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In which we begin our 3-part coverage of Fall of the Mutants; Roma is very good at her job; strange things are afoot in Dallas; Mystique’s parenting skills are somewhat lopsided; Neal Conan is awesome; Havok gets a soapbox; Storm and Forge flirt with godhood; Rogue’s costume exists in a state of quantum uncertainty; Colossus is the organic steel wrench in the gears of chaos; and the X-Men die for real (but get better).

X-PLAINED:

• Crossovers vs. events
• The Fall of the Mutants
• Uncanny X-Men #225-227
• A really great marketing campaign
• The Adversary (again)
• Roma
• The Starlight Citadel
• Retcons as applied pareidolia
• A metaphor that is also a real chess piece
• A sort-of stabbing
• Neal Conan & Manoli Wetherell
• Literally hard-hitting journalism
• A whole new world
• Another variation on the Rogue’s-costume drinking game
• A really improbable plan
• The death and resurrection of the X-Men
• Mutant metabolisms

NEXT WEEK: It’s Always Darkest…

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