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 analogy 	X-books for beginners 	Snow grenades 	The word "yaybo" 	The mystery of the ubiquitous plaid suitYou can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog.Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!

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 analogy 	X-books for beginners 	Snow grenades 	The word "yaybo" 	The mystery of the ubiquitous plaid suit You can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!

1 – The Strangest Podcast of Them All

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 haberdashery 	An innovative modification to vampire mythology 	Cultural assimilation 	The propaganda-and-sweater-vest machine 	Hex bolts 	Supplemental readingYou can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog.Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!

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 haberdashery 	An innovative modification to vampire mythology 	Cultural assimilation 	The propaganda-and-sweater-vest machine 	Hex bolts 	Supplemental reading You can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!

2 – Sentinels in the Mist

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 	Broadcast standards, practices, and laser rifles 	How to order pizza like a weather goddess 	A paramilitary after-school club 	G-Rated Wolverine 	Comics based on cartoons based on comics 	Morph 	The Batman Standard 	The Wolverine and the X-Men trifecta of perfection 	Why the Mojoverse works better on TV 	Dazzler's secret second job 	Basic jacketryCORRECTION: In this episode, Rachel mentions that Morph's first comics appearance is in Exiles. It's not: he's in Age of Apocalypse. Mea culpa.You can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog.Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!

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 	Broadcast standards, practices, and laser rifles 	How to order pizza like a weather goddess 	A paramilitary after-school club 	G-Rated Wolverine 	Comics based on cartoons based on comics 	Morph 	The Batman Standard 	The Wolverine and the X-Men trifecta of perfection 	Why the Mojoverse works better on TV 	Dazzler's secret second job 	Basic jacketry CORRECTION: In this episode, Rachel mentions that Morph's first comics appearance is in Exiles. It's not: he's in Age of Apocalypse. Mea culpa. You can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!

3 – Cartoons, Lies, and Video Tape

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 between 1986 and 1991, as filtered through 1999 	The perils of over-referencing 	Why Marvel is in the Tommy Westphall Universe 	The worst guidance counselor ever 	Villain speeches 	X-Men: First Class (but not that one) 	Fun, and several places to find it 	Angst-free X-Men 	Gender politics of superheroism 	X-Men: Season One 	Teenagers 	The solution to the Silver-Age-Jean Grey problem 	Why Iceman matters 	The Silver Age cram bookYou can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog.Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!

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 between 1986 and 1991, as filtered through 1999 	The perils of over-referencing 	Why Marvel is in the Tommy Westphall Universe 	The worst guidance counselor ever 	Villain speeches 	X-Men: First Class (but not that one) 	Fun, and several places to find it 	Angst-free X-Men 	Gender politics of superheroism 	X-Men: Season One 	Teenagers 	The solution to the Silver-Age-Jean Grey problem 	Why Iceman matters 	The Silver Age cram book You can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!

4 – American History X-Men

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-Different X-Men 	A business-casual angry mob 	The limits of creative good intentions 	Tractor punching on the Ust-Ordynski Collective 	The correct spelling of "fine" 	Canada 	Sunfire's utter disdain for everything, including you 	Krakoa: The Island That Walks Like a Man! 	Characteristics of good X-fights 	Yet another miracle of magnetism 	X-Men: Deadly Genesis 	Summers Family Continuity (Introductory) 	More hats 	The Muir-MacTaggert Research Facility 	Summers Family Continuity (Intermediate) 	The Charles Xavier Scale of Supervillainy 	Relative immunity 	Wolverine's ubiquityAUDIENCE PARTICIPATION: 	What would you do with thirteen X-Men? 	Help us find all-ages-friendly Marvel Girl stories!You can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog.Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!

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-Different X-Men 	A business-casual angry mob 	The limits of creative good intentions 	Tractor punching on the Ust-Ordynski Collective 	The correct spelling of "fine" 	Canada 	Sunfire's utter disdain for everything, including you 	Krakoa: The Island That Walks Like a Man! 	Characteristics of good X-fights 	Yet another miracle of magnetism 	X-Men: Deadly Genesis 	Summers Family Continuity (Introductory) 	More hats 	The Muir-MacTaggert Research Facility 	Summers Family Continuity (Intermediate) 	The Charles Xavier Scale of Supervillainy 	Relative immunity 	Wolverine's ubiquity AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION: 	What would you do with thirteen X-Men? 	Help us find all-ages-friendly Marvel Girl stories! You can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!

5 – The Retcon That Walks Like a Man

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 standards of 2013 	The Mostly-New, Mostly-Different Brotherhood of Evil Mutants 	Another unfortunate hat 	Causality in the Marvel Multiverse 	Earths 811, 1191, 295, 311, and 200500 	Hall monitors with laser rifles 	How to fix a broken timeline 	The X-Men cinematic universe, and points of divergence from the comics 	The one thing X-Men: The Last Stand does right 	The Xavier Index of Cinematic Continuity 	The difference between Canis lupus and Gulo gulo 	A Days of Future Past cinematic cram course 	Fix-it fic 	Blink, Bishop, and dark-future mash-ups 	The enduring appeal of Earth-811 	The significantly less enduring appeal of Earth-242 	The Nazi Excalibur of Earth-597You can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog.Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Next week: Greg Rucka, Cyclops, and Starjammers!

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 standards of 2013 	The Mostly-New, Mostly-Different Brotherhood of Evil Mutants 	Another unfortunate hat 	Causality in the Marvel Multiverse 	Earths 811, 1191, 295, 311, and 200500 	Hall monitors with laser rifles 	How to fix a broken timeline 	The X-Men cinematic universe, and points of divergence from the comics 	The one thing X-Men: The Last Stand does right 	The Xavier Index of Cinematic Continuity 	The difference between Canis lupus and Gulo gulo 	A Days of Future Past cinematic cram course 	Fix-it fic 	Blink, Bishop, and dark-future mash-ups 	The enduring appeal of Earth-811 	The significantly less enduring appeal of Earth-242 	The Nazi Excalibur of Earth-597 You can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Next week: Greg Rucka, Cyclops, and Starjammers!

6 – Days of Future Whatever

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 how to pronounce their names) 	The Shi'ar 	The Neremani Dynasty 	Plumage 	Apostrophe abuse 	Corsair 	The secret origins of the Starjammers 	Why Hepzibah talks like that 	The Rule of Cool 	Visor iterations 	Summerstaches 	Cyclops's dubious deductive skills 	Hugs 	The All-New, All-the-Same X-Men 	Teenagers, again 	Cyclops #1 	Cyclops vs. Scott 	Space-parenting 	Rachel's convention sketchbook 	Greg's Kitty Pryde feelings 	An exceptionally vivid threat 	Intergalactic fashion 	Corsair's pecs 	Key parties in space 	The greatest romance of the Marvel UniverseYou can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog.Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Next week: Welcome to the Claremont era, listeners—hope you survive the experience!

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 how to pronounce their names) 	The Shi'ar 	The Neremani Dynasty 	Plumage 	Apostrophe abuse 	Corsair 	The secret origins of the Starjammers 	Why Hepzibah talks like that 	The Rule of Cool 	Visor iterations 	Summerstaches 	Cyclops's dubious deductive skills 	Hugs 	The All-New, All-the-Same X-Men 	Teenagers, again 	Cyclops #1 	Cyclops vs. Scott 	Space-parenting 	Rachel's convention sketchbook 	Greg's Kitty Pryde feelings 	An exceptionally vivid threat 	Intergalactic fashion 	Corsair's pecs 	Key parties in space 	The greatest romance of the Marvel Universe You can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Next week: Welcome to the Claremont era, listeners—hope you survive the experience!

