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In which 1991 runs right into 2010, X-Factor: Endgame (and everything after it) never happened, Jay covets the hell out of Cyclops’s X-Factor: Forever jacket, Apocalypse’s alternative universe motives are actually pretty fascinating, and Miles will never call his junk Traitorous Unit.

X-PLAINED:

• The Strucker siblings (and the Strucker siblings)
• X-Factor Forever #1-5
• Earth-TRN237
• What makes a good Forever comic
• The best jacket in the X-universe (and some other redesigns)
• MaXimum pants
• Ship the ship
• The Celestial Host
• Dan Panosian’s Smug Apocalypse
• The Master Meld variations
• Force versus heat (and art versus word balloons)
• En Sabah Nur, thoughtful employer
• Gammenon the Gatherer and honey-related implements
• Combat (and podcasting) maneuver names
• The Apocalypse Journal
• Eternals versus Deviants versus Inferior, Shitty Humans
• Slow, crappy science and adorable mutant rats
• Mutant fertility
• Arishem the Judge and his magic space-thumb
• Definitive versions of characters and their relationships
• En Sabah Nur and Your Changing Body
• That time X-Factor threw a baby at a robot to save the world
• DC Comics’s Hellfire Club
• Trans X-Men
• But no seriously that jacket

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