Flash Gordon
Mixed-faith families
A New York Christmas Wedding (the lesbian time travel gay dead baby angel movie)
Gingerbread
Secular rituals
Night in the Woods: Lost
Theater Is Dead
Gambit and Wolverine, in costume, with noir lighting. Gambit is lighting a cigarette.
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Feelings, Alaska
Havok and Cyclops, in civilian clothes, drink beer in a pub booth.
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Iguanafall
Storm, in her black ’90s costume, against a sky full of lightning.
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Something Amazing Had to Be Done, feat. Bob Proehl
In which author Bob Proehl joins Jay to discuss the Resonant Duology and what it means to write original work rooted visibly in the X-universe!
More Bob:
Website
Twitter
No visual companion this week, because we’re talking about word books!
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Love Makes a Super-Team
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In which we decide to stop recognizing the nominal difference between X-Men and Uncanny X-Men; time travel may or may not wait for you; Mister Sinister has probably appeared in at least one Ed Wood film; we are a pro-Tingle podcast; X-Men is about family; the Braddock twins catch up; Sailor Moon > Shinobi Shaw; Generation X is inducted into the baseball tradition; and Storm does what she does with Morlocks in sewers.
X-PLAINED:
Frankl
Attack and Dethrone God
The Starjammers, a team of space pirates, with a looming alien threat in the background.
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HAWK TALK - Hawktober
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about our current, and Jay’s favorite, season.
Topics, roughly:
Beatni(c)ks
Spoopiness vs. Spookiness
Fat bears
Seasons (and hemispheres)
Symbolism and secular ritual
Jay’s very specific Halloween costumes
Disappointing bats
Asymmetrically recognizable couples’ costumes
Inaccurate TMNT journalism
Over the Garden Wall
Cos
Excellent Turtle
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No Story Is the Whole Story
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Ugly Mootants Only
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HAWK TALK - Playing With Super Power (feat. Matthew Hunter)
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, our producer Matthew Hunter subbed in for Jay and he and Miles talked about the video games they grew up on!
Topics, roughly:
Crystalis
Power Blade
Fighting robots (in general)
Super Mario World
F-Zero
Final Fantasy II (which is to say IV)
Street Fighter II
Rockin’ Kats
Shatter Hand
Battletoads
Lemmings
The Incredible Machine
The
Between Here and There
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The Sleep of the Wicked
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Explosive Ops
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HAWK TALK - Video Renaissance
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about the movies we grew up on!
Topics, roughly:
The glories of VHS
Flight of Dragons
Fantastic Planet
Star(s), both Wars and Trek
The Princess Bride, which is objectively perfect
The Dark Crystal
My Dinner With Andre (again)
The Crow
Barbarella, Queen of the Galaxy
Help
Yellow Submarine
Wayne & Garth & Bill & Ted
Defend
No Simple Answers, feat. Laura Hudson
In which writer and editor Laura Hudson joins us as we take a break from X-Men comics to discuss the complicated ethics of consuming and covering comics by creators we’re not comfortable promoting.
LINKS:
Read more of Laura’s work!
We were going to discuss this very germane Orwell essay but ran out of time.
CW: Description and discussion of abuse and harassment:
So Many of Us
An overview of some of the Lobdell allegations and Jay’s response to 2013 discussion of same.
No visual companion
Space Junk
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Can't Beat the Real Thing
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HAWK TALK - Attack of the Franchise Cartoons
Waiting For October
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Götterdämmerung
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Toaster Ovens of the Gods
In which some universes are more pleasant than others; Havok is basically a Care Bear; Wolverine is a P.R. nightmare; Nate Grey tries; stealth is not among the Silver Surfer’s strengths; Night Thrasher ascends to godhood; Jay and Miles dive down the What If rabbit hole.
X-PLAINED:
Earth-200500 (again)
Earth-42409
What If? vol. 2 #77
What If? Featuring X-Men: Age of Apocalypse
What If? vol. 2 #81
Earth-77995
Fashion editorials
One of the worse versions of Forge
Superheroes x fashion
Care Bears
Unlikely Avengers
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Blood Is Compulsory
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Hard Choices
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HAWK TALK - Florida Mans
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about a whole bunch of random topics suggested by you!
Topics, sorta:
Good birds
Dinosaurs
Florida
Nostalgic video games
Booze
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Probably some other stuff I’m forgetting
The Nuclear Naked
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The Infernal Gallop
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The Monster Under the World
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HAWK TALK - Formative Novels
This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talk about the (non-comic) books we grew up on!
Books we mentioned, alphabetical by author:
The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams
Start with: The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
Start with: The Book of Three
The Magic of Xanth by Piers Anthony
Start with: A
Weekend at Sinister's
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Eat Malarkey and Die
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The Obvious, the Silly, and the True
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HAWK TALK - Social Distance Special
Normally, this would be a skip week and there wouldn’t be an episode – but things are pretty weird in the world right now. Let’s talk X-Men comfort reads – with bonus complete lack of editing!
