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In which everything is terrible; miscommunication triangles are way more awkward than love triangles; Boom Boom is universally delightful; Miles has feelings about ‘80s fashion; Apocalypse is judging your band posters; X-Factor still hasn’t gotten the hang of doors; Cyclops’s life continues to be an anxiety dream; the Twelve are better in foreshadowing than practice; and Angel dies as he lived: half-naked, at an airport.
X-PLAINED
- The evolution of Angel
- Cold opens
- rachelandmiles.com
- X-Factor so far
- X-Factor #12-15
- A miscommunication triangle
- Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith)
- Rachel’s Marc Silvestri causality loop
- Boom Boom vs. Jubilee
- Cameron disambiguation
- Famine
- Master Mold (more) (again)
- The Twelve
- Tanya Trask
- Caliban
NEXT WEEK: Technoorganic blues!
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