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In which the Beast miniseries is actually a cleverly disguised Karma miniseries; Gateway’s moral alignment remains a mystery; Cannonball rocks some sideburns; there are many reasons to dislike Viper; and every #1 is somebody’s first.

X-PLAINED:

An off-panel death

X-Force #62

Beast #1-3

Karma’s family and backstory (again)

Twin absorption

MacGuffins and/or children

Clearcut and Mindmeld

Unconsciousness

Spiral (again)

Marios

What to do (visually) with six arms

Spiral’s mutates

Some very impressive body horror

MId-fight stalling

Misplaced revenge

Hank McCoy’s multiversal offspring

The history of Karma’s sexual orientation

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