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

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• What would you do with thirteen X-Men?
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