472 – Leave Room for Magneto (The Twelve, Part Two)


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In which the Twelve should really be twelve chapters long; Archangel has issues; we continue to bemoan the absence of captions; the X-Men ditch their crossover event for a side quest; Magneto is Genosha’s official chaperone; and we would absolutely elect Emma Frost to a school board.


X-PLAINED:



  • What Cable does next

  • The event so far

  • Wolverine #146-147

  • Uncanny X-Men Annual 1999

  • Whether the Shadow King is moist

  • Why tiny cavemen can’t have nice things

  • Numerous flashbacks and allusions

  • Archangel’s third-stage evolution

  • The Philharmonic Gets Dressed

  • Abraham Kieros (again)

  • Apocalypse as a self-help guru

  • Fully nude Wolverine

  • X-51 #8 (briefly)

  • Fabian Cortez (more) (again)

  • A miracle of magnetism

  • Scomp linking

  • A big fancy machine

  • Exodus (more) (again)

  • Mutants we’d like to see in public office

  • The (theoretical) Essex administration


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