In which X-Force is kind of silly; that really isn’t what “quantum” means; polite and lawful are two entirely different things, and Sam Guthrie is only one of them; Selene vogues; and the Hellfire Club plays the dead girlfriend card.

X-PLAINED:

• Blackheart
• The Damocles Foundation (more) (again)
• Lucas Bartholomew Guthrie
• The difference between prisons and jails
• X-Force #98-98
• Whether Dr. Octopus enjoys the literary stylings of Elmore Leonard
• One way to get out of prison
• The Glitterbox
• An unsuccessful heist
• Celestial cigarettes and/or golems
• Thomas and/or Tyler Zebulon and/or Zeke Guthrie
• Demon Bears as urban pests
• Selene, Always Voguing
• Gatherers
• Various evil scientists
• The Sword
• Junkyard life
• Lenny Delmonico
• Psychic rodeos
• Nightmare chambers
• Bat sex
• An offer Sunspot can’t refuse
• Hank McCoy’s villain arc
• New Mutant superlatives

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