Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Daunted by complex continuity? Can’t tell a mutate from a warpie? We are here for you. We have trained for this responsibility for decades. We have the backissues, the calluses, and a really detailed map of the Summers family tree.
We’ve been explaining the X-Men informally for years–to our friends and family, to the Internet, and, occasionally, to patient strangers on the street. Now, we’re making it official, with Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men: a weekly podcast dedicated to unpacking the weird, wonderful world of our favorite superhero soap opera for newcomers and die-hard fans alike.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 537
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
HAWK TALK – Call Any Vegetable
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 vegetables. Kind o…
00:39:36 |
Mon 08 Feb 2021
322 – Do More Crimes
In which the X-Babies fail to charm; clones are people, too; Iceman doesn’t (quite) come out; Gambit and Bishop bond; Joseph comes into ambiguous being; and Principal Nezu and Charles Xavier would pr…
01:04:37 |
Mon 01 Feb 2021
321 – Revolving Doors
In which Sabretooth does not get effectively rehabilitated; nobody has the moral high ground; Val Cooper is the worst possible person to call in any emergency; Bishop needs a better support system; J…
01:01:16 |
Mon 25 Jan 2021
320 – The Accountability Wagon
In which Pete Wisdom is the guy you love to glare at; Nightcrawler is right (and a delightfully complex individual); Colossus has a lot of issues; and Wolfsbane gets the confrontation we’ve been wait…
01:03:11 |
Mon 18 Jan 2021
319 – Giant-Size Special #9 (feat. Vita Ayala, Tini Howard, and Leah Williams)
In which Jay and Miles receive a mysterious missive and are visited by three of our favorite X-writers; Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix is a pleasant surprise; Nathaniel Essex is the most d…
02:38:24 |
Mon 04 Jan 2021
HAWK TALK – Surviving 2020
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 (exhaustedly) about This…
00:35:29 |
Mon 28 Dec 2020
317 – Acquaintances of Humanity
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 ar…
01:00:30 |
Mon 14 Dec 2020
316 – Return to Megalopolis: At the Movies with the New Mutants
In which we review the New Mutants' film debut.
01:03:35 |
Mon 07 Dec 2020
HAWK TALK – Surviving the (Holiday) Experience
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 holidays, winter a…
00:53:37 |
Sun 29 Nov 2020
315 – Theater Is Dead
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 p…
00:50:05 |
Mon 23 Nov 2020
314 – Feelings, Alaska
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 de…
01:00:17 |
Mon 16 Nov 2020
313 – Iguanafall
In which sky pirates are the best pirates; Wolverine eats chicken in the woods; Xavier’s area loses its status as our least favorite panel; Cable is suspiciously credulous; we search in vain for a co…
00:55:50 |
Mon 09 Nov 2020
312 – Something Amazing Had to Be Done, feat. Bob Proehl
In which author Bob Proehl joins Jay to discuss the Resonant Duology and what it means to write original work rooted visibly in the X-universe!
00:55:51 |
Mon 26 Oct 2020
311 – Love Makes a Super-Team
In which we decide to stop recognizing the nominal difference between X-Men and Uncanny X-Men; time travel may or may not wait for you; Mister Sinister has probably appeared in at least one Ed Wood f…
01:04:21 |
Mon 19 Oct 2020
310 – Attack and Dethrone God
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…
00:57:02 |
Mon 12 Oct 2020
HAWK TALK – Hawktober
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 our current, and J…
00:48:47 |
Sun 04 Oct 2020
309 – Excellent Turtle
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…
00:54:12 |
Sun 27 Sep 2020
308 – No Story Is the Whole Story
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) Auti…
00:58:53 |
Mon 21 Sep 2020
307 – Ugly Mootants Only
In which Cable has clearly inherited his father’s inability to go on a date that doesn’t end disastrously; Husk is a lightweight; we are very taken with a turtle; you really don’t want to run into th…
01:08:57 |
Mon 14 Sep 2020
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