In which Cyclops is the worst at vacations, Mystique is your favorite MurderMom™, Havok is eternally ABD, Kitty Pryde does science, Callisto doesn’t give a damn about her bad reputation, Xavier has a Troy Barnes moment, Miles may be the only person with fond memories of Secret Wars, and Rachel finally gets to make Spalding Gray references.

X-Plained:

Fantomex

Uncanny X-Men #176-181

Reset issues

Scott Summers’s second-worst honeymoon

Cephalopod disambiguation

Project Wideawake (more) (again)

Valerie Cooper

Foreshadowing

Public displays of affection

Leech

How X-Men age

A sewer wizard

Doug Ramsey

Secret Wars

Japan

Mystique’s kids

Douglock

Mystique’s powers

The other X-Men Forever

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