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In which we enter the era of bomber jackets; the covers are the cards; Genosha remains neither green nor pleasant; the A is for “Avengers,” not “A-list”; Henry Peter Gyrich is the straightest of men; Cyclops sets an important precedent; Exodus is a huge jerk; we speculate about movies we have definitely not seen; Stephen Strange is not a qualified OBGYN; the Avengers are really weird even by our standards; and Max manages to connect two of Marvel’s most complicated family trees.

X-PLAINED:

• One way to name babies
• Blood Ties
• Infinite bomber jackets
• Avengers #368-369
• X-Men #26
• Avengers West Coast #101
• Uncanny X-Men #307
• Several very fancy covers
• A shadow government, but not that kind of shadow government
• Genosha (more) (again)
• The Avengers, as of 1993
• A special delegation
• The Genoshan resistance
• U.S. Agent
• A time Cyclops told someone other than Dracula to follow their heart
• The many belts of Nicholas Fury
• Several members of the Maximoff family (more) (again)
• Black Knight (Dane Whitman)
• Sersi
• A very drawn-out fight
• Roy Thomas dialogue
• The racist icing on the racist cake
• Exodus (Bennet du Paris)
• Diplomacy, kind of
• Apolitical avenging
• Magneto’s dream
• A green and pleasant beverage
• Yet another energy-dome-enclosed crisis
• The giant, angry disembodied head of Charles Xavier
• What is definitely the actual plot of the Purge movies
• The surprisingly torrid private lives of the Maximoffs
• Scarlet Witch and Vision’s kids
• Master Pandemonium and his weird baby hands
• Damian Hellstrom
• How we’d handle Magneto’s family in modern Marvel
• Robopaternity
• A possible link between the Summers and Maximoff fa