315 – Theater Is Dead
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In which Jay and/or patriarchy ruin everything; Archangel is dubiously aspirational; we need a moratorium on Jack the Ripper stories; there are a lot of Masterminds; and Arcade is a whole bundle of psychosexual weirdness.
X-PLAINED:
- Tom Malverne (Jack the Ripper)
- Lunch
- Wolverine and Gambit: Victims #1-4
- Loeb & Sale
- Jack the Ripper in fiction
- Alexandra Davies
- Fun on international flights
- That one time Jay thought the NSA was going to come for him
- Martinique Wyngarde (Mastermind II)
- Mastermind, Mastermind, and Lady Mastermind disambiguation
- Collateral damage
- Various Dies Hard
- Several heists
- Several hallucinations
- Variations on the death of Miss Locke
- Problematic third brothers
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As Mentioned in Episode 314 – Feelings, Alaska
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LINKS & FURTHER MISUNDERSTANDINGS:
- Lauretta Jean’s makes the best pie on earth, and Jay misses it desperately.
- Wanna make comics? Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work are an incredibly useful resource.
- We watched so much Sealab 2021 in college.
- If you’re interested in the intersections of psychology and superhero comics, check out The Arkham Sessions!
- PREVIOUSLY ON JAY & MILES X-PLAIN THE X-MEN
- For more about Scott and Alex’s origin story and picking which versions of canon count, check out Episode 308 – No Story Is the Whole Story.
- Hear about Roma and The Adversary’s last fight in Episode 86 – Legends.
- Dr. Andrea Letamendi joined us to discuss representations of mental illness and therapy in X-Factor in Episode 216 – X-Amining X-Factor.
- Our coverage of the Age of Apocalypse starts in Episode 287 – Welcome to the Age of Apocalypse…
- …and we focus on Cyclops and Havok’s relationship in that universe in Episode 292 – Weekend at Sinster’s.
314 – Feelings, Alaska
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In which Haven deserved better; Cyclops and Havok have a lot of feelings in Alaska; X-Factor is the cop team; breaking up with your girlfriend between issues is a massive faux pas; Haven got a bad deal; no one cares about Random’s feelings; Spiral is weird Twitter; and Alex Summers once again fails to finish his dissertation.
X-PLAINED:
- Chaos (Daniel Dash)
- Pie
- Power suits vs. power suits
- X-Factor #115-118
- Haven (more) (again)
- The Adversary (more) (again)
- Naze (more) (again)
- Several people who may or may not be holograms
- One of Jay’s all-time-favorite single issues
- Howard Mackie
- Wally Wood’s 22 Panels
- The Summers Family plane crash
- Cyclops and Havok’s relationship
- Havok’s Silver Age origins
- Trans readings of Alex Summers
- Shard (more) (again)
- Canadian drama
- A trap
- The return of Random
- Roma (again)
- Mojoworlders on social media
- Which X-teens should be audience surrogates in a new animated series
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As Mentioned in Episode 313 – Iguanafall
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LINKS & FURTHER REPTILES:
- This dress was weirdly central to the Internet Discourse of 2015.
- We covered Lifedeath II in Episode 45 – A Woman Who Could Fly.
- Here’s where you can find some of the more obscure stories we’ve X-Plained:
313 – Iguanafall
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In which sky pirates are the best pirates; Wolverine eats chicken in the woods; Xavier’s area loses its status as our least favorite panel; Cable is suspiciously credulous; we search in vain for a consistent metaphor; Storm has a thing or two to learn about restorative justice; and this entire miniseries should probably just have been an annual.
X-PLAINED:
- Storm’s pirate adventures
- Storm #1-4
- Mark Trail
- The Morlocks (more) (again)
- Unacceptable gradients
- Butt murder
- Fashion
- Several memes of yesteryear
- Product placement
- The new Worst Panel
- Several variations on the Ceremony of Light
- How not to identify a body
- The Hill (Limbo)
- “Daddy”
- The inconsistent portrayals of Mikhail Rasputin
- Still more members of Gene Nation
- A new costume
- The most obscure stories we’ve covered
- That time Wolverine at his own arm
NEXT EPISODE: Jay’s favorite issue of X-Factor (and some others)!
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312 – Something Amazing Had to Be Done, feat. Bob Proehl
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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:
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As Mentioned in Episode 311 – Love Makes a Super Team
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311 – 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:
- Franklin Richards’ impressive lineage
- 311
- Yet another structure for annuals
- X-Men Annual 1995
- Uncanny X-Men #325
- Serious academic discussions
- Faye Livingstone
- Mister Sinister’s Hollywood adventures
- Tyler Dayspring / Tolliver / Genesis (again)
- Teenage optimism
- An absolutely nonsensical villainous plot
- A Hank McCoy that might have been
- Friendship
- Fraternal correspondence
- Romance
- Morlocks
- The first time Storm stabbed a Morlock leader in the heart
- Gene Nation
- A really excessive cover
- An intergenerational baseball game
- Another fairly nonsensical villainous plot
- The second time Storm stabbed a Morlock leader in the heart
- X-horror
- Other media X-fans may enjoy reading, playing, or watching
NEXT EPISODE: Bob Proehl X-Plains the Resonant Duology!
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As Mentioned in Episode 310 – Attack and Dethrone God
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LINKS & FURTHER SPACE PIRATES:
- We first discussed the Starjammers in Episode 7 – Cyclops Has a Good Day.
- You can hear all about the first Stajammers miniseries in Episode 139 – Starjammed.
- If you’re in the mood for Lilandra and Xavier breaking up over Shi’ar imperialism, try Episode 265 – Rude Awakening.