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In which we return triumphant from hiatus; it’s still always Inferno in here; no one should ever under any circumstances date Cameron Hodge; Kenneth is a fundamentally hilarious name; Magneto’s family gets retconned to death; Pterosaurs are still the absolute worst; and Magik totally deserves a sidekick.

X-PLAINED:

• Ka-Zar’s real name
• Shanna the She-Devil
• Our new production set-up
• What we did on our summer vacations
• Previously on X-Men
• Further limits of the mutant metaphor
• Uncanny X-Men #273-275
• A crisis of leadership
• A comic that is a metaphor that is also a comic
• Cable’s OkCupid profile
• Changing creative dynamics on the X-line
• Archangel’s middle name
• Gambit vs. Wolverine
• Censorship Steam
• The protean X-bathroom
• Magneto’s retconned family
• Colonel Semyanov
• A perhaps ill-conceived team-up
• The Self-Styled Mistress of Magnetism
• Some remarkably lucky timing
• The semantics of heel turns
• Gender and sidekicks
• Mr. Sinister’s powers

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