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In which Miles stops worrying and learns to love X-Force; you should absolutely not google the phrase “face jam”; the kids take a field trip to Graymalkin; Jay reverse-engineers Shatterstar’s hair; Donald Pierce gets a new job; Sam Guthrie is the most trustworthy man in the Marvel Universe; Cable is your guns grandma; Professor earns its name; X-Force really only has one setting; and not every Sluggo is lit.

X-PLAINED:

• A bunch of stuff Quicksilver did
• Several cats
• X-Force #20-23
• The Externals (more) (again)
• A deeply unlikely hairstyle
• Graymalkin / Ship / Professor
• A somewhat one-sided reunion
• Yahoos
• Inaccurate arithmetic
• Why Feral sounds like that
• Neither Tom, Dick, nor Harry
• War Machine (James Rhodes)
• Salvage
• Sam Guthrie’s long trail of dead father figures
• Shatterstar
• How to fight an External
• The seventh plague
• What Domino’s been up to
• Hammer’s mom
• Tigerstryke (more) (again)
• Sluggo (but not that Sluggo)
• Learning to appreciate the ’90s

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