Unsolved Mysteries
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Cape Citadel Remix
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Welcome to the Age of Apocalypse
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Family Before Continuity
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Immediately if Not Sooner
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Precious Baubles, feat. Chip Zdarsky
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Legion Quest Quest
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The Tide Takes the Castle
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Memories
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Business-Casual Basilisk
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Giant-Size Special #8
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A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing
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Hedgehogs of Cairo
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Wizard Problems
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End of the Summer
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The Red Shoe Prophecies (feat. Chris Eddleman)
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The Back-End Creep (The Phalanx Covenant, Part 3 of 3)
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Children of the Phalanx (the Phalanx Covenant, Part 2 of 3)
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Abs for Days (The Phalanx Covenant, Part 1 of 3)
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X-Ray Goggles and Mail-Order Lizards (feat. Steve Stokes)
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NYCC 2019 Sofa Special: Double Dactyl, feat. Seanan McGuire
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Disquettes
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The Saddest Joyride
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They're Good Dogs, Miles
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Rude Awakenings
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Autotune the Phalanx
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The Oldest Teens of Them All
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Science Fiction Double Feature
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Out of the Subtext, Live from FlameCon with Vita Ayala!
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Professor Power’s Prodigal Podcast
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Kwannon Leap
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True Believers, Opportunists, and Crooks (feat. Lisa Winters)
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The Adventures of Rachel Summers in the 37th Century
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Mullets of Time and Space
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Rules of the Game
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Carry Each Other
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Autumn in the Uncanny Valley
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Snakes on a Trolley
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X-TRA - Jay & Miles Spoil the Hell out of Dark Phoenix
The Apocalypse emoji remain the best X-Men movie of this generation.
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Triple Word Score
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Minding the DNA, feat. Fabian Nicieza
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The Parent Trap
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Destructo Woman
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The Butt-Kick Scale
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Foreshadow Puppets
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Natural Causes
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Terminal Nudity
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And Now We Are Five
Art by David Wynne.
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Spider-Mansfield Park
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Conducive to Moral Subversion
UPDATE: Jay initially linked to the wrong episode here. Link now leads to the actual Episode 241. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Dave is moving this week. We miss you, Dave!
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Live at ECCC 2019, feat. Vita Ayala, Seanan McGuire, & Leah Williams
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Rap and Rumble (feat. Max Carleton)
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Meet Them Where They Are
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X-Treme
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Baggage of Traumas Past (Fatal Attractions, Part 3)
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Fatal Extractions (Fatal Attractions, Part 2)
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Magnetic Feels (Fatal Attractions Part 1)
WHOA DANG! This is David Wynne’s 200th illustration for our show! Wanna buy one of David’s original illustrations, or commission a new piece? Drop him a line!
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Electromagnetism Unlimited
X-Men Unlimited.
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Careful With That Axe, Cerise
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Life Bites
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Touchstones
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Giant-Size Special #7
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Thinkin' Shorts
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Wolverine, Killing
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Les Mutants
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Class Reunion (feat. Austin Gorton)
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Fix the Future
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Live at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival
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A Tale of Two Betsys
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Better Than LEGO
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" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/X221.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/X221.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-11548" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/X221-1024x576.jpg?resize=480%2C270&ssl=1" alt="" width="480" height="270" srcse
On Your Bike
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" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/X220.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/X220.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-11506" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/X220-1024x576.jpg?resize=480%2C270&ssl=1" alt="" width="480" height="270" srcse
Brutal Hearts: An Appreciation of Emma Frost (feat. Seanan McGuire, Leah Williams, Tea Fougner, Kel McDonald, and Diana Fox)
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Careful What You Lick
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Piotr the Obscure
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X-Amining X-Factor (feat. Dr. Andrea Letamendi)
In which Dr. Andrea Letamendi of Arkham Sessions joins us to analyze some analysis; Doc Samson has major scope-of-practice issues; Ren & Stimpy references continue to fail to age well; it’s hard to be Quicksilver; Val Cooper is not your friend; Polaris pretty much always deserves better; Charles Xavier should not be allowed to inhabit positions of power; and labels are often not the best tools for good representations of mental illness and neurodivergence.
X-PLAINED:
A very high-stakes 3-D puz
Mon de Orb Uno
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Stryfe's Burn Book
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Live from FlameCon, feat. Sina Grace, Magdalene Visaggio, and Leah Williams
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Drumbeats of Despair: X-Cutioner's Song (Part 3 or 3)
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A Cornucopia of Mayhem: X-Cutioner's Song (Part 2 of 3)
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The End of Tomorrow: X-Cutioner's Song (Part 1 of 3)
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To Me, My X-Books; feat. Jordan D. White
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The X-Patriots
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Blood and Metal
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Anatomy of a Phoenix
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Back to Basics
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Naughty By Nurture
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The X-Man's Burden
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Rhapsody in Blue (and Gold)
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Pump Up the Jam
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Lightning in a Bottle, with Louise Simonson
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Space, Geeks, and Gaveedra Seven
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How to Destroy the Universe Without Really Trying
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Wolverine and the Honker of Doom
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The Power Is Yours
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Johnny Got His Robot Arm
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Brood Trouble in the Big Easy
In which Ghost Rider has some fairly serious medical issues; you should probably never invite Bishop to a picnic; Gambit’s past catches up with him; it’s always Mardi Gras in Fictional New Orleans; Wolverine is thrilled; and Jay swears a solemn vow.
