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Drop him a line!

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In which treading water isn’t always a bad thing; Storm remains an irresponsible leader; nobody should ever trust Dark Beast; we are befuddled by a large metal man; Maggott makes his debut; and we ship the heck out of Deathbird and Bishop.

X-PLAINED:

• The time Captain America dated a supervillain
• Treading water
• Gene Nation (again)
• Uncanny X-Men Annual 1997
• Uncanny X-Men #345
• Razors
• Humanity’s Last Stand
• Surprise
• Boost and Tether
• D’gard
• A Star Trek allusion
• The Morlock retcon
• Maggott (Japheth)
• A large metal individual
• Foreshadowing
• A large, inconvenient spaceship
• Magneto’s relationship to Judaism
• Recovery from the Legacy Virus

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