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In which we begin our 3-part coverage of Fall of the Mutants; Roma is very good at her job; strange things are afoot in Dallas; Mystique's parenting skills are somewhat lopsided; Neal Conan is awesome; Havok gets a soapbox; Storm and Forge flirt with godhood; Rogue's costume exists in a state of quantum uncertainty; Colossus is the organic steel wrench in the gears of chaos; and the X-Men die for real (but get better).

 

X-PLAINED:

Crossovers vs. events

The Fall of the Mutants

Uncanny X-Men #225-227

A really great marketing campaign

The Adversary (again)

Roma

The Starlight Citadel

Retcons as applied pareidolia

A metaphor that is also a real chess piece

A sort-of stabbing

Neal Conan & Manoli Wetherell

Literally hard-hitting journalism

A whole new world

Another variation on the Rogue's-costume drinking game

A really improbable plan

The death and resurrection of the X-Men

Mutant metabolisms

NEXT WEEK: It's Always Darkest…

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