X-PLAINED:
The Tithe
The Momentary Princess
The T’ieves Guild
Why real New Orleans doesn’t have catacombs
X-Men #8-9
Ghost Rider #26-27
The abstract idea of Nicholas Cage
Genesis
The last of the X-Men
A sick burn
A picnic
Boundaries
Bella Donna Bou
Sewers of Tomorrow
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Meet the N-Men
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Unconscionably Sexy (feat. Kelly Thompson)
In which writer Kelly Thompson joins us to talk Rogue and Gambit; Antarctica is Earth’s answer to the Blue Area of the Moon; Kelly unfreezes one of the great X-romances; Rogue has walked a mile in everyone’s shoes; you should probably not take romantic cues from fictional characters; Gambit should always wear hot pink; and continuity is fundamentally messy.
X-PLAINED:
What happened in Antarctica
The Trial of Gambit
Rogue and Gambit
Narrative tension vs. growth
Dueling accents
Kelly’s defining
Local Yokels
In which the term “bloodlust” shows up a lot in popular culture; Wolverine pees between panels; Michael Higgins has a lot to answer for; Jay wants to fight a comic book; Nightcrawler’s limbs have never seemed more potent; Florida kids don’t understand basements; and Doug Ramsey didn’t die for this.
X-PLAINED
Chaos War
Destiny’s diaries
Wolverine: Bloodlust
Excalibur: The Possession
Bloodlust
Several approaches to sound effects
The greatest sound effect
Perfect binding
Several men who may or ma
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Nate Summers?
I keep changing my mind about my favorite part of this page. Right now, it’s Zero mugging facelessly at the reader. (X-Force #6)
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Live from ECCC, feat. Bret Blevins, Rachelle Rosenberg, & Ramon Villalobos
In which Jay makes a sartorial switch; Hope Summers is less confusing than you might expect; we are very happy to present our first all-artist convention special; Ramon kills his idols; Rachelle deciphers the past; Bret (re)defines New Mutants; a long-time mystery is resolved; colorists deserve more respect; the Xavier School probably has an actual curriculum; and a lot of X-Men have really cool hair.
X-PLAINED:
The adventures of Hope Summers
Several Phoenix hosts
The time Quentin Quire became
Mermaids at the Center of Time
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Right in the Melee
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Becoming Wolverine (feat. Tom Taylor)
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Sweetcakes
David is still on vacation. Please enjoy this reasonable gentleman and his fancy accoutrements!
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Mutant Death Factor
David is on vacation this week! We hope you enjoy this substitute illustration of two gentlemen enjoying each other’s company.
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Lunch With Technet
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Badgers Everywhere
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Lawful Badass
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Sincerely, An Evil Individual
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Giant-Size Special #6
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The Less You Know
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My Flashback With Andre
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Lady Windermere's Fan Club
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Ed Piskor's Grand Design
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The Muir Island Saga, Part 2
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The Muir Island Saga, Part 1
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Badly Punctuated Equilibrium
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Minor Punitive Heart Attacks
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Bad Kansas
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Live at NYCC, feat. Chris Claremont & Louise Simonson
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Full Circle
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Proteus Has Two Mommies
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Pop Rocks
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This Is the Mutant Revolution: Live at Rose City Comic Con
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Shut Up, Conscience
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Naked In Canada
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Do You Even Howl, Bro?
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X-TRA - FlameCon 2017 Sofa Special, feat. Sina Grace, James Tynion IV, and Niki Johnson
Thanks again to James and Sam for letting us use their hotel room for this ridiculousness!
WHAT?! Less than a month back, and it’s a brand new mid-week bonus episode!
In which Jay, Niki, Sina, and James drink fancy Scotch and talk FlameCon; what X-Men means to us as queer readers and writers; the difference between the bat family and the X-Men; mutant metaphors; favorite ‘ships; and more!
GUESTS:
Sina Grace
Niki Johnson
James Tynion IV
This episode comes courtesy of our rad Patreon subscribers
Hank McCoy and the Hickey of Destiny
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Childhood's End
***NOTE: We’re aware of the audio issues in this episode. We’re still troubleshooting our cross-country setup. Thank you for your patience!***
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No Focus, Less Direction
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Melted to Slag
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Genosha Strikes Back
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X-Tinction Event
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Leaning into the Metaphor (feat. Sina Grace)
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In which incoming Iceman writer Sina Grace joins us to talk about the coolest X-Man; Adult Bobby Drake gets the spotlight; no one looks too closely at the jokester; the mutant metaphor works both globally and personally; and we are all a little horrified by how long ago Grant Morrison’s New X-Men run happened.
X-PLAINED:
The Apocalypse Seed
What ice powers sound like
Ice puns and Memento-style tattoos
Adult coming-out stories
Intersect
Mermaid Parade
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Ghosts of Future Present
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Czars of Kung Fu
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Live at ECCC, feat. Dennis Hopeless & Charles Soule
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Panning for Callbacks
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That's So Ravens
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The Beginning of the End of the Beginning
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Asshole Factor (feat. Elisabeth Allie)
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Remy & 'Ro
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Giant-Size Special #5 (feat. Kid Apocalypse)
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Seduction of the Innocent
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The Monster at the End of This Comic
Art by David Wynne. Buy prints at Redbubble, or contact David to purchase the original!
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Reason to Go to the Devil
Art by David Wynne. No print this week, but you can contact David to purchase the original!
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Unto Us a Retcon Is Given (feat. Dennis Hopeless)
Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and coffee mugs available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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Starjammed
Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and coffee mugs available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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What Would Dazzler Do?
Art by David Wynne. Contact David to purchase the original.
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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.
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Fill-In Frenzy
Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and coffee mugs available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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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.
