527 – Whodunnit?

Illustration by David Wynne

In which Jean Grey crosses several lines; Emma Frost is killed; Bishop and Sage visit from X-Treme X-Men; mutants are weird; the plot thickens; Emma Frost is resurrected; and we learn several secrets of fly reproduction.

X-PLAINED:

• The brothers Xorn
• A question of reading order
• New X-Men #139-141
• Cosmic force problems
• A showdown
• A brief tour through the mind of Emma Frost
• A murder most foul
• Bishop (briefly) (again)
• Sage (briefly) (again)
• Many suspects
• One way to get drugs, I guess?
• A mysterious shack and its mysterious contents
• Perils and advantages of being a living computer
• A murder weapon
• Angel and Beak’s excellent babies
• A resurrection
• A subtly remarkable taxicab
• The advent of mixed-case lettering in Marvel comics
• How Angel and Beak’s reproductive cycle corresponds to actual fly reproduction

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