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In which not all Mondos are created equal; the kids are only rarely all right; the Age of Apocalypse is not Magneto’s fault; Sugar Man is the stuff of universal nightmares; “cartoonish” is not necessarily a plus; and the Age of Apocalypse is not particularly sustainable.

X-PLAINED:

• Generation Next #1-4
• The tradition of YA horror in X-books
• Bachalo unchained
• Whose fault the Age of Apocalypse is
• Adaptive technology vs. Apocalypse
• Chamber of Earth-295
• Husk of Earth-295
• Skin of Earth-295
• Mondo of Earth-295
• Vincente Cimetta
• Know-It-All (Claudia)
• An abysmal training exercise
• Colossus of Earth-295
• Shadowcat of Earth-295
• Gardner Monroe (Flashback)
• Quietus
• Sugar Man
• The Portland and/or Seattle Core
• Illyana Rasputin
• Ace
• Human collaborators
• A gratuitous Monty Python reference
• The difference between mass and volume
• Number Six
• The fall of Generation Next
• Growing up in the Age of Apocalypse
• Illyana 2.0
• Subtext vs. queerbaiting

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