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In which music is dangerous and confusing, Jamie Madrox has a weakness for femmes fatale, the term "f-holes" makes Miles turn 12, and we bid a fond farewell to Larry Stroman.

X-PLAINED:

That time Havok was the nexus of all realities

How to get to Florida, Magneto style

X-Factor #79-81

Lesser-used applications of super-speed

Rhapsody (Rachel Argosy)

Mutant late bloomers

The surprising convenience and safety of fictional shop windows

Excalibur-weird vs. X-Factor-weird

Tiny cellos

The worst kid in the neighborhood

A creative use of mutant powers

Whether Madrox creates duplicates during sex (again)

Astral wheat fields

Musical manslaughter

Sean Young (who is decidedly not Catwoman)

Hell's Belles

Rahne's World

Polaris's body image issues

Beefiness disambiguation

Wolfsbane's conditional poker face

Cyber (Silas Burr)

Strong Guy, who just works here, man

Alex Summers, inspiring and/or deceptive authority figure

Bringing back the classics (and when not to)

The surprisingly homogenous Multiverse

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