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In which Jubilee is the sassiest Xenomorph; Lady Deathstrike is way too good for the Reavers; Wolverine gets a sidekick; Forge arm wrestles the Shadow King; Moira takes a cavalier approach lab safety; Magneto’s motives get kind of reconciled; Legion is a chaos gamer; Mystique and Destiny break our hearts; queer erasure in fiction reflects erasure in life; and the Shadow King is not even a little bit subtle.

X-PLAINED:

• That one time Donald Pierce pretended to be Cyclops for like a year
• The post X-Men X-Men
• What may be our deepest cut yet
• Uncanny X-Men #252-255
• Where’s Wolverine?
• The Reaver Bunch
• Major-League lumpoids
• Robot dingoes
• A prescient vision
• Trouble at sea
• Several significant deaths
• Subtext and queer erasure
• The key of agony
• Smile noises
• Non-mutants we’d team up with the X-Men

NEXT WEEK: Back to Asgard!

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