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In which Havok goes surfing; Malice eats a poodle; Strong Guy’s ex is a big jerk; Sinister’s gotta Sinister; and Miles learns about a meme.

X-PLAINED:

• The Puppet Master
• X-Factor #103-105
• Comparative Summers brooding
• Perks of being a mutant geologist and/or geophysicist
• Malice and Polaris’s complicated history
• A somewhat convoluted plan
• Several reasons to go to Rhinebeck, NY
• Friendship
• The extended Carosella family
• Candy stripers
• Mary, who is a big jerk
• A Sinister entrance
• The Nasty Boys (more) (again)
• Karate pants
• 14-year-old Chris Gethard’s feelings about Jamie Madrox
• Ionic vampirism
• Misguided vengeance
• Pushing back against whitewashing in comics

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