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In which Haven deserved better; Cyclops and Havok have a lot of feelings in Alaska; X-Factor is the cop team; breaking up with your girlfriend between issues is a massive faux pas; Haven got a bad deal; no one cares about Random’s feelings; Spiral is weird Twitter; and Alex Summers once again fails to finish his dissertation.

X-PLAINED:

• Chaos (Daniel Dash)
• Pie
• Power suits vs. power suits
• X-Factor #115-118
• Haven (more) (again)
• The Adversary (more) (again)
• Naze (more) (again)
• Several people who may or may not be holograms
• One of Jay’s all-time-favorite single issues
• Howard Mackie
• Wally Wood’s 22 Panels
• The Summers Family plane crash
• Cyclops and Havok’s relationship
• Havok’s Silver Age origins
• Trans readings of Alex Summers
• Shard (more) (again)
• Canadian drama
• A trap
• The return of Random
• Roma (again)
• Mojoworlders on social media
• Which X-teens should be audience surrogates in a new animated series

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