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Live at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival (feat. Scott Koblish)
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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Feisty Little Fellow from the Stars (Judgment War, Part 2)
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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Nornheim Lemonade
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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The Reaver Bunch
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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The Soule Protocols (feat. Charles Soule)
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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They Don't Allow Dragons in Here (The Cross-Time Caper, Part 1)
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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A Stupid Way to Die (Judgment War, Part 1)
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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X-TRA - Sofa Special (feat. Al Ewing)
We’re celebrating International Podcast Day with a bonus mid-week episode!
In which Jay and Al settle down in the living room to talk about cats, conventions, X-karaoke, Summers Brothers road trips, and what Al has planned for those New Mutants he’s been collecting in New Avengers!
SOME RELEVANT LINKS:
You can find all of our RCCC minicomics right here!
Here’s the original SPLINK PSA!
David Malki’s Magneto voicemails are a gift to the world. You can find the full collection here.
This episode
Disaster City
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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Live at Rose City Comic Con, with Greg Pak
Art by David Wynne. No prints this week, but you can contact David to purchase the original!
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Giant-Size Special #4
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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The Cruelest Planet
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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Mojo Mayhem
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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Boom Boom Von Doom and the Ontology of Monsters
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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Two Sides of a Narcissistic Coin (feat. Ben Acker)
Art by David Wynne.
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Observed by a Family of Lizard People
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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Red Night of the Soul (feat. Elisabeth Allie)
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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Extrude the Grappling Arms!
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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How to Pee Like a Supervillain
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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The Pooper of This Party
Jubilation Lee: immediately wonderful.
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So Many Teeth (feat. Max Carleton)
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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Meltdown (feat. Susan Beaver)
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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Play It Again, Patch
CONTENT NOTE: Episode 113 contains fairly extensive discussions of fictional violence, including gun violence. If you don’t want to listen to that right now, that is absolutely okay. If you want to listen to it later, it’ll still be here. And if you never want to listen to it, that is absolutely okay, too.
We were on the fence about whether to post this episode today. We ultimately decided to go ahead, for two reasons:
There’s value in routine in the face of tragedy.
There are times when continu
Embers of Inferno (feat. Sam Humphries)
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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X-TRA - Jay & Miles Overthink X-Men: Apocalypse
In which we release a mid-week bonus episode and generally spoil the hell out of X-Men: Apocalypse!
This episode comes courtesy of our rad Patreon subscribers. If you want to join their ranks and help keep us on the air and ad-free–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!
You'll Have to Look Inside for That
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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Lights, Camera, Apocalypse!
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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The Passion of Madelyne Pryor
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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What Price Glory
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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Fairy Tale Ending
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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The X-Terminators
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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Live from ECCC with Kris Anka, Al Ewing, Scott Koblish, & G. Willow Wilson
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
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The Noodle Incident (feat. Brett White & Dennis Hopeless)
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Noodle_Incident.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Noodle_Incident.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-6648" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Noodle_Incident-
Warwolves of London
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/warwolves_of_london.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/warwolves_of_london.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-6538" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/warwolve
Baby Race 2000
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Archangel-vs-Hodge.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Archangel-vs-Hodge.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-6485" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Archangel-
Not Bad, Just Drawn That Way
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/gossamyr.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/gossamyr.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-6432" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/gossamyr-1024x576.jpg?resize=4
Unexpected Wonder, with Chris Claremont
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Claremont-portrait.jpg?fit=222%2C300&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Claremont-portrait.jpg?fit=758%2C1024&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-6408" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Claremont
Those Who Walk Away from Genosha
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Genosha-is-for-lovers.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Genosha-is-for-lovers.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-full wp-image-6321" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Genos
Between Alien Visitations and Drunken Sulks
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-full wp-image-6255" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1.jpg?resize=900%2C506&ssl=1" alt="Art by Dav
The Crooked World
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Captain-Britain.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Captain-Britain.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-6141" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Captain-Britain-
Horsemen of the Playground
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/horsemenoftheplayground.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/horsemenoftheplayground.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-6076" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/
Earthfall
Art by David Wynne
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WELCOME TO DIE! (feat. Elisabeth Allie)
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/WELCOMETODIE.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/WELCOMETODIE.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-6013" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/WELCOMETODIE-1024x576.
The Discreet Charm of the Brood
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Space-Magik.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Space-Magik.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-5920" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Space-Magik-1024x576.jpg
Living in Ship
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/01_ship-mas.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/01_ship-mas.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="wp-image-5897 size-large" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/01_ship-mas-1024x576.jpg
The Saddest Story Ever Told
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/the-saddest-warlock.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/the-saddest-warlock.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-5832" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/the-sadd
Ghosts of the Outback
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Rasputins.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Rasputins.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-5780" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Rasputins-1024x576.jpg?resiz
Giant-Size Special #3 (feat. Kyle Yount, Logan Bonner, Elle Collins, & Chris Sims)
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Winter_Special_2.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Winter_Special_2.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-5709" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Winter_Special
...Just Before Dawn (Fall of the Mutants, Part 3 of 3)
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/just_before_dawn.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/just_before_dawn.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-5674" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/just_before_da
It's Always Darkest... (Fall of the Mutants, Part 2 of 3)
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/always_darkest.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/always_darkest.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-5628" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/always_darkest-102
Legends (Fall of the Mutants, Part 1 of 3)
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/1_Legends.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/1_Legends.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-5576" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/1_Legends-1024x576.jpg?resiz
Secret Convergence on Infinite Podcasts, Part 9: Complex Continuity, with Paul O'Brien and Kieran Shiach
Art by James Stokoe
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The Fourth Horseman
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 11/29/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/fourth_horseman.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/fourth_horseman.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-5505" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11
Live at Vegas Valley Comic Book Festival
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 11/22/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
In which we travel back in time to 1979 for our second live convention special; X-Men Annual #3 desperately needs a Queen soundtrack; George Perez draws great Banshee; Polemachus is kind of a bullshit planet; we dream of a world without Funky Winkerbean; Cyclops’s costume does not mix and match well; if you can be someone else, you should probably be Brian Blessed; Colossus g
Birds and Boys
Art by David Wynne. Prints will be up on Monday, 11/9.
