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In which X-Force is the new New Mutants; Professor is what Cable has instead of a burn book; Cable develops emotional literacy; Jay has a lot of feelings about Shatterstar; Cowboys can be wizards, too; you really shouldn’t call adult people “child”; privilege is truly the greatest superpower; Cameron Hodge remains improbably difficult to kill; Candy Southern gets to write the ending to her own story; and Emerald City Comic Con is coming up REALLY fast!

• X-PLAINED:
  Reignfire
• Jay & Miles at Emerald City Comic Con
• Some new merch
• X-Force #26
• Uncanny X-Men #305-306
• The evolution of Tabitha Smith’s code name
• X-Force and its members (more) (again)
• Professor’s narrative function
• A sudden mustache and its potential implications
• A lot of things about Shatterstar
• Cable as a leader
• Armor full of skin
• Louis St. Croix and/or Mark Twain
• An inappropriate nickname
• The first Xavier school prom
• Inflatable erotic accessory semantics
• The return of Candy Southern
• The return of Cameron Hodge
• Moral event horizons and how to handle them in comics
• Pros and cons of dating telepaths

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