In which a lot has happened in the Six Month Gap (and we even get to learn about some of it); we'd missed Claremontian narration; Miles has questions about Colossus's ponytail; the Soulsword is basically a Poké Ball; the Shadow Pope is cooler than the regular Pope; and Magik has a secret.

X-PLAINED:

Some big news

X-Men: Black Sun #1-5

Phoenix and Psylocke's sorta-power-swap

Implied continuity

The N'Garai

Belasco

Limbo

Magik (Illyana Rasputin)

New costumes

Priests vs blood magic

An impressively overcomplicated evil plot

Chekhov's skeleton

Body swaps and/or possession

Thunderbird (Neal Sharra)

Pilgrimm and the Ru'tai (again, surprisingly)

Astral meetups

Confusing bloodstone math

A Triple-Tech

Magik (Amanda Sefton)

Counting X-generations

Our favorite X-decades

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