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Episode 324 - Snack Attack

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Cordelia Frost is a terrible friend; Mondo is better than the story arcs that surround him; and we’d really love to see a series about Sean Cassidy’s super groovy past.

## X-plained

* The one who got away
* *Generation X Annual* 1995
* *Generation X* #10-11
* A failed seduction attempt
* Mondo and a plant-based facsimile thereof
* An emergency
* The very personal and private journal of Monet St. Croix
* A party
* Omega Red (again)
* Sean Cassidy’s Interpol days
* An unlikely informant
* A somewhat surreal monitoring system
* The *Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men* Wiki

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 72

## Episode Description

In which we are pleasantly surprised by Greg Land; Magneto makes some valid fashion choices; Jay has a lot of feelings about universe-splitting; and Worst X-Man Ever ends in the only way it ever could.

## Reviewed

* Uncanny X-Men #3
	+ Written by: Cullen Bunn
	+ Pencils by: Greg Land
	+ Inks by: Jay Leisten
	+ Colors by: Nolan Woodard
* **Worst X-Man Ever #5** (Pick of the week)
	+ Written by: Max Bemis
	+ Pencils & Inks by: Michael Walsh
	+ Colors by: Ruth Redmond
Kyle Yount

## External links

Twitter: @grumpydevil

Podcast: Kaijucast

**Kyle Yount** was the second producer of *Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men*. He took over from previous producer Bobby Roberts, beginning with Episode 058 – Miniseries Mayhem and finishing with Episode 157 - Melted to Slag. He was then followed by Kurt Loyd. Kyle also produced *The Lightning and the Storm*.

Kyle is a long-time Godzilla fan whose projects have included *Kenshin! Online*, fan site *The Shrine of Gamera*, and the *50 Years Of Godzilla Film Festival*, held in 2004 at the Hollywood Theatre in Portland. He is the host and producer of *Kaijucast*, a podcast "dedicated to Godzilla and all his rubber-suited foes".

## Appears in:

* Episode 080 – For the Mutant Who Has Everything
* The Lightning and the Storm 09 - Balder the Brave

## Mentioned in:

* The credits of Jay & Miles episodes 58 through 157.
Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 39

==Episode Description==
In which it’s all Secret Wars all the time; Dennis Hopeless is a consistent source of Feels; Old Man Logan fills the Wolverine-Western-shaped hole in our lives; Jubilee wins; and we are forced to radically rethink some assumptions about big summer crossover events.

## Reviewed

* Inferno #1 (Pick of the week)
* Secret Wars Journal #1
* X-Men ’92 (Infinite Comic) #1
* Old Man Logan #1
Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 43

==Episode Description==
In which the fact that we’re biased doesn’t mean we’re not also right; we disagree about which Silent Hill game makes the best metaphor for E is for Extinction; and Miles probably does not actually have the Legacy Virus.

## Reviewed

* Uncanny Avengers #5
* X-Men ’92 (Infinite Comic) #3 (Pick of the week)
* E Is for Extinction #1
Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 46

==Episode Description==
In which Apocalypse has always been pretty silly; Cyclops is probably not actually the ‘bad boy’ of the X-Men; Years of Future Past continues to rock; and a lot of Wolverines fight.

## Reviewed

* X-Men: Apocalypse character reveals
* Years of Future Past #3 (Pick of the week)
* Secret Wars: Battleworld #3
Jay and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 80

## Episode Description

In which Uncanny X-Men gets a new artist; Old Man Logan takes our breath away; All-New X-Men gives us the team-up we didn’t know we needed; and X-Men ’92 gets the villain we’ve been waiting for.

## Reviewed

* Uncanny X-Men #6
	+ Written by Cullen Bunn
	+ Pencils & Inks by: Ken Lashley
	+ Colors by: Nolan Woodard
* **Old Man Logan #4** (Pick of the week)
	+ Written by: Jeff Lemire
	+ Pencils & Inks by: Andrea Sorrentino
	+ Colors by: Marcelo Maiolo
* All-New X-Men #8
	+ Written by: Dennis Hopeless
	+ Pencils & Inks by: Paco Diaz
	+ Colors by: Rachelle Rosenberg
* X-Men ’92 #2
	+ Written by: Chris Simms & Chad Bowers
	+ Pencils & Inks by: Alti Firmansyah
	+ Colors by: Matt Mila
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Template - Episode

Art by David Wynne

## Episode Description

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## X-Plained

* List of topics covered in this episode, as listed on the accompanying blog post. The {{iwc}} template can be used to link specific comic issues to the Marvel Database wiki.

## Links & other labels

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## Annotations

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## Transcript

If a transcript exists for this episode it should go here after all other sections. The goal is to describe the episode in increasing detail starting with the brief episode description, X-Plained topics, and additional links (all copied from the website), transitioning through a list of annotations explaining off-hand comments or subjects from the episode, relaying the cold open and listener questions, and culminating in the complete transcript.

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HAWK TALK - Playing With Super Power (feat. Matthew Hunter)

## Episode Description

This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, our producer Matthew Hunter subbed in for Jay and he and Miles talked about the video games they grew up on!

