In which the X-Men turn 35; we pause to celebrate the death of Henry Kissinger; Jay is a space nerd; Marrow hang-dries her delicates; space shuttles are not rockets; the band gets back together; and the Danger Room isn’t the first piece of X-tech to get sentience and a robot body.
X-PLAINED
How Excalibur got a Blackbird
Uncanny X-Men #360
X-Men #80
Many callbacks
The Benassi Rocket
The Cassini Probe
The All-New, Slightly Off X-Men
The Grey King (Addison Falk)
Chaos and/or Xhaos (Dan Dash)
Mercury
Rapture (Sister Joy)
Crux (Cristal Lemiuex)
Landslide (Lee Broder)
The Founder
Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau (again)
The Mutant Defense Net
Heroic narration
Lack of spacefaring continuity
Friendship
Technology
Costumes
All-New All-Different Dungeons & Dragons
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