Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Jay & Miles Review the X-Men, Episodes 116 & 117

Jay here!  I’m once again in the middle of prepping for a move–this time, cross-country–and really struggling to keep balls in the air. With that disclaimer in mind, here are respectively more and less belated last two weeks’ video reviews!


Week of 3/2/2017:

In which Uncanny and Extraordinary X-Men conclude!

REVIEWED:

  • Uncanny X-Men #19 (00:34)
  • *Extraordinary X-Men #20 (06:58)

*Pick of the Week (11:55)


Week of 3/29/2917:

In which we say goodbye to one more series, and ResurrXion begins!

REVIEWED:

*Pick of the Week (17:08)

Filmed at Books With Pictures in Portland, OR.


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Jay & Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 114

Week of 2/15/2017:

In which Old Man Logan stays good; Uncanny X-Men makes Xorn relevant (however briefly); and Jay is knitting a blanket.

REVIEWED:

  • *Uncanny X-Men #18 (00:25)
  • Old Man Logan #18 (04:07)

*Pick of the Week (07:08)


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Jay & Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 110

Weeks of 11/4 and 11/11/2017:

In which Jay & Miles get snowed in; Old Man Logan embraces genre; Inhumans vs. X-Men suffers from a distressing lack of Emma Frost; All-New Wolverine suffers from a distressing lack of Jonathan; and Uncanny X-Men undersells Limbo.

REVIEWED:

  • *Old Man Logan #16 (00:55)
  • Inhumans vs. X-Men #2 (04:49)
  • All-New Wolverine #16 (10:49)
  • Uncanny X-Men #17 (17:08)

*Pick of the Fortnight (23:52)


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Jay & Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 109

Weeks of 12/21/16 & 12/28/16:

In which X-Men ’92 goes out with a bang, Morrison’s Fantomex meets Spurrier’s Fantomex, and Storm makes us cry.

REVIEWED:

  • X-Men ’92 #10 (00:37)
  • Uncanny X-Men #16 (05:04)
  • *Extraordinary X-Men #17 (09:26)

*Pick of the Fortnight (14:13)

Filmed at Books With Pictures in Portland, OR.


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138 – What Would Dazzler Do?

Art by David Wynne

In which we continue to follow the post-Siege Perilous X-Men; Dazzler finally makes her big-screen debut; Callisto gets a day job; Colossus gets a ponytail; still more X-Men fake their deaths; Jean Grey gets tentacles; Professor Wolverine is a jerk; and Jay overthinks Community.

X-PLAINED:

  • The new-new Howling Commandos
  • Hit-Monkey
  • Uncanny X-Men #259-263
  • Dazzler: The Movie (again)
  • Freddie Stanacheck
  • Eric Beale
  • What Dazzler would do
  • Peter Nicholas
  • Jenny Ransome and Phillip Moreau (again)
  • Twin Peaks references, canonical and otherwise
  • Genoshan foreign policy
  • The value of allegory
  • Some regrettable X-costumes
  • That time Jean Grey got tentacles
  • Molly the cat
  • Dubious medical ethics
  • Hardcase and the Harriers
  • An unlikely pizza party
  • A theoretical Community/X-Men costume party

NEXT EPISODE: Spotlight on the Starjammers!


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Jay & Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 105

Week of 11/16/2016:

In which cat.

REVIEWED:

  • Old Man Logan #13 (00:25)
  • *All-New Wolverine #14 (04:29)
  • Uncanny X-Men Annual #1 (10:23)

*Pick of the Week (15:09)


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Jay & Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 104

Week of 11/9/2016:

In which Psylocke gets a spotlight; the Goblin Queen gets pants; Jay suddenly cares about the Inhumans; and we are having a lot of feelings right now.

REVIEWED:

  • Uncanny X-Men #15 (02:39)
  • *All-New X-Men #15 (07:34)

*Pick of the Week (14:18)

Filmed at Books With Pictures in Portland, OR.


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Jay was not joking about the Pirate King of the Moon thing.

As Mentioned in Episode 131 – The Reaver Bunch

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131 – The Reaver Bunch

Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.
Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

In which Jubilee is the sassiest Xenomorph; Lady Deathstrike is way too good for the Reavers; Wolverine gets a sidekick; Forge arm wrestles the Shadow King; Moira takes a cavalier approach lab safety; Magneto’s motives get kind of reconciled; Legion is a chaos gamer; Mystique and Destiny break our hearts; queer erasure in fiction reflects erasure in life; and the Shadow King is not even a little bit subtle.

X-PLAINED:

  • That one time Donald Pierce pretended to be Cyclops for like a year
  • The post X-Men X-Men
  • What may be our deepest cut yet
  • Uncanny X-Men #252-255
  • Where’s Wolverine?
  • The Reaver Bunch
  • Major-League lumpoids
  • Robot dingoes
  • A prescient vision
  • Trouble at sea
  • Several significant deaths
  • Subtext and queer erasure
  • The key of agony
  • Smile noises
  • Non-mutants we’d team up with the X-Men

NEXT WEEK: Back to Asgard!


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Jay & Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 101

Week of 10/5/2016:

In which Jay pulls no punches; Miles mourns a loss; and Death of X lives up to the hype.

REVIEWED:

  • Uncanny X-Men #14 (00:50)
  • All-New Wolverine #13 (02:24)
  • Death of X #1 (05:21)

Pick of the Week: Deadman: Dark Mansion of Forbidden Love #1 (10:40)

Filmed at Books With Pictures in Portland, OR.


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