## Topics, roughly

* Crystalis
* Power Blade
* Fighting robots (in general)
* Super Mario World
* F-Zero
* Final Fantasy II (which is to say IV)
* Street Fighter II
* Rockin’ Kats
* Shatter Hand
* Battletoads
* Lemmings
* The Incredible Machine
* The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
* Turtles in Time
* Mario Paint
* Doom
* Secret of Mana
* Mega Man X
* Disney adaptations
* Final Fantasy III (which is to say VI)
* Donkey Kong Country
* Super Punch Out
* Illusion of Gaia
* BioForge
* DWANGO (Dial-up Wide-Area Network Game Operation)
* Full Throttle, Quest For Glory, Gabriel Knight…
* Wild ARMs
* Wipeout
* Stun Runner
* Resident Evil
* Final Fantasy VII
* Fallout
* Parasite Eve
* Xenogears
* Baldur’s Gate
* Tetris DX
* Pokémon (Blue)
* LUNAR
* Silent Hill
THOR: The Lightning and the Storm

***THOR: The Lightning and the Storm*** is a comics podcast hosted by Miles Stokes and Elisabeth Allie recapping and commenting on Walter Simonson's 1980s run on *The Mighty Thor*. A limited-run podcast of 13 episodes (plus a prologue), it was scheduled to fill the gap during the hiatus of *Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men*. The production costs were covered via an Indiegogo campaign, which successfully added episodes to the ones originally planned. It's produced by Kyle Yount.

## Episodes

* THOR Episode 00 - Fill-In Fury! (Thor #356 & #370)
* THOR Episode 01 - The Ballad of Beta Ray Bill (Thor #337-340)
* THOR Episode 02 - The Last Viking (Thor #341-344)
* THOR Episode 03 - The Casket of Ancient Winters (Thor #345-348)
* THOR Episode 04 - Surtwar, Part I (Thor #349-351)
* THOR Episode 05 - Surtwar, Part II (Thor #352-354)
* THOR Episode 06 - Aftermath (and Afterglow) (Thor #355, 357-359)
* THOR Episode 07 - The Executioner’s Last Stand (Thor #360-362)
* THOR Episode 08 - Of Frogs and Men (Thor #363-366)
* THOR Episode 09 - Balder the Brave
* THOR Episode 10 - Once Upon a Time
* THOR Episode 11 - The Zaniac Lives / The Mutant Massacre
* THOR Episode 12 - Asgardian Steel
* THOR Episode 13 - Would You Know More?
* THOR Episode 14 - A Conversation with Walter Simonson
Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 11

==Episode Description==
In which we jump on the stealth-cosplay bandwagon and bid a fond farewell to Wolverine and the X-Men; and Deadpool still doesn’t count.

## Reviewed

* Death of Wolverine: Deadpool and Captain America
* Axis: Revolutions #1
* All-New X-Men #33
* Death of Wolverine: The Logan Legacy #3
* Wolverine and the X-Men #11 (Pick of the week)

## Panel of the Week

From Death of Wolverine: The Logan Legacy #3
Jay and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 79

## Episode Description

In which Jay draws a line in the sand, Rogue hits someone with a bear, Toad develops nuance, and you should totally come see us at ECCC!

## Reviewed

* Uncanny X-Men #5
	+ Written by: Cullen Bunn
	+ Pencils by: Greg Land
	+ Inks by: Jay Leisten
	+ Colors by: Nolan Woodard
* **X-Men ’92 #1** (Pick of the week)
	+ Written by: Chris Sims & Chad Bowers
	+ Pencils & Inks by: Alti Firmansyah
	+ Colors by: Matt Milla
* All-New X-Men #7
	+ Written by: Dennis Hopeless
	+ Pencils by: Mark Bagley
	+ Inks by: Andrew Hennessy
	+ Colors by: Nolan Woodard
Episode 362 - Lazy Summer Day

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Chris Bachalo draws excellent critters; Bastion is a terrible boss; everyone fucks in the Danger Room; Jubilee fails a midterm; and humans were the real monsters all along.

## X-plained

* The worst mutant power
* *Generation X* #20-21
* *X-Factor* #127
* Bachalo critters
* Bastion (more) (again)
* Daria (but not the one you’re thinking of)
* Chevy the janitor (again)
* Mean Cuisine
* Harker the cat
* A threatening salad
* *Yet another* time-traveling Nate
* Flirting
* A movie reference
* *U.S.1* and Baron von Blimp
* Several ways to fail a midterm
* “Autism”
* Miguela Torres
* Trevor Chase
* A series of interviews
* Richard Starkings and Comicraft
* Destiny’s absence from film

## Links & Further Miscreants

* *Waiting for the Trade* re: the Danger Room and what’s been done there.
* For more about Tana Nile, Howard the Duck, and Franklin Richards, check out Giant-Size Special #10!
* X-Factor, summarized.

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Jean Grey

It sucks to be Jean Grey, aka Marvel Girl, Phoenix and Dark Phoenix. Sure, she has the mutant powers of telekinesis and telepathy. Sure, sometimes those powers are of a magnitude that can shake the earth. But also, you die and come back to life far too many times, even for a comic book character.

## X-plained In:

Episodes of R&MX that go into detail about Jean Grey:

* Episode 001 - The Strangest Podcast of Them All
* Episode 008 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Claremont
* Episode 009 - Leprechaun Surprise Party
* Episode 021 - Kurt Busiek at the Coffee-a-Go-Go
* Episode 022 - Through Death and Through Life
* Episode 053 - Sometimes They Come Back

## Mentioned In:

Episodes of R&MX that mention Jean Grey:

* Episode 002 - Sentinels in the Mist
* Episode 003 - Cartoons, Lies, and Video Tape
* Episode 004 - American History X-Men
* Episode 005 - The Retcon That Walks Like a Man
* Episode 006 - Days of Future Whatever
* Episode 010 - Not All Mandroids
* Episode 011 - Who Would Win in a Fight
* Episode 012 - Inner Circle Jerk

## Recommended Reading:

A place for the X-plain Nation to suggest the best stories featuring Jean Grey.
HAWK TALK - Turtle Power

