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In which Emma Frost is a better Iceman than Bobby Drake; Generation X is aggressively foreshadowed; Malcolm and Randall are the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to Bishop’s Hamlet; and we launch a campaign for our own Multiversal designation.

X-PLAINED:

• The first time the X-Men met Emma Frost
• Uncanny X-Men 314-315
• X-Men Annual #18
• A game show nobody should ever under any circumstances actually make
• Emma Frost’s recruitment tactics
• Previously unexplored ice powers
• The direct prelude to Generation X
• Caliban (more) (again)
• SoftPaws(TM)
• The giant squids of New York
• The neophyte
• A trial, kind of
• X-Men power fantasies
• Earth-X-Plain

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