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In which the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning should really be the setting of a stoner comedy; Garrabed Bashur’s brain is probably 90% porn by now; the tide always takes the castle; William Drake remains terrible; Adam X the X-Treme deserved better; Jay pitches a series; disability is not a boolean and exclusively medically-defined state; and we are all about some weird X-Men tie-in products.

X-PLAINED:

• Mariko Yoshida in the afterlife
• Moon Talk
• Some upcoming X-books
• X-Men #38-39
• Uncanny X-Men #319
• Many unhealthy coping mechanisms
• Sinister foreshadowing
• Fancy hair
• Commcast (Garabed Bashur)
• Hawk sex
• An exceptionally resonant callback
• Intersectional bigotry
• The domestic dynamics of the Drake household
• The remarkably poignant return of Adam X the X-Treme
• The opposite of a Jack London story
• An unlikely intergenerational frienship
• A novel use of a novel superpower
• Mutation as and intersecting with disability
• X-Men tie-in products we’d like to see

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