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In which evil robots are fundamentally more optimistic than climate change; Ozymandias could probably use a new hobby; Wolverine goes full Kate Beaton; “Luck Be a Lady” would be a kickass hymn; Shard gets a body (kinda); and the X-Men definitely do that.

X-PLAINED:

• Some of Stryfe’s team-ups
• Fatal Attractions (briefly)
• X-Cutioner’s Song (briefly)
• Genesis / Tolliver / Tyler Dayspring
• Several other individuals named Genesis
• Lost noses, historical and fictional
• Uncanny X-Men #332
• Wolverine #100-101
• Uncanny X-Men Annual 1996
• Zoe Culloden (The Expediter)
• Ozymandias
• Wolverine, golden retriever
• An Elektra cameo
• Wild Thing
• Bishop and Shard (again)
• The return of Preacher
• The Hound (again)
• A reunion
• Deplxelation
• Krakoan team niches
• What heroes do

NEXT: X.S.E.

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