## Episode Description

This would usually be a skip week, but the world is still being a jerk, so we made you a bonus, entirely unedited, and almost entirely off-topic episode. This time, we talked about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

## Topics, roughly

* Daredevil parodies
* The nature of mutation
* The four humors
* Archetypes of masculinity
* Legal status of mutant animal people
* Questionable toys
* Adaptations and adaptations of adaptations
* Miles’s favorite Mirage comic story
* The excellently weird Archie comic series
* Girl turtles and naming conventions
* Movies good and bad
* Milesangelo
Episode 363 - Licked by a Shadow

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which standing in fields looking confused is a way of life; Psylocke gets a new superpower; when you gotta confess you gotta confess; Iceman’s dad stands up for justice; we mourn a Sentinel; and it’s probably a good thing that most companies don’t do mind melds as a team-building exercise.

## X-plained

* Levels of mutant power
* Omicron-level mutations
* Miles’s brief baseball career
* *Uncanny X-Men* #338
* *X-Men* #58
* *X-Men* Annual 1996
* Archangel’s wings
* Joseph vs. Holographic Magneto
* Shadow teleportation
* The errand theory of confession
* Graydon Creed (more) (again)
* “Drake Roberts” and “Samson Guthry”
* Several ways to memorialize the Mutant Massacre
* Onslaught, but an anteater
* A fight
* Several JJJ cameos
* X-baseball games
* A highly atypical Sentinel
* Several oblique warnings
* *X-Men ‘97*
* Media inspired by the X-Men

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Episode 314 - Feelings, Alaska

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Haven deserved better; Cyclops and Havok have a lot of feelings in Alaska; X-Factor is the cop team; breaking up with your girlfriend between issues is a massive faux pas; Haven got a bad deal; no one cares about Random’s feelings; Spiral is weird Twitter; and Alex Summers once again fails to finish his dissertation.

## X-plained

* Chaos (Daniel Dash)
* Pie
* Power suits vs. power suits
* *X-Factor* #115-118
* Haven (more) (again)
* The Adversary (more) (again)
* Naze (more) (again)
* Several people who may or may not be holograms
* One of Jay’s all-time-favorite single issues
* Howard Mackie
* Wally Wood’s 22 Panels
* The Summers Family plane crash
* Cyclops and Havok’s relationship
* Havok’s Silver Age origins
* Trans readings of Alex Summers
* Shard (more) (again)
* Canadian drama
* A trap
* The return of Random
* Roma (again)
* Mojoworlders on social media
* Which X-teens should be audience surrogates in a new animated series

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.

## Links & Further Misunderstandings

* Lauretta Jean’s makes the best pie on earth, and Jay misses it desperately.
* Wanna make comics? Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work are an incredibly useful resource.
* We watched *so* much Sealab 2021 in college.
* If you’re interested in the intersections of psychology and superhero comics, check out The Arkham Sessions!
* PREVIOUSLY ON JAY & MILES X-PLAIN THE X-MEN
	+ For more about Scott and Alex’s origin story and picking which versions of canon count, check out Episode 308 - No Story Is the Whole Story.
	+ Hear about Roma and The Adversary’s last fight in Episode 086 – Legends (Fall of the Mutants, Part 1 of 3).
	+ Dr. Andrea Letamendi joined us to discuss representations of mental illness and therapy in *X-Factor* in Episode 216 - X-Amining X-Factor (feat. Dr. Andrea Letamendi).
	+ Our coverage of the Age of Apocalypse starts in Episode 287 - Welcome to the Age of Apocalypse…
	+ …and we focus on Cyclops and Havok’s relationship in that universe in Episode 292 - Weekend at Sinister’s.
Episode 358 - Giant-Size Special 10

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Hub & Lisa X-Plain Howard the Duck; Jay & Miles X-Plain *Daydreamers*; and Jonathan Hickman X-Plains his tenure on the X-line!

## X-plained

* The many lives of Moira MacTaggert
* Feral moppets
* Man-Thing and several characters who closely resemble Man-Thing
* Howard the Duck
* At least one Nexus of All Reality
* Duck sex
* *Daydreamers* #1-3
* Never-Never Narnozbia
* Tana Nile
* A shadowy hunter and his ship of empty souls
* A reasonably good Dr. Seuss riff
* Duckworld, or an appealing facsimile thereof
* H.E.R.B.I.E.
* Jonathan Hickman on *X-Men*
* The 7th Annual\* Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence

(Note: Our interview with Jonathan Hickman contains spoilers for September 2021’s *Inferno* #1!)

\* *Ed. note: Actually eighth*

## Links & Further Duckery

* Listen to the first episode of What the Duck?! A Podcast Most Fowl (But with a “W” ‘Cause He’s a Duck) That’s the Full Name of the Show!

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Jay & Miles Spoil the Hell out of Dark Phoenix

## Episode Description

We had a *long* conversation about *Dark Phoenix*; and we have uploaded it here for your edutainment!

WARNING: CONTAINS A WHOLE LOT OF SPOILERS FOR *DARK PHOENIX*.

