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In which we check in on Firestar and the New Warriors; superheroes often celebrate Bring Your Mom To The Amazon Day; Fabian Nicieza employs only the finest of lampshades; and Emma Frost still doesn’t apologize for blowing up that pony.

X-PLAINED:

• Vance Astro(vik)
• Penance (but not that one)
• Austin Gorton’s X-Aminations
• New Warriors #10
• Firestar (Angelica Jones)
• The New Warriors
• Visual representations of invisible mutant powers
• The Hellions (more) (again)
• Tarot and her Morrisonian powers
• Bevatrons
• Oxy-cution
• The inevitably increasing complexity of superhero origins
• The Miracle of Microwaves
• New Warriors #31
• Nova Roma
• Magma (Amara Aquilla) (or Allison Crestmere, I guess)
• A brief and futile attempt at Roman soldier disambiguation
• Empath and his large collection of red flags
• Gender-based intuition
• A massive, stupid, and quickly undone retcon
• Super-nature versus super-nurture
• The hypothetical psychological roots of Emma Frost’s fashion phases

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