7 – Cyclops Has a Good Day

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 Nightcrawler is the best point-of-view character 	The long game 	Tom Orzechowski's dimension-folding lettering skills 	Claremontisms 	The malicious narrator 	Count Nefaria 	Sliding-scale ransom 	The life, death, and occasional reanimation of Thunderbird 	Friendship 	The care and feeding of cairns 	Erik the Red 	Quiet moments 	Sentinels and X-Sentinels 	Steven Lang 	The (first) death and return of Jean Grey 	AccentsYou can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog.Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Next week: Leprechauns!

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 Nightcrawler is the best point-of-view character 	The long game 	Tom Orzechowski's dimension-folding lettering skills 	Claremontisms 	The malicious narrator 	Count Nefaria 	Sliding-scale ransom 	The life, death, and occasional reanimation of Thunderbird 	Friendship 	The care and feeding of cairns 	Erik the Red 	Quiet moments 	Sentinels and X-Sentinels 	Steven Lang 	The (first) death and return of Jean Grey 	Accents You can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Next week: Leprechauns!

8 – What We Talk About When We Talk About Claremont

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&amp;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 	Leprechauns 	Hovercraft rental 	Muir Island 	The Shi'ar Imperial Guard 	The M'Kraan Cyrstal 	Phoenix 101 	Secret volcano lairs 	Magneto's mercifully short-lived age-play fixation 	The (dis)continuity of mutant powersYou can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog.Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Next week: Wolverine punches a pterosaur, Cyclops grows a mustache, and everyone gets possessed!

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&amp;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 	Leprechauns 	Hovercraft rental 	Muir Island 	The Shi'ar Imperial Guard 	The M'Kraan Cyrstal 	Phoenix 101 	Secret volcano lairs 	Magneto's mercifully short-lived age-play fixation 	The (dis)continuity of mutant powers You can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Next week: Wolverine punches a pterosaur, Cyclops grows a mustache, and everyone gets possessed!

9 – Leprechaun Surprise Party

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 technology 	Karl Lykos 	Misty Knight 	Colleen Wing 	Wolverine in Japan 	Mandroids 	Moses Magnum 	A Heist 	Angus McWhirter, disgruntled hovercraft rental guy 	Alpha Flight 	Team Dynamics 	Why you always leave a note 	ProteusYou can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog.Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Next week: Secret origins, shipper wars, the Siege Perilous, and which of us would win in a fight.

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 technology 	Karl Lykos 	Misty Knight 	Colleen Wing 	Wolverine in Japan 	Mandroids 	Moses Magnum 	A Heist 	Angus McWhirter, disgruntled hovercraft rental guy 	Alpha Flight 	Team Dynamics 	Why you always leave a note 	Proteus You can find a visual companion to the episode – and links to recommended reading – on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Next week: Secret origins, shipper wars, the Siege Perilous, and which of us would win in a fight.

10 – Not All Mandroids

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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 11/29/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.In which Franklin Richards is the center of a disproportionate number of X-Men specials; Quicksilver without powers is comedy gold; Luna is the best little girl on the moon (but it's kind of a low bar); Jay accidentally cares about the Inhumans; Jean Grey may or may not be the Wesley Willis of X-Factor; Cameron Hodge's exit interview is weirdly professional; Boom Boom is the best reluctant hero; and Archangel makes his debut.X-PLAINED: 	Quicksilver's team associations 	Knights of Wundagore 	Chthon 	X-Factor Annual #2 	X-Factor #21-23 	The Inhumans 	Black Bolt 	Medusa 	Crystal 	Lockjaw 	QWOP Quicksilver 	Leech's wildly inconsistent powers 	Gorgon 	Luna 	Headbutting ghosts, or, why sentence structure matters 	Maximus 	Several methods of mind control 	A really terrible place for a date 	Cameron Hodge: Bureaucrat Supervillain 	The last will &amp; testament of Warren Worthington III 	Another superpower pet peeve 	A theoretical team-up we would love to see 	The Arlington Interactive Museum of (evil) Science 	Some really dumb armor 	Archangel 	Our preferred third Summers brothersNEXT WEEK: Secret Convergence on Infinite Podcasts!You can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog!Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!Buy prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!

Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 11/29/2015 at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original. In which Franklin Richards is the center of a disproportionate number of X-Men specials; Quicksilver without powers is comedy gold; Luna is the best little girl on the moon (but it's kind of a low bar); Jay accidentally cares about the Inhumans; Jean Grey may or may not be the Wesley Willis of X-Factor; Cameron Hodge's exit interview is weirdly professional; Boom Boom is the best reluctant hero; and Archangel makes his debut. X-PLAINED: 	Quicksilver's team associations 	Knights of Wundagore 	Chthon 	X-Factor Annual #2 	X-Factor #21-23 	The Inhumans 	Black Bolt 	Medusa 	Crystal 	Lockjaw 	QWOP Quicksilver 	Leech's wildly inconsistent powers 	Gorgon 	Luna 	Headbutting ghosts, or, why sentence structure matters 	Maximus 	Several methods of mind control 	A really terrible place for a date 	Cameron Hodge: Bureaucrat Supervillain 	The last will &amp; testament of Warren Worthington III 	Another superpower pet peeve 	A theoretical team-up we would love to see 	The Arlington Interactive Museum of (evil) Science 	Some really dumb armor 	Archangel 	Our preferred third Summers brothers NEXT WEEK: Secret Convergence on Infinite Podcasts! You can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! Buy prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!

84 – The Fourth Horseman

Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.In which we continue our coverage of pre-Excalibur Captain Britain; S.T.R.I.K.E. is D.U.C.K. is W.H.O.; the R.C.X. is one lapse in judgment away from on-the-job cosplay; Meggan levels up; your name will never be as cool as Doctor Crocodile's; Technet writes their own cold opens; and we announce the upcoming debut of Jay &amp; Miles X-Plain the X-Men!X-PLAINED: 	A large number of acronyms 	Irony 	Jay &amp; Miles X-Plain the X-Men 	Mighty World of Marvel #14-16 	Captain Britain #1-14 	The aftermath of the Jaspers Warp 	Inspector Dai Thomas 	How to work out a superhero's secret identity 	The Crazy Gang (more) (again) 	Slaymaster 	Captain Britain's costume 	Sidney Crumb 	Gatecrasher's Technet (more) (again) 	Earth-794 	Kaptain Briton 	Sat-Yr-Nin 	The R.C.X. 	Agents Gabriel &amp; Michael 	The Warpies 	The Cherubim 	Meggan (more) (again) 	Doctor Crocodile 	Jamie Braddock 	Betsy Braddock's short and calamitous tenure as Captain Britain 	Women in Refrigerators 	Our thoughts on the X-movies 	Mutant heredityNEXT EPISODE: Genosha Is for LoversYou can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog!Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!Buy prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!

Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original. In which we continue our coverage of pre-Excalibur Captain Britain; S.T.R.I.K.E. is D.U.C.K. is W.H.O.; the R.C.X. is one lapse in judgment away from on-the-job cosplay; Meggan levels up; your name will never be as cool as Doctor Crocodile's; Technet writes their own cold opens; and we announce the upcoming debut of Jay &amp; Miles X-Plain the X-Men! X-PLAINED: 	A large number of acronyms 	Irony 	Jay &amp; Miles X-Plain the X-Men 	Mighty World of Marvel #14-16 	Captain Britain #1-14 	The aftermath of the Jaspers Warp 	Inspector Dai Thomas 	How to work out a superhero's secret identity 	The Crazy Gang (more) (again) 	Slaymaster 	Captain Britain's costume 	Sidney Crumb 	Gatecrasher's Technet (more) (again) 	Earth-794 	Kaptain Briton 	Sat-Yr-Nin 	The R.C.X. 	Agents Gabriel &amp; Michael 	The Warpies 	The Cherubim 	Meggan (more) (again) 	Doctor Crocodile 	Jamie Braddock 	Betsy Braddock's short and calamitous tenure as Captain Britain 	Women in Refrigerators 	Our thoughts on the X-movies 	Mutant heredity NEXT EPISODE: Genosha Is for Lovers You can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! Buy prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!

98 – Between Alien Visitations and Drunken Sulks

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!In which we enter a new era of X-Men; Magneto reluctantly returns to villainy; Jay tries to like X-Men volume 2; when in doubt, you should open your story with a space fight; Nick Fury has so many pouches; experimenting on babies unsurprisingly backfires; psychic powers are pink; Claremont deserved better; Producer Matt makes his on-air debut; and you (yes, you!) are once again the recipients of a Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Award for Excellence in X-Cellence.X-PLAINED: 	Loa 	The 1991 relaunch of X-Men 	X-Men vol. 2 #1-3 	Chris Claremont's departure from Marvel 	X-Men vs. Uncanny X-Men 	Blue Team 	Gold Team 	Why Magneto is emblematic of Claremont's vision for the X-Men 	Why there are so many copies of X-Men #1 	How comics sales are counted 	Our very different perspectives on X-Men #1 	A space fight 	Revision vs. reversion 	What may or may not be in Nick Fury's pouches 	Daring loungewear worn well 	Fabian Cortez 	Flatscans 	Disproportionate escalation 	The Acolytes 	Delgado, kind of, maybe 	Several notable absences 	The Magneto Protocols 	That one time Magneto got turned into a baby 	Some dubious science 	A semi-invisible plane 	Code Silver 	Further miracles of magnetism 	Producer Matt Hunter 	Chiptunes 	Podcasting about video games 	The Fourth Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence 	Best X-Toon holiday episodesNEXT EPISODE: Havok gets a job!Special thanks to Cordelia for her help on the episode opening!Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog!Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which we enter a new era of X-Men; Magneto reluctantly returns to villainy; Jay tries to like X-Men volume 2; when in doubt, you should open your story with a space fight; Nick Fury has so many pouches; experimenting on babies unsurprisingly backfires; psychic powers are pink; Claremont deserved better; Producer Matt makes his on-air debut; and you (yes, you!) are once again the recipients of a Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Award for Excellence in X-Cellence. X-PLAINED: 	Loa 	The 1991 relaunch of X-Men 	X-Men vol. 2 #1-3 	Chris Claremont's departure from Marvel 	X-Men vs. Uncanny X-Men 	Blue Team 	Gold Team 	Why Magneto is emblematic of Claremont's vision for the X-Men 	Why there are so many copies of X-Men #1 	How comics sales are counted 	Our very different perspectives on X-Men #1 	A space fight 	Revision vs. reversion 	What may or may not be in Nick Fury's pouches 	Daring loungewear worn well 	Fabian Cortez 	Flatscans 	Disproportionate escalation 	The Acolytes 	Delgado, kind of, maybe 	Several notable absences 	The Magneto Protocols 	That one time Magneto got turned into a baby 	Some dubious science 	A semi-invisible plane 	Code Silver 	Further miracles of magnetism 	Producer Matt Hunter 	Chiptunes 	Podcasting about video games 	The Fourth Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence 	Best X-Toon holiday episodes NEXT EPISODE: Havok gets a job! Special thanks to Cordelia for her help on the episode opening! Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

178 – Giant-Size Special #6

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!In which you may or may not have your own Black Bug Room; FlameCon was in fact every bit as wonderful as we projected (and more); Caliban hates true love; no one will ever be as extra as Mister Sinister; X-Cutioner's Song is secretly a farce; we achieve Peak Cable; and the quintessential '90s crossover event begins!X-PLAINED: 	The Black Bug Room 	A good deal of pre-event status quo 	Uncanny X-Men #294 	X-Factor #84 	X-Men #14 	X-Force #16 	Trading card taxonomy 	The opening strains of a crossover event 	A concert that worked out better in theory than in practice 	An abduction 	Several attempted murders 	A large number of awkward reunions 	An even larger number of inter-team brawls 	Two villains pretending to be other villains 	Cape logistics 	Peak Cable 	Many pouches 	Many guns 	The origin of Hope Summers 	Our hopes for mutants in the MCUNEXT EPISODE: Aw, Stryfe, no.NOTE: At one point in this episode, Miles said "X-Force" when he actually meant "X-Factor." If you can tell us where, you win the prize of eternal smugness (not as much smugness as Sinister, but still a lot).Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog!Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which you may or may not have your own Black Bug Room; FlameCon was in fact every bit as wonderful as we projected (and more); Caliban hates true love; no one will ever be as extra as Mister Sinister; X-Cutioner's Song is secretly a farce; we achieve Peak Cable; and the quintessential '90s crossover event begins! X-PLAINED: 	The Black Bug Room 	A good deal of pre-event status quo 	Uncanny X-Men #294 	X-Factor #84 	X-Men #14 	X-Force #16 	Trading card taxonomy 	The opening strains of a crossover event 	A concert that worked out better in theory than in practice 	An abduction 	Several attempted murders 	A large number of awkward reunions 	An even larger number of inter-team brawls 	Two villains pretending to be other villains 	Cape logistics 	Peak Cable 	Many pouches 	Many guns 	The origin of Hope Summers 	Our hopes for mutants in the MCU NEXT EPISODE: Aw, Stryfe, no. NOTE: At one point in this episode, Miles said "X-Force" when he actually meant "X-Factor." If you can tell us where, you win the prize of eternal smugness (not as much smugness as Sinister, but still a lot). Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

210 – The End of Tomorrow: X-Cutioner’s Song (Part 1 of 3)

Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.In which "Cross-Time Caper" is something of a misnomer; Excalibur is an awful lot of fun to summarize; none of us will ever live up to Oscar Wilde's expectations; Captain Britain secretly derives his powers from genre; sometimes things turn out to be simple; Kitty Pryde is better at everything than you; manipulation and murder are the new flowers and candy; context may or may not ruin everything; Meggan gets a new outfit; Technet takes Brighton; and some universes are just too silly to survive.X-PLAINED: 	Rick Jones, Sidekick Supreme 	The Cross-Time Caper 	Excalibur #12-15 	Three love triangles 	Jay's mom's late iguana 	Captain Marshall, Lord Champion of the Realm 	Prince William 	Butch the ogre 	Princess Kate 	Fisticuffs 	Instant air conditioning, Excalibur-style 	Bagpipe Vader 	An anticlimactic solution to a protracted problem 	Sorcery 101 	Several profoundly unethical ways to initiate a relationship 	Arrested Excalibur 	The Campsite Rule of relationships 	The logistics and social history of tarring and feathering 	A protracted parody 	A very large number and several names for it 	A theoretical team-up 	Ultimate Hunger 	An unidentified comic that is not Ultimate Hunger 	Some less-than-ideal creative choices 	A multiversal montage 	Jamie Braddock (more) (again) 	A duck 	The unenviable fate of Doctor Crocodile 	Pairing mutants with metal genres 	Inconsistent flight safety measuresNEXT EPISODE: Killing the X-Men, with Charles SouleYou can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog!Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!Buy prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!

Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original. In which "Cross-Time Caper" is something of a misnomer; Excalibur is an awful lot of fun to summarize; none of us will ever live up to Oscar Wilde's expectations; Captain Britain secretly derives his powers from genre; sometimes things turn out to be simple; Kitty Pryde is better at everything than you; manipulation and murder are the new flowers and candy; context may or may not ruin everything; Meggan gets a new outfit; Technet takes Brighton; and some universes are just too silly to survive. X-PLAINED: 	Rick Jones, Sidekick Supreme 	The Cross-Time Caper 	Excalibur #12-15 	Three love triangles 	Jay's mom's late iguana 	Captain Marshall, Lord Champion of the Realm 	Prince William 	Butch the ogre 	Princess Kate 	Fisticuffs 	Instant air conditioning, Excalibur-style 	Bagpipe Vader 	An anticlimactic solution to a protracted problem 	Sorcery 101 	Several profoundly unethical ways to initiate a relationship 	Arrested Excalibur 	The Campsite Rule of relationships 	The logistics and social history of tarring and feathering 	A protracted parody 	A very large number and several names for it 	A theoretical team-up 	Ultimate Hunger 	An unidentified comic that is not Ultimate Hunger 	Some less-than-ideal creative choices 	A multiversal montage 	Jamie Braddock (more) (again) 	A duck 	The unenviable fate of Doctor Crocodile 	Pairing mutants with metal genres 	Inconsistent flight safety measures NEXT EPISODE: Killing the X-Men, with Charles Soule You can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! Buy prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!

129 – 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.In which X-Factor goes to space; Miles gets judgmental about spelling; Paul Smith returns to an X-title; Celestials are a pain; Judgment War is the Star-Trekkiest story that doesn't actually involve Star Trek; monster ladies are super important; if you can be a green dude, you should be a green dude; and Cyclops gears up to fight some gods.X-PLAINED: 	One way to kill a Celestial 	Judg(e)ment War 	Drunk Mark Trail 	X-Factor #43-46 	Walls you should maybe not bust through even if you're X-Factor 	A completely inappropriate show pitch 	Celestials 	The true secret purpose of Ship 	The Chosen 	The Rejects 	Dualers 	Perfect Seera 	Rask 	Zarka 	Monster ladies in cultural context 	Lev 	A stupid way to die 	Jammers 	Plot-relevant amnesia 	The Most Perfect 	ZZ-105 	Baby theft (more)(again) 	Ryest 	The Beginagains 	Whether and when there'll be another all-question episode 	The current status of the Jean Grey schoolNEXT EPISODE: The Cross-Time Caper begins!You can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog!Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!Buy prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!

Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original. In which X-Factor goes to space; Miles gets judgmental about spelling; Paul Smith returns to an X-title; Celestials are a pain; Judgment War is the Star-Trekkiest story that doesn't actually involve Star Trek; monster ladies are super important; if you can be a green dude, you should be a green dude; and Cyclops gears up to fight some gods. X-PLAINED: 	One way to kill a Celestial 	Judg(e)ment War 	Drunk Mark Trail 	X-Factor #43-46 	Walls you should maybe not bust through even if you're X-Factor 	A completely inappropriate show pitch 	Celestials 	The true secret purpose of Ship 	The Chosen 	The Rejects 	Dualers 	Perfect Seera 	Rask 	Zarka 	Monster ladies in cultural context 	Lev 	A stupid way to die 	Jammers 	Plot-relevant amnesia 	The Most Perfect 	ZZ-105 	Baby theft (more)(again) 	Ryest 	The Beginagains 	Whether and when there'll be another all-question episode 	The current status of the Jean Grey school NEXT EPISODE: The Cross-Time Caper begins! You can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! Buy prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!

128 – A Stupid Way to Die (Judgment War, Part 1)

Sarah Kuhn

Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and coffee mugs available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.In which author Sarah Kuhn joins us to talk about Asian-American and Asian-British representation in superhero comics; Psylocke is the literal embodiment of British imperialism; Jubilee speaks for us all; representation isn't a Boolean state; Wolverine fails at pop culture references; and somewhere there's probably a really dark alternate universe where Betsy teamed up with Jamie instead of Brian.X-PLAINED: 	Crimson Dawn 	Sarah Kuhn 	Uncanny X-Men #256-258 	A proactive approach to career advancement 	Matsuo Tsurayaba 	The Mandarin 	A highly symbolic dream sequence 	A controversial transformation 	Kwannon 	What badass looked like in 1990 	Several varyingly successful Batman references 	Rose Wu 	A fairly novel approach to hallucination 	Some high-quality invective 	Psylocke as a villainNEXT WEEK: What (almost) everyone else is up to!You can find the visual companion to this episode on our blog!Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)Buy prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!

Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and coffee mugs available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original. In which author Sarah Kuhn joins us to talk about Asian-American and Asian-British representation in superhero comics; Psylocke is the literal embodiment of British imperialism; Jubilee speaks for us all; representation isn't a Boolean state; Wolverine fails at pop culture references; and somewhere there's probably a really dark alternate universe where Betsy teamed up with Jamie instead of Brian. X-PLAINED: 	Crimson Dawn 	Sarah Kuhn 	Uncanny X-Men #256-258 	A proactive approach to career advancement 	Matsuo Tsurayaba 	The Mandarin 	A highly symbolic dream sequence 	A controversial transformation 	Kwannon 	What badass looked like in 1990 	Several varyingly successful Batman references 	Rose Wu 	A fairly novel approach to hallucination 	Some high-quality invective 	Psylocke as a villain NEXT WEEK: What (almost) everyone else is up to! You can find the visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.) Buy prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!

137 – Kicky Kinko Killers (feat. Sarah Kuhn)

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!In which tragedy strikes; leisure suits are underappreciated; Jubilee is fundamentally opposed to feelings; that MCU joke would definitely have been hilarious; we have trouble accepting Beast as a 20-something; when Gambit and Rogue work, they work; Wolverine makes an unlikely agony aunt; Dr. Strange was the mentor Illyana Rasputin really needed; and What If: Magik is pretty much a perfect comic.X-PLAINED: 	The Human High Council 	Many terrible things that have happened to the Rasputin family 	Uncanny X-Men #303 	X-Men #24 	What If: Magik 	A tonal disconnect 	Leisure Suit Larry 	A prospective movie marathon 	Insecurity 	Molecular Cohesion Unit 	The death of Illyana Rasputin (and its aftermath) 	Death in America 	A dubious idea for a theme park 	A reunion 	Papa Gumbo’s Cajun Cookout 	Illyana Rasputin and Dr. Strange 	Navigating vs. erasing trauma 	Why What If: Magik is absolutely amazing 	How to cite X-Men volumes 	Earth-242 (Earth on Fire)NEXT EPISODE: The other X-Cutioner!Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog!Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which tragedy strikes; leisure suits are underappreciated; Jubilee is fundamentally opposed to feelings; that MCU joke would definitely have been hilarious; we have trouble accepting Beast as a 20-something; when Gambit and Rogue work, they work; Wolverine makes an unlikely agony aunt; Dr. Strange was the mentor Illyana Rasputin really needed; and What If: Magik is pretty much a perfect comic. X-PLAINED: 	The Human High Council 	Many terrible things that have happened to the Rasputin family 	Uncanny X-Men #303 	X-Men #24 	What If: Magik 	A tonal disconnect 	Leisure Suit Larry 	A prospective movie marathon 	Insecurity 	Molecular Cohesion Unit 	The death of Illyana Rasputin (and its aftermath) 	Death in America 	A dubious idea for a theme park 	A reunion 	Papa Gumbo’s Cajun Cookout 	Illyana Rasputin and Dr. Strange 	Navigating vs. erasing trauma 	Why What If: Magik is absolutely amazing 	How to cite X-Men volumes 	Earth-242 (Earth on Fire) NEXT EPISODE: The other X-Cutioner! Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