We were also ALL OVER THE INTERNET last week week! Here are the many places we have been talking about *Dark Phoenix* and Dark Phoenix Saga-related stuff:

* Battle of the Atom #96 – A Phoenix Force of Our Own: Jay talked the Dark Phoenix Saga–plus some related comics–with Zack and Adam!
* Comic Book Buds #11 – Ben and Miles X-plain the Dark Phoenix Saga: Miles discussed the Dark Phoenix Saga with Portland podcast Comic Book Buds!
* Why the Dark Phoenix Saga Blew Our Minds: Jay is a talking head in the latest installment of SyFy Wire’s “Comics that Blew Our Minds” video series, where you can also hear a lot of cooler people talk about the Dark Phoenix Saga and why they love it. There’s also a very heartfelt Jimmy Carter impression.
* Wanna get your pals/partners/parents into X-Men? Jay wrote about nine good jumping-on points–and where to go next–over at Polygon.
* Also at Polygon, here’s Jay’s full review of Dark Phoenix. IT IS ALSO FULL OF SPOILERS.
Episode 306 - Between Here and There

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which we continue our ongoing tour of the post-Age of Apocalypse X-Universe; Onslaught gets a name; nobody’s sure what Noah Dubois is doing there; Iceman gets to be the practical one, for once; T&A should not generally appear on the same visual plane; someone needs to talk to Cannonball about kink safety; and Emma Frost lets a call go to voicemail.

## X-plained

* Tarzan fandom
* *X-Man*, summarized
* *Uncanny X-Men* #322-324
* Color as a narrative tool
* The evolution of Storm’s shower etiquette
* How not to relax with Lucas Bishop
* Seat-of-the-pants plotting
* Parenting
* Noah Dubois, sort of
* A road trip
* Sexiness vs. sexualization
* Emma Frost as Caprica Six
* How not to walk a supervillain
* Cannonball’s uniform
* Sack
* Vessel
* Greycrow (more) (again)
* The worst morgue and/or disco ever
* Edna and Norton McCoy
* Times Rogue has absorbed Colossus’s powers
* *X-Men: Marvels Snapshot*

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Episode 351 - His MIghty Hand

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which we enter Phase 2 of Onslaught; Cable is a man of many purposes; Onslaught gets a makeover; Intentions only matter if you’re Longshot; and Sue Richards will pull over this crossover event *right now* if you don’t behave.

## X-plained

* Red Onslaught
* Onslaught Phase 1
* *Uncanny X-Men* #336
* *Cable* #35
* *X-Man* #19
* *X-Force* #58
* A large number of team-ups
* Onslaught, but make it a seder
* Watcher undercarriage
* Onslaught’s second form
* Cable and Apocalypse vs. Onslaught
* Nate Grey vs. Sinister
* A trap
* Several flashbacks and fantasies
* Symbolic roles within X-Force
* What Banshee’s sonic scream sounds like
* Pecs as envisioned by Franklin Richards

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Russell Dauterman

## ***Russell Dauterman***

### First podcast appearance

Episode 027 - NYCC 2014 Special with Kris Anka and Russell Dauterman

## External links

Marvel Database: Russell Dauterman (Earth-1218)

Wikipedia: Russell Dauterman

Twitter: @rdauterman

Website: Russel Dauterman

Russell Dauterman draws comic books.

## X-Men related work

* *Cyclops* Vol 3 #1-3 (2014)
* *Giant-Size X-Men: Jean Grey and Emma Frost* #1 (2020)
* *Giant-Size X-Men: Storm* #1 (2020)

## Appears in

* Episode 027 - NYCC 2014 Special with Kris Anka and Russell Dauterman
Episode 368 - Six Teenagers in a Van

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which we return to Rutland, Vermont; Emma Frost faces her salad demons; Banshee is not even supposed to be here today; no one should ever have to drive in New York City; Fenris is both evil and obnoxious; and we’re still not over that one Senator Kelly action figure.

## X-plained

* How to help us help queer and trans youth
* *Generation X* #22
* *Generation X* Annual 1996
* Halloween with Generation X
* *Stag Beetle* Magazine
* X-casting Nicholas Cage
* Neurotica
* William Castle
* Roger Corman’s Poe adaptations
* Saturday morning cartoons
* Weird gardening
* Some very clever lettering tricks
* Several humans
* Train delays
* Fenris
* Mutagen Wave Generator
* The Worst Action Figure (more) (again)
* Robert the Ship
* Our favorite Beast iterations
* Abbreviations

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Episode 328 - Single Blue Male

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Sam Guthrie will take all your money; Gambit has exceptionally poor judgment; having friends who are couples means getting to be the big spoon AND the little spoon; Hank McCoy is the agrarian Rube Goldberg; and there are a lot of ways to appreciate a comic.

## X-plained

* Several colors of Beast
* *X-Men #48*-49
* *X-Men Unlimited* #10
* The Floating Super Hero Poker Game
* Large hands
* Various refugees from the Age of Apocalypse
* Surge(TM)
* Pam Greenwood (Fatale)
* Many gratuitous murders
* Iconic runs we’re not into
* Generations of teen X-Men

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 31

==Episode Description==
In which Nightcrawler comes to an end, Rachel finally learns to appreciate Black Vortex, we have some feelings about Cyclops and Havok, and you should totally come to the ECCC meetup this Saturday.

## Reviewed

* Nightcrawler #12
* Amazing X-men #18
* Wolverines #12
* Uncanny X-Men #32 (Pick of the week)
* Guardians of the Galaxy #25
* Nova #28
* Legendary Star-Lord #10
Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 14

==Episode Description==
In which we examine the phenomenon of death-by-kinda-high-concept, Uncanny X-Men remains spectacular, and Death of Wolverine: The Weapon X Program is surprisingly solid.

## Reviewed

* Axis #6
* Axis: Revolutions #2
* X-Force #12
* Storm #5
* Uncanny X-Men #28 (Pick of the week)
* Magneto #12
* Death of Wolverine: The Weapon X Program #2

## Panel of the Week

From Magneto #12 (with full page context)
Episode 361 - The World's Densest Eagle

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which the 1990s were full of miniseries; Mystique and Sabretooth take a sabbatical from X-Factor; Mystique’s powers are wildly inconsistent; we meet a second Cypher; most secret agents are Mystique; and you should never tell Sabretooth about your girlfriend.

