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In which Miles stops worrying and learns to love X-Force; you should absolutely not google the phrase "face jam"; the kids take a field trip to Graymalkin; Jay reverse-engineers Shatterstar's hair; Donald Pierce gets a new job; Sam Guthrie is the most trustworthy man in the Marvel Universe; Cable is your guns grandma; Professor earns its name; X-Force really only has one setting; and not every Sluggo is lit.

X-PLAINED:

A bunch of stuff Quicksilver did

Several cats

X-Force #20-23

The Externals (more) (again)

A deeply unlikely hairstyle

Graymalkin / Ship / Professor

A somewhat one-sided reunion

Yahoos

Inaccurate arithmetic

Why Feral sounds like that

Neither Tom, Dick, nor Harry

War Machine (James Rhodes)

Salvage

Sam Guthrie's long trail of dead father figures

Shatterstar

How to fight an External

The seventh plague

What Domino's been up to

Hammer's mom

Tigerstryke (more) (again)

Sluggo (but not that Sluggo)

Learning to appreciate the '90s

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