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In which Swimsuit Catalog is not an actual style of martial arts; Onslaught dabbles in vandalism; Crule is a special guy; we identify briefly with X-Force; and Charles Xavier is the Keyser Soze of Onslaught.

X-PLAINED:

• Externals on Krakoa
• Relative levels of violence in X-books
• X-Force #52-54
• Camp Hayden, KY
• Onslaught-facilitated power-ups
• Gideon (again)
• At least one apparent death
• How it feels to be us
• Businesswear
• Whether Cannonball is an external
• Nazis in the Captain Britain Corps
• Doop

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