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In which Danielle Moonstar is not a master of disguise; the MLF are bad enough dudes to kidnap a guy who works near the president; Tempo wasn’t even supposed to be here today; Reignfire is no Magneto; we now desperately want X-Force matryoshka dolls; Feral quits the team; Henry Peter Gyrich fails to learn from experience (or anything else); small children are bad at everything; Shatterstar gets a tagline; Sam Guthrie REALLY needs a vacation; and it’s surprisingly difficult to choose a favorite resurrection.

X-PLAINED:

• Cortex
• The kinder, gentler Cable
• Several matters related to Nicholas Cage
• X-Force #27-30
• Broome jaws
• The Area jar
• The Mutant Liberation Front
• Reignfire (again)
• Hardaway
• A cyborg asshole
• Locus
• Moonstar
• “Of Faith and Fable”
• Foreshadow puppets
• Bobby da Costa’s greatest fear
• Dad jokes with Cable
• X-Force’s day off
• Shatterstar vs. Adam X the X-Treme
• Windsong
• An inevitable team-up
• A Very Special Episode moment
• The return of Wine Mom Domino
• The return of Jean Grey’s telepathy
• Our favorite resurrections

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