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In which we ring in the new year with Cable’s on-page debut; it’s really the ’90s now; we enter the third major era of New Mutants; what Liefeld lacks in craft he makes up for in energy; we pitch a new “What if–” line; Rusty and Skids are terrible superheroes; X-Factor has probably given up on a lot of things; we speculate at gratuitous length on the content of Cable’s pouches; you have reason to go to the devil; and Cable makes a lot more sense when you realize he’s of, by, and for teenagers.

X-PLAINED:

• How the Legacy Virus got loose
• New Mutants #86-89
• Cable’s on-page debut
• Rob Liefeld
• The third major era of New Mutants
• A shift in the balance of power
• A comics shop to probably avoid if you time-travel back to the mid 1990s
• The stupid adventures of Rusty & Skids
• Yet another Acts of Vengeance tie-in
• Nitro
• An accidental prison break
• Cops, or maybe protestors
• The Mutant Liberation Front
• Feet
• A goody two-shoes man-stealing redheaded werewolf
• Wildside
• Reaper
• Strobe
• Thumbelina
• Tempo
• Forearm
• Zero
• Stryfe
• Stryfe’s armor
• Spooning with Cable

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