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In which the Hand probably doesn’t even offer dental; literally everyone is less creepy than the Joker and Harley Quinn; toxic masculinity is Sabretooth’s adamantium; Mark Trail is a wild ride; Wolverine trashes the dress code and gets funky; Larry Hama is your god now; and Sabretooth: Death Hunt scores a solid six on the butt-kick scale.

X-PLAINED:

• Mark Trail vs. X-Men
• Sabretooth (Victor Creed)
• Clones of Sabretooth
• Birthday traditions
• Sabretooth: Death Hunt #1-4
• Ps[i don’t remember; that one guy]
• Low-context ninjas
• A somewhat tasteful omission, I guess
• The glow (and its counterintuitive sound effect)
• Turbo Sabretooth
• Tribune (Graydon Creed)
• Mark Trail
• Affirmations with Sabretooth
• “Leni Zauber”
• Dress codes
• The butt-kick scale
• A tearaway tuxedo
• Dubious grenade handling
• Parenting with Mystique
• One thing Wolverine knows
• The CHK-LIT gun
• Comics bankers
• A very qualified recommendation
• Our preferred versions of Sabretooth’s origin
• Relative redeemability

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