483 – Piotr Lovely Locks

In which a lot has happened in the Six Month Gap (and we even get to learn about some of it); we’d missed Claremontian narration; Miles has questions about Colossus’s ponytail; the Soulsword is basically a Poké Ball; the Shadow Pope is cooler than the regular Pope; and Magik has a secret.

X-PLAINED:

• Some big news
• X-Men: Black Sun #1-5
• Phoenix and Psylocke’s sorta-power-swap
• Implied continuity
• The N’Garai
• Belasco
• Limbo
• Magik (Illyana Rasputin)
• New costumes
• Priests vs blood magic
• An impressively overcomplicated evil plot
• Chekhov’s skeleton
• Body swaps and/or possession
• Thunderbird (Neal Sharra)
• Pilgrimm and the Ru’tai (again, surprisingly)
• Astral meetups
• Confusing bloodstone math
• A Triple-Tech
• Magik (Amanda Sefton)
• Counting X-generations
• Our favorite X-decades

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