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In which Jubilee is underwhelmed by X-Force; Havok and Gambit make weirdly good buddy cops; Department K is a hot vacation destination; Cable is secretly a Coen Brothers protagonist; you can cancel Community but you can never take away Jay's gratuitous Community references; Rusty goes full cultist; nobody is Stryfe's real dad; smoking on a space station is a REALLY bad idea; Apocalypse is here to help; and Miles lies at length about music.

X-PLAINED:

Kuurth

Various Juggernauts

The Story So Far

More trading-card taxonomy

Uncanny X-Men #295

X-Factor #85

X-Men #15

X-Force #17

Varyingly hilarious misunderstandings

Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love

What happened

Good Cop / Sleazy Cop

A deal

A tragic absence of Draculas

The Coen Brothers' X-Cutioner's Song

Thanksgiving with Cable

Miles's summer camp hijinks

Murderbots in space (again)

A dubious strategy

MLF Redshirts

The second time someone force-fed superheroes baby food in space

A dropped plot thread

Things you shouldn't do on space stations

Additional awkward reunions

Whether Stryfe is a Summers

The X-Cutioner's signature karaoke song

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