464 – The Cigarettes of Damocles


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In which X-Force is kind of silly; that really isn’t what “quantum” means; polite and lawful are two entirely different things, and Sam Guthrie is only one of them; Selene vogues; and the Hellfire Club plays the dead girlfriend card.


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  • Blackheart

  • The Damocles Foundation (more) (again)

  • Lucas Bartholomew Guthrie

  • The difference between prisons and jails

  • X-Force #98-98

  • Whether Dr. Octopus enjoys the literary stylings of Elmore Leonard

  • One way to get out of prison

  • The Glitterbox

  • An unsuccessful heist

  • Celestial cigarettes and/or golems

  • Thomas and/or Tyler Zebulon and/or Zeke Guthrie

  • Demon Bears as urban pests

  • Selene, Always Voguing

  • Gatherers

  • Various evil scientists

  • The Sword

  • Junkyard life

  • Lenny Delmonico

  • Psychic rodeos

  • Nightmare chambers

  • Bat sex

  • An offer Sunspot can’t refuse

  • Hank McCoy’s villain arc

  • New Mutant superlatives


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