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In which Professor is too cool for the Phalanx; fatphobia is significantly more dangerous than Fred Dukes; Strong Guy catches a plane; Emma Frost will not let you coast; Jubilee says goodbye to the X-Men; and it’s probably for the best that we have avoided corporate advertisers.

X-PLAINED:

• Mr. M
• Thor: Metal Gods
• Ship (more) (again)
• The Phalanx vs. the Borg
• Several cover homages
• X-Force #39
• X-Factor #107
• Uncanny X-Men #318
• Prosh
• The myriad delights of embodiment
• A complex theory about Leprechauns
• Benefits of single-issue stories
• Strong Guy vs. the Blob
• Strong Guy vs. Gravity
• Strong Guy vs. an airplane
• Strong Guy vs. biology
• Several explosions
• The kids of Generation X
• Deluxe-format comics
• The Xavier Institute for Higher Learning
• Goodbyes
• Dazzler’s relative immortality
• Jay’s X-Men Happy Meal Toy wish list
• How to make a page-accurate Warlock toy

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