230 – Touchstones

In which Magneto may or may not own a Namor body pillow; Cyclops probably doesn’t color-code his files; Colossus is Not Okay; bats are nature’s flashers; there are a lot of reasons to be mad at Fatal Attractions; Charles Xavier is surprisingly durable; the X-Men know their Aeschylus; Jean Grey goes in through the face; and bringing Wolverine to fight the guy who controls metal was probably not a great idea.

235 – Fatal Extractions (Fatal Attractions, Part 2)

Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.In which we recap nearly 200 issues in under three minutes; Madelyne Pryor is the Medea of X-Men; Mister Sinister takes the stage; Dazzler is basically an '80s movie refugee; Scrambler may or may not be an exchange student from the Riverdale Marauders; Marc Silvestri is excellent at some things and less so at others; nothing good happens in Nebraska; Trish Tilby is the April O'Neil of X-Factor; and we swear that it was a total coincidence that this episode went up on Mother's Day.X-PLAINED: 	One solution to the existential conundrum of the Carol Danvers who is also kind of part of Rogue 	Pretty much everything that's happened since the Dark Phoenix Saga 	The structure of Inferno 	Uncanny X-Men #239-241 	X-Factor #36-37 	The rise of the Goblin Queen 	Several deaths in elevators 	Mister Sinister and his amazing action-figure collection 	The evolution of Mark Silvestri 	Madelyne and Alex 	A very symbolic dress 	The Rainbow Room 	M-Squad 	That damn costume 	1989 in outfit form 	Jay's favorite Marauder 	Rats-R-Us 	Wolverine vs. a mail box 	The X-Men, but evil 	The secret origin of Madelyne Pryor 	A long-anticipated reunion 	Objects we'd demonically animate 	Which X-Man should do your taxesNEXT WEEK: The Passion of Madelyne PryorYou can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog!Find us on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher!Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!Buy prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!

Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original. In which we recap nearly 200 issues in under three minutes; Madelyne Pryor is the Medea of X-Men; Mister Sinister takes the stage; Dazzler is basically an '80s movie refugee; Scrambler may or may not be an exchange student from the Riverdale Marauders; Marc Silvestri is excellent at some things and less so at others; nothing good happens in Nebraska; Trish Tilby is the April O'Neil of X-Factor; and we swear that it was a total coincidence that this episode went up on Mother's Day. X-PLAINED: 	One solution to the existential conundrum of the Carol Danvers who is also kind of part of Rogue 	Pretty much everything that's happened since the Dark Phoenix Saga 	The structure of Inferno 	Uncanny X-Men #239-241 	X-Factor #36-37 	The rise of the Goblin Queen 	Several deaths in elevators 	Mister Sinister and his amazing action-figure collection 	The evolution of Mark Silvestri 	Madelyne and Alex 	A very symbolic dress 	The Rainbow Room 	M-Squad 	That damn costume 	1989 in outfit form 	Jay's favorite Marauder 	Rats-R-Us 	Wolverine vs. a mail box 	The X-Men, but evil 	The secret origin of Madelyne Pryor 	A long-anticipated reunion 	Objects we'd demonically animate 	Which X-Man should do your taxes NEXT WEEK: The Passion of Madelyne Pryor You can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! Buy prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!

108 – What Price Glory

Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.In which we venture out of our wheelhouse; Contest of Champions is ridiculous in any medium; Captain Britain would like you to unhand that elf; the Fury is legitimately terrifying; the Special Executive is the best at heists; Brian Braddock knows exactly what he's getting into; Merlyn is the multiversal Charles Xavier; and this is really just the tip of the iceberg.X-PLAINED: 	Various Contests of Champions 	ISO-8 	Marvel UK 	Marvel Superheroes 377-388 	Daredevils 1-11 	Mighty World of Marvel 7-13 	Captain Britain (Brian Braddock) 	Jackdaw 	Earth-238 	Mad Jim Jaspers 	The Crazy Gang 	Algernon the Rat 	Omniversal Majestrix Opal Luna Saturnyne 	Life-Enhancing Fluid 	The Fury 	Alan Moore juvenilia 	The (first) death and rebirth of Captain Britain 	How to make a retcon work 	Mastermind (but not that Mastermind) 	Emma Collins 	Pre-Psylocke Betsy Braddock 	S.T.R.I.K.E. 	Vixen 	Slaymaster 	The Trial of Saturnyne 	The Special Executive 	Mandragon 	The Captain Britain Corps 	Captain U.K. (Linda McQuillan) 	Marvelman vs. Miracleman 	Future Traumatic Stress DisorderNEXT EPISODE: But wait! There's more!You can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog!Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!Buy prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!

Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original. In which we venture out of our wheelhouse; Contest of Champions is ridiculous in any medium; Captain Britain would like you to unhand that elf; the Fury is legitimately terrifying; the Special Executive is the best at heists; Brian Braddock knows exactly what he's getting into; Merlyn is the multiversal Charles Xavier; and this is really just the tip of the iceberg. X-PLAINED: 	Various Contests of Champions 	ISO-8 	Marvel UK 	Marvel Superheroes 377-388 	Daredevils 1-11 	Mighty World of Marvel 7-13 	Captain Britain (Brian Braddock) 	Jackdaw 	Earth-238 	Mad Jim Jaspers 	The Crazy Gang 	Algernon the Rat 	Omniversal Majestrix Opal Luna Saturnyne 	Life-Enhancing Fluid 	The Fury 	Alan Moore juvenilia 	The (first) death and rebirth of Captain Britain 	How to make a retcon work 	Mastermind (but not that Mastermind) 	Emma Collins 	Pre-Psylocke Betsy Braddock 	S.T.R.I.K.E. 	Vixen 	Slaymaster 	The Trial of Saturnyne 	The Special Executive 	Mandragon 	The Captain Britain Corps 	Captain U.K. (Linda McQuillan) 	Marvelman vs. Miracleman 	Future Traumatic Stress Disorder NEXT EPISODE: But wait! There's more! You can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! Buy prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!

