Rachel screwed up and accidentally gave David material for episode 54 instead of 53, so there's no illustration this week. Instead, we offer both our sincere apologies and this photo of Miles dressed up as Mister Sinister for a costume party.

In which Wolverine doesn’t care about your baby; Storm takes charge; duels are terrible bases for systems of government; editorial mandate is hell on a marriage; Magneto is a pretty cool teacher; Jean Grey comes back; and we have mixed feelings about the Phoenix retcon.

X-PLAINED:

Kenji Uedo

Uncanny X-Men #201

New Mutants #35

Avengers #263

Fantastic Four #286

Classic X-Men #8

The post-Trial of Magneto status quo

Nathan Christopher Charles Summers

A small cross-section of Cyclops’s myriad issues

The wrong means to the right end

Magneto’s educational philosophy

The politics of creative credits

“You Know Who”

The Phoenix retcon

Several unrelated break-ins

The return of Jean Grey

Jean and the Phoenix Force

Alternate-timeline Madelynes Pryor

Jean Grey’s code names

NEXT WEEK: X-Factor begins! (for real, this time - sorry about that SNAFU!)

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