In which it’s rude to eat in a helmet; Cable does his best villain bit; Bishop is clearly unfamiliar with early X-Force; we’re pretty sure clones still count as people; and Stryfe is the surprise MVP of Gambit & Bishop: Sons of the Atom.

X-PLAINED:

Another time Stryfe and Bishop teamed up
Gambit & Bishop: Sons of the Atom #3-6
Some of the Witness’s fancy swag
An extremely awkward meal
Stryfe in four pages
Unsubtle foreshadowing
The relative ethics of killing Stryfe
A visual representation of time
Somewhat logical consequences
Bad clone ethics
Future uncertainty
Le Bête Noir
Hell-lord / anti-Phoenix disambiguation
A fancy t-shirt
The appropriate amount of mean to be to Stryfe
When Gambit and Bishop: Sons of the Atom takes place relative to The Search for Cyclops (more) (again) (inconclusive)
Reasons not to live under a crypt in New Orleans
Betty Noir’s
Relative (fictional) body counts
Business-casual Stryfe
Lucas Bishop, kitten guy
Relitigating the X-traitor

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