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In which the Morlocks used to have more agency, we have a surprising amount to say about the Rat King from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Archangel receives some exceptionally disturbing news, and 90s comics are all about finding the parts you love.

X-PLAINED:

Marrow’s internal organs
The post-Image Exodus era
Judging books by their covers
Uncanny X-Men #291-293
Sexy dead girls (again)
The Morlock leadership vacuum
A significant Callisto personality retcon
Failures of leadership due to own-death-faking
The magical life and magical death of the Morlock Sewer Wizard
Science Made Stupid
Storm’s claustrophobia (again)
MeMe, scourge of Miles’s childhood
90s Jean Grey: cartoon vs comic
The Br’er Rabbit Technique
Some unfortunate and significant continuity errors
Professor Xavier’s impressive upper body strength
Mikhail Rasputin’s genuinely terrifying mutant powers
Bobby Drake’s potential
Morlock organizational techniques
Mikhail Rasputin’s very bad plan
Jean Grey’s real talk
The Home for Infinite Losers
Piotr Rasputin, tragedy collector
Copyright law and Fair Use
Queer headcanon
X-beards

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