Art by David Wynne

In which there is a whole, whole lot going on; we continue to have no use for Michael Rossi; Wolverine should be an advice columnist; Forge makes bold fashion choices; the health of a timeline is directly tied to the awesomeness of Storm’s hair; and the X-Men get their first dark-future refugee.

X-Plained:

Dire Wraiths

ROM

Tailoring

Uncanny X-Men #182-188

Just how much story can be shoehorned into seven issues

A dubious Silent Hill metaphor

The people in Rogue’s head

Inexorable momentum

Several profoundly uncomfortable conversations

Parallel narrative in comics

Being friends with Wolverine

Casual enmity

Forge

Miles’s X-doppelganger

Tiny shorts

Chekhov’s Raygun

Rachel Summers (again)

Timeline disambiguation

Rachel disambiguation

“Lifedeath: A Love Story”

Feelings

Storm, powers, and identity

X-Men Mad-Libs

Hound marks

X-Men: The End

Next Week: THE DEMON BEAR SAGA!

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