In which Professor X has no time for your sympathy; there are too many people in the bathroom; everything’s more fun with J. Jonah Jameson; psychologists dress better in the 616; the Rainbow Bears have your back; and Onslaught finally, actually, for-real ends.

X-PLAINED:

• How Logan got his adamanitum back (again)
• Onslaught (briefly)
• Uncanny X-Men #337
• X-Men #57
• Onslaught Epilogue #1
• What we wish Onslaught had been
• The anti-mutant agenda
• Alarm clocks
• Ruby quartz storage and cleaning
• Optic-blast sound effects
• Googol vs. google
• Breakfast
• A familiar cover homage
• The semiotics of regret
• Disappearance-montage photos
• Accountability
• Polychromatic world-building
• Prisoner M-13
• Prisoner M-9 (Nina)
• The Manite Project
• The Rainbow Bears
• Renee Majcomb
• Getting through Operation Zero Tolerance
• Our favorite continuity tangles

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