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In which we provide some inroads to resisting fascism in your community; pacifism has amazing abs; Cyclops and Wolverine play revolutionary chicken; Amelia Voght fails to live up to her narrative potential; Jean Grey continues to make spectacularly bad choices; Polaris deserves better; and Wolverine finally gets to stab Magneto.
X-PLAINED:
- Community action and aid
- X-Men #112-113
- Uncanny X-Men #393
- Genosha (more) (again)
- Northstar (more) (again)
- Dazzler (more) (again)
- Sunpyre (more) (again)
- Hector Rendoza (more) (again)
- Paulie Provenzano (more) (again)
- Frenzy (more) (again)
- Amelia Voght (more) (again)
- St. Sebastian thirst traps
- Sewer adventures
- Post-Apocalypse Cyclops (more) (again)
- Awkward conversations about feelings
- Implausible knitting
- The Age of Apocalypse X-Babies
- A protracted confrontation
- Bad strategy
- A confusing ruse
- Some stabbing
- What happens to the unlikeliest X-Men
- Jean Grey as Charles Xavier’s heir
- Best potential uses of Hector Rendoza
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I’m not sure if it’s intentional, but Dazzler kind of lampshades the way the X-Men keep throwing the guy with metal bones at Magneto after the big reveal. She says something along the lines of, “OBVIOUSLY he was going to turn my powers against me. Do you think I’m stupid?”