Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men

Illustration by David Wynne

In which friends don’t let friends drink sparkling wine at the Hellfire Club; Cyclops is a Silent Hill protagonist; Fantomex is a cool dude; John Sublime has his grubby little fingers in everything; and three men do a lot of things to avoid going to therapy.

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What happened to the World

Weapon XVI

New X-Men #142-145

Fantomex (more) (again)

The Weapon Plus program

A large number of things men will do instead of going to therapy

How to murder a nice, romantic mood

The Hellfire Club, the rest of the time

Jake Danials Whisky

A drinking contest

The Mysteries of Harris Burdick

The World

Weapon XV

A series of B&Es

Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.)

Car cops

Weapon XV’s feelings

Weapon Plus’s secret space headquarters

Education at the Xavier School

Gender-swapped superheroes and heirs to superheroes

NEXT EPISODE: Magneto, unmasked!

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In which Jean Grey crosses several lines; Emma Frost is killed; Bishop and Sage visit from X-Treme X-Men; mutants are weird; the plot thickens; Emma Frost is resurrected; and we learn several secrets of fly reproduction.

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The brothers Xorn

A question of reading order

New X-Men #139-141

Cosmic force problems

A showdown

A brief tour through the mind of Emma Frost

A murder most foul

Bishop (briefly) (again)

Sage (briefly) (again)

Many suspects

One way to get drugs, I guess?

A mysterious shack and its mysterious contents

Perils and advantages of being a living computer

A murder weapon

Angel and Beak’s excellent babies

A resurrection

A subtly remarkable taxicab

The advent of mixed-case lettering in Marvel comics

How Angel and Beak’s reproductive cycle corresponds to actual fly reproduction

NEXT EPISODE: Assault on Weapon Plus

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In which you should use drugs only with caution; a famous shirt makes its debut; Wolverine is the new Mary Worth; and you were never Quentin Quire’s age (unless you were).

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What Quentin Quire’s been up to since discorporating

New X-Men #135-138

The Special Class

Basilisk

Ernst

Dummy

No Girl

Whether the Xavier School should admit human students

Quentin’s new look

Kick (more) (again)

The Omega Gang

That one t-shirt

How to punch up your Power Point presentation

A somewhat fraught camping trip

The Special Class vs. U-Men

A secret

Some kind of weird affair

A riot, of sorts

Wolverine’s unfortunate soul patch

What actually happened to Jumbo Carnation

Telepathic deconstruction

The Cuckoos vs. Emma Frost

A somewhat mysterious secondary mutation

Denouement

The subsequent evolution of Quentin Quire

What’s happening to xplainthexmen.com when the show ends

The telepathy-telekinesis overlap

NEXT EPISODE: Murder!

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In which Warren Kenneth Worthington III is a terrible teacher; we are all Magneto’s children; Sooraya Qadir deserves a better origin story; teenagers have a lot of feelings; and we meet one of the modern age’s most controversial mutants.

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The destiny of Quentin Quire

New X-Men #131-134

An underattended funeral

How to fly? Kinda? I guess?

A kiss

A friendship

Another bit of ruby quartz marginalia that will never be mentioned again

A somewhat ill-founded psychic metaphor

Emma Frost’s Dark Phoenix costume

Some kind of weird affair

Echoes of 9/11/2001

Genosha, a year later

Ghosts

Polaris’s paternity

Shocker (the mutant one)

The last words of Genosha

Islamophobia post 9/11

Sooraya Qadir (Dust)

An attempted hijacking and the aftermath thereof

Some Shi’ar nonsense

X-Corporation Mumbai

Jumbo Carnation

Telepathy class

An artist’s interpretation of the fate of mankind if mutants are not driven out, as predicted by Bolivar Trask

Accountability

Professor X’s weird little paintings

X-adjectives

Best and worst X-Men with whom to share a psychic rapport

NEXT EPISODE: Quentin Quire’s teen angst bullshit gets a body count!

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In which Xorn goes out on the town; silverware is morally neutral; Cyclops pursues dubious counsel; the X means ten; and Fantomex is eminently enjoyable.

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The parentage of Hope Summers

New X-Men #127-130

Mutant Town

A monster who is not a monster but is, perhaps, a metaphor

X-Corporation Paris

The whole Phoenix situation

Fantomex

Weapon XII

A gene-hazard

Corporal Animal

E.V.A.

The Weapon Plus program (somewhat)

The World (somewhat)

The Shi’ar Empire vs. Earth

Xorn variations

NEXT EPISODE: A Memorial of Magnetism

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