In which the Bronze Age begins; Dave Cockrum is your god now; the band gets together; Sunfire joins the team; cultural sensitivity is not Marvel’s strong suit; Sunfire quits the team; it sucks to be Cyclops; Professor X crosses a moral event horizon; Sunfire joins the team; Ed Brubaker channels Thomas Hardy; you are probably a Summers brother; and Sunfire quits the team.

X-Plained:

• Bamf-Voltron Nightcrawler


• Giant-Size X-Men #1


• The worst hat of the Marvel Universe


• The Mostly-New, Mostly-Different X-Men


• A business-casual angry mob


• The limits of creative good intentions


• Tractor punching on the Ust-Ordynski Collective


• The correct spelling of “fine”


• Canada


• Sunfire’s utter disdain for everything, including you


• Krakoa: The Island That Walks Like a Man!


• Characteristics of good X-fights


• Yet another miracle of magnetism


• X-Men: Deadly Genesis


• Summers Family Continuity (Introductory)


• More hats


• The Muir-MacTaggert Research Facility


• Summers Family Continuity (Intermediate)


• The Charles Xavier Scale of Supervillainy


• Relative immunity


• Wolverine’s ubiquity

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION:

• What would you do with thirteen X-Men?


• Help us find all-ages-friendly Marvel Girl stories!

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