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In which Rachel Summers’ continuity somehow becomes even more complicated; X-Men: Phoenix is pretty much a Star Wars (minus the stars); cultural appropriation remains a problem in the distant future; we are surprisingly into the origins of the Askani; and you should totally come see us at FlameCon!

X-PLAINED:

• Several Rachels Summers who may or may not actually be the same Rachel Summers
• Time, somewhat
• Gaunt
• Jay & Miles at FlameCon 2019
• X-Men: Phoenix #1-3
• Bird stuff
• What happened after Rachel got sucked into the timestream
• High Councilor Diamanda Nero
• An extremely poor choice of ornamentation
• Luminesca
• Ch’vayre
• The origins of Blaquesmith
• A questionable alias
• Diogenes Chang
• The Order of Witnesses
• A rad team
• Malachai Hark
• Qua
• Lexii
• Ozana
• The word “Askani”
• The Hellhole
• A resurrection
• Penguins of Apocalypse
• Sanctity (Tonya Trask)
• A butt-on
• The Phoenix Force and its hosts
• Characters we’d like to see imported into comics from other X-media

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