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The Kids Are All Right, with Dennis Hopeless
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 11/8/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/616-or-bust-v2.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/616-or-bust-v2.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-5329" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/61
For the Mutant Who Has Everything
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 11/1/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/For-the-Mutant-Who-Has-Everything.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/For-the-Mutant-Who-Has-Everything.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-5262" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthe
Bear on a Boat
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 10/25/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/helmet-and-shield-v2.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/helmet-and-shield-v2.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-5217" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploa
The Eye Killers and Other Cautionary Tales
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 10/18/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Storm-v-Forge.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Storm-v-Forge.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-5163" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Sto
Die Hard With a Lobster
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 10/11/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Die-Hard-With-a-Lobster.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Die-Hard-With-a-Lobster.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-5089" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content
Live at Rose City Comic Con, with Ann Nocenti, Jeff Parker, & Chris Yost
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 10/4/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1_RCCC_panel.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1_RCCC_panel.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-4992" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1_RCCC
By Their Deeds You Shall Know Them
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 9/20/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ByTheirDeeds.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ByTheirDeeds.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="wp-image-4938 size-large" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ByThei
This Dumb Rumpus
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 9/20/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/This_Dumb_Rumpus.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/This_Dumb_Rumpus.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-4882" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/0
Evolving Evolution, with Robert N. Skir
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 9/6/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/EvolvingEvolution.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/EvolvingEvolution.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-4863" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/
Thrown Under the Plot Bus
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 9/6/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/1_Havok.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/1_Havok.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-4790" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/1_Havok-1024x576.
The Once and Fuchsia King
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 8/30/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/the-once-and-fuchsia-king.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/the-once-and-fuchsia-king.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-4691" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-cont
Forget It, Jake; It's X-Factor
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 8/23/2015 in the shop (also pencils skirts, ‘cause, why the hell not?) or contact David for the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Boom-Boom-vs-X-Factor.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Boom-Boom-vs-X-Factor.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-4642" src="https://i0.
Weird Science, with Elle Collins & Graeme McMillan
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 8/9/2015 in the shop (once Redbubble’s uploader starts working again, anyway), or contact David for the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Dr-McCoy-and-Mr-Beast.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Dr-McCoy-and-Mr-Beast.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-4562" src="htt
The Most Dangerous Game
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 8/9/2015 , or contact David for the original.
In which we catch our breath after the Mutant Massacre; Miles’s taste is both epic and adorable; Dazzler’s Achilles heel is fame; Madelyne Pryor; it’s hard to be a teenage ghost; Crimson Commando is not actually Frank Borman (but we wish he were); Wolverine may or may not make truck noises; Heroes for Hope is profoundly baffling; and Sunspot would definitely be way into Leslie Knope.
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Shadow of the Technarch
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 8/2/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Wolfsbane-and-Robert-the-Bruce.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/www.xplainthexmen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Wolfsbane-and-Robert-the-Bruce.jpg?fit=900%2C506&ssl=1" tabindex="0" role="button" class="size-large wp-image-4480" src="https://i0.wp.com/xplainthexmen.com/wp-con
The Mutant Massacre, Part 2
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 7/26/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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The Mutant Massacre, Part 1
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 7/19/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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Ski Lodge of Apocalypse
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 7/12/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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Wildways
Guest art by Ryan Hill!
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Giant-Size Special #2
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 6/28/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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Even Horses
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 6/21/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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Rachel Summers and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 6/14/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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X is for Xtinction, with Chris Sims & Chad Bowers
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 6/7/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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Miniseries Mayhem
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 5/31/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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Apocalypse Soon
Art by David Wynne. We’re not selling prints of this one, but you can still hit David up for the original!
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Death by Crossover
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 5/17/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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How Nightcrawler Got His Groove Back
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 5/10/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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Who You Gonna Call? (feat. Elle Collins)
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 5/3/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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Sometimes They Come Back
Rachel screwed up and accidentally gave David material for episode 54 instead of 53, so there’s no illustration this week. Instead, we offer both our sincere apologies and this photo of Miles dressed up as Mister Sinister at a costume party.
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Previously on Rachel & Miles X-Plain the X-Men...
Art by David Wynne.
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The X-Istentialists, Featuring Kris Anka, Marguerite Bennett, Kieron Gillen, and Peter Nguyen
Art by David Wynne. We’re not selling prints of this one, but you can still hit David up for the original!