## X-plained

* Sabretooth’s ambitions
* *Sabretooth and Mystique* #1-4
* A Helicarrier heist
* Hydra
* AIM
* The sounds of autopsies
* How Mystique’s powers work, sometimes, kind of
* Commander Cypher
* Technosassins vs. Cyburai
* Catalyst
* Complimentary types of awful
* Caption colors
* Access
* Gender dimorphism of monsters
* The Comics Code Collar
* Dismember and Corrosion
* The time Cyclops offered to help Cable steal a spaceship
* The Black Womb Project

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
MultiversalQ

***MultiversalQ*** is a comics podcast hosted by Luke Herr and Devin Warner, focusing on alternate universes in comic books - now in podcast form!

It spun off onto Exiled.

## Relevant episodes:

* Asgard As You Make It: Featuring Thor: The Lightning and the Storm (with guests Miles Stokes and Elisabeth Allie)
* MultiversalQ Presents The Age of Apocalypse: Part 4 (with Jay Edidin as Age of Apocalypse Alex Summers)
Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 32

==Episode Description==
In which we are weirdly on-theme fashion-wise; Cyclops ends on a high note; we are pretty done with the Black Vortex; and you probably shouldn’t invoke Generation Hope without at least a footnote.

*NOTE: Cyclops and Captain Marvel reviews contain spoilers.*

## Reviewed

* Cyclops #12 (Pick of the week)
* Captain Marvel #14
* Storm #10
Kris Anka

## ***Kris Anka***

### First podcast appearance

Episode 027 - NYCC 2014 Special with Kris Anka and Russell Dauterman

## External links

Marvel Database: Kris Anka

Wikipedia: Kris Anka

Twitter: @kristaferanka

Kris Anka draws comic books.

## X-Men related work

* Uncanny X-Men Vol 3 (2013)
* Assorted others (2013-2017)

## Appears in

* Episode 027 - NYCC 2014 Special with Kris Anka and Russell Dauterman
* Episode 051 – The X-Istentialists
* Episode 105 – Live from ECCC
Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 48

==Episode Description==
In which we introduce Castle Sexy Dracula and (briefly) lose Miles to a scheduling S.N.A.F.U.; the kids are pretty into Giant-Size Little Marvel AvX; we’re pretty into X-Men ’92; and whether or not you’re pretty into Age of Apocalypse will probably depend on when you started reading X-Men.

## Reviewed

* Giant-Size Little Marvel AvX #3
* X-Men ’92 (Infinite Comic) #6 (Pick of the week)
* Age of Apocalypse #2
Episode 353 - Scientists and Superheroes

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Dark Beast is an unlikely father figure; Wild Child remains low-budget Wolverine; X-Factor foreshadows the XSE; no one else thwarts Richardses on Doom’s watch; the cow goes “hate”; and Juggernaut fails to grow as a person.

## X-plained

* The Red Ghost
* Onslaught thus far
* *X-Factor* #126
* *Fantastic Four* #416
* *X-Men Unlimited* #12
* Random’s origins (kind of)
* Pinochle
* Kristoff Vernard
* Several villains
* Juggernaut’s adventures in the Gem of Cyttorak
* Gomurr the Ancient (again)
* Spite
* Unreliable narrators
* The evolution of Cyttorak
* Wolverine’s hair
* X-arcs we’d like to see as video games

**CORRECTION: Kristoff Vernard is not in fact a clone of Doctor Doom.**

## Links & Further Spinoffs

* I’m pretty sure we’ve linked to Robert Cop before, but just in case, here you go.

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Episode 310 - Attack and Dethrone God

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which we take a substantial detour; Minipax is no Raul Julia; Corsair tries (and fails) to retire; everything is cooler in space; vengeance is more of a vocation than a career; the Starjammers win an intergalactic war with a slide show; and we pitch some television.

## X-plained

* Mister Sinister’s X-Gene
* A detour
* Space Cabbie
* *Starjammers* #1-4
* The Starjammers (more) (again)
* Magneto vs. Magento
* Several major galactic powers
* Shi’ar religion
* Sharra and K’ythri
* The Uncreated (again)
* Cephied variables
* Standing Still
* T’Cahr/Minipax
* Ship names
* Mustache fights
* Collapsars
* Corsair’s garden
* Chaff mirror throwers
* Several character developments which later will be ignored
* A frustratingly pat resolution
* Longshot vs. Domino
* X-books and teams we’d like to see adapted for television

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.

## Links & Further Space Pirates

* We first discussed the Starjammers in Episode 007 - Cyclops Has a Good Day.
* You can hear all about the first Stajammers miniseries in Episode 139 - Starjammed.
* If you’re in the mood for Lilandra and Xavier breaking up over Shi’ar imperialism, try Episode 265 - Rude Awakenings.
Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 44

==Episode Description==
In which there are suddenly a lot of books; stuff goes down in Secret Wars; Giant-Size Little Marvel remains delightful; and Doc Sampson trumps noir Wolverine.

## Reviewed

* Secret Wars #4
* X-Tinction Agenda #2
* Giant-Size Little Marvel: AvX #2
* Years of Future Past #2 (Pick of the week)
* Secret Wars Journal #3
Episode 331 - Surprised by Brood

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which we take a break from the lead-up to Onslaught; Hannah Conover is the queen of dangling plot threads (and also of the Brood); Wolverine is the strangest angel; William Conover is the chillest minister in the Marvel Universe; and *Excalibur* writer Tini Howard gives us the inside scoop on Gambit’s trench coat.

