280 – Business-Casual Basilisk

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280 – Business-Casual Basilisk

FromJay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

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53 minutes

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Jan 13, 2020

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In which the future is not great at codenames; spot foil is cool as hell; Mountjoy is bafflingly business-themed; Bishop goes full Point Break; Jean Grey and Lorna Dane should absolutely be friends; and Jay & Miles are heading to ECCC 2020!

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Jan 13, 2020

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Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

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263 – The Oldest Teens of Them All: In which Cable and Domino may or may not be very old teenagers; disguises are not Dani Moonstar’s strong suit; Empath remains awful; Shatterstar probably talks exactly like a telenovela; X-Force needs an office manager; Mothra is larger than most thing... by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
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257 – The Adventures of Rachel Summers in the 37th Century: In which Rachel Summers’ continuity somehow becomes even more complicated; X-Men: Phoenix is pretty much a Star Wars (minus the stars); cultural appropriation remains a problem in the distant future; we are surprisingly into the origins of the Askani; ... by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
58 min listen
255 – Rules of the Game: In which the Upstarts are the worst at Calvinball; Moonstar remains a non-mystery; Speedball gets a new costume; Shinobi Shaw never gets to finish a bath; Gamesmaster comes perilously close to getting context; Cable gets a new superpower; and Rahne Sin... by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
58 min listen
273 – The Back-End Creep (The Phalanx Covenant, Part 3 of 3): In which we have been on All the Podcasts; Full Shred Thrash is easier to say that it sounds; the Phalanx uses dial-up; Cable is a very large man; Larry Hama writes excellent banter; Cyclops has been progressively desensitized to plane crashes; Cameron... by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
61 min listen
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56 min listen
280 – Business-Casual Basilisk: In which the future is not great at codenames; spot foil is cool as hell; Mountjoy is bafflingly business-themed; Bishop goes full Point Break; Jean Grey and Lorna Dane should absolutely be friends; and Jay & Miles are heading to ECCC 2020! by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
53 min listen
271 – Abs for Days (The Phalanx Covenant, Part 1 of 3): In which we’re finally both back in the virtual studio; Generation X is the new Inferno; the Phalanx Covenant begins; we’re not talking about Hickman in our coverage of this story; Banshee is the adult in the room; the Phalanx is pretty sexist; and gro... by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
62 min listen
260 – Professor Power’s Prodigal Podcast: In which we explore the aftermath of Multiple Man’s death; X-Factor has a lot of feelings; it probably sucks to grieve with Charles Xavier; neither power nor responsibility is particularly fun; we finally find out who was trying to kill Polaris; Profes... by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
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275 – End of the Summer: In which Professor is too cool for the Phalanx; fatphobia is significantly more dangerous than Fred Dukes; Strong Guy catches a plane; Emma Frost will not let you coast; Jubilee says goodbye to the X-Men; and it’s probably for the best that we have avo... by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
61 min listen
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72 min listen
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 Thrasher ascends to godhood; Jay and Miles dive down the Wh... by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
65 min listen
272 – Children of the Phalanx (the Phalanx Covenant, Part 2 of 3): In which Ship was inside Cable all along; Life Signs is the Two Towers of the Phalanx Covenant (but only in the bad ways), it’s lucky that the Phalanx doesn’t have WiFi; Nightcrawler embraces chaos; and we promise the crossover gets better next chapter. by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
62 min listen
259 – Kwannon Leap: In which fix-it fic goes canon (or vice versa); Psylocke is a complicated individual and/or individuals; assassins have complicated personal lives; it is probably ethical to tell your teammates about your camera eyes; Beast takes over Blue Team; we ge... by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
62 min listen
262 – Science Fiction Double Feature: In which the Phalanx would make pretty fun novelty candy; “B-Plot” implies that we only have 26; nobody will take Jubilee to the movies; Repo Man and Repo: The Genetic Opera are in fact two entirely different films; Storm is a fashion icon; Sabretooth ... by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
60 min listen
264 – Autotune the Phalanx: In which we celebrate our 100th episode with producer Matt Hunter; you should always be kind to robots; Stryfe has a lot of very petty contingency plans; Britanic is bad at helping; we explore a peculiar pairing of book and arc; Charles Xavier has his ... by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
50 min listen
254 – Carry Each Other: Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! - In which Nicole Miller is fashion designer to Earth-1218 and Earth-616, Jay rejects the word “bestest”, we kind of want to just read every word of X-Men #30 aloud, by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
63 min listen
285 – Immediately if Not Sooner: In which Goldballs is still a better name than Egg; we continue our progress towards Earth-295; Legion pulls a Stryfe; we’re still pretty shaky on how to pronounce “M’Kraan”; Xavier and Magneto were absolutely and unquestionably doing sex in the 1970s;... by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
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274 – The Red Shoe Prophecies (feat. Chris Eddleman): In which Chris Eddleman joins us for a close look at House of X and Powers of X; Doug Ramsey is highly relevant; resurrection is problematic in a universe with a documented afterlife; there is no reasonable in-continuity justification for the lack of t... by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
64 min listen
267 – The Saddest Joyride: In which Emma Frost is a better Iceman than Bobby Drake; Generation X is aggressively foreshadowed; Malcolm and Randall are the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to Bishop’s Hamlet; and we launch a campaign for our own Multiversal designation. by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
57 min listen
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 inversion is fairly definitely not a real thing; Earth-295 ... by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
69 min listen
287 – Welcome to the Age of Apocalypse: In which we enter the Age of Apocalypse! by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
72 min listen
277 – Hedgehogs of Cairo: In which Sauron is a huge nerd; the Savage Land is where Marvel stores the weird stuff; an etymology detour does not come from the X-Pert you’d expect; and Storm will straight-up stab you. by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
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265 – Rude Awakenings: Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! - In which Glen Danzig was the most popular Wolverine fancast for a weirdly long time; breasts have physical mass; the Shi’ar empire is not your friend; Deathbird should not be left in charg... by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
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258 – True Believers, Opportunists, and Crooks (feat. Lisa Winters): Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! - In which Lisa Winters pinch-hits for Jay, we take a trip to the newspaper funnies and back, Spider-Man and Beast are natural BFFs, nothing good ever happens at the Brand Corporation, by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
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276 – Wizard Problems: In which Excalibur gets a regular writer again; we judge a book against against its covers; nothing good ever comes from being sexy on Muir Isle; and the soul sword’s real power is cutting through continuity. by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
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289 – Unsolved Mysteries: In which this episode is way more topical than it was when we recorded it; Apocalypse makes a terrible Statue of Liberty; there are no reliable narrators; Robbie Robertson and Carmen Sandiego are your new OTP; Emplate is creepy in any universe; lawful ... by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
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270 – X-Ray Goggles and Mail-Order Lizards (feat. Steve Stokes): Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line! - In which we hear from two generations of Stokeses for the price of one, buying comics for your son is a great way to rationalize reading them yourself, by Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
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280 – Business-Casual Basilisk

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