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In which we wrap up our first official two-parter; Gambit ruins everything; Rachel has a theory about Mister Sinister; Marvel communication technology is behind the times; Trish Tilby is tired of your bullshit; Walter Simonson is the best of the best; X-Factor pulls it together; Power Pack gets uncomfortably dark; Miles has Thor feelings; and even more mutants die.

NOTE: This episode is the second of a two-parter! If you haven't listened to Episode 65, where we cover the first half of the mutant massacre, you should probably do that before you listen to this one!

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Masque

Tentacle disambiguation

More of the Mutant Massacre

A Sinister hypothesis

Several Marauder-related retcons

X-Factor #9-11

Power Pack #27

The Mighty Thor #373-374

Trish Tilby

Artie & Leech

Several awkward reunions

Walter Simonson

The fall of Angel

Apocalypse’s horsemen

Yet another crossover that will probably scar the Power kids for life

Franklin Richards

Thor, Donald Blake, and Sigurd Jarlson

The best issue of any comic, ever.

The Tunnelers

Ongoing repercussions of the Mutant Massacre

Rachel & Miles’s horseman identities

Which X-Men could and should wield Mjolnir

NEXT WEEK: The New Mutants party like it’s 1299!

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