In which Jay and Miles receive a mysterious missive and are visited by three of our favorite X-writers; Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix is a pleasant surprise; Nathaniel Essex is the most dramatic man in the Marvel Universe; the sewers of Victorian London were a happenin’ place; Apocalypse isn’t even French; Beast is the flip-side of Sinister; community is for everyone; the Internet is (kind of) Krakoa; and death is fixable, but trauma might take a little more work.

X-PLAINED:

• A quotation
• Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #1-4
• A closed loop
• Time travel with Scott Summers and Jean Grey
• Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex)
• A somewhat excessive visual aid
• Beards
• Cootie Tremble
• The cultural context of sideshows
• The first Marauders and/or Nasty Boys
• Victorian Apocalypse
• Strained allegories
• Sanctity
• Apocalypse vs. the Hellfire Club
• Oscar the Somewhat Less Nasty Boy
• Varyingly anachronistic costuming
• The secret origin of ruby quartz
• A very vague objective
• A makeover
• A closed time loop
• Actual Cat Wizard Jonathan Hickman
• Something Jay is not in fact going to pitch to Marvel
• Creative dynamics and processes in the current X-line
• Revolutionary joy
• What’s cooler than one sword
• The Sixth Annual Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau Awards for Excellence at X-Cellence

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