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In which Jubilee is underwhelmed by X-Force; Havok and Gambit make weirdly good buddy cops; Department K is a hot vacation destination; Cable is secretly a Coen Brothers protagonist; you can cancel Community but you can never take away Jay’s gratuitous Community references; Rusty goes full cultist; nobody is Stryfe’s real dad; smoking on a space station is a REALLY bad idea; Apocalypse is here to help; and Miles lies at length about music.

X-PLAINED:

• Kuurth
• Various Juggernauts
• The Story So Far
• More trading-card taxonomy
• Uncanny X-Men #295
• X-Factor #85
• X-Men #15
• X-Force #17
• Varyingly hilarious misunderstandings
• Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love
• What happened
• Good Cop / Sleazy Cop
• A deal
• A tragic absence of Draculas
• The Coen Brothers’ X-Cutioner’s Song
• Thanksgiving with Cable
• Miles’s summer camp hijinks
• Murderbots in space (again)
• A dubious strategy
• MLF Redshirts
• The second time someone force-fed superheroes baby food in space
• A dropped plot thread
• Things you shouldn’t do on space stations
• Additional awkward reunions
• Whether Stryfe is a Summers
• The X-Cutioner’s signature karaoke song

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