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Drop him a line!

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In which you may or may not have your own Black Bug Room; FlameCon was in fact every bit as wonderful as we projected (and more); Caliban hates true love; no one will ever be as extra as Mister Sinister; X-Cutioner’s Song is secretly a farce; we achieve Peak Cable; and the quintessential ’90s crossover event begins!

X-PLAINED:

• The Black Bug Room
• A good deal of pre-event status quo
• Uncanny X-Men #294
• X-Factor #84
• X-Men #14
• X-Force #16
• Trading card taxonomy
• The opening strains of a crossover event
• A concert that worked out better in theory than in practice
• An abduction
• Several attempted murders
• A large number of awkward reunions
• An even larger number of inter-team brawls
• Two villains pretending to be other villains
• Cape logistics
• Peak Cable
• Many pouches
• Many guns
• The origin of Hope Summers
• Our hopes for mutants in the MCU

NEXT EPISODE: Aw, Stryfe, no.

NOTE: At one point in this episode, Miles said “X-Force” when he actually meant “X-Factor.” If you can tell us where, you win the prize of eternal smugness (not as much smugness as Sinister, but still a lot).

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