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In which history gets rewritten (again); Shatterstar definitely knows how to dance; and everyone gets extremely grumpy about Loeb’s final X-Force arc.

X-PLAINED:

• What happened to Reverend Craig
• X-Force (again)
• The Mojoverse (again)
• X-Force #59-61
• Shatterstar vs. Benjamin Russell
• The Weisman Institute for the Criminally Insane (again)
• Subtext
• Help, sort of
• The dick ship
• Darth Vader’s penis or lack thereof
• The difference between Jay and Miles
• Violently decompressed storytelling
• Gog and Gog’n’Magog (again)
• Prior (or possibly future) events in the rebellion
• Longshot outside his miniseries
• Longshot and Shatterstar
• TV Guide
• Ineffective brainwashing
• A large number of continuity errors
• Mojo V
• Genre hopping
• A stylistic shift
• A body swap
• Benjamin Russell vs. the Leprechauns
• Personally resonant comics
• Wolverine’s sense of smell

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