Larry Stroman – Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

As Mentioned in Episode 202 – Rhapsody in Blue (and Gold)

June 24, 2018 Miles 3 comments

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Man, that cover. (X-Factor #79)

Learning at super-speed! It doesn’t work… (X-Factor #79)

…until it does. (X-Factor #79)

Pietro Maximoff: not just a jerk, but a smart jerk. (X-Factor #79)

Only in X-Factor. (X-Factor #79)

I had the same dream! (X-Factor #79)

You got your 90s in my 90s! (Did you ever feel like a page was written and drawn especially for 10-year-old you?) (X-Factor #80)

Those Stroman crowd scenes, though. (X-Factor #80)

I’m pretty sure that’s not how you fix a broken jaw. Then again, in a universe where Jack Kirby designed most early technology, I guess all bets are off. (X-Factor #80)

And sometimes, when I’m feeling frisky… (X-Factor #80)

This is pretty much what happened the one time I tried to play a harmonica. (X-Factor #80)

Not only did the Genegineer lock Rahne into her transitional wolf form and genetically bond her to a guy she’d barely met, but he made her really bad at poker! Dammit, dude. (X-Factor #80)

“And after this fight, Archangel and I have a shopping date!” (X-Factor #80)

Yep, totally a Sam Keith design. (X-Factor #80)

There are so many ways to make Havok’s powers look cool. (X-Factor #81)

I feel pretty bad for everyone here. Well, not Pietro. (X-Factor #81)

When Guido isn’t busy referencing Murphy Brown, dude can be pretty scary. (X-Factor #81)

Most people think the ubiquity of cell phones was responsible for the death of the pay phone. Nope: it was this guy. (X-Factor #81)

Respect, man. Wait… it was all a trick? Okay, different respect.(X-Factor #81)

To be honest, I’m just including this one for Titan Up the Defense listeners. (X-Factor #81)

NEXT TIME: Man, screw you, Mikhail.

202 – Rhapsody in Blue (and Gold)

June 24, 2018 Miles 18 comments

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In which music is dangerous and confusing, Jamie Madrox has a weakness for femmes fatale, the term “f-holes” makes Miles turn 12, and we bid a fond farewell to Larry Stroman.

X-PLAINED:

That time Havok was the nexus of all realities
How to get to Florida, Magneto style
X-Factor #79-81
Lesser-used applications of super-speed
Rhapsody (Rachel Argosy)
Mutant late bloomers
The surprising convenience and safety of fictional shop windows
Excalibur-weird vs. X-Factor-weird
Tiny cellos
The worst kid in the neighborhood
A creative use of mutant powers
Whether Madrox creates duplicates during sex (again)
Astral wheat fields
Musical manslaughter
Sean Young (who is decidedly not Catwoman)
Hell’s Belles
Rahne’s World
Polaris’s body image issues
Beefiness disambiguation
Wolfsbane’s conditional poker face
Cyber (Silas Burr)
Strong Guy, who just works here, man
Alex Summers, inspiring and/or deceptive authority figure
Bringing back the classics (and when not to)
The surprisingly homogenous Multiverse

NEXT EPISODE: Mikhail Rasputin ruins everything.

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As Mentioned in Episode 179 – Sincerely, An Evil Individual

January 7, 2018 Jay 5 comments

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This really should have been a #1. (X-Factor #71)

If ever a first page set the tone… (X-Factor #71)

I made a list of people who draw Polaris’s hair better than Larry Stroman, and there were no names on it, because no one draws Polaris’s hair better than Larry Stroman. (X-Factor #71)

Cursive! (X-Factor #71)

Team dossiers, and some Twin Peaks name-dropping! (X-Factor #71)

Well, shit. (X-Factor #71)

This gag was pretty much inevitable. (X-Factor #72)

The extremely doomed Professor Vic Chalker. (X-Factor #72)

Poor guy. (X-Factor #72)

THAT CROWD, THO (X-Factor #72)

Aw, Madrox. (X-Factor #72)

So, that happened. (X-Factor #73)

Seriously, there’s just a page and a half, mid-fight, dedicated to gratuitous Rocketeer references. (X-Factor #73)

(Including the plane. Which, yes, is later confirmed to be wood.) (X-Factor #73)

And yet, somehow, it’s STILL better than Alex’s M-Word speech 25 years later. (X-Factor #73)

Remember when Alex Summers had principles? SIGH. (X-Factor #73)

B.D.? I dunno if I see it… (X-Factor #73)

Oh. Yeah, never mind. I see it.

