Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available at the shop, or contact David to purchase the original.

In which everyone dies (or something); every Summers is miserable in their own way; we are pretty done with Nanny and the Orphanmaker; Lady Deathstrike is a surprisingly astute art critic; the X-Men's digital invisibility does not extend to the White Pages; we venture into slightly less charted territory; Wolverine has a really bad day; and you should totally come hang out with us at Rose City Comic Con!

X-PLAINED:

Origins of Lady Deathstrike

Jay & Miles at Rose City Comic Con

X-Ray party etiquette

Uncanny X-Men #248-251

The precise inverse of an anticlimax

The Siege Perilous (more) (again)

Dramatic parallels

Summers tragedy disambiguation

Jim Lee's first X-issue

The apparent death of Storm (this time)

The merged Reavers

What it takes for Jay to play a sidescroller

An X-band

Longshot's departure

A really ineffective rescue

Art-critic Deathstrike

Administrative assistant Jubilee

Zaladane

An unconventional approach to genealogy

The ickiest method of mind control

Dark Claw

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