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In which Stryfe is the Jan Brady of the Summers family; Miles’s dreams are trampled beneath tiny, delicate feet; Rictor goes on an unnecessary rescue mission; Cable is Washington to Cannonball’s Hamilton; the New Mutants may or may not time travel; Boom Boom scarfs up some chow for the bohunk; you should definitely not mess with Feral’s pigeons; Liefeld fights are pure rule-of-cool; Jay is absolutely not qualified to give legal advice; and we bid a bittersweet goodbye to New Mutants.
X-PLAINED:
- Zero
- Production transitions
- The end of New Mutants
- New Mutants #98-100
- Plotting vs. scripting
- The most valuable issue of New Mutants
- Gideon
- Liefeld butts (more) (again)
- The very dramatic death of Emmanuel da Costa
- Tolliver
- Some Spider-Man looking jerk
- Domino (Neena Thurman)
- A specific and likely inaccurate timeline
- Feral (Maria Callasantos)
- The signature Liefeld Kick™
- The Tavern on the Green
- Five or six kinds of mutants
- A sad goodbye
- Shatterstar (Gaveedra Seven)
- Cadre Alliance
- Nesting habits of the urban bohunk
- Some rad moves
- A prologue that is also an epilogue
- The Stryfe that might have been
- How Logan fits into the X-Men movie timeline
- X-Men mostly likely to watch Yuri!!! On Ice
- Jay at FlameCon!!
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