528 – Welcome to the Slippery Slope

Illustration by David Wynne

In which friends don’t let friends drink sparkling wine at the Hellfire Club; Cyclops is a Silent Hill protagonist; Fantomex is a cool dude; John Sublime has his grubby little fingers in everything; and three men do a lot of things to avoid going to therapy.

X-PLAINED:

• What happened to the World
• Weapon XVI
• New X-Men #142-145
• Fantomex (more) (again)
• The Weapon Plus program
• A large number of things men will do instead of going to therapy
• How to murder a nice, romantic mood
• The Hellfire Club, the rest of the time
• Jake Danials Whisky
• A drinking contest
• The Mysteries of Harris Burdick
• The World
• Weapon XV
• A series of B&Es
• Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.)
• Car cops
• Weapon XV’s feelings
• Weapon Plus’s secret space headquarters
• Education at the Xavier School
• Gender-swapped superheroes and heirs to superheroes

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