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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.

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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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