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In which X-Factor gets its own roster shakeup; most bartenders will look at you funny if you order a flight of superheroes; Kaboom is a great name for a nightclub; we lack significant feelings about the clone saga; Yukio probably sends love to everyone’s girlfriends; Forge has terrible coping mechanisms; and Jay’s current life is not conducive to consistent acoustics (sorry!).

X-PLAINED:

• Mystique’s powers
• X-Factor’s new roster
• X-Factor #112-114
• The word “wreak”
• The issue that made Miles stop reading X-Men
• Wild Child (Kyle Gibney)
• Wolverine as a role
• Cyburai (more) (again)
• Unethical management practices
• One way to be drunk on power(s)
• Scarlett McKenzie (again)
• Club Kaboom
• Yukio (again)
• Fatale
• Summers Problems(TM)
• Marvel’s 1996 reader survey
• A bondage harness that may or may not be made out of dryer tubing
• Alex Summers vs. his own powers
• Sugar Man in the 616
• Several potential but unexplored story hooks for Scarlett
• An implausible implant
• Mystique’s new costume
• A deeply dysfunctional but narratively plausible ship
• A Random tangent
• RPF on Earth-616
• Forge vs. Tony Stark

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