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The People Vs. Erik Lehnsherr
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 3/29/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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Of Mullets and Miracles
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 3/29/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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Guitar Solos of the Gods
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 3/22/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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The Price of Power (feat. Elisabeth Allie)
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 3/15/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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Shadows Over Cairo
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 3/8/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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A Woman Who Could Fly
Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and travel mugs available until 3/1/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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Assembling Legion, with Si Spurrier
Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and travel mugs available until 2/22/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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It’s Not a Secret If It’s in the Title
Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and travel mugs available until 2/15/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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A Firestar Is Born
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 2/1/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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Hated and Feared
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 2/1/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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Give Them Something to Punch (With G. Willow Wilson)
Art by David Wynne. Prints available until 1/25/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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Forever Alone Together
Art by David Wynne. Prints and travel mugs available until 1/11/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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Welcome to Murderworld (Feat. Chris Sims)
Art by David Wynne. Prints and travel mugs available until 1/11/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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Giant-Size Special #1
Art by David Wynne. Prints available until 1/15 in the shop, or contact David for the original.
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Steal This Podcast
Art by David Wynne. Prints available in the shop until 12/28, or contact David for the original!
In which we play Six Degrees of Lila Cheney; Cannonball gets a makeover; Earth does not in fact blow up; the X-Men like their s’mores with thinly veiled allegories; and Magik dabbles in erotic friend fiction.
X-Plained:
Strong Guy
Annuals
New Mutants Annual #1 (Steal This Planet)
Lila Cheney
Both versions of Cats Laughing
The Vrakanain
Chris Claremont Book Club
Uncanny X-Men Annual #8 (The Adventure
Post-Disco Panic
Art by David Wynne
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Mordenkainen's Marvelous Mutants
Art by David Wynne. Prints available here through Sunday, December 14!
In which we venture forth into an age undreamed of, there are so many reasons to have Northstar on your team, Selene is the worst guest, Rachel X-Plains Conan, Cyttorak is the Mordenkainen of the Marvel Universe, Miles loves Doctor Strange, we have some fairly serious Captain America feelings, the X-Men completely fail at hide-and-seek, and we make more D&D references in one episode than in the previous 34 combined.
X-Plained
Crossoverload
Art by David Wynne! Prints here, or contact David for the original.
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Off the Map
Art by David Wynne
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Chekhov's Raygun
Art by David Wynne
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New-Wave Superteens in Love
Art by David Wynne
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Mutant in a Box
In which Cyclops is the worst at vacations, Mystique is your favorite MurderMom, Havok is eternally ABD, Kitty Pryde does science, Callisto doesn’t give a damn about her bad reputation, Xavier has a Troy Barnes moment, Miles may be the only person with fond memories of Secret Wars, and Rachel finally gets to make Spalding Gray references.
X-Plained:
Fantomex
Uncanny X-Men #176-181
Reset issues
Scott Summers’s second-worst honeymoon
Cephalopod disambiguation
Project Wideawake (more) (again)
Vale
What's New, Shadowcat? (Featuring Greg Rucka)
Art by David Wynne.
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NYCC 2014 Special with Kris Anka and Russell Dauterman
Adam X the X-Treme, updated by David Wynne!
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The Other Team America (featuring Chris Sims)
Art by David Wynne.
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The Best at What He Does
Art by David Wynne, after Katsushika Hokusai.
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Ororo, Queen of the Galaxy
Art by David Wynne.
In which Professor X is (canonically!) a jerk, Miles has Sidrian Hunter feelings, Kitty Pryde is Clarissa Darling with a dragon, we introduce a drinking game, the X-Men do Barbarella, Rachel has a ‘shipper moment, Rogue joins the team, Storm gets a haircut, Mastermind is still the worst, and Madelyne Pryor is underrated.
X-Plained:
Lockheed
Uncanny X-Men #168-175
Reset issues
A one-sided rivalry
The lowest-drama X-romance
The Cream of Wheat box as a metaphor for infinity
Kit
Meet the New Mutants
Art by David Wynne.
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Through Death and Through Life
Art by David Wynne
In which Rachel and Miles celebrate an anniversary with a retrospective of one of the great romances of the Marvel universe; the Summers/Grey family tree is more of a transdimensional strawberry patch; the X-Men play some football; Professor Xavier is not a jerk; and Scott Summers and Jean Grey are the power couple of existentialism.
X-Plained
Summers kids
Scott and Jean
Feelings
X-Men #32
The worst date ever
Madelyne Pryor
Plot-relevant prosopagnosia
Three proposals
X-Factor
Kurt Busiek at the Coffee-a-Go-Go
Art by David Wynne
In which special guest Kurt Busiek is the J. Robert Oppenheimer of X-Men, Rachel and Miles learn to love the Silver Age, Cyclops gets a job, Bernard the Poet falls from grace, we really wish X-Men: The Secret Years was a real book, everyone recites poetry, and we still don’t get around to Marvels.
X-Plained:
METOXO, the Lava Man
The true, secret purpose of Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men
The Phoenix retcon
Archival pocket dimensions
Enid Blyton’s X-Men
Early-to-mid-20th Ce
The Brood They Carried
In which Claremont levels up; the Brood are legitimately scary; Colossus is an ethical dude; Nightcrawler and Wolverine share beers in the face of certain death; Storm turns into a space whale; we are Carol Corps for life; New Mutants are really into Magnum, P.I.; Kitty meets a dragon; and Xavier dies (again).