## X-plained

* Mutant Brood
* The Brood vs. Brood X cicadas
* *X-Men vs. Brood: Day of Wrath #1*-2
* Theological origins of John Ostrander
* Hair
* An unspoken motif in pin-up art
* Reverend William Conover (more)(again)
* Hannah Conover (more)(again)
* The Brood (more)(again)
* The Brood Empress
* The Firstborn
* Atypical Queen-Broodling power dynamics
* Brood of the future
* A strange angel
* What Gambit’s trench coat is made of

## Links & Further Infestations

Learn more about Hannah’s origins in Episode 95 – Earthfall!

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
WHAT?!

Exclamation made by Miles at the end of each episode's cold open to express disbelief at the tangled web of continuity that Jay has just articulated.

In early episodes, Jay occasionally made the exclamation while Miles explained, but in later episodes, the WHAT?! has been solely the domain of Miles.

In guest episodes, Jay and Miles typically deliver the WHAT?! in unison.
Episode 308 - No Story Is the Whole Story

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which writing X-books requires a somewhat different approach to continuity than writing about them; time is weird; Jay overthinks fictional publications; Scott Summers is (at least sometimes) Autistic; Sinister is not subtle; and no story is the whole story.

## X-plained

* *Marvels*
* *Marvels Snapshots*
* *X-Men: Marvels Snapshots* #1
* Why Cyclops is worth caring about
* Collaboration
* Fictional publications
* Intent vs. ownership of characters
* Research
* The difference between writing X-books and writing about X-books
* The irreconcilable continuity tangle of Scott Summers’s childhood
* Limitations of plaid pants
* What ended up on the cutting room floor
* Parallels
* Other pitches
* Cyclops’s best outfit

* You can get *X-Men: Marvels Snapshots #1* from your local comics shop–or online over here.
* And listen to *Thor: Metal Gods* over at Serial Box!
Matt Hunter

## External links

Twitter: @mechlo

Instagram: #mechlo

Bandcamp: Moon Talk

Twitch: djmechlo

Mixcloud: mechlo

**Matt Hunter** makes music and podcasts. He is the fourth and current producer of Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men. His tenure as producer began in 2017 with episode 165, taking over from Kurt Loyd.

## Relevant work

* *A Jumps, B Shoots* (2010)
* *Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men* (2017)

## X-Plain appearances

* Episode 178 - Giant-Size Special 6
* HAWK TALK - Playing With Super Power (feat. Matthew Hunter)
Episode 346 - Romancing the Gehenna Stone

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which we continue to avoid Onslaught with a jaunt over to the *Wolverine* solo series; Logan is terrible at both being a loner and secret identities; fake vampires are fundamentally hilarious; and Burt Corrigan is the hero we need.

## X-plained

* Hyperstorm (kinda)
* *Wolverine* #11-16
* A very full week
* What Wolverine has been up to
* Madripoor
* Several supporting cast members
* “Patch”
* Archie Corrigan
* Burt Corrigan
* Several things to do in San Francisco
* Vampire humor
* Ba’al
* The Gehenna Stone
* Penis bones
* The Hand of God
* Doomsday
* Mutual fratricide
* A midair brawl
* Secret identity problems
* Claw problems
* Other metals with which one’s skeleton might be bonded
* Bisecting Logan
* Team-ups we’d like to see

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Episode 341 - Rainbow Connection

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Chris Bachalo returns to *Generation X*; we briefly forget that Mondo exists; Synch is an extraordinarily good kid; not everybody gets a jetpack; Jubilee takes a turn as team strategist; Chamber has Onslaught problems; the X-Cutioner has no discernible dignity; the M does not stand for “metaphorical.”

## X-plained

* Jubilee’s aunt Hope
* *Generation X* #15-17
* Generation X (more) (again)
* Emplates (more) (again)
* An instance of possession
* The Thomas family
* Intersectional bias
* Passing privilege
* Narratively-determined technology
* Giovanni the janitor
* Synch vs. Mimic
* An exceptionally slow-burn reveal
* Possession as a vehicle for character development
* The X-Cutioner (Carl Denti) (more) (again)
* Metaphorical DNA
* Fun times at the fair
* Ruby quartz adaptive technology
* Mutant names

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Episode 342 - Angry Birds

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Miles does his best, birds are weird, some of the most dangerous villains are pink, and we are in the Onslaught Zone.

## X-plained

* Malibu Comics and Marvel Comics, sitting in a (multiversal) tree, KILLING
* *Archangel: Phantom Wings*
* Unorthodox artistic decisions
* Archangel (Warren Kenneth Worthington III)
* Angst, renewed
* Bird ichor
* Tuesday Bird and her Mad Max outfit
* How (not?) to flirt
* *Uncanny X-Men* #333
* Various Roberts Kelly
* Graydon Creed, doin’ Mom proud
* Bastion, Nimrod, & Master Mold
* Operation Zero Tolerance
* X-Teams and their lanes
* A naked murder-uncle
* Pink villains
* Obscure callbacks
* Event synergy
* *X-Men* #53
* Day to-day challenges of telepathy
* Super-Saiyan Magneto
* Phoenix (Jean Grey), actual adult
* Onslaught
* *That* scene from 1964’s *X-Men* #3
* A surprisingly insightful look at Professor X’s dark side
* Logan’s assorted friendships with teen girls
* XMEN Disease

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 71

## Episode Description

In which Extraordinary X-Men should have started with #6; Worst X-Man Ever is remarkably self-aware; and Old Man Logan is the kind of thing you like if you like that kind of thing.

