In which we provide some inroads to resisting fascism in your community; pacifism has amazing abs; Cyclops and Wolverine play revolutionary chicken; Amelia Voght fails to live up to her narrative potential; Jean Grey continues to make spectacularly bad choices; Polaris deserves better; and Wolverine finally gets to stab Magneto.

X-PLAINED:

• Community action and aid
• X-Men #112-113
• Uncanny X-Men #393
• Genosha (more) (again)
• Northstar (more) (again)
• Dazzler (more) (again)
• Sunpyre (more) (again)
• Hector Rendoza (more) (again)
• Paulie Provenzano (more) (again)
• Frenzy (more) (again)
• Amelia Voght (more) (again)
• St. Sebastian thirst traps
• Sewer adventures
• Post-Apocalypse Cyclops (more) (again)
• Awkward conversations about feelings
• Implausible knitting
• The Age of Apocalypse X-Babies
• A protracted confrontation
• Bad strategy
• A confusing ruse
• Some stabbing
• What happens to the unlikeliest X-Men
• Jean Grey as Charles Xavier’s heir
• Best potential uses of Hector Rendoza

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