Rachel & Miles X-Plain The X-Men: Through Death and Through Life

Welcome back to Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men, a weekly podcast in which X-Perts Rachel Edidin and Miles Stokes explore the ins, outs, and retcons of fifty years of Marvel’s greatest superhero soap opera!

This week: Rachel and Miles celebrate an anniversary with a retrospective of one of the great romances of the Marvel universe; the Summers/Grey family tree is more of a transdimensional strawberry patch; the X-Men play some football; Professor Xavier is not a jerk; and Scott Summers and Jean Grey are the power couple of existentialism.

X-Plained:

• Summers kids
• Scott and Jean
• Feelings
• X-Men #32
• The worst date ever
• Madelyne Pryor
• Plot-relevant prosopagnosia
• Three proposals
• X-Factor #53
• Uncanny X-Men #308
• “Fatal Attractions”
• That one panel that gets us every time
• X-Men vol. 2 #30
• Some really excellent wedding vows
• The best kiss in X-Men
• Cats Laughing
• Why “One” is actually a pretty decent first dance
• Existential ramifications of fictional romance

Next week: Rachel and Miles take a much-needed vacation.

Week after next: The New Mutants!

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