## Reviewed

* **Extraordinary X-Men #6** (Pick of the week)
	+ Written by: Jeff Lemire
	+ Pencils & Inks by: Victor Ibanez
	+ Colors by: Jay David Ramos
* Worst X-Man Ever #4
	+ Written by: Max Bemis
	+ Pencils & Inks by: Michael Walsh
	+ Colors by: Ruth Redmond
* Old Man Logan #1
	+ Written by: Jeff Lemire
	+ Pencils & Inks by: Andrea Sorrentino
	+ Colors by: Marcelo Maiolo
Episode 309 - Excellent Turtle

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which ballistics get weird; Black Air is no W.H.O.; we have surprisingly mixed feelings about Pete Wisdom and Kitty Pryde as a couple; there is an actual creepy clown bar in Portland; blood eagles are excessively ostentatious; the Uncreated just want to be cool; and Rory Campbell continues his descent into supervillainy.

## X-plained

* The Forever Man
* Turner D. Century
* *Excalibur* #87-90
* Excalibur (more) (again)
* Genosha (more) (again)
* Some extremely confusing bullets
* Philip Moreau
* Jenny Ransome
* Black Air
* Dream Nails
* Spy bars
* Foundations of Kitty Pryde and Pete Wisdom’s relationship
* Captions
* Work/life separation
* A creepy clown bar
* Easy Tiger
* Blood eagles
* Shrine
* A virus and/or bacteria
* The Uncreated
* Gor the God-Butcher
* Data security
* Rory Campbell vs. Spoor
* How the X-Men got their name
* Terrigen toxicity

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Episode 349 - Onslaught Secret Weapon Force Power Slammers

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Onslaught nomenclature has some consistency issues; electricity is the new magnetism; Nate Grey mopes; Sinister doesn’t care about your guns; the Xavier mansion blows up (again); and we track down an elusive Sentinel.

## X-plained

* Doctor Doom’s absolutely irrelevant Onslaught encounter
* *Cable* #34
* *Incredible Hulk* #444
* *X-Man* #18
* *X-Force* #57
* Onslaught Phases vs. Impacts
* Ozymandias (more) (again)
* Post (more) (again)
* Cable’s ridiculous motorcycle
* Several Hulks
* Behemoth
* Cable/Storm
* The Betty Conspiracy
* Rocks that yell
* Alpacalypse
* Multiversal disambiguation
* Some unlikely sound effects
* An anti-Sinister failsafe
* A self-destruct system
* Warpath and Risque
* A hug
* A very specific Sentinel
* Coming out in adulthood

## Links & Further Complications

* On Coming Out, Queer Identity, and Continuity in *All-New X-Men* #40

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Episode 345 - All of the Marvels (feat. Douglas Wolk)

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which author and friend of the podcast Douglas Wolk joins us to discuss his upcoming book *All of the Marvels*; his epic quest to read all Marvel Comics, ever; and what he learned along the way.

## Links

* Preorder *All of the Marvels* from Books With Pictures via this form!
* Listen to Voice of Latveria!
* Follow Douglas on Twitter!

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
Episode 317 - Acquaintances of Humanity

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Nicholas Cage is more of a concept than a human being; Rogue’s angst-fueled road trip continues; Gambit and Sinister have complementary aesthetics; there are a lot of Guthries; the Trasks are never up to any good; and whether or not it is canon, Ghost Rider has definitely teamed up with Johnny Cash.

## X-plained

* *Ghost Rider* (film)
* Nicholas Cage
* Rogue and Gambit
* *X-Men* #45
* *Uncanny X-Men* #326
* *Uncanny X-Men Annual* 1995
* A gratuitous gatefold
* Alliteration vs. consonance
* Osmium
* Fancy captions
* Aesthetics
* Shorts
* Gambit vs. Sabretooth
* Questionable medical policy
* AIDS and the Legacy Virus, revisited
* Humanity’s Last Stand
* Guthries
* Preacher
* The evolution of killer robots
* Superhero-musician team-ups
* Otherworld vs. the M’Kraan crystal

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
The Hungry Peasents

The Hungry Peasants
During the shattering, a village in Antonica needed food. The people were starving, so they gathered up all their remaining gold and asked for a volunteer to travel to Qeynos for provisions.
First the village Guardian said he would go, but the villagers cried, “No, who will protect us?”
Then the most beautiful girl in town volunteered to go to the big city. Again, the villagers cried, “No, for once there, you would never return. Some Prince would take you for his bride and we would be lost.”
Next, an old Wizard stepped forward. “I will go to Qeynos.” “No!” cried the villagers for a third time, “For you would take one look at the mystical library and forget all about our needs.”
The villagers debated for a long time until someone said, “Let us send the Halfling, for he is lazy and will not be missed, yet will return, for he loves his treasures.”
So the Halfling was sent by his village to Qeynos for provisions. There he bought many foodstuffs made of jum-jum. (It is well known that Halflings love jum-jum.) He spent all the gold on the goods and his pack was very heavy.
As the Halfling returned home, he grew tired and hungry. “I shall take a little from my pack, thus making it lighter and filling my tummy.” The Halfling said to himself. Finding a nice shaded spot under a great tree, the Halfling settled down and made his lunch. When he was finished, he got up and shouldered his pack again. Indeed, it was lighter.
The Halfling traveled down the road a little further. It wasn’t long before he became hungry again. “I am taking all the risks, and carrying all the load. I deserve a little more of the food for I am famished.” With this he sat down and ate some more. When he set out again, his pack was noticeably lighter than before.
“I must be getting into shape, for the load is not as heavy as it was, though it is still considerable.”
The Halfling continued down the road toward the village. Seeing that he would not make it back by night fall, he chose a comfortable place to sleep, but not before a little snack.
When he woke the next morning, he ate a little bit more, for as he put it, “I will need my strength for the journey.”
At last the Halfling made it to the village. The hungry peasants descended upon him with great rejoicing. “Come see the wonderful feasts I have purchased for you, the treats I have journeyed far to bring.” But when the people opened the packs they found nothing but a few crumbs.
“I can not imagine what happened to all the food,” cried the Halfling. “I surely must have been robbed.”
Episode 315 - Theater Is Dead

