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In which Miles does his best, birds are weird, some of the most dangerous villains are pink, and we are in the Onslaught Zone.

X-PLAINED:

Malibu Comics and Marvel Comics, sitting in a (multiversal) tree, KILLING

Archangel: Phantom Wings

Unorthodox artistic decisions

Archangel (Warren Kenneth Worthington III)

Angst, renewed

Bird ichor

Tuesday Bird and her Mad Max outfit

How (not?) to flirt

Uncanny X-Men #333

Various Roberts Kelly

Graydon Creed, doin’ Mom proud

Bastion, Nimrod, & Master Mold

Operation Zero Tolerance

X-Teams and their lanes

A naked murder-uncle

Pink villains

Obscure callbacks

Event synergy

X-Men #53

Day to-day challenges of telepathy

Super-Saiyan Magneto

Phoenix (Jean Grey), actual adult

Onslaught

That scene from 1964’s X-Men #3

A surprisingly insightful look at Professor X’s dark side

Logan’s assorted friendships with teen girls

XMEN Disease

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