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at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

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In which everyone dies (or something); every Summers is miserable in their own way; we are pretty done with Nanny and the Orphanmaker; Lady Deathstrike is a surprisingly astute art critic; the X-Men’s digital invisibility does not extend to the White Pages; we venture into slightly less charted territory; Wolverine has a really bad day; and you should totally come hang out with us at Rose City Comic Con!

X-PLAINED:

• Origins of Lady Deathstrike
• Jay & Miles at Rose City Comic Con
• X-Ray party etiquette
• Uncanny X-Men #248-251
• The precise inverse of an anticlimax
• The Siege Perilous (more) (again)
• Dramatic parallels
• Summers tragedy disambiguation
• Jim Lee’s first X-issue
• The apparent death of Storm (this time)
• The merged Reavers
• What it takes for Jay to play a sidescroller
• An X-band
• Longshot’s departure
• A really ineffective rescue
• Art-critic Deathstrike
• Administrative assistant Jubilee
• Zaladane
• An unconventional approach to genealogy
• The ickiest method of mind control
• Dark Claw

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