Art by David Wynne. Prints and cards available until 6/14/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

In which Rachel Summers went to sleep with Wolverine’s claws in her dreams and now there’s claws in her lungs and when she got out of bed this morning she tripped on her traumatic backstory and by mistake she dropped the Phoenix Force in the sink while the water was running and she could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

X-PLAINED:

Freedom Force

Supervillains’ day jobs

Uncanny X-Men #206-209

The X-Men’s first brief tenure in San Francisco

Terrible house guests

Lindsay McCabe

David Ishima

Bree Morrell

A metaphorical ghost story

Lycanthropy, but dumber

The crossing of several ethical lines

Death by narrative stasis (and also impaling)

Craft night at the Hellfire Club

Death by costume satin (and also heart failure)

One way to write someone out of a book

Our favorite Summers kids

X-Music

Special thanks to Elle Collins

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