In which Gambit is fundamentally goofy; t’ieves love research; Magneto was ripped; Professor Xavier remains a jerk; Miles attempts to convey something very fundamentally visual in an audio format; Marrow is adorable; the X-Men pretty much disband (again); and a miniseries is the opposite of a vacation.

X-PLAINED:

• Where Wolverine went
• Gambit Annual 1999
• Uncanny X-Men #372
• X-Men #92
• A lot of backstory
• A very cute plastic goose
• What Gambit does in his free time
• Those weird fluid-filled tubes they put people in all the time for some reason
• Gambit’s abs
• The fart ghost (Mary Purcell)
• Manhattan, Indiana
• A very minor continuity error
• Fart ghost metaphysics
• A very bad idea
• A muppetworthy death
• Dream’s various ends
• X-pajamas
• Professional dinosaurs
• Thinkers
• Theoretical Cyclops-Daredevil team-ups
• X-characters recognizable as civilians

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