97 – The Crooked World

Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and travel mugs available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.In which we play Evolutionary War Mad-Libs; it's probably a bad sign when Apocalypse decides you need an intervention; Dani is (briefly) the new Doug; horses are jerks; it's probably really dangerous to be Longshot; Storm has the coolest friends; the High Evolutionary is very high indeed; and we make a (very token) nod to Valentine's Day.X-PLAINED: 	Secret Origins of the High Evolutionary 	Evolutionary War 	The actual history of eugenics in America 	X-Factor Annual #3 	New Mutants Annual #4 	Uncanny X-Men Annual #12 	Classic X-Men #22 	Purifiers (but not those purifiers) 	Stack 	Purge 	How to tell when an event has major psychic repercussions 	A Silver-Age callback 	An Apocalypse-style intervention 	Toga Steve (Val-Or) 	The return of Bulk and Glow Worm 	Equal-opportunity Hellfire lingerie 	Mirage's power upgrade 	Miles vs. puberty vs. Uncanny X-Men 	The coolest civilization ever 	Colossus's illegitimate kid 	The cutest sound effect 	Origins of the Scott/Jean/Logan love triangle 	Stuff Jay likes and Miles doesn't 	The Elle Collins Theory of Podcast RolesNEXT EPISODE: Captain Britain!You can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog!Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!Buy prints (or travel mugs) of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!

Art by David Wynne. Prints, cards, and travel mugs available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original. In which we play Evolutionary War Mad-Libs; it's probably a bad sign when Apocalypse decides you need an intervention; Dani is (briefly) the new Doug; horses are jerks; it's probably really dangerous to be Longshot; Storm has the coolest friends; the High Evolutionary is very high indeed; and we make a (very token) nod to Valentine's Day. X-PLAINED: 	Secret Origins of the High Evolutionary 	Evolutionary War 	The actual history of eugenics in America 	X-Factor Annual #3 	New Mutants Annual #4 	Uncanny X-Men Annual #12 	Classic X-Men #22 	Purifiers (but not those purifiers) 	Stack 	Purge 	How to tell when an event has major psychic repercussions 	A Silver-Age callback 	An Apocalypse-style intervention 	Toga Steve (Val-Or) 	The return of Bulk and Glow Worm 	Equal-opportunity Hellfire lingerie 	Mirage's power upgrade 	Miles vs. puberty vs. Uncanny X-Men 	The coolest civilization ever 	Colossus's illegitimate kid 	The cutest sound effect 	Origins of the Scott/Jean/Logan love triangle 	Stuff Jay likes and Miles doesn't 	The Elle Collins Theory of Podcast Roles NEXT EPISODE: Captain Britain! You can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! Buy prints (or travel mugs) of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!

96 – Horsemen of the Playground

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!In which Wolverine is an eternal teenager; most of what Jay knows about Hawaii comes from Lilo and Stitch; Shiv is a complicated fellow; Nightcrawler represents an unattainable beauty standard; the Easter Bunny flies at dawn; Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure is delightful; Logan inadvertently starts a cult; Gahk does as she pleases; Jay and Miles are going to FlameCon; and we are all now Honkers forever.X-PLAINED: 	What Bloodscream and Roughouse have been up to 	Albert and Elsie Dee 	An unorthodox vocal warm-up 	Wolverine: Bloody Choices 	Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure 	The Wolverine formula 	Kamehameha Day (which Jay mispronounced; sorry!) 	Mr. Bullfinch 	Mr. Kapeland 	Shiv 	Doc Corbel 	Nick Fury's penmanship 	How retail works 	Secret agents, maybe 	A stimulating combination 	Karate pants 	A darker, grittier version of the Easter bunny 	Wolverine's apocryphal childhood 	Characters who can pull off the Wolverine hairstyle 	Don Adams as Wolverine 	Win/win murder scenarios 	Two adult men discussing their feelings 	Honkers 	Cargo cults 	The Tribe of Fire 	Gahck 	Some romance 	A Spiny Honker 	The Honker of Doom 	Pit traps, with and without shallow holes 	A dastardly but ineffectual plot 	Apocalypse, kind of 	One of Wolverine's many kids (who may or may not be Erista) 	Jay &amp; Miles at FlameCon 2018 	How to get us at your local convention 	Reading comics with Miles's dad 	Seriously, though: honkersNEXT EPISODE: Even more ExcalibursCheck out the visual companion to this episode on our blog!Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which Wolverine is an eternal teenager; most of what Jay knows about Hawaii comes from Lilo and Stitch; Shiv is a complicated fellow; Nightcrawler represents an unattainable beauty standard; the Easter Bunny flies at dawn; Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure is delightful; Logan inadvertently starts a cult; Gahk does as she pleases; Jay and Miles are going to FlameCon; and we are all now Honkers forever. X-PLAINED: 	What Bloodscream and Roughouse have been up to 	Albert and Elsie Dee 	An unorthodox vocal warm-up 	Wolverine: Bloody Choices 	Wolverine: The Jungle Adventure 	The Wolverine formula 	Kamehameha Day (which Jay mispronounced; sorry!) 	Mr. Bullfinch 	Mr. Kapeland 	Shiv 	Doc Corbel 	Nick Fury's penmanship 	How retail works 	Secret agents, maybe 	A stimulating combination 	Karate pants 	A darker, grittier version of the Easter bunny 	Wolverine's apocryphal childhood 	Characters who can pull off the Wolverine hairstyle 	Don Adams as Wolverine 	Win/win murder scenarios 	Two adult men discussing their feelings 	Honkers 	Cargo cults 	The Tribe of Fire 	Gahck 	Some romance 	A Spiny Honker 	The Honker of Doom 	Pit traps, with and without shallow holes 	A dastardly but ineffectual plot 	Apocalypse, kind of 	One of Wolverine's many kids (who may or may not be Erista) 	Jay &amp; Miles at FlameCon 2018 	How to get us at your local convention 	Reading comics with Miles's dad 	Seriously, though: honkers NEXT EPISODE: Even more Excaliburs Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

197 – Wolverine and the Honker of Doom

Art by David Wynne. Prints available until 1/15 in the shop, or contact David for the original.In which we launch our first-ever giant-size special; God Loves, Man Kills is the definitive X-Men story; Bobby makes his R&amp;MXtXM on-air debut; we repopulate the world with X-writers; Rachel is really excited about x-plaining X-Cutioner’s Song; Miles takes a strong stance on Wolverine’s mask; we award some awards; and it’s all your fault.X-Plained 	God Loves, Man Kills (Marvel Graphic Novel #5) 	William Stryker 	An inappropriate analogy 	Keeping it interesting 	Favorite episodes 	Bridging the fan/critic divide 	Our ongoing obsession with bit characters 	The challenge of keeping Charles Xavier relevant 	X-Planation Curation 	Several stories we’re really looking forward to covering 	X-Writers on a desert island 	Internet fights 	Favorite stories vs. best stories 	Stupid hats of the Marvel Universe 	Dr. Doom as Tim Gunn 	Havok vs. ceiling fans 	Educational standards of the Marvel Universe 	The First Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence in X-CellenceNEXT WEEK: Rachel and Chris Sims X-Plain ArcadeCORRECTION: In this episode, Rachel claims that there is only one Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau in the Marvel Multiverse. This is patently untrue. There are numerous versions of Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau in the Marvel Multiverse, who may or may not be able to combine Voltron-style into a giant Corbeau Singularity.You can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog!Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Support us on Patreon!Buy prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!

