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In which Ship was inside Cable all along; Life Signs is the Two Towers of the Phalanx Covenant (but only in the bad ways), it’s lucky that the Phalanx doesn’t have WiFi; Nightcrawler embraces chaos; and we promise the crossover gets better next chapter.

X-PLAINED:

• How Cable got his Ship back
• Miles’s official stance on candy corn
• The Two Towers of the Phalanx Covenant
• X-Factor #106
• X-Force #38
• Excalibur #82
• A monastery party
• Douglock (more) (again)
• Forge-O-Vision
• How Steven Lang got mixed up with the Phalanx
• Stages of Phalanx development
• Babel
• Giuseppe Russo, shepherd
• The Phalanx, but dogs
• Shinar
• What you get when you meet a stranger in the Alps
• Whom we’d like to see draw the Phalanx
• Mindwifery
• Adulthood
• “Stealth”
• Where baby Phalanxes come from
• Teamwork
• Good stories about Hope Summers
• What happened to Paul Bailey

NEXT EPISODE: Rock climbing with the Summers Family

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