In which Kelly and Seagle's X-runs begin with immense promise; dark psychic residue gets just everywhere; Storm's past is literally buried; Wolverine is just saying is all; Cecilia Reyes's job doesn't deserve her, and Cyclops and Phoenix are the worst at being normal.

X-PLAINED:

The Grey family reunion

X-Men #71-72

What counts as an Uncanny X-Men #138 cover reference

Baggage and also suitcases

Steve Seagle’s (scuttled) Phoenix plans

Bone whiskers

Telemarketer power moves

Cecilia Reyes

Marrow (Sarah)

Sam Guthrie's tiny ponytail

The ol’ wall-of-televisions trope

The cost of one banana

Sebastian Shaw vs the IRS (maybe)

A mostly empty attic

Wolverine’s etiquette lessons

The dessert claw vs the salad claw

The physicality of Carlos Pacheco’s art

Cannonball, the grown-up in the room

Magneto’s increasingly complicated past

Magnus, Erik, and Max (again)

Uncanny X-Men #351-352

Cecilia Reyes’s return-to-office

Intersectionality

Pyro, forever dying of the Legacy Virus

Daredevil vs Cecilia Reyes’s bedside manner

Kevin, Lord of the Jungle

Ending conversations by turning into a bird

A.I.M.* (*Advanced Idea Mechanics)

Crows of Ill Portent

A Box of Entity

Condors and Cockatoos

Logan’s denim proclivities

Arcade vs. Mojo

Special thanks to Dylan Higgins for edits and production assistance!

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