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In which the Beast miniseries is actually a cleverly disguised Karma miniseries; Gateway’s moral alignment remains a mystery; Cannonball rocks some sideburns; there are many reasons to dislike Viper; and every #1 is somebody’s first.

X-PLAINED:

• An off-panel death
• X-Force #62
• Beast #1-3
• Karma’s family and backstory (again)
• Twin absorption
• MacGuffins and/or children
• Clearcut and Mindmeld
• Unconsciousness
• Spiral (again)
• Marios
• What to do (visually) with six arms
• Spiral’s mutates
• Some very impressive body horror
• MId-fight stalling
• Misplaced revenge
• Hank McCoy’s multiversal offspring
• The history of Karma’s sexual orientation

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