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In which Jay is deeply invested in The Gifted; Trevor Fitzroy is generally inexcusable; there are a lot of reasons to be uncomfortable in the Hellfire Club; the mix just got altered in this little clambake; Jean Grey (kind of) dies (again); Earth-1191 gives the Age of Apocalypse some glam competition; Lucas Bishop is a pretty decent metaphor for fan culture; everyone is probably Kang the Conqueror; and now Miles really has no excuse for not watching The Prisoner.

X-PLAINED:

• The Chronomancer and his Chronobots
• The Gifted
• Lucas Bishop’s creative origins
• Trevor Fitzroy
• Goatee Theory
• X-Factor #67
• Uncanny X-Men #281-283
• Dapper Lesbian Shinobi Shaw
• A briefly useful mnemonic
• Cybernetic fuckboys
• The return of Warren Kenneth Worthington III’s hair
• Beef and Bevatron
• The deaths of the Hellions
• Warhammer
• Some of the challenges of X-Plaining the ’90s
• Bringing a knife to a Sentinel fight
• Bantam
• A bunch of bad guys from the future
• Bishop
• Randall
• Malcolm
• Earth-1191
• The Gamemaster
• X-Men we’d like to see come out as trans (revisited)
• Whether either or both of us are Kang the Conquerer

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