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In which the Morlocks used to have more agency, we have a surprising amount to say about the Rat King from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Archangel receives some exceptionally disturbing news, and 90s comics are all about finding the parts you love.

X-PLAINED:

• Marrow’s internal organs
• The post-Image Exodus era
• Judging books by their covers
• Uncanny X-Men #291-293
• Sexy dead girls (again)
• The Morlock leadership vacuum
• A significant Callisto personality retcon
• Failures of leadership due to own-death-faking
• The magical life and magical death of the Morlock Sewer Wizard
• Science Made Stupid
• Storm’s claustrophobia (again)
• MeMe, scourge of Miles’s childhood
• 90s Jean Grey: cartoon vs comic
• The Br’er Rabbit Technique
• Some unfortunate and significant continuity errors
• Professor Xavier’s impressive upper body strength
• Mikhail Rasputin’s genuinely terrifying mutant powers
• Bobby Drake’s potential
• Morlock organizational techniques
• Mikhail Rasputin’s very bad plan
• Jean Grey’s real talk
• The Home for Infinite Losers
• Piotr Rasputin, tragedy collector
• Copyright law and Fair Use
• Queer headcanon
• X-beards

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