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

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In which we sit down with one of our favorite writers to talk about his upcoming series; the X-teens take to the road; Season One is kind of Friday Night Lights; good relationships make good stories; and we are really excited for All-New X-Men.

X-PLAINED:

• Genesis (Evan Sabahnur)
• Dennis Hopeless
• Secret origins of X-Men: Season One
• All-New X-Men, vol. 2
• How to write Jean Grey
• Building a team
• Why Quentin Quire isn’t in All-New X-Men
• All-New in the larger X-line, and the X-line in the larger Marvel Universe
• Definitive X-eras
• Cable & X-Force
• What makes Cable tick
• Boom Boom
• Colossus and Domino
• The narrative case for solid relationships
• Favorite villains
• Mark Bagley
• Character evolution across multiple creative teams
• X-teen hobbies
• Vegas Valley Comic Book Fest

NEXT WEEK: The New Mutants meet Bird Boy, with mixed results.

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