Episode Details

In which we remain frustrated with Morrison’s Magneto; Esme Cuckoo’s hat game is lacking; and the status quo dies with Jean Grey.

X-PLAINED:

• Dubious X-relationships
• Some excellent songs from an excellent show
• New X-Men #149-150
• Various atrocities and catastrophes
• The resistance, such as it is
• Magneto’s limits
• A rebirth
• Neutron warheads
• The cavalry
• Yet another death of Magneto
• Yet another death of Jean Grey
• A peculiar epilogue
• A legacy of retcons
• A miasma of bleakness and futility
• The Xorn retcon
• Disability in “Planet X”
• Miracles of Magnetism

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