In which “Astonishing X-Men” is something of a misnomer; Death has a good look; sometimes you just need a guy who swoops; Miles stops worrying and learns to love Nate Grey; Telekinesis is silly looking; “Wolverine” dies; and nothing really changes.

X-PLAINED:

• Astonishing X-Men (miniseries)
• Ambience
• Nina (again)
• Mannites (again)
• The third-best way to get out of awkward conversations
• The Hulkbuster base
• Bastion (again)
• Bastion’s worst nightmare
• Death (a new one)
• Fiddly bits
• Cable’s Psimitar
• Telekinetic snowboarding
• Headcase
• Darco
• Glub
• Beautiful Dreamer
• Grace
• Totem
• Things to do with a severed head
• The Changing
• The (apparent) death of Wolverine
• How to salvage this miniseries
• Hypothetical X-crossovers

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