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In which Jay is writing a Cyclops one-shot; It is honestly truly almost Legion Quest; Mystique plays the long game; sometimes filler is a good thing; Havok is a geophysicist, not a geographer; Lila definitely stole it; and more stories should be set in space junkyards.

X-PLAINED:

• How Betsy Braddock got her original body back
• Marvel Snapshots: X-Men
• The lead-up to Legion Quest
• X-Factor #108-111
• Mystique’s skill set
• Legion (David Haller) (more) (again)
• Freedom Force
• The most powerful of devices
• A dream about a dream
• An intersection of unreliable narrators
• The narrative justification for Legion Quest
• A rock monster
• Jornick
• Lila Cheney (more) (again)
• A Kurt Vonnegut reference
• The K’Lanti
• A space junkyard
• The end of X-Factor’s second iconic era
• Our favorite male/female X-friendships
• Pros and cons of line cohesiveness

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