Episode Details

In which William Stryker is exceptionally difficult to kill; the terminology around Emplate’s powers is absolute nonsense even by comic-book standards; inkers deserve more credit; we would totally read comics about Murmur the Softpoken Mummy; Bishop comes to the rescue; and nothing really resolves.

X-PLAINED:

• What happened to William Stryker
• Gratuitous use of the adjective “genetic”
• Emplate (again)
• Generation X #12-14
• Inks
• Penance’s original backstory
• Pining
• A really unpleasant reunion
• Accent problems
• Gayle Edgerton
• Vincente
• Bulwark
• D.O.A.
• A somewhat chaotic victory
• Mutant teams from non-anglophone countries
• X-characters Miles would like to write

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