Art by David Wynne. No print this week, but you can contact David to purchase the original!

In which we ring in the new year with Cable's on-page debut; it's really the '90s now; we enter the third major era of New Mutants; what Liefeld lacks in craft he makes up for in energy; we pitch a new "What if--" line; Rusty and Skids are terrible superheroes; X-Factor has probably given up on a lot of things; we speculate at gratuitous length on the content of Cable's pouches; you have reason to go to the devil; and Cable makes a lot more sense when you realize he's of, by, and for teenagers.

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How the Legacy Virus got loose

New Mutants #86-89

Cable's on-page debut

Rob Liefeld

The third major era of New Mutants

A shift in the balance of power

A comics shop to probably avoid if you time-travel back to the mid 1990s

The stupid adventures of Rusty & Skids

Yet another Acts of Vengeance tie-in

Nitro

An accidental prison break

Cops, or maybe protestors

The Mutant Liberation Front

Feet

A goody two-shoes man-stealing redheaded werewolf

Wildside

Reaper

Strobe

Thumbelina

Tempo

Forearm

Zero

Stryfe

Stryfe's armor

Spooning with Cable

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