X-Plained:
Broo
The Brood Saga (X-Men #161-167)
Paul Smith
Space fashion
A really terrible awards ceremony
Tim O’Brien’s X-Men
The Brood
How to tell a good Wolverine story
Rocket sharks
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Acorns and Swords
In which we continue our delve into the eldritch end of the X-Universe, Illyana Rasputin has a rough childhood even by X-Men standards, Kitty Pryde is a Niven fan, Limbo is way metal, Vincent Price is our Belasco, and Rachel and Miles have feelings about female friendships in Claremont’s X-Men.
X-Plained:
Mikhail Rasputin
Hell dimensions, including but not limited to
The Void
The Dark Zone
The Hill
Limbo
The other Limbo
Yet a third Limbo
Reincarnation
Illyana Rasputin
Magic vs. Magik
Uncanny
You've Got a Dracula Problem
In which Dr. Nemesis is delightful, Bill Sienkiewicz foreshadows himself, Dracula hits on absolutely everyone, Blade Godwins a crossover event, Jubilee get a jet ski, the X-Men do Castlevania 2, Rachel and Miles pick a vacation destination, and Cyclops wants you to follow your heart.
X-Plained:
Dr. Nemesis
A very good page of a very good comic
Dracula variations
X-Men #159
Appropriate use of holy symbols
“The D”
Tomb of Dracula
Bloodstorm
Carrotstorm
Curse of the Mutants
Jubilee
Crossover event
The Island of Dr. Corbeau
In which we make our Comics Alliance debut, Cyclops makes a startling discovery, Carol Danvers joins the team (sort of), Chris Claremont calls out some bullshit, Havok still has terrible taste in hats, and Peter Corbeau gets his own theme music
Content note: In this episode, we spend a lot of time talking about a rape that occurs in a previous Avengers arc, the community and narrative response thereto, and the larger landscape and ethics of portrayals of sexual violence in superhero comics.
X-Pl
The Official Unofficial Not-at-SDCC (Rachel and Miles X-Plain the) X-Men Panel
In which we correct a startling omission, explore the current state of the X-Universe, and speculate wildly; Quentin Quire has excellent fashion sense; Rachel gets a new accessory; Miles goes off-brand; the X-Men are somewhat complicated; Iron Man has poor decision-making skills; Charles Xavier dies for real; Beast might be a supervillain; we briefly forget Marc Guggenheim’s first name; and the future remains a relative mystery.
For purposes of continuity, it’s probably worth noting that this ep
The Ballad of Harvey and Janet
In which we announce exciting new developments, the ASPCA should probably have a word with Emma Frost, Kitty Pryde gets a new costume, Lee Forrester is still the best, Cyclops has an octopus on his chest, Magneto has a change of heart, and Wolverine embraces transhumanism.
X-Plained:
The Thomas Hardy novel of superhero comics
Friendship
X-Men #148-152
Unstable Denim
Disco Dinner Clubs
Caliban (a little)
Kitty Pryde’s amazing fashion sense
Garokk the Unremarkable
Atlantean couture
Why Magneto is
Look Upon My Man-Thing and D'Spayre
In which Canada is complicated, the X-Perts join Twitter, Rachel cares about a Wolverine story, Angel had one job, Kitty Pryde is pretty cool, Cyclops gets a hat, neither of us knows how to pronounce “Aleytys,” Doctor Doom is a terrible date, and the X-Men have an awful lot of signature moves.
X-Plained:
Department H
Department K
Director X
The Weapon Plus Program
Weapon P.R.I.M.E.
Weapons I-XVI
The Death-Defying Doctor Mirage
The new normal
Stevie Hunter
The Wendigo
Berserker rage
Yard work
Wo
Last Stand on the Moon
In which Jean commits genocide, the Shi’ar are total dicks (again), we have feelings about X-Men #137, Claremont and Byrne do what they do best, shit gets real on the moon, Kitty joins the team, and the Dark Phoenix Saga concludes.
X-Plained:
Inhumans
The Kree
The Terrigen Mist
Teamwork
The Dark Phoenix
Cameos with cosmic implications
The Phoenix event horizon
Establishing scale
Psychic battles
The winged never-nudes of the Marvel Universe
Danger-room exposition
The Shi’ar’s really dubious ju
Inner Circle Jerk
In which we wade into the first arc of the Dark Phoenix Saga, Rachel does not like Sage, the Hellfire Club are the mean girls of the Marvel Universe, Cyclops and Phoenix have a Moment, Mastermind ruins everything, Emma Frost is a force to be reckoned with, Wolverine gets awesome, and we meet the Dark Phoenix.
X-Plained:
Sage
The Hellfire Club
The Inner Circle
Jason Wyngarde (again)
Sebastian Shaw
Harry Leland
Emma Frost
Donald Pierce
Hegemony and social politics of the Hellfire Club
18th Centur
Who Would Win in a Fight
In which we answer 45 straight minutes of your questions and alienate everyone with our answer to Jean vs. Emma, Miles is probably too nice to win in a fight, we are really into The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Rachel is the Vega to Miles’s Shepard, Excalibur is awesome, you should stop punching the DNA, Wolverine is Rogue, Longshot is the prettiest man, and Professor X is a pufferfish.
X-Plained:
Who would win in a fight
The Rachel & Miles Fastball Special
Cycloptometry
Backissues, collections,
Not All Mandroids
In which Phoenix has nothing on Jamie Madrox when it comes to retcons, Pterosaurs have super punchable faces, Colossus gets laid, we are uninterested in the Savage Land, Wolverine and Storm are both pretty interesting, smiling costs extra if you’re Doctor Doom, Banshee saves the day, Alpha Flight tries, Angry Hovercraft Guy comes back, and Proteus is fairly upsetting.
