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In which we hit the Empire Strikes Back of X-Tinction Agenda; it's hard to be Laura Kinney; the psychic knife makes its debut; Evil!Sexy Moira retains some moral high ground; if your society is built on slavery, your society deserves to crumble; words mean things; Havok would be a terrible housecat; the mutants do not have the patent on stupidity; the opposite of blades is cotton; we give Cameron Hodge's severed head a pep talk; and Cyclops goes full Peralta.

X-PLAINED:

Uncanny X-Men #271, New Mutants #96, X-Factor #61

Laura Kinney's brief babysitting career

Our upcoming hiatus

Dramatis personae

A figurative battering ram

Focused totality

Best insults of the 1990s

A debate

Ethics of rhetoric

Housecat Havok

Skittering

Mutate numbering systems

The Prisoner vs. Les Miserables

The slow disintegration of reality as we know it

Sneaking with Cable

A singularly anticlimactic cover

A lushly illustrated report

Increasingly petty revenge

S.H.I.E.L.D.'s most advanced bald cap

A rising storm

Art teams

What we'd like to see out of an X-Men cinematic reboot

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