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which Jay and/or patriarchy ruin everything; Archangel is dubiously aspirational; we need a moratorium on Jack the Ripper stories; there are a lot of Masterminds; and Arcade is a whole bundle of psychosexual weirdness.

## X-plained

* Tom Malverne (Jack the Ripper)
* Lunch
* *Wolverine and Gambit: Victims* #1-4
* Loeb & Sale
* Jack the Ripper in fiction
* Alexandra Davies
* Fun on international flights
* That one time Jay thought the NSA was going to come for him
* Martinique Wyngarde (Mastermind II)
* Mastermind, Mastermind, and Lady Mastermind disambiguation
* Collateral damage
* Various Dies Hard
* Several heists
* Several hallucinations
* Variations on the death of Miss Locke
* Problematic third brothers

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.

## Links & Further Crimes

* The best Lord of the Rings movie.
* Wolverine meets Freddie Mercury.
* Fred the horse wants to steal!
Rachel and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 70

## Episode Description

In which Miles flies solo and reviews two weeks’ worth of comics, Secret Wars sticks the landing, and All-New X-Men remains basically perfect.

## Reviewed

* Secret Wars #9
	+ Written by: Jonathan Hickman
	+ Pencils & Inks by: Esad Ribic
	+ Colors by: Ive Svorcina
* Uncanny X-Men #2
	+ Written by: Cullen Bunn
	+ Pencils by: Greg Land
	+ Inks by: Jay Leisten
	+ Colors by: Nolan Woodard
* Extraordinary X-Men #5
	+ Written by: Jeff Lemire
	+ Pencils by: Humberto Ramos
	+ Inks by: Victor Olazaba
	+ Colors by: Edgar Delgado
* All-New Wolverine #4
	+ Written by: Tom Taylor
	+ Pencils and Inks by:David Lopez & David Navarrot
	+ Colors by: Nathan Fairbairn
* **All-New X-Men #3** (Pick of the Week)
	+ Written by: Dennis Hopeless
	+ Pencils by: Mark Bagley
	+ Inks by: Andrew Hennessy
	+ Colors by: Nolan Woodard
* Worst X-Man Ever #2 & 3
	+ Written by: Max Bemis
	+ Pencils and Inks by: Michael Walsh
	+ Colors by: Ruth Redmond
List of Cold Open Topics

* Episode 001 - The current state of the X-Men universe
* Episode 002 - Hope Summers
* Episode 003 - Gambit's Creepiness
* Episode 004 - Angel
* Episode 005 - Nightcrawler and his bamfs
* Episode 006 - Rachel Summers
* Episode 007 - Greg Rucka x-plains how Corsair will return from the dead
* Episode 008 - Polaris
* Episode 009 - Cassandra Nova
* Episode 010 - Jamie Madrox
* Episode 011 - A meta cold opening setting up an episode of listener questions
* Episode 012 - Sage
* Episode 013 - Inhumans
X-TRA - Greg Pak at New York Comic Con

## Episode Description

Rachel caught up with Greg Pak during NYCC–on no sleep, and on the con floor, so apologies in advance for the sound–to talk about Storm, Storm, team vs. solo titles, post-colonial X-Men, and more.

***Note**: This was recorded on October 9, so the “last issue” referenced in the interview is Storm #3.*
Episode 327 - The Sound of Gravity

*Art by David Wynne*

## Episode Description

In which it’s hard to be a hologram; the Internet is terrible and you should probably avoid it; we have no idea how Naze is still alive; this is not your mom’s Adversary (if your mom is Fall of the Mutants); Forge is an order muppet; and Sabretooth is not a great addition to most teams.

## X-plained

* *X-Force* #49-51
* Haircuts
* The return off Sebastian Shaw
* Stansfield
* A series of kidnappings
* Solar-powered superpowers
* Attempted murder
* Memories
* Cable as an audience surrogate
* Tabitha’s new codename
* The first *Tick* live-action series
* Warpath’s running speed
* Risqué
* What gravity sounds like
* X-leisure activities
* Magneto’s human name/s

## Listener Questions

This article needs a transcription of the episode questions.
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Jay and Miles Review the X-Men, Episode 78

## Episode Description

In which the parts of Extraordinary X-Men are greater than their sum; All-New X-Men is the new New Mutants; you should totally come see us at Norwescon and Emerald City Comic Con; and yes, we are aware that it should be Luis Buñuel, but it’s been a long week.

## Reviewed

* Extraordinary X-Men #8
	+ Written by: Jeff Lemire
	+ Pencils by: Humberto Ramos
	+ Inks by: Victor Olazaba
	+ Colors by: Edgar Delgado
* **All-New X-Men #6** (Pick of the week)
	+ Written by: Dennis Hopeless
	+ Pencils by: Mark Bagley
	+ Inks by: Andrew Hennessy
	+ Colors by: Nolan Woodard
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