X-Plained:
X-Men #109, 114-16, 118-122, and 125-128
Multiple Man
Metacontinuity
The Savage Land
Pterosaurs
Shi’ar mustache techn
Leprechaun Surprise Party
In which Rachel refuses to back down from a challenge, we reject a point of canon, Leprechauns know Wolverine’s secrets, Erik the Red is (still) awful, Professor X is (still) a dick, the X-Men are your D&D party, the Shi’ar do a Star Trek riff, Phoenix is kind of a big deal, the circus comes to town, and Magneto gets creepy.
X-Plained:
Cassandra Nova
More early Claremont
Sound effects
Cassidy Keep
Seneschals
Shillelaghs
Image inducers
Black Tom Cassidy
Supervillain bromance
Bronze-age pacing
Le
What We Talk About When We Talk About Claremont
In which Chris Claremont defines the X-Universe; Sunfire quits the team (again); Nightcrawler is the best; the narrator is nobody’s friend; Colossus is a good kid; Cyclops has a long series of bad days; everyone is a bondage Viking; Rachel is a space pedant, we meet the Phoenix, and Wolverine is the Batman of Marvel.
X-Plained:
Polaris’s kinda-powers
Our first crossover event
How much we love you
Chris Claremont, and why he’s the definitive X-writer
Comics In Focus: Chris Claremont’s X-Men
Why
Cyclops Has a Good Day
With guest Greg Rucka!
In which death is a revolving door, we really liked Days of Future Past, space pirates are the best pirates, Vulcan is (still) the worst, Miles has a Corsair costume, Lilandra has lovely plumage, no one knows how to pronounce “M’Kraan,” we studiously avoid discussing the Phoenix force, Saurids speak Hebrew, Raza Longknife’s name is a bit on the nose, Rachel is the worst at hugs, Greg has a ‘ship, and we all kind of identify with Cyclops.
X-Plained:
The Starjammers (and ho
Days of Future Whatever
In which we more or less prepare you for the upcoming feature film; Rachel Summers is a black hole of continuity; Kitty Pryde breaks the Danger Room; Earth 200500 is clearly the best earth; even the X-Men have no idea what’s going on; First Class Emma Frost is so boring that we forget she exists; wolverines are definitely not wolves; and you can have Rachel’s Community references when you pry them from her cold, dead hands.
X-Plained:
Rachel Summers
“Days of Future Past”
Gravestone engraving st
The Retcon That Walks Like a Man
In which the Bronze Age begins; Dave Cockrum is your god now; the band gets together; Sunfire joins the team; cultural sensitivity is not Marvel’s strong suit; Sunfire quits the team; it sucks to be Cyclops; Professor X crosses a moral event horizon; Sunfire joins the team; Ed Brubaker channels Thomas Hardy; you are probably a Summers brother; and Sunfire quits the team.
X-Plained:
Bamf-Voltron Nightcrawler
Giant-Size X-Men #1
The worst hat of the Marvel Universe
The Mostly-New, Mostly-Differen
American History X-Men
In which Rachel finally gets to say “WHAT?!,” we examine three variations on the Silver Age, Twin Peaks is reality TV, we can’t believe you hired Hitler, Angel is not Batman, even the most sympathetic Xavier is still pretty creepy, Cyclops has a good day, Marvel Girl is not going to throw a dinosaur for you, Iceman is the Troy Barnes of the X-Men, and we say a fond farewell to the Silver Age.
X-Plained:
The X-Axis
X-Men: Children of the Atom
Hard-sell noir
How to party like it’s sometime betwee
Cartoons, Lies, and Video Tape
Featuring Emergency Backup Co-Host Chris Sims!
In which Rachel and Chris X-plain three cartoons and track a disagreement to its source; Gambit is definitely the worst person you know; Broadcasting Standards and Practices is tired of your death ceremonies; Storm doesn’t have an inside voice; and we finally get around to mentioning that one dude with the claws.
X-Plained:
Weaponized creepiness
The evolution (and Evolution) of X-Toons
Why you hate Cyclops (and Rachel doesn’t)
Adaptation overload
B
Sentinels in the Mist
In which we introduce the villains of the Silver Age: Magneto makes some valid points, Mastermind is a Nice Guy of OkCupid, the Scarlet Witch predicts Cat Breading, the Trasks should really have known better, and the Comics Code Authority is down with pterosaurs.
X-Plained:
Common characteristics of enduring X-villains
Mutant identity politics and moral relativism
Context-agnostic Juggernaut flashbacks
An unorthodox approach to anthropology
Cyclops’s greatest diplomatic achievement
Silver-Age h
The Strangest Podcast of Them All
In which we begin at the beginning: everything clicks with #3, Professor Xavier is a jerk, Magneto is a fearless fashionista, Cyclops gets a name, Jean Grey has a chronic case of the Silver Age, and allegorical diversity is not enough.
X-Plained:
Mutant genetics and taxonomy
Practical semantics of “X-Men”
Charles Xavier’s equally dubious ethics and decorating choices
Superhero couture of the Atomic Age
Why Cyclops can’t control his powers
The miracle of comic-book magnetism
A problematic analog