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In which the X.S.E. miniseries is future copaganda; Earth-1191 has no room for moral ambiguity; Bishop pulls a Marty McFly; Malcolm and Randall get distinct personalities; and you really shouldn’t give officers a symbol of authority that there’s no way to revoke.

X-PLAINED:

• Some of Bishop’s further adventures
• X.S.E. #1-4
• The future, sort of
• Earth-1191 (more) (again)
• The X.S.E. (more) (again)
• Lucas Bishop (more) (again)
• Shard Bishop (more) (again)
• Grandmother (who may or may not be Storm)
• Hancock (who may or may not be Cyclops)
• The deeply baffling Bishop family tree
• The fallability of childhood memory
• Exhumes
• Dubious reclamation
• Heca’te
• The Witness (more) (again)
• Trevor Fitzroy (more) (again)
• Several potential continuity errors
• Malcolm and Randall (more) (again)
• Emplates
• Shirley
• Mexican-American mutants
• A cross-media quote

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