Art by David Wynne. Prints available until 1/15 in the shop, or contact David for the original. In which we launch our first-ever giant-size special; God Loves, Man Kills is the definitive X-Men story; Bobby makes his R&amp;MXtXM on-air debut; we repopulate the world with X-writers; Rachel is really excited about x-plaining X-Cutioner’s Song; Miles takes a strong stance on Wolverine’s mask; we award some awards; and it’s all your fault. X-Plained 	God Loves, Man Kills (Marvel Graphic Novel #5) 	William Stryker 	An inappropriate analogy 	Keeping it interesting 	Favorite episodes 	Bridging the fan/critic divide 	Our ongoing obsession with bit characters 	The challenge of keeping Charles Xavier relevant 	X-Planation Curation 	Several stories we’re really looking forward to covering 	X-Writers on a desert island 	Internet fights 	Favorite stories vs. best stories 	Stupid hats of the Marvel Universe 	Dr. Doom as Tim Gunn 	Havok vs. ceiling fans 	Educational standards of the Marvel Universe 	The First Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence in X-Cellence NEXT WEEK: Rachel and Chris Sims X-Plain Arcade CORRECTION: In this episode, Rachel claims that there is only one Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau in the Marvel Multiverse. This is patently untrue. There are numerous versions of Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau in the Marvel Multiverse, who may or may not be able to combine Voltron-style into a giant Corbeau Singularity. You can find a visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Support us on Patreon! Buy prints of this week’s illustration at our shop, or contact David Wynne for the original!

37 – Giant-Size Special #1

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 &amp; 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 puzzle 	X-Factor #87 	Doc Samson 	Making talking heads interesting 	Wolfsbane's relationship to pop culture 	Appropriate boundaries 	Several remarkable fashion choices 	Pietro Maximoff in perspective 	Therapeutic assessment vs. intervention 	The extremely tragic backstory of Jamie Madrox 	Imposter syndrome 	A brief history of Polaris's brushes with possession 	A really poorly planned and presented sequence 	Consequences of armchair diagnosis 	Interactions of telepathy and psychology 	Legion as a portrayal of mental illness 	Writing mental illness in fictionNEXT EPISODE: Rasputin Family Reunion!Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog!Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

In which Dr. Andrea Letamendi of Arkham Sessions joins us to analyze some analysis; Doc Samson has major scope-of-practice issues; Ren &amp; 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 puzzle 	X-Factor #87 	Doc Samson 	Making talking heads interesting 	Wolfsbane's relationship to pop culture 	Appropriate boundaries 	Several remarkable fashion choices 	Pietro Maximoff in perspective 	Therapeutic assessment vs. intervention 	The extremely tragic backstory of Jamie Madrox 	Imposter syndrome 	A brief history of Polaris's brushes with possession 	A really poorly planned and presented sequence 	Consequences of armchair diagnosis 	Interactions of telepathy and psychology 	Legion as a portrayal of mental illness 	Writing mental illness in fiction NEXT EPISODE: Rasputin Family Reunion! Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

216 – X-Amining X-Factor (feat. Dr. Andrea Letamendi)

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!In which almost everyone is better than Romulus; Barry Windsor-Smith continues to draw the best naked X-Men; Jay has strong feelings about Wolverine's origins; Miles still hasn't seen The Prisoner; when in doubt, it's probably Kang the Conqueror and/or Mystique; we remain unqualified to give bear-fighting advice; you should not hide out in a nuclear reactor; and the Coffee-a-Go-Go has probably been turned into a new-wave sushi bar or something.X-PLAINED: 	The Professor (Truett Hudson) 	Romulus 	Jay &amp; Miles at Rose City Comic Con 	Marvel Comics Presents #72-84 	"Weapon X" 	Backstory attrition 	A really good opening montage 	Some very effective use of color 	Healing hair 	The original villain behind Weapon X 	A retconned origin of Wolverine's claws 	Dr. Abraham Cornelius 	Carol Hines 	Terry Gilliam's Weapon X 	Audio vs. text-based mind control 	An action figure in dubious taste 	The Milgram Experiment 	An adaptation we'd like to see 	A bad place to hide 	Subsequent "Weapon X" retcons 	How Cyclops's powers have (and haven't) developed 	Jay's general failure at X-tourismNEXT WEEK: More MCP, featuring "The Retribution Affair" and "God's Country"!You can find the visual companion to this episode on our blog.Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which almost everyone is better than Romulus; Barry Windsor-Smith continues to draw the best naked X-Men; Jay has strong feelings about Wolverine's origins; Miles still hasn't seen The Prisoner; when in doubt, it's probably Kang the Conqueror and/or Mystique; we remain unqualified to give bear-fighting advice; you should not hide out in a nuclear reactor; and the Coffee-a-Go-Go has probably been turned into a new-wave sushi bar or something. X-PLAINED: 	The Professor (Truett Hudson) 	Romulus 	Jay &amp; Miles at Rose City Comic Con 	Marvel Comics Presents #72-84 	"Weapon X" 	Backstory attrition 	A really good opening montage 	Some very effective use of color 	Healing hair 	The original villain behind Weapon X 	A retconned origin of Wolverine's claws 	Dr. Abraham Cornelius 	Carol Hines 	Terry Gilliam's Weapon X 	Audio vs. text-based mind control 	An action figure in dubious taste 	The Milgram Experiment 	An adaptation we'd like to see 	A bad place to hide 	Subsequent "Weapon X" retcons 	How Cyclops's powers have (and haven't) developed 	Jay's general failure at X-tourism NEXT WEEK: More MCP, featuring "The Retribution Affair" and "God's Country"! You can find the visual companion to this episode on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

162 – Naked In Canada

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!In which we return to Excalibur, and Excalibur returns to form; "Girls' School from Heck" is way better than we remembered; Jay has strong feelings about penmanship; we examine the semantics of field hockey; the band gets back together; Dai Thomas has no time for your comic-book bullshit; and you should never, ever install a good/evil switch in your technological abominations.X-PLAINED 	The first appearances of Colonel Vazhin 	Perks of home recording 	FlameCon 2017 	Jay &amp; Miles at Rose City Comic Con 	Excalibur #32-36 	"Girls' School from Heck!" 	St. Searle's School for Young Ladies 	St. Trinian's and a large number of references thereto 	Regional variations in boarding school hijinks 	Miss Rutherford 	A poorly staged panel 	Phoebe Huntsman 	Kitty Pryde's penmanship 	Margaret Thatcher's weirdly wholesome fantasies 	The kinda-reformation of Mesmero 	The end of Chris Claremont's run on Excalibur 	Some complicated contradictions related to the ethics of consumption 	An abduction 	The ethics of psychic interrogation (kinda) 	Mariner disambiguation 	A rescue 	An unlikely partnership 	Darkmoor Research Center 	Dr. Walshe 	A somewhat convoluted plot 	Whether the Danger Room could function as a bathroom 	The physics of Asteroid MNEXT EPISODE: Weapon X!You can find the visual companion to this episode on our blog.Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)Special thanks to Gavia Baker-Whitelaw for helping us assemble the St. Searle's marginalia!

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which we return to Excalibur, and Excalibur returns to form; "Girls' School from Heck" is way better than we remembered; Jay has strong feelings about penmanship; we examine the semantics of field hockey; the band gets back together; Dai Thomas has no time for your comic-book bullshit; and you should never, ever install a good/evil switch in your technological abominations. X-PLAINED 	The first appearances of Colonel Vazhin 	Perks of home recording 	FlameCon 2017 	Jay &amp; Miles at Rose City Comic Con 	Excalibur #32-36 	"Girls' School from Heck!" 	St. Searle's School for Young Ladies 	St. Trinian's and a large number of references thereto 	Regional variations in boarding school hijinks 	Miss Rutherford 	A poorly staged panel 	Phoebe Huntsman 	Kitty Pryde's penmanship 	Margaret Thatcher's weirdly wholesome fantasies 	The kinda-reformation of Mesmero 	The end of Chris Claremont's run on Excalibur 	Some complicated contradictions related to the ethics of consumption 	An abduction 	The ethics of psychic interrogation (kinda) 	Mariner disambiguation 	A rescue 	An unlikely partnership 	Darkmoor Research Center 	Dr. Walshe 	A somewhat convoluted plot 	Whether the Danger Room could function as a bathroom 	The physics of Asteroid M NEXT EPISODE: Weapon X! You can find the visual companion to this episode on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.) Special thanks to Gavia Baker-Whitelaw for helping us assemble the St. Searle's marginalia!

