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In which music is dangerous and confusing, Jamie Madrox has a weakness for femmes fatale, the term “f-holes” makes Miles turn 12, and we bid a fond farewell to Larry Stroman.

X-PLAINED:

• That time Havok was the nexus of all realities
• How to get to Florida, Magneto style
• X-Factor #79-81
• Lesser-used applications of super-speed
• Rhapsody (Rachel Argosy)
• Mutant late bloomers
• The surprising convenience and safety of fictional shop windows
• Excalibur-weird vs. X-Factor-weird
• Tiny cellos
• The worst kid in the neighborhood
• A creative use of mutant powers
• Whether Madrox creates duplicates during sex (again)
• Astral wheat fields
• Musical manslaughter
• Sean Young (who is decidedly not Catwoman)
• Hell’s Belles
• Rahne’s World
• Polaris’s body image issues
• Beefiness disambiguation
• Wolfsbane’s conditional poker face
• Cyber (Silas Burr)
• Strong Guy, who just works here, man
• Alex Summers, inspiring and/or deceptive authority figure
• Bringing back the classics (and when not to)
• The surprisingly homogenous Multiverse

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