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 – Playing With Super Power (feat. Matthew Hunter)
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…
01:29:14 |
Mon 07 Sep 2020
306 – Between Here and There
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&…
00:56:35 |
Mon 31 Aug 2020
305 – The Sleep of the Wicked
In which X-Factor gets its own roster shakeup; most bartenders will look at you funny if you order a flight of superheroes; Kaboom is a great name for a nightclub; we lack significant feelings about …
00:59:06 |
Mon 24 Aug 2020
304 – Explosive Ops
In which Jay discovers a continuity loop; phonetic spelling reaches a new level of implausibility; it’s always already Onslaught; X-Force’s roster gets shaken up; Siryn goes undercover; and the Upsta…
01:07:08 |
Mon 17 Aug 2020
HAWK TALK – Video Renaissance
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 movies we grew…
00:55:24 |
Mon 10 Aug 2020
303 – No Simple Answers, feat. Laura Hudson
In which writer and editor Laura Hudson joins us as we take a break from X-Men comics to discuss the complicated ethics of consuming and covering comics by creators we’re not comfortable promoting.
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00:57:13 |
Mon 03 Aug 2020
302 – Space Junk
In which you should probably not mess with space junk; Exodus is terrible at many things; Rusty Collins deserved better; X-Men #100 references are dirty (but effective) pool; Magneto goes through a l…
00:52:42 |
Mon 27 Jul 2020
301 – Can’t Beat the Real Thing
In which we enter our fourth century of podcasting with brand new theme music; we have both Wolverine questions and wolverine questions; it is extremely rough to be Bishop; the creator of Garfield ma…
01:08:20 |
Mon 20 Jul 2020
HAWK TALK – Attack of the Franchise Cartoons
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 television sho…
00:47:16 |
Sun 12 Jul 2020
300 – Götterdämmerung
In which the Age of Apocalypse comes to an end; Angel briefly lives up to his potential; Bishop was sometimes right; It’s not a climactic ending without an X-Men #137 reference; Colossus breaks our h…
01:06:56 |
Mon 06 Jul 2020
299 – Toaster Ovens of the Gods
In which some universes are more pleasant than others; Havok is basically a Care Bear; Wolverine is a P.R. nightmare; Nate Grey tries; stealth is not among the Silver Surfer’s strengths; Night Thrash…
01:05:06 |
Mon 29 Jun 2020
298 – Unlikely Avengers
In which the moments of X-Universe are better than the whole; the code name “Dirigible” carries some inherent risks; Tony Stark is often more interesting without Iron Man; Clint Barton is no James Rh…
01:02:11 |
Mon 22 Jun 2020
297 – Blood Is Compulsory
In which Nate Grey is a drama kid; Forge-295 is the hero we need; Mister Sinister is a graduate of the Danielle “Moonstar” Moonstar school of secret identities; and we really, really, really wish tha…
00:57:03 |
Mon 08 Jun 2020
296 – Hard Choices
In which Magneto doesn’t really do work/live divide; Amazing X-Men is a bit of a misnomer; Exodus is the lawful evil to Fabian Cortez’s chaotic evil; smoking is bad for you; moisture molecular invers…
01:08:57 |
Mon 01 Jun 2020
HAWK TALK – Florida Mans
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 a whole bunch of r…
00:44:04 |
Sun 24 May 2020
295 – The Nuclear Naked
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
In which this episode may or may not be a temporal aberration; Gambit is bad at marketing; Jubilee’s sixth birthday was probably worse th…
01:06:25 |
Mon 18 May 2020
294 – The Infernal Gallop
In which a whole lot of things burn; Nightcrawler gets gritty; it’s hard to be Dead Man Wade; Apocalypse’s IT department has some explaining to do; Mystique is the most mom of all moms; Doug Ramsey d…
01:03:51 |
Mon 11 May 2020
293 – The Monster Under the World
In which not all Mondos are created equal; the kids are only rarely all right; the Age of Apocalypse is not Magneto’s fault; Sugar Man is the stuff of universal nightmares; “cartoonish” is not necess…
01:10:10 |
Mon 04 May 2020
HAWK TALK – Formative Novels
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 talk about the (non-comic) book…
00:50:10 |
Mon 27 Apr 2020
292 – Weekend at Sinister’s
In which it is probably not actually possible to be too nasty for Earth-295; Sinister is on nobody’s side but his own; Vulcan is still the worst Summers in the multiverse; the Bedlam Brothers are too…
01:08:52 |
Mon 20 Apr 2020
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