Rahne really looks like she’s here to offer you your heart’s desire in exchange for your heart, or something equally creepy and folklorish. (X-Factor #74)

Meet Slab. He’s a Nasty Boy. (X-Factor #74)

Write your own dick joke. (X-Factor #74)

Man, Evil Madrox is so creepy! (X-Factor #74)

Meet the Nasty Boys! Also Senator Shaffran, but he’s going to die soon, so, whatever. (X-Factor #75)

OKAY BUT HOW DO THE CLOTHES WORK?! (X-Factor #75)

It’s not common knowledge, but actually, all U.S. senators can do this. (X-Factor #75)

It’s funny ’cause his name’s Ricochet. (X-Factor #75)

NEXT EPISODE: Time Cops and Time Bandits!

179 – Sincerely, An Evil Individual

January 7, 2018 Jay 61 comments

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In which X-Factor gets a revamp; Larry Stroman is the best part of 1991; Havok used to have principles; Multiple Man is his own worst enemy; Jay’s Doonesbury knowledge finally becomes relevant; Strong Guy breaks the Washington Monument; and Val Cooper may or may not have married Mister Sinister.

X-PLAINED:

The Madrox who got away
Alan Disambiguation
The X-Factor that might have been
X-Factor #71-75
Banter™
A small selection of a gratuitously large volume of pop-culture references
An evil individual
One of the many deaths of Multiple Man
Larry Stroman extras
Professor Vic Chalker
A Sinister scheme
The iteration of X-Factor most likely to end up naked on television
Your real-life Jamie Madrox reference
GeeCees
A canonical Doonesbury reference
One way to get out of writing a term paper
The proper plural of Madrox
Ricochet
The Nasty Boys
Death by irony
The evolution of Magik’s Soul Sword
Why female superheroes rarely date civilian men

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Rose City Comic Con Gallery!

September 18, 2016 Jay One comment

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Art by David Wynne. No prints this week, but you can contact David to purchase the original!

We are pretty proud of the new button design, y’all. (Yes, there will be a t-shirt. Eventually.)

Also this one.

OH HEY WE FINALLY UPDATED THE ZINE COVERS, TOO!

The second J&MXtX-M zine is precisely what it says on the tin.

You know it’s true.

Miles and Al at our booth!

Having the wall up at our booth meant we got a ton of rad photos at the con as well as the party. Here’s Administratrix Emeritus Tina as Emma Frost!

A superlative ’90s Cyclops and Phoenix!

Eric also cosplays a super excellent Quentin Quire.

PEOPLE CAME AS BOOM BOOM AND DOCTOR DOOM IT WAS A COUPLE COSTUME IT WAS FANTASTIC

We do quick and very unprofessional sketches for $1 at conventions! Here’s Miles’s Dark Phoenix!

Punk Storm, by Jay (who forgot to take pictures of most of their sketches, most of which were of Warlock).

Adam X gets more X-Treme every time Miles draws him.

Boom Boom, by Jay.

Miles’s Mirage ain’t afraid of no Demon Bear!

If you tell Jay to draw whoever they want, Jay will draw Warlock. Every time.

Chamber, by Miles!

Jay also got in a couple sharpie knuckle tattoos! (Happy belated birthday, Diana!)

Always a classic.

The drinks at this year’s party were Inner Circle (with alcohol) and Hellions (alcohol-free) themed this year! (Inferno Watch was the best, though.)

Shadow is a super awesome local musician, and they came to the party as Wolverine with a viola, which may be the greatest deep-cut cosplay of all time.