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In which Shattershot is definitely better than the Cold War; Beast X-plains the X-teams; Cyclops is a tired babysitter; sustenance is not frivolous; Jim Henson is the hero that Mojoworld needs; Shatterstar is not a great head of state; it’s hard to be Val Cooper; and Cable has definitely figured out how to take you (yes, YOU) out.

X-PLAINED:

• Astra
• Content-to-story ratio
• The Mojoverse (more) (again)
• Longshot
• Shatterstar (Gaveedra Seven)
• Spiral (Ricochet Rita)
• Arize
• X-Men Annual #1
• Uncanny X-Men Annual #16
• X-Factor Annual #10
• X-Force Annual #1
• A pivotal battle
• Mujahideen
• A callback
• Several denizens of Mojoworld
• X-Team disambiguation
• The Death Sponsors
• A dubious solution to the Kobayashi Maru scenario
• Whether Arize is a mutant
• Telepathic favoritism
• Spiral’s origin story
• A new regime
• Earth-84309
• Powerpax (Frankie Power)
• Darkchild
• Cyberlock
• A metasingularity
• A large number of back-up features
• The X-Men’s top ten enemies
• Amalgam (but not that one)
• Darick Robertson’s juvenilia
• The return of Taki
• The Cable Protocols
• Brazilian Marvel characters
• Our feelings about Laura Kinney’s backstory

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