In which it’s difficult to flee with soup; Miles may or may not be haunting the X-Men; Colossus collaborates involuntarily; Marrow is full of surprises; Magneto is a dick; Jay continues to carry a torch for Secret Wars: Siege; and you should totally come to our birthday party.

X-PLAINED:

Several rather pointed allusions

X-Force #86

Uncanny X-Men #365

X-Men #85

Almost Reno, NM

Where mutants come from

The Aguilar Institute (more) (again)

Abandoned towns

Mary the telepathic moppet (more) (again)

Odysseus Indigo

The Damocles Foundation

Sibling names

The Fundamental Attribution Error

A haunting

Christmas beer

Christmas ghost exquisite corpse

Bill Jones

A rescue mission

Essential stories of the ‘90s

Our weird favorites

Siege

Our upcoming 10th birthday party (more) (again)

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