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In which Moonstar really wasn’t fooling anybody; Bird Brain is somehow still alive; Cassidy Keep is weird; Gene Ha draws excellent Storm; Reeva Payge makes her sole comics appearance; and Shinobi Shaw is wrong about everything.

X-PLAINED:

• A not-particularly-cunning disguise
• Upcoming coverage
• X-Force Annual #3
• X-Men Annual #3
• The MLF
• Reignfire (more) (again)
• Moonstar (more) (again)
• An unconventional way to keep a secret diary
• A bittersweet semi-reunion
• 3Peace
• Murphy Keep
• A ghost, maybe
• The kind of thing that happens at Cassidy Keep
• An excellent burn
• Leather
• “Neurotoxins”
• Sex House as the definitive artifact of the 2010s
• How not to draw someone having a nightmare
• A very short-lived version of the Hellfire Club
• How not to villain
• Coming to terms with bad fictional tech

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