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 NightcrawlerGiant-Size X-Men #1The worst hat of the Marvel UniverseThe Mostly-New, Mostly-Different X-MenA business-casual angry mobThe limits of creative good intentionsTractor punching on the Ust-Ordynski CollectiveThe correct spelling of "fine"CanadaSunfire's utter disdain for everything, including youKrakoa: The Island That Walks Like a Man!Characteristics of good X-fightsYet another miracle of magnetismX-Men: Deadly GenesisSummers Family Continuity (Introductory)More hatsThe Muir-MacTaggert Research FacilitySummers Family Continuity (Intermediate)The Charles Xavier Scale of SupervillainyRelative immunityWolverine's ubiquity

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