161 – Do You Even Howl, Bro?

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!In which "wolves" proves a remarkably broad category in the 616; we at least nominally wrap up X-Cutioner's Song; Stryfe could really use a style guide; we issue our first-ever music challenge; Jubilee is an agent of chaos; Gambit's powers are a metaphor; Charles Xavier has a complicated relationship to disability; the quality of Jay's penmanship is a matter of official record; Boom Boom is a remarkably good costume designer; Cannonball comes into his own as a leader; and every "WHAT?!" you hear on this show is fresh and original.X-PLAINED: 	Wolves, to a very limited extent 	Jay &amp; Miles (kinda) at NYCC 	Transcripts 	X-Cutioner's Song 	Stryfe's Strike File 	Uncanny X-Men #297 	X-Force #19 	A gentle bird caught in a swirling tornado of lust and desperation 	Shades of me 	Shades of you 	Shades of them 	Our first-ever music challenge 	Some foreshadowing 	Nostalgia 	A very nice hug 	The one good side effect of Stryfe's technoorganic virus 	Charles Xavier vs. disability politics 	Several practical jokes in very poor taste 	Teacher-student bonding 	An excellent epithet 	Some lettering choices 	An extended Hail Caesar riff 	The Clooney Scale 	An enduring mystery 	Clone powers 	Exclamatory logisticsNEXT EPISODE: Hey, remember Excalibur?MUSIC CHALLENGE: Write and record a song based on or using text from Stryfe's Strike File (or any of his rants from X-Cutioner's Song)! Send your masterpieces (or links to 'em) to xplainthexmen(at)gmail(dot)com, with the subject STRYFE SONG!Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog!Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! In which "wolves" proves a remarkably broad category in the 616; we at least nominally wrap up X-Cutioner's Song; Stryfe could really use a style guide; we issue our first-ever music challenge; Jubilee is an agent of chaos; Gambit's powers are a metaphor; Charles Xavier has a complicated relationship to disability; the quality of Jay's penmanship is a matter of official record; Boom Boom is a remarkably good costume designer; Cannonball comes into his own as a leader; and every "WHAT?!" you hear on this show is fresh and original. X-PLAINED: 	Wolves, to a very limited extent 	Jay &amp; Miles (kinda) at NYCC 	Transcripts 	X-Cutioner's Song 	Stryfe's Strike File 	Uncanny X-Men #297 	X-Force #19 	A gentle bird caught in a swirling tornado of lust and desperation 	Shades of me 	Shades of you 	Shades of them 	Our first-ever music challenge 	Some foreshadowing 	Nostalgia 	A very nice hug 	The one good side effect of Stryfe's technoorganic virus 	Charles Xavier vs. disability politics 	Several practical jokes in very poor taste 	Teacher-student bonding 	An excellent epithet 	Some lettering choices 	An extended Hail Caesar riff 	The Clooney Scale 	An enduring mystery 	Clone powers 	Exclamatory logistics NEXT EPISODE: Hey, remember Excalibur? MUSIC CHALLENGE: Write and record a song based on or using text from Stryfe's Strike File (or any of his rants from X-Cutioner's Song)! Send your masterpieces (or links to 'em) to xplainthexmen(at)gmail(dot)com, with the subject STRYFE SONG! Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

214 – Stryfe’s Burn Book

Art by David Wynne. Contact David to purchase the original!In which the X-Tinction Agenda begins in earnest; Jim Lee rocks our world; Cable doesn't need any Mickey-Mouse schedules; Jean Grey is not paid by the word; Havok makes a heel turn; Boom Boom's pretext of self-interest fools no one; Cameron Hodge is STILL the worst; and Jay and Miles make an announcement.X-PLAINED: 	Warlock across the multiverse 	Uncanny X-Men #270, New Mutants #95, X-Factor #60 	X-Tinction Agenda 	The first modern crossover 	The creative state of the X-line 	Limitations of Marvel Unlimited 	Dramatis Personae 	Mickey-Mouse schedules 	The X-Men, who do not die the old-fashioned way 	One-way nude teleportation 	Magistrate Summers 	The return of Cameron Hodge's angry severed head 	Wipeout (again) 	Mutates 	The death of Warlock 	The esoteric paraphernalia of war 	Silver Age misogyny 	What we'd do differently if we introduced the X-Men in 2017 	Our upcoming hiatusNEXT EPISODE: It gets worse.You can find the visual companion to this episode on our blog.Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

Art by David Wynne. Contact David to purchase the original! In which the X-Tinction Agenda begins in earnest; Jim Lee rocks our world; Cable doesn't need any Mickey-Mouse schedules; Jean Grey is not paid by the word; Havok makes a heel turn; Boom Boom's pretext of self-interest fools no one; Cameron Hodge is STILL the worst; and Jay and Miles make an announcement. X-PLAINED: 	Warlock across the multiverse 	Uncanny X-Men #270, New Mutants #95, X-Factor #60 	X-Tinction Agenda 	The first modern crossover 	The creative state of the X-line 	Limitations of Marvel Unlimited 	Dramatis Personae 	Mickey-Mouse schedules 	The X-Men, who do not die the old-fashioned way 	One-way nude teleportation 	Magistrate Summers 	The return of Cameron Hodge's angry severed head 	Wipeout (again) 	Mutates 	The death of Warlock 	The esoteric paraphernalia of war 	Silver Age misogyny 	What we'd do differently if we introduced the X-Men in 2017 	Our upcoming hiatus NEXT EPISODE: It gets worse. You can find the visual companion to this episode on our blog. Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

155 – X-Tinction Event

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 may not be Santa Claus 	The Christmas spirit 	Saskia 	The Hair 	Some varyingly graphic murders 	The Alshra 	The Neuri 	Wendigo rules 	Adamantium vs. healing factor 	Where Wolverine pees 	A statement of enmity 	Potent limbs 	Mr. Kaplan 	Weird happenings 	A man who is very obviously Merlin 	Some pedagogy 	An unfavorable Ed Wood comparison 	The Changeling (again) 	X-Force P.R. 	Space brosNEXT EPISODE: Romance and Banter with Kelly Thompson!Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog!Find us on iTunes or Stitcher!Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here!We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

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 may not be Santa Claus 	The Christmas spirit 	Saskia 	The Hair 	Some varyingly graphic murders 	The Alshra 	The Neuri 	Wendigo rules 	Adamantium vs. healing factor 	Where Wolverine pees 	A statement of enmity 	Potent limbs 	Mr. Kaplan 	Weird happenings 	A man who is very obviously Merlin 	Some pedagogy 	An unfavorable Ed Wood comparison 	The Changeling (again) 	X-Force P.R. 	Space bros NEXT EPISODE: Romance and Banter with Kelly Thompson! Check out the visual companion to this episode on our blog! Find us on iTunes or Stitcher! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! We’re in the process of migrating our official shop to TeePublic! Click over to check it out! (You can still find the designs we haven’t moved yet at Redbubble.)

190 – Local Yokels

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