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Drop him a line!

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In which Nate Grey is a drama kid; Forge-295 is the hero we need; Mister Sinister is a graduate of the Danielle “Moonstar” Moonstar school of secret identities; and we really, really, really wish that the theater troupe had gotten the ongoing series.

X-PLAINED:

• Just how powerful Nate Grey is
• X-Man’s somewhat baffling ongoing appeal
• X-Man #1-4
• A theater company
• The Best Forge (Earth-295)
• Toad (Earth-295)
• Sauron (Earth-295)
• Brute (Earth-295)
• An extended Tom Stoppard allusion
• “Essex”
• Domino (Earth-295)
• Theater in and as resistance
• An ineffectual ruse
• A lot of death
• Caliban (Earth-295)
• A family reunion
• The story we really wanted out of this series
• The X-Man ongoing series
• Chronically missing New Mutants
• X-arcs we’d like to see animated

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