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

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In which everyone’s got Inferno issues; Brett Blevins makes it work; Belasco is conspicuously absent from Inferno; you should never go into Hell barefoot; the greatest X-Men stories are about loss; and Illyana Rasputin finally gets a fairy tale ending.

X-PLAINED

• Tempus (Eva Bell)
• Storm and Illyana: Magik #1-4 (briefly)
• The two major Inferno plotlines
• New Mutants #71-73
• The best of Brett Blevins
• The rise and fall of Magik
• The ethics of time-travel interventions
• A weaponized retcon
• N’astirh Guy
• A chair that is also a moral event horizon
• A significant soul-armor upgrade
• Several variations on a chapter title
• Possessed New York
• An overly complex conspiracy theory
• A bittersweet reunion
• The Kobayashi Maru scenario as applied to X-Men
• An even more bittersweet victory (of sorts)
• The eventual return of Magik (sort of)
• Why it’s really irresponsible to affiliate your school with a superhero team
• Our favorite versions of Wolfsbane’s transitional form

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